The sun sets on 24 December at 3.55pm in the UK, and rises the following morning at 8.05am.
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The biggest burger in Britain, dubbed the 'Apocalypse Burger', is a mammoth 25,000 calories, weighs 11kg (25lb) and contains £150 (around $233 USD) worth of ingredients.
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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 Scotland it is illegal to be a drunk in possession of a cow.
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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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The Queen and her husband are both great-grandchildren of Queen Victoria.
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Prince William's nickname in college was "P-Willy".
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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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