Learning more about Europe
The average Briton drinks around 1,200 cups of tea a year.
It is considered unlucky to set the long slender bottom side of a baguette upwards.
Track four at King's Cross Station in London was used in the film "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone." The real London Zoo where Harry discovers he can talk to snakes also was used in the film.
The term "hook and crook" is believed to have come from an old English law that allowed peasants to keep anything they could draw out from the edge of the king's game preserve with a hook or crook (shepherd's staff).
