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[@iannorton2253]

That the the term 'trash cans' is used in a book about the UK says something about its validity and the 'facts' contained therein.

[@weedle30]

Hmmmm *taps head* my thoughts exactly! 👍🏻

[@fleshen]

Exactly😀

[@verbalverbosity]

The blurb on the back of the book on Amazon is also very Americanised. Also there's spelling mistakes lol

[@totherarf]

Now if they had said Ash Cans ......

[@nealgrimes4382]

@@totherarf Then we would have to Time Travel to Victorian England when people still used them.

[@artofspeeding]

Considering the book was published this year. They should have said his majesty the King in reference to the Isle of man

[@jacksonmacmanus1001]

it was not, i just found it on amazon, says may 2019 published, i think JT has ended up with a reprint version or republished version

[@markdevlin8471]

Ahh... the good old red Telephone Boxes. With the aroma of cigarettes and pee, without a phonebook and sometimes even the handset was missing ... god bless the 1970s..😂

[@weejackrussell]

We still have them in some places in the UK but they are used now for other things, e.g. "house" for a defibrillator , mini-library, mini-greenhouse. They used to match our red post boxes. Useless fact: Hull never had any red phone boxes because a company peculiar to Hull ran their telephone services. The phone boxes there looked the same as the red ones but they were off-white/cream in colour. They were a real novelty! If I went there as a child I used to look out for them!

[@OliverQueen1974]

With the amount of pot holes we have in the roads here, we probably do have only 29 miles of actually driveable roads 🤣

[@RoyNobes]

Fact

[@ShaneH42]

I wouldn’t be surprised if the UK’s deepest cave is actually a pot hole 😂

[@peterbrazier7107]

We may have more drivable road than the USA. 🤣🤣🤣

[@carolinecrollick6305]

There should be a fact about the deepest pothole in the UK

[@RoyNobes]

There's been a pot hole on the road since the mid 90s

[@laurenC91.]

London does have bins, you just won't find any in a train station. Bins at underground stations are metal hoops with clear bin bags attached to put rubbish in so you can see through them for anything suspicious 😊

[@Belzediel]

...and the fact that no one ever looks to see what's in there is just one more monument to the fact that idiocy is rarely filtered out from even very large scale undertakings. It's pretty much certain no one in the UK would recognise a berm because the people who make berms don't feel obliged to have them be a bundle of red paper tubes with a mechanical alarm clock taped on the front. I guarantee you, you could take a kilo of modeling clay, wedge an old phone in it, wrap it in curry sauce soaked tinfoil, and drop it in a tube bin and not one person would pay the slightest attention.

[@barneylaurance1865]

@@Belzediel The UK has many mountain bikers though, who are often good at recognising berms.

[@alisonrodger3360]

Yeah, they took out all the bins from train stations after the bomb in the bin at Victoria station - my office was directly above the station. Everything jumped about a foot in the air, including me 😁

[@terrymason8628]

not so you can see it, to reduce shrapnel from cast iron/steel bins

[@Belzediel]

@@terrymason8628 OK, speak simple, not frighty, reduce shrapnel but increase angry sideways. Thinking hard, make head hurt.

[@barneylaurance1865]

Mary became Queen at six days old but she didn't actually get to rule as a child. Child queens and kings have "regents" appointed to rule on their behalf.

[@wayne7521]

Like I siad , JT , check out Fred Dibnah , who became famous for felling chimney stacks .... he did topple most of them with fire ... and before he passed away ... God bless , he had toppled 90 chimneys ...

[@carolineskipper6976]

'The City of London' is just a one square mile area of central London. So 13 rubbish bins still isn't a lot, but it's not as ridiculous as it first sounds.Most stations have reintroduced bins in recent years in the form of clear plastic bags clipped into a ring lid - so you can now dispose of rubbish, but in such a way that nothing is hidden from sight.

[@terryloveuk]

Remember "The City of London" (The Square Mile) is a small ceremonial county at the heart of (Greater) London. It is the old city area (basically Roman and early medievil London. It has it's own Police Force, Mayor and the financial centre (now along with Canary Wharf) of London. There are way more recycling bins in Greater London.

[@dianat119]

The reigning Monarch has to ask permission to enter the City of London.

[@aaronbeat1136]

Technically speaking Greater London is not a city, it is a municipal area though, that contains two cities. The City of London, which as you kind of suggested is it's own self contained city and is run by the Corporation of London. Then we have the City of Westminster, where the rest of the country is run from.

[@terryloveuk]

@@aaronbeat1136 Yes, so where then were would you say the boundary of London (not the City of London) is? Perhaps just those areas with London Postcodes? (i.e. E, SE, SW, W, NW, N and WC, EC).

