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Did you know, / that there's one / forbidden color / you will not find / on any flag / in the world? // PURPLE. // National flags / don't have purple. // But why? / Let me take you on a trip / all around the world / to discover the truth / about flags. // That their countries/ don't want you / to know about. // When it's the World Cup / or the Olympics / and you see your flag, / you start singing your anthem / with your friends / and you start feeling / super proud! // Why? // Because your country's flag / is unique / and because / it means / something special / to you. // For example, / here in Brazil, / the flag / looks like the country. // It's green, / like the rainforest. // Yellow, / because of the gold / they have, / and blue, / like the sky! // Here in / France, / flag's colors / represent / the country's values: / blue, / white, / red. // For freedom, / equality, / brotherhood / or as they say, / liberte, / egalite, / fraternite. // In fact, / that flag / and those values / got so / popular / that many countries / started to copy it! // Italy, / Ireland, / Belgium, / Romania, / Mexic o/ and many others / have three stripes / as well. // In the same way, / Ethiopia's flag / was a huge influence / all over Africa / because Ethiopia / is the one country / that resisted the most / against the colonizers. // Another popular flag / is the American one. // Liberia / basically copied it / because it was founded / by freed slaves / from the U.S. // Even Brazil / had a flag / that looked like this, / but it only lasted / four days. // Over here, / in the Arab world, / most flags / are red, / black, / white, / and green / because / they come from / the one Pan-Arab flag / and that's the one / they use to all rally / and break free / from the Ottoman Empire. // Other Arab countries / like Algeria / and Tunisia, / prefer to go / with the crescent moon of Islam / to pay tribute / to their Muslim roots. // Likewise, / in the land of the Viking, / they're all / having crosses on their flags / because they're mostly / Christians. // And that flag, / Denmark's / is said to be / over 800 years old, / making it / the oldest / in the world. // And also, / did you notice / that all flags / are rectangles / except for three? // The Vatican flag / and Switzerland's flag / are squares, / while / Nepal's // looks like this! // No matter where you go, / the one color / you will not find / on any flag / is purple! // Because / not so long ago, / the only way / to get some purple / was from a tiny sea snail / that you could only find / in one small region / of Lebanon. // To create / just one gram of purple, / you needed / more than 10,000 snails. // So no country / could afford covering / its entire flag / with it! // Your country's flag / is part / of who you are / and it's also part / of your culture. // And the beautiful thing is, / that no matter, / where you go in the world, / you know, / that whenever you see it, / you'll feel a little bit closer // to home. //