Big Ben does not refer to the clock, but actually the bell.
There is nowhere in Britain that is more than 74.5 miles from the sea.
The first telephone directory published in England contained 25 names.
While the Great Fire of London was largely destructive, the casualty rate was just 8.
There are over 300 languages spoken in England.
French was the official language in England for about 300 years
The English drink more tea than anyone else in the world.
[FONT=Arial, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif]Chickens outnumber humans in England. (immigrants probably out number British people too)
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London is the first city in the world to have an underground subway system.
80,000 umbrellas are expected to be lost annually in the London tube. (where do they all go?)
England has the highest rate of obesity in Europe.
The first fish and chips restaurant was opened in 1860 by a Jewish immigrant.
The English invented the world’s earliest railways.
The Beatles originally called themselves the Blackjacks, and then the Quarrymen.
[FONT=Arial, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif]England is thought of as having the world’s worst food. (probably because not must British food around anymore)
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A shrimp's heart is in it's head.
People say "Bless you" when you sneeze because when you sneeze,your heart stops for a mili-second.
In a study of 200,000 ostriches over a period of 80 years, no one reported a single case where an ostrich buried its head in the sand.
A pregnant goldfish is called a twit. (also short for users of Twitter)
More than 50% of the people in the world have never made or received a telephone call.
Rats and horses can't vomit.
If you sneeze too hard, you can fracture a rib.
If you try to suppress a sneeze, you can rupture a blood vessel in your head or neck and die.
Wearing headphones for just an hour will increase the bacteria in your ear by 700 times.
The cigarette lighter was invented before the match.
23% of all photocopier faults worldwide are caused by people sitting on them and photocopying their butts.
In the course of an average lifetime you will, while sleeping, eat 70 assorted insects and 10 spiders.
Most lipstick contains fish scales.
A person can live without food for about a month, but only about a week without water.
If the amount of water in your body is reduced by just 1%, you'll feel thirsty.
If it's reduced by 10%, you'll die.
Uranus' orbital axis is tilted at 90 degrees. (This is a planet, in case you thought it was something rude)
Every year about 98% of atoms in your body are replaced.
If you went out into space, you would explode before you suffocated because there's no air pressure.
Sound travels 15 times faster through steel than through the air.
On average, half of all false teeth have some form of radioactivity.
A chip of silicon a quarter-inch square has the capacity of the original 1949 ENIAC computer, which occupied a city block.
At a glance, the Celsius scale makes more sense than the Fahrenheit scale for temperature measuring. But its creator, Anders Celsius, was an oddball scientist. When he first developed his scale, he made freezing 100 degrees and boiling 0 degrees, or upside down. No one dared point this out to him, so fellow scientists waited until Celsius died to change the scale.
At a jet plane's speed of 1,000 km (620mi) per hour, the length of the plane becomes one atom shorter than its original length.
