to be pregnant with quadruplets, drawing the attention of local and national media, only for the pregnancy to be revealed as a hoax after the gestation period elapsed. The hoax was noted by globo.com as "one of the first great memes" of Brazil. The woman was later diagnosed with 'fantastic pseudology' (also known as mitomania), a disorder which creates the compulsive desire to lie about a subject. Since the incident, "Taubaté" has become a suffix in Brazil, in the format of "the X of Taubaté", to designate false stories or cases. Weather The climate is classified as a humid subtropical climate, under the Köppen climate classification with the average annual temperature around , with a maximum of and a minimum of , with average humidity of 60% and the annual rainfalls of , the extremes temperatures recorded on the city are and , there is also an unofficial record of . Demographics Male: 120.288; Female: 123.819; Urban: 229.810; Rural: 14.297 (Source: Censo 2000 - IBGE) Education and literature Taubaté is also a university city. The University of Taubaté, UNITAU, is a municipal institution of higher learning run by the state, but also by the private initiative. Brazil, like France, is a country where state-owned universities are free and rank as the best, but UNITAU isn't free. UNITAU attracts young people from all over the country who come to study in one of its many colleges, such as Medical School, Law, Dentistry, Engineering, Business Management, and also at the Department of Architecture where several alumni have excelled and won national prizes for their work, notable the Opera Prima Award. Monteiro Lobato, reputedly one of the most significant Portuguese-language writer of books for children, was born in Taubaté. His books have been translated into many other languages, especially Sítio do Picapau Amarelo, the first and one of the largest tomes in the series of twelve. The unique way in which the narrative unfolds, gripping as they are for the many generations of children - and adults - who have read them, evolves in a style which can be likened to the sort of magic realism that permeates later styles of Latin American literature, and is set in rural São Paulo State where legends and myths naturally abound as the Portuguese colonial culture is fertilised by the fusion of amerindian and African cultures. The scene of his books is a fictional small farm