China's capital Beijing means "Gate".
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Passengers on the Beijing subway can pay with plastic bottles.
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The yin-yang pattern's earliest use is in Rome - not China!
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In 2012, a Chinese man named Xiao Fan had a dress made out of 9,999 red roses for his girlfriend and then proposed - 9 in China means forever
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In the U.S. the typical school year is 180 days long. In China, the typical school year is 251 days.
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A 22 year old Chinese man needed a new nose. Instead of a transplant, a surgeon built a new nose on his forehead.
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For Valentine's Day 2014, an unnamed man sabotaged a special screening of "Beijing Love Story" at a Shanghai cinema by booking every other seat, subsequently preventing couples from sitting together.
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