China is one of those places that you hear a lot about, but you really don’t know anything that goes on there unless you hear it on the news. It is almost a place of fascination that many think about what it would be like to visit but on the other hand probably not the best place to visit considering how their government runs things. So we put together some facts about China to educate you more about the country and the culture.
1. China executes the death penalty more than 4 times as the rest of the world combined. even more than North Korea
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2. Chinese Place Pins On Their Soldier’s Collars. This is so their soldiers would get used to having their chins up.
3. Chinese Police Officers has a rule on how high they should raise their arms while on a line. To help them remember, they use a pole with a straight rope as a measuring guide
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4. They use their cars to order. Instead of driving through and eating in other places, they order the meal using the drive through, park their car and go inside the restaurant to eat the drive through meal
5. China produces and discards more than 45 billion pairs of wooden chopsticks every year, at a cost to the environment of about 25 million trees.
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6. Facebook, Twitter and The New York Times have been blocked in China since 2009.
7. The World’s First Paper Money was created in China 1,400 years ago.
8. In China, over 35 million people still live in caves.
9. The Sunrise in parts of China can be as late as 10 AM because the country joined its five time zones into a single one.
10. Dyeing pets to look like other wild animals is a trend in China.
11. four million cats are eaten in China every year as a delicacy.
12. China used more cement in 3 years (2011 to 2013) than the U.S. used in the entire 20th century.
Now If you wanna some creepy about North Korea
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