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by redHead
WEIRD: Worst traffic jam ever: 60 mile gridlock on its 9th day!
We all hate traffic jams, especially when everything just moves at a snail's pace. Imagine getting stuck in a traffic jam that goes for 60 miles and has entered into its 9th day? Cars and trucks have been slowed to a crawl since August 14 (now in its 9th day) on the National Expressway 110, which is also known as the G110, the major route from Beijing to Zhangjiakou.
Since August 14, thousands of Beijing-bound trucks have jammed the expressway again, and traffic has stretched for more...
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by newsfreak
WEIRD: Li Guiwen: Man makes record by driving across two rows of bottled beers for over 60 metres
There are a lot of drivers in the world who can't maintain their car inside the marked lines of a lane, but there is Li Guiwen, an army driver from Beijing (China), who managed to drive across two rows of bottled beers for over 60 metres.
He steered along 1,798 bottles for 60.19m in a time of 8 minutes and 28 seconds. He had previously attempted the same record in 2009, but due to rain, the right tyre of his vehicle slipped off the bottle track.
As a lot of other strange records, this one...
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by meoww
WORLD: Double Chins in China
As the Chinese economy beefs up, so are its citizens. And to a point where "Fat" is no longer just a popular name, but also the description for 100 million Chinese citizens.
The number sounds quite small compared to China's 1.5 billion population. However, experts fear the number of obese citizens could as much as double in the next 10 years. One wonders what the reason for all the super-sizing might be? Well, according to Dr. Carson Liu, a Los Angeles-based bariatric surgeon, it is a case...
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