In 1911, pigtails were banned in China because they were seen as a link with its feudal past.
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The gas that gives rotten eggs their distinctive foul smell may slow ageing and block damaging chemical reactions inside cells, according to scientists in China.
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All pandas are ‘owned’ by China. They rent them out to zoos for $1mil/year each with minimum of 10 years.
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The retail price for the iPad would be $1,140 if it were built by American workers instead of Chinese.
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Passengers on the Beijing subway can pay with plastic bottles.
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China's capital Beijing means "Gate".
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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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