The sun sets on 24 December at 3.55pm in the UK, and rises the following morning at 8.05am.
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"Big Ben" in London isn't a tower, the bell inside the tower is called "Big Ben", the tower itself is called "The Elizabeth Tower".
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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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Englishmen drink more tea than any person of any other nation (over twenty times more than Americans)
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A study in the UK states that men need at least two "guys nights out" each week to stay healthy.
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The Canadian province of New Brunswick (which was part of the UK at the time) had a bloodless war with the US state of Maine in 1839
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In 2015, Britain will ban smoking in cars carrying children.
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In Scotland it is illegal to be a drunk in possession of a cow.
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