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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Hoover vacuum cleaners were so popular in the UK that many people now refer to vacuuming as hoovering.
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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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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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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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In 2015, Britain will ban smoking in cars carrying children.
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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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The sun sets on 24 December at 3.55pm in the UK, and rises the following morning at 8.05am.
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