In 2002, there were no billionaires in China. In 2007, there were 106 billionaires.
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Kim Jong Un was voted Most Sexiest Man Alive by The Onion and ended up as real news in China.
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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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It has been reported that rich people in China can hire "body doubles" to serve their prison time.
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In Chinese, the KFC slogan "finger lickin' good" comes out as "eat your fingers off".
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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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