CuriousBritain
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Curious Britain is now Live and full of strange stuff about the UK
2:11 PM Aug 7th, 2011
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The first motorist ever to be charged by police for speeding was Englishman Walter Arnold on the 28th January 1896. He was doing 8mph.
1:41 PM Jan 28th, 2011
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Britain really does have an annual cheese rolling competition that involves running down Coopers Hill after a Double Gloucester Round.
12:45 AM Jan 21st, 2011
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The modern postal system was invented in Britain and, as such, it is the only country worldwide not to print its name on its stamps.
1:10 AM Jan 20th, 2011
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Today a Kit-Kat is a famous British chocolate snack named after the Kit-Kat Club but the original Kit-Kats were mutton pies.
8:42 AM Jan 18th, 2011
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The most famous of all British pop bands "The Beatles" were once known as "Johnny and the Moondogs". Johnny was, of course, John Lennon.
2:17 AM Jan 15th, 2011
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Englishman Daniel Lambert, (b.1770), weighed 52 stone and was so fat that he couldn't sink. He could still swim with two men on his back.
1:00 PM Jan 14th, 2011
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There really is a town called "Little Sodbury" in Gloucestershire and it's where the first English translation of the Bible was started.
12:27 PM Jan 14th, 2011
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Nowhere in Britain is more than 74½ miles from the sea. According to the Ordinance Survey, it's a town call Cotton-in-the-Elms, Derbyshire.
11:17 AM Jan 13th, 2011
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