Hoover vacuum cleaners were so popular in the UK that many people now refer to vacuuming as hoovering.
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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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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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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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Some British police cars carry a teddy bear to console children after an accident.
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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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In Scotland it is illegal to be a drunk in possession of a cow.
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"Big Ben" in London isn't a tower, the bell inside the tower is called "Big Ben", the tower itself is called "The Elizabeth Tower".
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