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“What’s something people often don’t realise is British?” – 15 proper eye-openers

It can often be tricky to be certain of the origin of certain things, such as where the term 99er came from for an ice-cream with a flake, the current item reported to be the Stone of Scone, and the belief that Elon Musk is a genius.

There can also be misconceptions about things that become associated with particular countries, which are often not their country of origin. Some of those things were identified in response to this question from VeryBritishProblems.

There were a lot of replies, with some being genuinely very surprising. How many of these did you know?

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Crucially, it cuts both ways.

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