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Chinese scientists retrieve ancient ships from depths of South China Sea

by HistoryBuff September 6, 2022, 7:30 am

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What’s the best political advice you can give to someone living in China?

by cringeyjokesman September 5, 2022, 12:02 pm

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TIL the longest theoretical sight line at ground level on earth is Hindu-tagh in China to Mt. Dankova in Kyrgyzstan at 538 Km, while the longest photographed sight line is from the Spanish Pyrenees to French Alps at 443 Km.

by whatilearned September 1, 2022, 4:27 am

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TIL in Louisville, Ky., there is a growing population of freshwater jellyfish. The jellies are native to China and travel around the world, ending up in random and unpredictable locations

by whatilearned August 27, 2022, 3:58 am

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TIL that after constantly eat raw beef over a couple of years, a man in China eventually had a 20 foot long tapeworm living in his small intestine, and it turned out that the tapeworm had been inside his small intestines for at least 2 years.

by whatilearned August 24, 2022, 5:38 pm

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TIL After seeing its pork production decimated by flu outbreaks, farms across China have been investing billions of dollars into massive high-rise hog-raising facilities popularly known as pig hotels, with one hotel in the Southern China being 13 stories tall and meant to hold around 10,000 pigs.

by whatilearned August 24, 2022, 3:15 am

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TIL that the reason The Count teaches viewers how to count on “Sesame Street” comes from various folklore across Europe and China in which vampires are compelled to stop and count spilled seeds or grains. Some Slavic coastal towns also believed that vampires would count the holes of a fishing net.

by whatilearned August 23, 2022, 9:13 pm

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TIL that China essentially owns every Panda in the world. The pandas you see in zoos are rented from China. Zoos usually enter into 10 year contracts, for an annual cost of $1 million/year to have the pandas. Any baby pandas born in captivity, contractually, also are property of China.

by whatilearned August 23, 2022, 2:45 pm

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TIL That it wasn’t until 2005 that China had a larger economy than France or Britain, but at that time it was still only the world’s fourth largest economy.

by whatilearned August 21, 2022, 4:54 pm

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TIL that the Government of Taiwain controls more territories than just Taiwain, including Kinmen, a group of island just 6.2 miles off the coast of Mainland China.

by whatilearned August 21, 2022, 6:53 am

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TIL Red Star baijiu is known as the ‘Coca-Cola of Chinese spirits’. Made entirely of sorghum, this brand received the first business license issued by the People’s Republic of China in 1949 to produce alcohol for the nation’s inaugural ceremony

by whatilearned August 21, 2022, 3:40 am

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TIL that in Han China, a rival concubine was tortured by Empress Lu Zhi by having her limbs, tongue, and eyes removed. She was then locked in a latrine to live the rest of her days as a “Human Swine.”

by whatilearned August 18, 2022, 11:08 am

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