The first man to swim the length of Great Britain grew a beard to stop jellyfish stinging his face.
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Britney Spears’ music is used by the British Navy to scare off Somali pirates.
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The Queen and her husband are both great-grandchildren of Queen Victoria.
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In 1989, a British company made a laptop with a graphical user interface, a 60 hour battery life, SSD storage, and a touchpad.
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The handbook issued to US soldiers in Britain during WW2 included the line "The British don't know how to make a good cup of coffee. You don't know how to make a good cup of tea. It's an even swap."
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Englishmen drink more tea than any person of any other nation (over twenty times more than Americans)
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A British teenager changed his name in 2008 to Captain Fantastic Faster Than Superman Spiderman Batman Wolverine Hulk And The Flash Combined.
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