Fact of The Day

How Long Were Aboriginals in Australia Before Colonisation?

Australia was inhabited by indigenous people for about 65,000 years before the British came.

In China, human trafficking is punished with the death penalty.

34.7% of adults in Africa are illiterate.

Villagers in central China have been using dinosaur bones as medicine - thinking they were from dragons.

The Black Death, which hit Europe in 1347, claimed an astonishing 200 million lives in just four years.

Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and The New York Times have been blocked in China since 2009.

College tuition priced at $20,000 in 1977 → $303,336.44 in 2021.

Cockroaches are served fried in China, Thailand and other Asian countries.

We lose over a pound of weight during sleep by exhaling.

Fortune cookies are not a traditional Chinese custom. They were invented in early 1900 in San Francisco.

Half of all Western European men are descendants of a Bronze Age 'king' who lived 4,000 years ago.

The 1556 Shaanxi earthquake in China was the deadliest earthquake on record with 830,000 deaths.

Suicide attempts may lead to prosecution.

Brad Pitt was banned from entering China due to his controversial role in 1997's Seven Years in Tibet.

Female blanket octopuses can be 40,000 times more massive than the male, it's the largest sex size discrepancy in the animal kingdom.

In China, there is an 'Elderly Rights' law which makes it illegal for anyone who has parents over 60 not to visit them regularly.