What ineresting facts are there about the united kingdom?

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Kevan M

Funny Facts?

Don't know about funny facts? Know a lot of facts about the UK but depends what you call funny.
I mean did you know that the British Isles has one of the greatest group of Islands in the world? Weather and Temperature ranges are one of the greatest for such a small area. Teenagers are the most uncontrolled and aggressive in Europe.

It all depends what you want to know?

master_of_dudes

it once ruled one quarter of the world, australia, usa, canada, new zealand, india, pakistan, bangladesh, most of the carribean, various countries in the south pacific, the falklands, malta, sinapore, south africa, egypt, nigeria, ghana etc

tr1gger123

The insults "moron", "idiot", "imbecile" and "cretin" were once official medical diagnoses.

15% of Rolls-Royce owners also own a private jet and 5% a Boat, 3% own a jet & a boat, but 100% of me owns a Suzuki a kite and a dog.

If there is a CCTV camera for every 14 people in the UK, wheres mine? and who am I sharing with?

EdgeWitch

It rains more in Paris than in London

JOJO

well for a start we dont get huge earthquakes. and manchester does not get huge ammounts of rain as some people think.

fatsausage

Henry VIII and all his wives and what he did with them and how he treated the Pope and the Catholic Priests and their money.

Beastie

Funny... Not sure about that. But neither the accepted northernmost point on the mainland or the southernmost are correct.
The Lizard is further south than Lands End, and Dunnet Head is about three miles further north that John O'Groats
There are villages called Twatt on Orkney and Shetland.
The village of Lost is in Aberdeenshire. The roadsigns for the village go missing so often that the local council are seriously considering changing the name.
The mountain in the Cairngorms called the Devil's Point was deliberately mistranslated from Gaelic for genteel Victorians. Bod nam Diabhal more correctly translates to The Devil's Penis....

stoutseun69

http://www.woodlands-junior.kent.sch.uk/customs/questions/theQueenfacts.htm

Use google

Manabu Fan

English is one of the hardest languages for foreigners to learn as it is derived from so many other languages.

Other languages spoken in the UK include Scots, Scottish Gaelic, Welsh, Cornish and Irish Gaelic. Not many people speak these though.

Penicillin, the televison, the telephone and the world wide web were all invented by British people.

me again

It was once great, and they have lock ness monsters and red dragons in Wales. great beer gardens that the teenagers can go too they have fairies down the bottom of the garden and sometimes in the beer gardens, watching the kids, they have computer places that the teenagers congregate in and play war games .they have donkey rides on a lot of the beaches,
loads of fun parks that cost a fortune, and oh yes you are not allowed to slap or tell them off iff they are acting like spoiled bratts, or they have to go to supper nanny to learn how to behave in the united kingdom.

scotgal

eh? when did scots become a language? we speak English, youre right, nobody speaks it because it doesnt exist....irish gaelic is spoken in the south of ireland which isnt the Uk Btw, and gaelic is spoken quite a lot in wales and scotland, the islands and the north

budding author

Interesting fact :- It soon will be un - united, we will get rid of England.

sm80

Its full of scrounging asylum seekers

mattrunltd

The UK was the last nation in the world to abolish slavery

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