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INTERESTING FACTS ABOUT ENGLAND #6

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Here are some more “Wow, I didn’t know that” facts...

* The first hot chocolate store opened in London around 1600. Ironically it was started and run by a Frenchman who made it very popular to drink hot chocolate. In a hundred years you could find almost as many hot chocolate stores as you could coffee and tea houses -> great for this time of year!

* If you ate breakfast in Medieval England, you were also often served beer!

* The first telephone directory for England was published in 1880 and contained 25 names -> and they probably all knew each other ;-)

* In 1666 the City of London was almost wiped off the map during the Great Fire. Eighty-eight (88) churches alone were burned to the ground after the four (4) day inferno.

* St Paul's Cathedral in London survived the Blitz during WWII, despite tens of thousands of tons of German bombs falling all around the area.

* There is a greater number of Rolls Royce vehicles per capita in Hong Kong than in England.

* The sentence "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog." uses every letter in the English alphabet.

* The term "the whole nine yards" came from WWII Hurricane fighter pilots. The length of the ammunition belts in each cannon was 27 feet (1 yard = 3 feet). Firing continuously at a German aircraft coined the phrase "I gave him the whole nine yards".

* Highest pub is called the ‘Tan Hill Inn’, in Yorkshire - 1732 feet (527.9m) above sea level.

* Smallest pub is called ‘The Nutshell’, in Bury St Edmonds - 15ft x 7ft 6in. (4.572m x 2.286m) -> THAT is small!

* The original London Bridge was made of wood and was pulled down by Saxon sailors in 1014 -> and floated-away - ha ha!

* 32% of women and 54% of men surveyed using an Internet Dating service admitted they were already married - -> THAT is not a good marriage situation!

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