Robbie Burns never wore a kilt as it was outlawed in Scotland at the time he was alive.
He fathered 12 children with four different women, and his body was exhumed in 1815, revealing he had an unusually large skull. He almost emigrated to Jamaica, was the first person to appear on a commemorative Coca-Cola bottle (2009), and has more statues dedicated to him than any other non-religious figure except for Queen Victoria and Christopher Columbus
Koala bears sleep for 22 hours a day.
Almost as much as my missus needs on most weekends. And don’t get us started on teenagers.
Also…
The average UK adult only gets 3 days a week of good quality sleep while 18% of the UK population prefers sleeping next to a pet than a human partner.
Due to restless nights, 38% of British couples consider sleeping in separate beds to improve sleep quality.
At 14 miles high and 388 miles wide (about 3 times the height of Mount Everest and a base that would cover the whole of the British Isles), the giant volcano, ‘Olympus Mons’, is the highest known mountain in the solar system and the known universe, sporting a crater that is bigger than London – it is on Mars!
Speaking of Mars…
The Mars bar was invented in 1932 in Slough, England, by Forrest Mars, who launched it as a British version of his father’s US Milky Way bar. Initially, the bars were coated in Cadbury chocolate because the company lacked its own machinery. It was famously marketed to boost energy with the slogan, “A Mars a day helps you work, rest and play”
