Random UK Facts

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    The 409 escalators in the London subway cover a distance every week which is approximately equivalent to several trips around the globe!
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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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    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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    Hoover vacuum cleaners were so popular in the UK that many people now refer to vacuuming as hoovering.
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