101 Facts About The UK

good evening afternoon morning or any other time to you loyal mother factors and welcome to this rant a British version of 101 facts I'm your designated subject Sam and today I'm here to talk about the country of James Bond Sherlock Holmes Doctor Who Connery Harry Potter yes thank you he I'm here to talk about the United Kingdom but how much tea do we drink as a nation every day any time that we have sex in our lifetimes do we have sex with the t2o so through those questions are going to be answered so kneel before her Majesty the Queen and prepared to receive a knighthood from the facting Empire while eating a crumpet and mainlining Swan blood lovely stuff this is 101 facts about the United Kingdom number one in case you thought this is a video about me calling a knight named Ed Kingdom it ain't the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland is a sovereign country consisting of England Wales Scotland and here to Northern Ireland number two the Union Jack is a marble character but also a flag rather cleverly it's the flags of England Scotland and Ireland some parts all tie a flag almost together sorry whale so it's no room for a dragon on there number three some George's Cross is widely known as the flag for England it is a red cross the top of white flag and came into use in the late 18th century sorry I'm not sure why I'm doing that dust the old librarian voice but number four since Andrews cross is the flag of Scotland come on stop doing that voice Gordon to the legend it's across because of a battle between the Scots and the angles nope not those set of angles although that is a cute one [Music] during this battle the clouds in the sky apparently formed into an axe thus marking the flag number 5 this is why oldest flag which is a lot lot better than the others mainly due to the fact that has a dragon on it but why welly well well my Sugar Plum Fairy it was the symbol of the king of Winnick named king Cadwallader another thick northern island doesn't have its own flag sorry Northern Ireland number 7 England and Wales were united in 1536 like ex-lovers then Scotland joined in in 1707 like a swingers party that created Great Britain renamed the United Kingdom 1901 when Ireland was added to number 8 as of 2013 the population of the UK is 64 point 1 million England has 53 of those millions Scotland has 5.3 million Wales 3 million and Northern Ireland 1.8 million number 9 the UK is close to 95,000 square miles never said the UK's longest coastline is around 5,000 miles the exact thickness of Proclaimers will look for you number 11 our highest mountain is been NEVEC because we like naming things then in the UK benny-boy can be found in Scotland as just over one thousand three hundred and forty meters high another 12 we have and this is a natural measurement 8 ton of history in the UK dating all the way back to 6500 BC all over the UK you'll find monuments marking its history from Stonehenge to Buckingham Palace number 13 perhaps because of this and because it's resident for kooky folk like me in 2010 twenty nine point six million people visited Britain spending an average of 553 pounds per person and stayed seven days on average number 14 we also can't move for bloody castle there's actually six to seven hundred all across the country and no unless I don't live in number 15 we also have plenty of places of enlightenment and worship how why was that sighs what do you think by the end of 2015 there are around 50 2,750 of them I bet at least 50,000 of them were named the Red Lion or some things number 16 Oh according to the Daily Mail which is something you shouldn't read by the way there are 518 pubs in the UK with the name Red Lion well you can keep your red line mate because I know which pub I'll go to to make the thing to blow over go to the Winchester and I still trying to get away for all this blow Winchester fella number 17 there are stranger pub names out there including the bunch of carrots in Hereford the quiet woman in Buxton and my father's mustache in Lincolnshire number 18 English is the official language spoken throughout the UK excludes in the name but there are other official languages too such as Welsh Scots ordering a kebab all drunk and daylit alright who's laughing at Gaelic own up number 19 contrary to what some believe we're not exactly led by the Queen anymore the United Kingdom is a parliamentary democracy which means the government is elected by the people number 20 see there's a general election once every five years to find out to our next p.m. is going to be like a very long tedious and very boring coming show the prime minister or the PM as I just said just then leads the government with the support of the cabinet not a literal cabinet as well as ministers and members of parliament not only once the UK has had 76 prime ministers including the great Winston Churchill and and others number 22 the first female Prime Minister was