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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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    After being dumped for being poor by his ex-girlfriend seven years prior, a Chinese man spent $40,000 booking four entire IMAX cinemas for first-day showings of Transformers 4 - just to prove her wrong.
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    China is the source of 70% of the worlds pirated goods.
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    Scientists in China have built a prototype high-speed maglev train that is theoretically capable of reaching speeds of up to 1,800 mph (2,900 km/h).
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    Chen Guanming, from Jiangsu province in eastern China, traveled by RICKSHAW for 2 years and covered nearly 40,000 miles through 16 countries, surviving flood, war zones and extreme temperatures, finally arriving at the London 2012 Olympics.
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    A 22 year old Chinese man needed a new nose. Instead of a transplant, a surgeon built a new nose on his forehead.
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    In Chinese, the KFC slogan "finger lickin' good" comes out as "eat your fingers off".
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    In 2002, there were no billionaires in China. In 2007, there were 106 billionaires.
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