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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China's capital Beijing means "Gate".
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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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The yin-yang pattern's earliest use is in Rome - not China!
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In 1911, pigtails were banned in China because they were seen as a link with its feudal past.
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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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In Chinese, the KFC slogan "finger lickin' good" comes out as "eat your fingers off".
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Scientists at the Zhejiang University in China have developed an ultra-light material known as carbon aerogel.
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