....and what's new upon my reddit homepage, dazzlenation?...the sort of thing that dr tony smith would have loved....I wonder what whalley 'n' evans think of the following etc etc....go figure:
https://www.reddit.com/r/london/comments/1knvt3c/whats_your_favourite_london_fact/
all the swans in the parks belong to the King
MPs from London constituencies are not technically supposed to leave the city without permission of the Speaker of the House of Commons
the lane in front of the Savoy (off the Strand) is the only place in London where you must drive on the right hand side of the road
72% of true Cockneys are colour blind to the colour purple. This is why there is no London football club that plays in purple
before 1987, it was compulsory to smoke on the top deck of a bus
London has more hills than Rome, more canals than Venice and more giraffes than Nairobi
Canary Wharf is named after the Canary Isles, to which cargo ships used to sail. For the same reason, Oxford Circus is named after Oxford.
the Beigal Bakery on Brick Lane was originally called the Bengal Bakery. The bakery was accidentally renamed after the sign was "repaired" after a World War 2 bombing raid.
there is no pub in London called "the London Arms", for obvious reasons
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