Margaret Thatcher who seemingly had a who so much so she ran from 1979 to 1990 and is the longest-serving Prime Minister for over 150 years number 23 the United Kingdom joined the European Union in 1939 but more anymore well not yet anyway since we're apparently practicing the F out of there due to a referendum in June 2016 because reason the bus mainly another hunky-dory in fact calling dictionary made breakfast which sounds like breakfast cereal specifically designed for people with diarrhea is actually an admittedly terrible fusion of the words return and exit their word of the year in 2016 number two part Her Majesty the Queen of England the second is the head of state in the United Kingdom as a constitutional monarchy Her Majesty does not rule the country as such but the royal family fulfills important ceremonial and formal roles like celebrating lock to birthdays and showing off their children in core G love you though your match number 26 along with our Queen Lizzy there's a whole family of royal yes thank you Lord right at the top of the family tree is the arrogant Lea named Alfred the Great who defended his kingdom against the Vikings number two seven Windsor Castle where the Queen spent 24 time is the largest roll home in the world it's also the oldest continually inhabited world residence in Britain don't you know having been built by William the Conqueror around 1080 ad number context nowhere in the UK is more than 75 miles away from the sea which is quite lucky really given that we do like to be beside the seaside or we do like to be except me actually I don't like sand it's coarse and rough and irritating it is everywhere number 29 London is the capital of England and the UK by the way just a key point aware hate the fact country number 30 just in case you visit and need to know the laws you need to be 18 to drink alcohol and you're not allowed any drugs at all not even marijuana sells chaps but hey have a cup of tea instead number 31 rather stereotypically speaking of tea every day as British drink 165 million cups of P which is over 20 times more than the average American they got responsible for at least a tenth of that singer client give me a tape number 32 when you think of British food you probably think of this all there what about this you should because the United Kingdom recently named chicken tikka masala as a national dish which is a spicy curry created in Britain and is actually unheard of in India itself nampara 30 prayer speaking of fish and indeed chips the first fish and chips restaurants was opened in 1960 in London by a Jewish immigrant named Joseph Malan so Thank You Joseph for giving me that sweet sweet nice paper wrap to butter drinks heart attack I owe you one number 34 speaking of heart attack a popular national food of Scotland is haggis sheep hearts liver and mince encased in a stomach hmm you want some haggis American hmm do you like it thank you boys well that's too bad because it's illegal to afford targets from the UK into the US as the American government has declared that chic lungs are unfit for human consumption I mean how dare they have they tried American chocolate face our disappointment in a bar number the Christmas tree in Trafalgar Square is presented every year by the people of all flows in gratitude for London's assistance during World War two number 37 James Bond or secretive Jimmy as I call him down the pub is one of Britain's national heroes and one of the first people added a hunter on France about don't you know his code name Davalos 7 was inspired by the author Ian Fleming's bus route from Canterbury to London for there you go not only do you know that now but you also know the bus routes get from country to London you're welcome number 38 the London Underground subway or the cube is one of the oldest subways in the world the 409 escalators and huge stations cover the difference every week which is approximately equivalent to several trips around the world you probably can try them all in a day I'm afraid sorry to quash that dream number 39 despite being named of such more than half of the London Underground is in fact above not under draft number 14 the longest escalator inner tube station incidentally is at the station angel and it's the fourth longest escalator in the world I should know I used to ride the bloody thing all the time but I never unless it's skiing down it's far better like this guy does number 41 a new breed of mosquito was found in the tube tunneled in 1998 scientists believe it mutated from a species that came to London on the ground when it was built in the last century and has since evolved into a separate species the meaning of life oh hey London by the way host of the 2012 Olympics in a 2012 this was the third time they did so the first in 1908 and the second in 1948 number 43 Wales is actually home to a town called our bloody house ready to explain to read that okay let's get let's go the laughs area good