These athletes not only have the honor of participating in this year’s games but they have the funniest, most interesting, and coolest sounding names too.
Any ideas what they are used for?
Don’t do it, ever.
A 110 ton truck overloaded with sand caused a concrete bridge to collapse in the outskirts of Beijing. After an investigation, the court came to decision that the driver is the only one to blame, so now a man named by Chinese media merely as Mr. Zhang will have to pay the astounding $25 million of compensation.
They probably thought that any other packaging wouldn’t be strong enough.
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