According to the Royal Mail in the UK, a letter to Mars would require 18,416 first-class stamps. (Royal Mail contacted NASA after 5-year-old Oliver Giddings asked the Royal Mail how much it would cost to post a letter to the red planet. The answer came back with a cost of £11,602.25  US$18,003.40. Of course Royal […]

According to research by the UK communications regulator Ofcom, the fairy lights on your Christmas tree can slow down your WiFi. (The research also revealed that nearly 6 million homes and offices in the UK have underperforming Wi-Fi, and it's not just fairy lights that can affect speeds: other electronic devices, including lamps, speakers, TVs […]

According to a survey by The Wildlife Trusts, 4 in 10 British children have never seen a hedgehog in the wild in the UK. (The same survey found that 71 per cent of British children have never seen a lizard in the wild, while more than half have not seen a flock of starlings in […]

A girl from Ghana fell in love online and wanted to get her father's blessing:- Girl: Dad, I’m in love with a boy who lives far away from here. We live in Ghana, but he lives in the UK.  We met on a dating website, became friends on Facebook, had long chats on WhatsApp, he […]

Go to Google search. Make sure Google instant predictions are on (use  Preferences page). Type in the name of your country + is. Take a snippet of the result and post it on the net. Here's one I made earlier:- The UK is made up of ... The UK is as big as what US state? The UK […]

Following the recent scandal that horsemeat has been used in burgers in the UK, here's proof that the British will make a joke out of anything.  What’s in this burger? It just jumped over my chips. I’ve got some burgers in the fridge. But . . . THEY’RE OFFFFFFFFF! I went to Burger King yesterday and ordered a burger. […]