give you've got a van fire pulled when you go work it clean problem Lancer arts career Naomi Watts help me out here so that's what's cool gift go-getter could draw fish thanks really also so God thank you this translates to that Mary's Church in the hollow of the white house on their rapid ball pool at the church at since it'll Oh either cave which is just as snappy you go whale number before there's only a 21 miles gap between England and Paul and the countries are connected by the Channel Tunnel which opened in 1994 it's the wild second longest underground tunnel and no you can't keep issues up a window like I thought you could I know I was just as disappointed as with number 45 John and Mary notes all those days of my I've been revealed is the most popular male and female names for the last 500 years in the UK I'm sure Sherlock has joined them now along with Squire and Rex it probably hashtag Sapphire number 46 a new study shows that Smith Jones & Williams has been the most common surnames for nearly 180 years so there's going to be plenty of work Jones's out there soon well that kind of traffic a detective or killing somebody number 47 thing it's working kinda according to the Sun most Brits will have run zombie love time sex I chose those 4239 times in their lives just one more time for me and I've been the average just getting us around 4239 four and a half number 48 when the UK was asked about our favourite senior position for second time is we answered near unanimously with 31 percent of us saying I don't have a favourite while we are at theis of bunch just lot number 49 we bloody love fish and chips and Yorkshire puddings and gravy and crumpets over here the stereotype is true which is probably the reason why England has the highest rates of obesity in Europe that said we do spend a lot of time reviewing up the stuff I'm on being really racist myself tip number today haha the United Kingdom has brought some of the world's greatest musical artists ever including the Beatle Robbie Williams the Rolling Stone Queen Black Sabbath Robbie Williams David Bowie the who Oasis I'm Aidan Robbie Williams and of course the Spice Girls so yeah you're welcome rest the world none of everyone in fact the Beatles are the highest selling and most successful musical artists of all time and they came straight out of UK Liverpool sleepers number 52 TV and soaps are also a big deal yo the most watched TV episode of all time in the UK was of a soap that in London called EastEnders specifically an episode in 96 on Christmas Day which pulled in 30 million viewers can be pretty tricky we also love our comedy over here given that we invented the concept and have produced many many funny shows and sitcoms this not included huger falls under the sitcom considered the funniest and most popular is Only Fools and Horses number 54 in 2014 10900 eight umbrellas were lost in the London Underground as well as 20,000 mobile phones so if you need to get dry and get a new phone hop on the tube you never know what you might find number 50 phone a human skull and prosthetic legs have also been found in London without their owner oh that little green that's where I left my human skull I ruined that performance of Hamlet using a basketball instead number 56 it was just above a pub named the Red Lion on great wind valise in London that Karl Marx made his marks here by drafting the communist manifesto it's now a B at one cocktail bar which is I'm sure what he would have wanted number 57 football or soccer ball as it's known is a massive part of UK culture in fact it's such a phenomenon that some YouTube channels do videos about football Bailey you're welcome guys there's your shout out now such fine line box with pictures of John Cleese number 58 we love football so much as a nation not cliven individually we're more into folding but there are over 5300 Club 7000 teams and over 100 stadiums across the UK number 59 but not everyone likes football many kings such as Edward the 2nd 3rd and 4th and richard ii wanted to actually ban the beautiful game completely number 60 even Shakespeare apparently disapproved of football specifically mentioning it with sustain in his player comedy of errors your defense esterified shakespeare's on fire number 61 thinking of Willy's sausages become a signature thing I think I've ever done sausages are very popular here in the UK they were introduced by the Romans around ad 400 and there are now 470 recipes for British bangers number 62 our smallest city isn't Davidson Pembrokeshire with a population of 1797 in my mind it's expecting like hot pans over another 63 the highest temperature ever recorded in England was 38.5 Celsius which is 101.3 Fahrenheit okay well at 1:00 on August the 10th 2003 every single man in the UK fully took their top off and got immensely sunburns because that after all is the British one Nintendo 64 however the UK's weather is renowned for raining all the petting time and