7th Sept 2011 Interesting Tip-Bits On China
Did You Know About These Tip-Bits Too About China?
- The world's largest producer of apples is China.
- The Chinese never give apples to invalids because "ping", the Chinese for apple, sounds a bit like "bing", which is Chinese for illness.
- 14 countries share a border with China and they are Vietnam, Laos, Myanmar, Bhutan, Nepal, India, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan, Mongolia, Russia and North Korea
- In ancient China, mouse meat was considered a delicacy, now, a favourite food of most Chinese is sun-dried maggots.
- In China, there is a type of tea called white tea which is actually simply boiled water.
- 24% of the world speaks Chinese. There are over 200 different Chinese languages and regional dialects. The official state language is Pu-tong-hwa [Mandarin].
- China manufactures 60% of the world's bicycles.
- People of ancient China believed that swinging your arms could cure a headache.
- According to economists, China will become the world's wealthiest nation by the year 2012.
- Fingerprinting was used in China as early as 700 AD.
One more for luck: 20% of China's plants are used in medicine; and they work.
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