Rio Carnival in 80 seconds

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Last night's parades at Rio de Janeiro's Sambodrome had everything anyone could want: dinosaurs, dancing spider eggs, bikini cops, stripper poles, hefty Roman revelers and—of course—feathers, stilettos and boobs.

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