Random UK Facts

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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 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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    Prince William's nickname in college was "P-Willy".
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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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    Englishmen drink more tea than any person of any other nation (over twenty times more than Americans)
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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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    English sailors were referred to as "limeys" because sailors added lime juice to their diet to combat scurvy.
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