In 1911, pigtails were banned in China because they were seen as a link with its feudal past.
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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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Kim Jong Un was voted Most Sexiest Man Alive by The Onion and ended up as real news in China.
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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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The retail price for the iPad would be $1,140 if it were built by American workers instead of Chinese.
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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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Passengers on the Beijing subway can pay with plastic bottles.
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