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What is Unmarried Female Called?

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.

China invests more each year in renewable power than any other country on earth.

Of the 620,000 recorded military deaths in the Civil War about two-thirds died from disease.

The Chinese name for Winnie the Pooh was blocked on Chinese social media sites because people have been comparing the bear to China's President.

Spiders don't have penises. They mate with the appendages on their face.

The Chinese are the single biggest source of global tourism income.

One of Bolivia's oldest silver mines (El Cerro Rico) has claimed the lives of an estimated 8 million people in the past 500 years.