Random UK Facts

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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 Queen and her husband are both great-grandchildren of Queen Victoria.
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    The Queen of England, who once enjoyed extensive powers and authority over almost the whole world, and despite all her present majesty and glory, is not allowed to enter the House of Commons simply because she is not its member!
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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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    Englishmen drink more tea than any person of any other nation (over twenty times more than Americans)
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