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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After coming across a "very sweet" homeless man from Jamaica named Michael on a night out, Londoner Jenny Baker took to Twitter, and within hours, using the hashtag #getmichaelhome, had raised thousands of pounds so that he could return home to Jamaica where he said he would be "happy again".
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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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In the UK, there's a guy named 'Major Dickie Head'.
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In 1770, the British Parliament passed a law condemning lipstick, stating that “women found guilty of seducing men into matrimony by a cosmetic means could be tried for witchcraft.”
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Prince William's nickname in college was "P-Willy".
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The first man to swim the length of Great Britain grew a beard to stop jellyfish stinging his face.
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