Okinawans attribute their not only long, but healthy, happy lives to eating tons of local fruits and vegetables, as well as large quantities of tofu and seaweed.

Why we love it: you know you are becoming a true Shanghailander when you start craving these eats.

And also for years I've been an aficionado of the "bus plunge" story, the 100-word filler in the newspaper that says, "Peruvian bus plunges off cliff, 50 people die."