yes that can be true in fact the Met Office summit in Snowdonia the Lake District and the Scottish Highlands they received more than four meters of rainfall in a year all meters number 65 love Florence st. was actually the official language of England for around three hundred years from ten to sixty six till about 1362 sounds like I was there almost magically I'm not the hell's already proven not a 16 if you think we're all stuffy and boring over here well let me tell you we're bloody not in fact the world's second largest secondhand book market can be found in hay on white a small village at the border of England and Wales oh yeah think we know how to party thank you very much number 67 the village is also famous for proclaiming itself independence from the UK in 1957 with a man named Richard booth proclaiming himself the Kings just as I have obviously oh wow loyal subject not you privacy cluster number 68 the UK or rather Britain used to put the flag down and claim basically owns - makeover + destroy many of today's independent countries to answer the vast the British Empire it wasn't pretty sorry about that Albert number 59 during World War two decolonization took place and the British Commonwealth was formed which unified these countries into an inter governmental group 54 nations were a part of the Commonwealth with Queen Lizzie as its head number 7 D we're here in the UK love needs a new sorry so much in fact of the average person in the UK gets through around 38 kilograms of newspapers every year another 51 people from the city of Liverpool such as the Beatles are often known as countess the name is short for love scouts which was the Scandinavian few eaten by the sailors who visit at the port so yes there's a puppy and your names of the food in law you know number 72 this now this is big bear missin tick wrong this is big then the bell inside not the actual clock the clock tower itself is called Elizabeth power okay they're scored Euler heads at night that's a once oppressive sorry number 73 each beckoning oh sorry god I mean Kent has a unique claim to fame it's the place where the first ever speeding ticket was issued in January 1996 a man named Walter Arnold the spotted doing eight miles per hour in a team on four hours oh don't go Speed Racer but was easily apprehended by a policeman riding a bicycle number 34 before we had the pound sterling we had other monies that found out the softphone gringo we had farthing shillings and pennies four farthings equaled a penny twelve twenty with one shilling and 20 shillings equal two pounds so if you have to go back in time remember that number 75 Birmingham is the second-largest city in the UK chances are you've probably been to a Birmingham and there are 30 other places called Birmingham around the world and often there's even a crater on the moon with the same name although you probably haven't been there and if you say you do you I frankly don't believe you number 36 if you're visiting Norfolk watch out for Jasper's also known as watch and try not to Stephanie Dortmund with a known snails the more rural part of the county have their own word for many things including ladybirds known as fishy Barney beast and money earns cuter I wonder if they have a word for the pedestrianisation of Norwich City Center skunk shop human scale number 37 a corns of British law it's still perfectly legal to kill and it's got Clooney went to the City of York if he happens to be carrying a bow and arrow so yeah watch over that Yorkist Scottish archers numbers mpa killing a small is a lawful offense in the UK even if the spawn started it by insulting a wife or perhaps saying your parents look a bit too tight this is because swans legally all belong to the crown and therefore a property of the Queen so killing or injuring a swan carries a penalty of five thousand pounds or six months in jail number oh no sir number 79 infant George's churchyard in Gravesend there's a life-size statue of Princess Pocahontas the daughter of a Native American chieftain who is buried in the ground she was visiting the area with her English husband but died of fever forest not such as a Night Fever bus you know the lethal one in 1617 number 80 unlike places like safe Australia our wildlife is very unlikely to kill you unless you're on the Hogwarts ground or any High Street after 9 p.m. last Saturday our wildlife include Pops's badgers owls squirrels ducks robins and hedgehog no killer spiders here yeah number as you want that being said though we do have a native venomous snake in the UK called the adder but it's pretty meek and will only bite as a last resort nobody has died from it spikes in over 20 years number 82 eating a mince pie on Christmas Day was set to be illegal in England thanks to Oliver Cromwell the law was put in place in an effort to stop gluttony however the ban was abolished when charles ii became king so never came into practice number 83 the national anthem no