- Hundreds of Shanghainese parents assemble in People’s Park every weekend, resumes of their unwed children in hand, to negotiate potential hook-ups at the Shanghai Marriage market
- Shanghai’s Pudong International Airport was built on reclaimed tideland that was once fish farms
- English is taught as a mandatory course from first grade in the public education system of Shanghai
- Shanghai South Railway Station is the first circular railway station in the world
- The laundry chute at the Shanghai Grand Hyatt hotel – which drops 88 stories – has built-in buffers to reduce the speed of descending clothes
- Shanghai is sinking at the rate of 1.5 cm per year, or a total of 6 feet since 1921
The monthly auction of license plates needed to drive a car in Shanghai lasts about 90 minutes
