In Korea, a child’s first birthday is the most important. In one part of the celebration, several items are placed on a table. The one that the baby picks up first is said to predict their future.
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8 out of 10 people think that the first kiss indicates how the rest of the relationship will be.
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The first man to swim the length of Great Britain grew a beard to stop jellyfish stinging his face.
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Over 98 percent of Japanese people are cremated after they die.
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Just one in three consumers pays off his or her credit card bill every month.
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Americans throw out 4.5 pounds of trash a day - twice that of 40 years ago.
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Chen Guanming, from Jiangsu province in eastern China, traveled by RICKSHAW for 2 years and covered nearly 40,000 miles through 16 countries, surviving flood, war zones and extreme temperatures, finally arriving at the London 2012 Olympics.
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