Hoover vacuum cleaners were so popular in the UK that many people now refer to vacuuming as hoovering.
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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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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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Prince William's nickname in college was "P-Willy".
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The Queen and her husband are both great-grandchildren of Queen Victoria.
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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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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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Some British police cars carry a teddy bear to console children after an accident.
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