Omar bin Laden (Osama's son) was denied citizenship in Britain in 2007 because "Omar failed to provide his father's permanent address".
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When Prince William becomes king, he will be the forty-fourth monarch since William the Conqueror who was crowned in 1066.
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English sailors were referred to as "limeys" because sailors added lime juice to their diet to combat scurvy.
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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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On April Fool's Day in 1977, the UK newspaper The Guardian ran a 7 page feature on the discovery of the fictitious island nation of "San Seriffe."
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The 409 escalators in the London subway cover a distance every week which is approximately equivalent to several trips around the globe!
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Hoover vacuum cleaners were so popular in the UK that many people now refer to vacuuming as hoovering.
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The sun sets on 24 December at 3.55pm in the UK, and rises the following morning at 8.05am.
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