Some Chinese-made hair bands were fashioned from recycled condoms.
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Passengers on the Beijing subway can pay with plastic bottles.
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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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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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In Chinese, the KFC slogan "finger lickin' good" comes out as "eat your fingers off".
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In 1911, pigtails were banned in China because they were seen as a link with its feudal past.
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