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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Hoover vacuum cleaners were so popular in the UK that many people now refer to vacuuming as hoovering.
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In England, there's a phenomenon called the "half-time kettle effect" where power use surges at half-time during England's matches in the World Cup as everyone turns on their tea kettles at the same time.
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In Scotland it is illegal to be a drunk in possession of a cow.
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Prince William's nickname in college was "P-Willy".
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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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