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Yo, dudes, like, which one do you think is more bomb diggity – Chinese cuisine, Korean food, or Japanese cuisine? And what dishes do you guys dig?

by QuestionGuy June 1, 2023, 8:02 am

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TIL a Chinese company marketed a bottle-shaped vibrating device for women that claimed if you sucked on it for 10 minutes, it would help form a v-shaped chin on the head of the user. V lined features are considered attractive in Asian countries.

by whatilearned May 29, 2023, 12:46 am

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TIL: In China for about three years around 1900, a secret martial arts training club tried to overthrow the Chinese government & force out foreigners. Known to the West as “The Boxer Rebellion,” the name literally comes from the fact that members fought unarmed using Chinese forms of unarmed combat.

by whatilearned May 28, 2023, 7:30 am

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TIL a Chinese teenager defaced a stone sculpture in ancient Egyptian Luxor Temple with graffiti. An embarrassed Chinese traveller photographed it and shared on Weibo. It took just a day before outraged netizens tracked the teenager down in his hometown forcing his parents to apologize for him.

by whatilearned May 26, 2023, 3:06 pm

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TIL Japanese Katana were using Chinese Tang Dynasty Sword (Dao) as prototypes for their own variant. Katana metal folding technique were used to compensate the quality of the japanese iron impurity as Chinese Dynasties restricted export of weapon material like iron to neighbours

by whatilearned May 25, 2023, 6:43 pm

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If a Chinese born in Canada stands for CBC, then a French born in Italy stand for

by cringeyjokesman May 21, 2023, 9:56 pm

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TIL Independent Chinese families are classified accordingly to their stove. In the case of a father’s death, the eldest son inherits the stove and the younger brothers transfer the coals to their own new stoves. This invites the Stove god to join their new households and is called “pun chu”.

by whatilearned May 21, 2023, 7:08 pm

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TIL the most widely consumed alcoholic spirit in the world is baijiu, a Chinese liquor. In 2018, 10.8 billion liters were sold — more than whisky, vodka, gin, rum, and tequila combined.

by whatilearned May 17, 2023, 6:48 am

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Why can’t Chinese play baseball?

by cringeyjokesman May 14, 2023, 8:20 am

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How do you feel about US states’ recent measures to prevent non-permanent resident Chinese nationals purchasing property in the US?

by QuestionGuy May 12, 2023, 10:12 pm

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TIL: In 2019, Vice discovered that a growing number of Chinese women were turning to paid virtual boyfriends. The interactions mainly consist of them being hired to sing them to sleep, send them compliments, and chat with them via text or call.

by whatilearned April 27, 2023, 9:10 am

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TIL Of the Chinese drywall health issues. Between 2001 and 2009 the United States imported large amounts of drywall from China that would off-gas, slowly releasing chemicals like hydrogen sulfide and corrode pipes. The South-East was especially affected because of rebuilding following hurricanes.

by whatilearned April 21, 2023, 11:59 am

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