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On November 9, 2005, a Boeing 777-200LR with the registration number N6066Z, nicknamed Baby Blue 2 , took off from Chek Lap Kok, better known as Hong Kong International Airport. Its destination? London Heathrow. Anyone who has ever flown from Hong Kong to London knows that a flight between the two can be long. However, covering a distance of 9,648 km (5,995 miles), it is shorter than the 12,990 km (8,084 miles) flight between Hong Kong and New York JFK, and much shorter than

Phileas Fogg's layover in Hong Kong was the most chaotic and pivotal turning points of his Journey Around the World in Eighty Days. #Literature #PhileasFogg

There was once a pirate who worshipped a goddess known to protect seafarers against... pirates. #Pirates #TinHau

Hong Kong is divided into three regions: Hong Kong Island, ceded in perpetuity to the British in 1842; Kowloon, ceded in perpetuity to the British in 1860; and the New Territories, leased to the British for 99 years in 1898. If the New Territories were given an English name lacking any originality, Hong Kong Island and Kowloon were the phonetic translations of the areas' Cantonese names: 香港 (Hèung Góng) and 九龍 (Gau Lung), respectively. The origin of Kowloon's name is particul

Why are there holes through the middle of buildings in Hong Kong? #Architecture #Superstition

The rock that marked the end of a dynasty. #SungWongToi #China

After the French-British victory in the Second Opium War, on October 24, 1860, Prince Gong of the Qing Dynasty signed the Convention of Peking. The convention included, among other provisions, the cession to Great Britain of District Number 1 of Kowloon, which corresponds to the modern-day Yau Tsim Mong District, as well as the cession of Stonecutters Island, a small island west of Kowloon’s shoreline. However, if you were to try to locate Stonecutters Island on a modern map,

On October 23, 2018, the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macau Bridge, or HZMB for short, was officially inaugurated, linking the People's Republic of China with its two Special Administrative Regions, Hong Kong and Macau. With a total length of 55 kilometers (34 miles) it spans the entire width of the Pearl River Delta, making it the longest sea-crossing bridge in the world. Consisting of two bridges and a tunnel, this joint venture between China, Macau S.A.R., and Hong Kong S.A.R. took ju

2IFC once displayed the world's largest skyscraper advertisement. #Advertisement #IFC

The day the colonial government of Hong Kong waged war on its own territory. #NewTerritories #Colonisation

The pirate who escaped a police raid and completely vanished. #Piracy #Police

The curse of High Street Ghost House. #Ghost #SaiYingPun

On Double Nine, Hongkongers fly kites to get rid of bad luck. #Superstition #Kites

If you ever travel to Hong Kong from the United States, you will need to exchange your US dollars for Hong Kong dollars, the city’s currency since 1846. Don’t bother checking the latest exchange rate, though. Since 1983, the Hong Kong dollar has been pegged to the US dollar at a fixed rate of 1 US dollar for 7.8 Hong Kong dollars (even though, technically, it fluctuates between 7.75 and 7.85 Hong Kong dollars). In 1935, the Hong Kong dollar was pegged to the British sterlin

Did you know the largest and the fastest passenger ships once belong to Hong Kong companies? #RMSQueenElizabeth #SSUnitedStates

Have you ever heard of the mermen living around Tai O? #Myths #TaiO

Hong Kong is often dubbed the "Vertical City". Yet, there are no, and there will never be, any megatall buildings. Why? #Skyscrapers #Architecture

The Qilin Dance is not the Lion Dance. #Hakka #Culture

The northern shoreline of Hong Kong Island was entirely built on reclaimed land. #HongKongIsland #VictoriaHarbour

The missing storeys of the International Commerce Centre. #ICC #Architecture