Wednesday 5 August 2015

FACT 45 You'll Want To Know About CHINA

They have a cellphone lane for pedestrians...

it's only in a theme park. The marked out part is for cellphone users only, and there is even a sign to explain.

Air pollution in Beijing is like smoking a pack a day

Apparently, spending one day breathing the air in Beijing is the same as smoking 21 cigarettes.

Traffic jams in Beijing cost approx. $11.3 billion

When the calculated time being wasted, gas use, and environmental damage was added up, they found that 70 billion yuan (which is around $11.3 billion) is the financial damage. 

Pins are strategically placed to keep officer's standing at attention

 Police are trained to hold their arms at an exact height for the military parade 

If this is how the train for a parade, imagine how they are trained for serious duties. 


There are 13 million abortions performed each year in China

That equals out to be around 53,000 per day.


They're using geese as the new "guard dogs"

They have excellent hearing and are said to be intelligent and brave. "In some ways, they are more useful than dogs." China employed an elite gaggle of geese police

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