17 fantastically weird facts about the UK that sound made up

10.

Birmingham has more miles of canal than Venice.
Trivius

11.

You can legally drink alcohol from 5 years old.
Buckfast

12.

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13.

Edinburgh is more West than Liverpool.
TheFlyingHornet1881

14.

Jerry Springer was born in Highgate Tube station in London during WWII.
HellsAngel101

15.

In the UK, it’s impossible to be more than 70 miles from the sea. Crazy right? The most in-land place is Coton in the Elms, Derbyshire, which is exactly 70 miles away from the nearest coast at The Wash, Lincolnshire.
MrLore

16.

There is a phenomenon known as the “TV Pickup” where millions of people all turn on their kettles at the same time because the TV adverts start and it causes massive power surges across the country.
HELizaJ

17.

We have thousands of feral parakeets here.
DrunkPunkRat

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