random facts

Would You Support a Ban on Disposable Chopsticks?

20 million 20-year-old trees are cut down in China every year to make chopsticks.

Lauri Allan Törni, later known as Larry Alan Thorne, was a Finnish born American soldier.

Hong Xiuquan, a man thinking he was the younger brother of Jesus, led a rebellion in 1850 to establish his 'Heavenly Kingdom' in China.

Using all the coins from the 1p to the 50p and fitting them together like a jig-saw, the complete shield is revealed.

The first recorded use of Marijuana was in China, over 4700 years ago.

The tallest tree and the largest tree in the world are both in California.

In China, it's illegal to use a wordplay or a pun in advertising or on television.

A cat's brain can store 1,000 times more data than an iPad.

China Overtook The U.S. As The World's Largest Economy in 2014.

There are 52,000 tonnes of minable gold still in the ground worth US$2 trillion.

China has 6 megacities of over 10 million people, the most of any country.

The creator of 'Super Mario' can't bike to work because his safety is too important to Nintendo.

When a baby Panda is born, by agreement, it is sent back to China to help expand the gene pool.

In 1962 Winston Churchill's daughter, Diana, began working at a suicide prevention center. She committed suicide in 1963.

Rich people in China hire body doubles to serve their prison sentence.

President Banana, first president of Zimbabwe, passed a law forbidding citizens from making jokes about his name.