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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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    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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    Ice Cream was first made in China!
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    China's capital Beijing means "Gate".
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    In Chinese, the KFC slogan "finger lickin' good" comes out as "eat your fingers off".
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    The yin-yang pattern's earliest use is in Rome - not China!
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    In China, teachers allow children to sleep in class for around 20 minutes to help improve their learning.
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    Chinese General With Only 100 Men Made An Army of 150,000 Retreat
    According to the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, Shu general Zhuge Liang had to defend a town with a mere 100 troops against an army of 150,000. He hid his men, flung open the gates, and sat on the walls playing a lute. The opposing general of Wei, Sima Yi, certain it was a trap, ordered a retreat.
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