Just how much tea do British people drink anyway?
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1. Gyldenbollockes was an actual surname in medieval England.
2. Sir Bruce Forsyth is four and a half months older than sliced bread.
3. The first fatal car accident in the UK was caused by a driver going at 4mph.
4. The Queen took her favourite corgi on her honeymoon.
5. A series of riots that lasted three months in 1809 were caused by the Covent Garden theatre putting its ticket prices up.
6. The eleven days between September 3 and September 13 1752 were the least eventful in British history – because they never happened. Thanks to the move from the Julian to the Gregorian calendar, the date skipped straight from Wednesday 2 to Thursday 14.
7. In the 14th century, Sussex priest William of Shoreham advised baptising babies in cider instead of water.
8. The oldest condoms ever found were from Dudley Castle in the 1640s, and were made from animal and fish intestines.
9. Lieutenant Colonel "Mad" Jack Churchill is only British soldier in WWII known to have killed an enemy soldier with a longbow. He insisted on going into battle armed with both a medieval bow and a claymore sword.
10. In 2009, a search of Loch Ness for the Loch Ness monster instead discovered thousands of lost golf balls.
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