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 sun sets on 24 December at 3.55pm in the UK, and rises the following morning at 8.05am.
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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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Englishmen drink more tea than any person of any other nation (over twenty times more than Americans)
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Some British police cars carry a teddy bear to console children after an accident.
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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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