95 Random China Facts


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1. "Fruit Sister" is what people in China call Katy Perry.
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2. A survey found that 94% of people in Thailand are religious, making it the most religious country in the world — China is the least with 7%.
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3. Roughly a quarter of the world's people live in China.
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4. In 2013, a dad in China hired gamers to kill his son in video games so the son would start looking for a job and get a life.
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5. If China imported just 10% of it's rice needs- the price on the world market would increase by 80%.
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6. Since 1990, the number of people living in poverty in China has fallen from 85% to 15%.
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7. China's factories dump 60,000,000 tons of waste into the ocean every day '” 90% of China's water is polluted.
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8. 40 million people in China live in caves.
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9. Air pollution in China increases snowfall in California.
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10. In China, the Man in the Moon is known as the Toad in the Moon.
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11. Alice in Wonderland was banned in China because the government believed the idea of talking animals was an insult to humans.
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12. Karate was originally called "te". It was later influenced by material artists from China and called "kara te" meaning "Chinese hand"
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13. China blocks Facebook but still has 95 million Facebook users.
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14. One-third of the population of China can’t speak the country’s official language.
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15. American flags made in China are banned in the U.S. Military.
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16. China has 4 megacities of over 10 million people, the most of any country.
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17. It is cheaper to send Scottish cod to China to be filleted and sent back again than to fillet the fish in Scotland.
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18. China is home to 26 out of the 86 most populated cities in the world.
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19. There is a book available in China "Harry Potter and the Chinese Overseas Students at the Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry".
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20. China is building massive cities just to keep builders busy and generate growth. The result are ghost metropolis.
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21. Fortune cookies were actually invented in America, not China.
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22. China is the world’s largest consumer of red wine.
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23. In China, it is acceptable to walk into an IKEA store to relax and take a nap.
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24. China has more English-speaking people than the United States.
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25. You immediately go to jail for a DUI in China.
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26. There are enough empty homes in China for everyone in the UK to have one each.
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27. China gets a new skyscraper every five days.
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28. If the population of China began walking past you in a single file, the line would never end because of the rate of reproduction
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29. Chop-suey is not a native Chinese dish, it was created in California by Chinese immigrants.
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30. The great wall of China is 1,400 miles long.
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31. There was once a traffic jam in China that lasted nine days.
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32. The labourers who built the Great Wall of China were were fed on sauerkraut.
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33. It's a crime to mime in China.
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34. Facebook now has more monthly active users than China has people.
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35. China has more English speakers than the United States.
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36. China has 64 million vacant homes, including entire cities that are empty.
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37. In China, the bride wears red.
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38. The construction of the Great Wall of China took over 2 thousands years.
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39. A teenager in China once sold his kidney to buy an iPad.
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40. The great wall of China is 1,400 miles long!
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41. "Little Cow" is what some people in China call Ariana Grande.
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42. More people in China speak English than in the United States.
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43. In China, you can be a professional flatulence smeller and make about $50,000.00 USD a year.
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44. In ancient China, people committed suicide by eating a pound of salt.
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45. The US has about 9 billion chickens. China has more than 13 billion.
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46. People in parts of Western China put salt in their tea instead of sugar.
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47. After her boyfriend dumped her, a woman in China ate chicken at a KFC for an entire week to mourn.
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48. All the pandas in the world come from China. When a baby panda is born, by agreement, it is sent back to China via FedEx.
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49. The Great Wall of China is the only man-made structure visible from space.
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50. The Chinese ideogram for 'trouble' depicts two women living under one roof.
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51. In China, it is illegal to use a pun in advertising or on television.
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52. If you kill a Panda in the country of China, you will be punished by death.
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53. Although China spans five time zones, there is only one national time.
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54. Rich people in China can hire body doubles to serve their prison sentence.
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55. Beijing in the 2nd largest city in China. The largest city is Shanghai, in the south.
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56. China has salamanders as large as humans.
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57. Professional porn censors in China get paid to watch over 150 pornographic DVDs each week, start to finish.
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58. China has more English speakers than the United States
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59. The farmers of Hanyuan, China, are forced to pollinate pear trees by hand because all the bees died off.
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60. In China, some school days run from 7:30 AM to 5:00 PM
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61. The English-speaking population is higher in China that in the United States.
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62. In China, 85% of people share the same 100 last names.
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63. China has announced the end of its hugely controversial one-child policy, saying that all couples will now be allowed two children.
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64. Spitting in public was socially acceptable in China for five millennia, but due to fears over the spread of SARS in 2003, it is now illegal.
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65. Rich people in China hire body doubles to serve their prison sentences. This practice is called Ding zui
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66. China has treatment camps for Internet addicts.
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67. China has 350 million smokers — meaning the Chinese smoking population is higher than the entire population of the United States.
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68. According to a 2013 report, there are 20 million more men in China then there are women.
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69. The Nintendo Wii, Playstation and XBox are all banned in China, even though they are all manufactured in China.
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70. By 2025, China will have 10 New York-sized cities.
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71. "Lord of Butt" is what people in Hong Kong and China call Jennifer Lopez.
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72. "Numbing-Spicy Chicken" is what people in China call Nicki Minaj.
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73. In China, a man sued his wife for being ugly – and won
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74. After 60 years of pregnancy a 92 year old woman in China delivered a stone.
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75. Many people in parts of China eat insects. Some common insects are bean worms, scoprions, and locusts.
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76. China has blocked Facebook, Twitter and The New York Times since 2009.
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77. In China, women who remain unmarried until their late 20s are called 'leftover women'.
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78. China used more concrete in three years than the U.S. used in the entire 20th century.
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79. It is illegal for unmarried women in China to have a baby out of wedlock.
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80. Rich people in China often hire body doubles to serve their prison sentences.
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81. In China, you can buy pears that are shaped like babies.
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82. In just China, if you are truly one in a million, there are over 1,000 people who are just like you.
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83. In China, Burger King sells PooPoo Smoothies.
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84. In China, killing a panda is punishable by death.
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85. The cost of a tourist visa for China is $130 for Americans and $30 for the rest of the world.
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86. A man in China once had 9,999 red roses sewn into a dress for his girlfriend before asking for her hand in marriage.
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87. China invented exams.
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88. In China there is a website that lets you rent a girlfriend for as low as $31 for a week
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89. Grenades were invented in China over 1,000 years ago.
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90. A teenager in China sold his kidney to buy an iPad
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91. China consumes more steel than the United States, Europe and Japan combined.
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92. If the population of China walked past you in single file, the line would never end because of the rate of reproduction.
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93. In 2013, China’s only female Mao Zedong impersonator was divorced by her husband, who ‘got tired of feeling that he was sleeping with the Chairman’.
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94. The Great Wall of China was funded by a state lottery.
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95. During its construction, the Great Wall of China was called the longest cemetery on earth because 1 million people died building it.

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