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Three surnames, Wang, Li and Zhang, make up for 21% of the Chinese population.

Milk stored in the freezer will stay safe for consumption indefinitely.

In Beijing, one million people live underground in basements and air raid shelters.

Pluto never made a full revolution around the sun while it was still considered a planet.

Around 200 BCE, the Western Han Dynasty used a lottery to pay for repairs to and expansion of the Great Wall.

The last movie rented from Blockbuster before it closed its doors nationwide was ironically called 'This is the End.'

No one has ever gotten a perfect score on the gaokao, the 9-hour Chinese college entrance exam.

Texas - which has only 8.5% of the US population - produces 12.8% of the country's emissions.

In Hong Kong, more than 400,000 domestic helpers. Work up to 18-hour days, 6 days a week, for just HK$4,630 (US$ 596) a month.

The world's oldest recorded joke is a Sumerian saying from around 1900 BC about a wife's fart.

20 robots work at the Robot Restaurant in Harbin, China. They can deliver food, cook, usher and entertain diners.

She's the first artist in the RIAA's history to pass the 100 million Digital Singles Award mark.

In 1963, Tong Dizhou put DNA of a male carp into the egg of a female carp and became the first to successfully clone a fish.

35% of the world's population drives on the left side of the road.

With 190 billionaires and more than two million millionaires, China tags just behind the U.S. in number of high-net-worth individuals.

The world's oldest yacht club is the Royal Cork Yacht Club which opened in Ireland in 1720.