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Making fun of British stereotypes, typified by: Beyond the Fringe; That Was the Week That Was (TW3), late-night TV satire; Little Britain; The Fast Show; The Young Ones; Harry Enfield's Television Programme; French and Saunders; The Day Today; Brass Eye; Citizen Smith parodied the disaffected left-wing anarchist; Mind Your Language, late 1970s ...
The popular ‘UK Ambulance Humour’ page on Facebook, which shares comedic pics, prides itself on this, with a focus on content that medical staff and fans of British comedy might find hilarious ...
One of the most mysterious facts about Wembley is that there is a time capsule buried underneath it. The capsule, which contains the architect's original sketches of the iconic Wembley Arch, was ...
6 February – Jensen, the British luxury carmaker, makes 700 of its employees redundant – cutting its workforce by two-thirds. [5]11 February – Margaret Thatcher defeats Edward Heath in the Conservative Party leadership election, becoming the party's first female leader.
1 February – Grave-diggers call off a strike in Liverpool which has delayed dozens of burials.; 2 February – Sid Vicious, the former Sex Pistols guitarist, is found dead in New York after apparently suffocating on his own vomit as a result of a heroin overdose. 21-year-old London-born Vicious was on bail for the second degree murder of his girlfriend Nancy Spungen, who was found stabbed to ...
And the Instagram page ‘Unbelievable Facts’ is one of the best places to do just that. Every day, they share fascinating trivia, building a collection that now includes over 10,000 unique facts.
14 January – The Salafi jihadist group al-Muhajiroun begins to operate in the UK. 20 January – The United Kingdom and France announce plans to construct the Channel Tunnel, which they hope to open by the early-1990s. 24 January – Leon Brittan resigns as Trade and Industry Secretary over the Westland affair. [2]
BSc meteorologist Janice Davila tells Bored Panda that one of the most unknown facts from her field of expertise is that weather radars are slightly tilted upward in a half-degree (1/2°) angle.