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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In 2015, Britain will ban smoking in cars carrying children.
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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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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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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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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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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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