[@fionagregory9147]

Medieval*

[@idristaylor5093]

The bank notes are used internally for accounting purposes; they were not intended for spending.

[@wdazza]

You need to find out when Oxford and Cambridge Universities were founded and then you'll understand why bows and arrows were banned!😀

[@peterjackson4763]

Also check when pencils were invented. They weren't available when those universities were founded.

[@VFLPlus]

Caves. The book is about the U.K. The Wikipedia entry is just about England. Gotta be careful about these distinctions when Googling.

[@Mordelm]

The fact he read out from the book said England, not UK. If the book said that was the deepest cave in the UK it would be even more wrong.

[@101steel4]

Americans don't know the difference between England, Britain or the UK. No matter how many times they're told.

[@scottythedawg]

@@Mordelm yes the book said england the search gave scotland too.

[@brojajacra]

Both caves mentioned are in England

[@terryloveuk]

OK, but were either facts (book vs Wikipedia) talking about depth from the mouth of the cave, or the depth below some other (sea?) level? Actually, I don't care, I'm not venturing much below the level of the cave mouth.

[@d45254uk]

The USA is approximately 40x bigger than the UK but only has 16x the amount of road miles! So the UK has a more extensive road network than the USA in comparison.

[@waynelowe3329]

I commented the same and added they are 40x the size but only have 5x the population which shows how densely populated we are.

[@davidbateleur8357]

Bins were also removed from all Airports and train stations in the UK.

[@pauldanks9878]

By "City of London" they will be referring to the small square mile financial district, rather than the whole of London itself. I'm sure you've covered the difference between London as a whole and the City of London on previous vids.

[@laurenC91.]

The "City of London" is whatever is within the silver dragon statues dotted around in a circle, each holding an england flag shield, there are two located on the south side of London Bridge and more for the east entrance to the old "City of London" around Whitechapel area not far from one of the jack the ripper victim spots. Not sure where the north ones are as never lived there and when I lived west I didn't know about them. My room mate in London Bridge was (still is but I don't live there now) a London tour guide for anything historical, royalty, conquering other places and bringing back artifacts, ghost tours etc. The financial district is mostly within this parameter but aren't what draw the line of what is the "City of London" and what isn't like the dragons. 😊

[@user-eb1sd2vj9r]

Absolutely. The City of London is only 1.12 square miles and the 32 London boroughs are about 606 square miles.

[@stumccabe]

There are six letters we don't use anymore in English : Ash (Æ, æ), Thorn (Þ, þ), Eth (Ð, ð), Wynn (Ƿ, ƿ), Yogh (Ȝ/ȝ) and Ethel (Œ/œ).

[@AutoReport1]

They're only ash and Ethel in rune form. The Roman letters are just ae ligature and oe ligature. The z in badges like Menzies and Dalziel represents a yogh, as does the s in demesne, although the latter is a false archaism since it never had a yogh beforehand, it was just an i.

[@leoniemarks4594]

We still use the oe in 'manoeuvre' which has the ethel as well as French spelling (the euvre part). I believe the Americans use 'maneuver'.

[@andyt8216]

And now Thorn and Eth only exist in Icelandic and Faroese. Bring them back!

[@stumccabe]

@@andyt8216 I agree.

[@RaineSophiaLewis]

Interesting!

[@sidthesnek-fv6hi]

The city of London is a very small area and not the same as London itself.

[@wessexdruid7598]

It's called the Square Mile for a reason.

[@HalfdeadRider]

Greater London

[@DannyFR30]

I grew up in polesworth, and i also used to smoke weed as a teenager at tamworth castle lol, now i live by a roman wall site and its kinda cool. Shoutout to lichfield 😂

[@hopwas2007]

Respect from Hopwas! Do you live in Wall?

[@stevenbarnes3116]

I used to work at peak cavern lol in the peak District Derbyshire

[@DukeofDenmark2]

Æ is a Danish letter. Denmark owned England in the viking age, so they brought some letters and words to England.

[@helenroberts1107]

Peak cavern is part of the Blue John Mines. We went in them a few times when I was little. They were great. I used to have bits of blue John gemstone.

[@RaineSophiaLewis]

I was about to say that! I lived in Chesterfield for about 8yrs and visited the blue John mines, beautiful stone.

