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It's illegal for unrelated individuals/families here to have the same last names (except through marriage, obviously).

People think Egypt has a hot climate but it’s cold or warm most of the time and really windy

We actually are mostly whites, and have almost no race mixing

Heh

165 million cups of tea are drunk every day

British people eat twice as many baked beans than any other European citizen

Britain’s oldest house is at the Neolithic site of Star Carr in Yorkshire, dating back to around 10,000 years ago

Due to the uncleanliness of the water at the time, babies in 14th century Herefordshire were baptised in cider

It is an act of treason to place a postage stamp upside down

It is legal to murder a Scotsman in York, but only if he is carrying a bow inside the city walls

It is illegal to die in the Houses of Parliament

In London, it is illegal to hail a taxi if you have the plague

The Flagship of Argentina is literally a Flagship

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Most things foreigners consider "Spanish" are actually limited to specific regions. If you're from the north, flamenco sounds to you as foreign as the traditional music of a faraway country.

There's a municipality in Catalonia that talks in "aranés", an occitan language. That language is co-official within that municipality only, mean you can write any official document in it. During the referendum crisis in Catalonia, they were considering seccesion from the rest of Catalonia.

We have two surnames. That applies to most Spanish-speaking countries, too.

people that are actual german live also here

>It is an act of treason to place a postage stamp upside down

damn, I'm surprised pynchon's crying of lot 49 never mentions it because it'd tie in with its premise pretty much fucking perfectly