China's capital Beijing means "Gate".
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Passengers on the Beijing subway can pay with plastic bottles.
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Some Chinese-made hair bands were fashioned from recycled condoms.
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In Chinese, the KFC slogan "finger lickin' good" comes out as "eat your fingers off".
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The equivalents of the English saying "That's Greek to me" are "This appears to be Spanish" (German), "This is Chinese to me" (Dutch), "It's German to me" (Philippines), "It's Hebrew" (Finnish), "It's Chinese to me" (Hebrew), "Sounds like Mars language/These are chicken intestines" (China).
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The yin-yang pattern's earliest use is in Rome - not China!
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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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