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The Parrot with a Little Human Brain

Alex, an African grey parrot, was the first and only non-human animal to ask an existential question: he asked what color he was.

Coffee has been found to reverse liver damage caused by alcohol.

The world's largest producer of cigarettes is a company owned by the Chinese government.

There's a Cereal Cafe in London where you can eat hundreds of different kinds of cereals from around the world.

Facebook has 95 million users in China despite being blocked.

Anwar Sadat made Egypt the first Arab nation to achieve peace with Israel in 1979. For this, Sadat won the Nobel Peace prize.

In China, women who remain unmarried in their late 20s and beyond are called 'Sheng nu' which means 'leftover women.'

In Bhutan, there were no public hospitals or schools until the 1950s, and no paper currency, no roads or electricity until several years after that.

Canals are a Chinese invention – the Grand Canal of China is 1,103 miles long and was started in 486 BC.

Armenia became the first nation to adopt Christianity as a State Religion in the year 301.

90% of Chinese teenagers and young adults suffer from myopia (short-sightedness).

Because these were the dates of the deaths of Kim Il-sung and Kim Jong-il.

China's economic growth has been skyrocketing over the recent years.

There's a hotel in Bolivia made almost entirely of salt, complete with salt beds and chairs.

In China, 171,000 people perished in 1975 due to the collapse of the Banqiao Dam, an event hidden from the world until 2005.

In 2012, divers discovered a 2,000-year-old Roman shipwreck that was so well preserved even the food was intact in its storage jars.