This week is the United Kingdom week so here you have some facts about it:
1- The Queen of the UK is the legal owner of one-sixth of the Earth’s land surface.
2- U.S. eggs are illegal in Britain because they are washed. British eggs are illegal in the U.S. because they are not.
3- The UK is the first country in the world to allow the creation of babies from the DNA of three people.
4- The world’s shortest scheduled airline flight lasts 2 minutes. It connects two islands in the UK.
5- There is a limit of 12 minutes of commercials, per hour of television, in the UK.
6- British Pennies are used to adjust the time in London’s Big Ben clock tower.
7- Champagne was invented in England by scientist Christopher Merret in 1662.
8- In the UK, it is illegal to ride a hoverboard scooter in public.
7- The terms “UK” and “Great Britain” are not interchangeable: the United Kingdom includes Northern Ireland, while Great Britain does not.
8- Probably built around 3000 B.C., Stonehenge has stood on England’s Salisbury Plain for more than 5,000 years and is older than the famous Great Pyramids of Egypt.
9- Every day, U.K people drink about 165 million cups of tea.
10- Vegans in the UK went from 150,000 in 2006 to 542,000 in 2016.
11- The first hot chocolate store opened in London
12- football creation: The medieval version of football was so violent that the matches frequently resulted in serious injuries and even death.
http://www.factslides.com/s-UK