...That after Paris, Montreal is the largest French-speaking city in the world.
...That the CN Tower in Toronto is the tallest free-stading tower in the world at 553 meters.
...That Canada is the second largest Country in the world in land mass.
...After Lisbon and Porto, Toronto has the largest Portuguese population per square-kilometer.
...In downtown Toronto, after English, Portuguese is the most spoken language.
...That in the city of Mississauga, 10% of the population is Portuguese.
...Has one of the seven wonders of the world, Niagara Falls.
...That Portuguese is the 4th most spoken language in the world shared by Angola, Brazil, Cape Verde, East Timor, European Union, Guinea Bissau, Macao S.A.R. of China, Mozambique, Portugal, São Tomé and Príncipe.
...Portugal and Great Britain has the oldest treaty in the world, signed in London on June 13 1373.
...That The Treaty of Tordesillas signed at Tordesillas on June 7, 1494, divided the world outside of Europe in half between the Spanish and the Portuguese.
...The Vasco da Gama Bridge, near Lisbon, is 17.2 kilometres long — one of the longest bridges in the World.
...That Estoril Casino is the largest in Europe.
...That Peter Juliani is the only Portuguese Pope, Pope John XXI, 1276-1277 AD.
...That two Portuguese pilots were the first to fly across the Atlantic south, from Lisbon to Brazil.
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