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445: No Such Thing As Genghis Khan in Wimbledon

No Such Thing As A Fish

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Confucius' Secret Poem

If you take 50 generations of confucius descendants and read out their names from oldest to youngest in it, it will reveal a secret poem. Confucius basically has the guinnisworld record for the longest unbroken lineage. And i happen to make friends quite recently with the 70 ninthgeneration descendant ofconfucius. He's a guy who lives in london called james kong. The reason that their names would reveal a poem is as a beautiful thing that they do in china. Certain families do this, which is a generational name. All the families can know which generation a child is from by inserting a key word into their name.

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