not you Radiohead the other one god save the queen or king was first performed publicly in 1755 at London's Theatre Royal Infirmary Lane after performance of Ben Johnson's play The Alchemist and go I'll help you on a pub quick number 84 the three Golden Lions are the symbols of England's crest and also appear on England Football team symbol to forget now three lines or Buscher the Lions come from Henry the first known at the line of England he is a wrong gift Milton [Music] number 85 this random assembly of stones is known as Stonehenge yes thank you doctor Stonehenge stand firm for free Plain in Wiltshire and it's a very popular tourist spot to this day but nobody knows why it was built or even how number 86 what we do know though apartment of a friend orator is very nearby is that it was built around 3000 BC and construction was spread over many hundreds of years the last changes were made in the early Bronze Age in around 1500 BC number 87 the British Library in London is the largest library in the world it has more than 170 million items cataloged hopefully soon in the future my autobiography love is the oldest law rip the Sam and Jen story number 88 United Kingdom's on the only countries in the world without a written constitution of course we still have laws and stuff it's not quite panicky in the UK sorry Sex Pistols but nobody actually bothered to write the laws down number 89 England's first telephone directory was published in 1880 and only has two hundred forty-eight names and addresses in it number 90 in its path London has had some far flashier names including Londinium Ludum wick and luden Burke's number 91 the UK is also the home of the wonderful NHS or National Health Service this provides free health care for all citizens of the country due to being paid for through taxes which is nice because if you trip over a hedgehog and stuff your knee it won't cost you anything results number 92 there are 1.4 million employees within the Health Service helping out those who are fallen over hedgehogs everywhere and they're all amazing thanks guys do the best also government peas are more number 93 it's not just hedgehogs third of the NHS have to deal with on average 488 people are injured by zips and 3078 people are injured by slippers every year in the UK they aren't they don't number 94 as God seems to be a big fit here sadly for all you Gary's out there the name Gary is as of 2013 less popular in the UK than both the names Thor and Loki number 95 England was part of the shortest war in history they bought Zanzibar in 1896 and Zanzibar surrendered after 38 minutes number 96 a relative of Shakespeare on his mother's side Edward Arden was arrested for 14 against Queen Elizabeth the first he was imprisoned in the Tower of London and executed there right of home about that Willie another 97 speaking of old bill Shakespeare he only left his wife one thing in his will it says I guy one for my wife my second-best bed with the furniture I hope that bed was okay sorry Anne Hathaway it's not that one yes yes thank you number 98 with 37 plays 154 sonnets the plays they collaborated on and the locked place Shakespeare wrote an average of 1.5 plays a year since he first started in 1589 it's all very well and good but could he do 101 facts about any given topic probably number 99 this fact is something you can repeat word for word in order to sound clever run you're welcome here we go buddy Shakespeare is most often referred to as a playwright of the Elizabethan era but his most popular plays were written Arthur is the set it's later play so distinct characteristics of the jacobi and dramas like the obviously number 100 [Music] Shakespeare has been credited by the Oxford English Dictionary for introducing around 3000 words for the English language it's been estimated his vocabulary range from 17,000 to twenty three thousand words number 101 an Anglophile is not something to put you on a register but is rather defined as someone who loves England and Britain are you an Anglophile let me know in the comments below also I know you've got this point and I'll be really ready in French really your comments like me thank you so good anyway sample future is an import your turn buddy now that's 101 facts about the UK and I don't know about you but I had a lovely time I really really did lovely if you want more Milan past videos like I really want a cup of tea which is quite difficult but I think I'm tired and thirsty click on subscribe right now and also by the way click on the bell you'll get notifications if some there's new 101 video how good is that yeah but the cool kids ring my bell not like that I mean click on the bell and you get it's not an actual ding a ling ling bells just yeah you know if you know what to do you clever people anyway watch this video i'm about to point to [Music]

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Length: 28min 17sec (1697 seconds)

Published: Fri Jan 13 2017