Wait, Did The Wright Brothers Just Get Dissed at the Olympics?

The Olympics opening ceremony seemed to claim that Brazil was instrumental in the invention of flight. Twitter: "#actually..."
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There are few things the Internet loves more than telling people they're wrong. So tonight, when the Olympics opening ceremony used an early plane as one of of Brazil's major achievements, Twitter was quick to point out that, #actually, the first powered flight was flown by the Wright brothers in North Carolina in 1903. (To be clear, the Rio opening ceremony was honoring aviator Alberto Santos-Dumont, who made a powered flight in 1906.) And if you listen closely, you can hear the sounds of a million pairs of glasses being pushed up a million noses:

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