Did You Know?

[Caran]

Britain is the only country in the world that doesn't have it's name on their postage stamps! Just thought I'd share that with you. Any other little snippets of trivia available?

[wardlaw]

I know I will soon be told if I am wrong but I tkink GB is the only country whose National Anthem is about the Monarch rather than the country.

[Noth43]

178 legs in the days of Christmas..does that include the cows the maids were milking?

[Canary42]

You mean all the other countries have Britain's name on them ?

LOL

;-)

[chrisgel]

Noth43 - Yes

[Noth43]

oh good.

[atalanta]

The Atlantic is widening.
At the same rate at which your fingernails are growing.

[Peter Pedant]

British stamps dont have UK's name on them
but if you look various issues of other countries in the 1840s various others didnt either -
Brazil "Bull's eyes" spring (yes readers spring !) to mind

and yes I have checked - Belgique did not appear on Belgian stamps until 1869

British stamps should remain unlabelled was as an agreement with the Universal Postal Union, I think.

[excelsior-1]

when you sneeze

every function in the body momentarily stops ... including the heart

[Hopkirk]

Dave, the M25 starts south of the Dartford Crossing, and ends north of it.

The crossing is the A282.

[FredPuli43]

Pretty sure wardlaw is right about our national anthem being alone in referring to our monarch. It is, by the way, more than invoking the Almighty to help in our politics (as G B Shaw once summarised it). It is a very crafty reminder to our monarch not to interfere but to ever give us cause to wish him or her a long reign; don't give us cause and you'll go the way of Charles I and, in particular, James II who was replaced by Parliament's choice.

The Dutch national anthem says nothing about their monarch but praises a Spanish one. Now, that is a twist!