[@jduck1979]

OK, some more UK facts: There are apparently over 400 preserved Steam Locomotives in the UK, of which 24 are approved to run on the mainline. There are also over 250 "retired" Diesel Locomotives being looked after by volunteers who bought them for preservation. According to an organisation called the "Heritage Railway Association" there are over 200 "minor" and "heritage" railways across Great Britain, running on around 600-miles of track (largely run by volunteers who come to restore and operate old locomotives in their spare time). The main rail network in the UK has 10,072-miles of track, with an additional 189-miles of track in Northern Ireland which carries 1.7-billion passengers a year and 110-million tonnes of freight annually. There around 1,900 companies listed on the London Stock Exchange (making it the 3rd biggest after the NYSE and Nasdaq in New York), compared to around 2,272 on the NYSE. Trading on the LSE as of last August around $3.18-Trillion vs around $25.564-Trillion on the NYSE. There are still 43 Building Societies left in the UK with 25-million members There are estimated to be 104,700 farmers in the UK, operating around 191,000 farms with only 20% of them exceeding 250-acres It is estimated there are around 2.9-million Anglers (people who go fishing) in the UK, worth about £1.4-billion to the national economy. The UK Supermarket industry was worth £211.8-billion last year, and expected to grow to about £241-billion over the next few years. There is estimated to be 27-million gardeners in the UK, and 144,400 people doing it as a profession According to the RAC over 46-million litres of petrol (gas) and 74-million litres of diesel fuel sold in the UK each day

[@philiprowney]

427 - The no bows N arrows in Oxford was because at the time all men are expected to practice the long bow, by order of the king. "In 1631 and in 1637 King Charles I reissued the statute of 33 requiring all men between the ages of 16 and 60 to both own and practice with the longbow"

[@Thee_Penguin]

Aethelstan bought England together (Wessex, Sussex, Mercia, Northumberland so on) to fight off the vikings. After his death his son was crowned and is considered one of our greatest kings ever, Alfred (also known as Alfred the great). He defeated the Danish viking army that ended their brutal invasions and we never saw them again!

[@peterbrown1012]

Mary Queen of Scots was taken to France for her protection, she married the hier to the French throne and became Queen of France, when he died she returned to Scotland to claim her throne.

[@RoyNobes]

It's nice to have bendy roads, and not just straight everywhere. 👍

[@mervinmannas7671]

This was really good you should certainly do another couple maybe with Anna on board too. Often when they say the 'City of London' they are refering to a very small area only 1 mile square which is the main financial district. There are many bins around London. Yes we did have a litter problem at one time but not so much these days. Legislation was brought in making retail outlets and restuarants more responsible for the outside areas as part of general hygenie rules. Especialy in thiis day of fast food wrappers and cartons.

[@MichaelHill-we7vt]

My home town(well, city actually!) is Portsmouth, in Hampshire on the south coast.....Portsmouth is one of the most densely populated cities in the Uk, and is unique in being the only city in the UK that is on an island.. the island is called Portsea Island and yes, it is definitely separate from mainland UK.It's also the only city in the world that operates a year-round passenger hovercraft service, which runs to and from the Isle of Wight across the Solent. The city was also famous(or notorious, depending on your point of view) at the end of the 19th century for having more taverns, drinking establishments and pubs than any other city in the UK, which as the city was and still is, the home of the Royal Navy, is probably not too surprising....! Also, Portsmouth probably is one of the few cities to be just as well known by its nickname as it is by its actual name, for many years the city has been known by the name "Pompey" the origins of the nickname are sadly lost in the mists of time, although at my last count, I know six different stories , each one reputedly the "real" genuine one.........nobody knows for certain nowadays, where the name came from, but the nickname Pompey is very well known indeed........

[@DagzD]

Fun fact: Oxford University is older than the Aztec civilisation.

[@timglennon6814]

Imagine walking into and buying something for £5 and ask the cashier have you got change for a £100 million note? 🤣🤣

[@weedle30]

And refusing to accept a £50 note in the change incase it was a fake??! 🤣🤣

[@stephenlee5929]

This was the premise for an early film 1954, called the Million Pound Note, staring Gregory Peck.

[@ffotograffydd]

@dianelittle9317​​⁠So you’re in Scotland? Because the Bank of England doesn’t actually issue a £100 note, the largest in circulation is £50.

[@sidthesnek-fv6hi]

Only one titan was printed and is now a show piece at the bank of England

[@milanondrak5564]

Britain also has 2000 miles of navigable canals. The speed limit on these canals is 4mph and they run all over the country.

[@distracted5097]

They replaced the bins in london with see through ones

[@Trebor74]

Bins are back in London. Black plastic with a general rubbish and a recycling section

[@distracted5097]

@Trebor74 yes but not inside the stations they are see through. Basically hoops with see through bags. Stations and transport was the main focus of the bombings.

[@Trebor74]

@@distracted5097 mainly because they are cheap,and tfl are lazy

[@distracted5097]

Well I used to work for TFL, apart of one of the teams that were dealing with safety on the network, and I agree TFL are thieves and I don't like them that's why I left, but still I know the way they remade those bins was to be able to see bombs, not only being see through but being able to distinguish the shape of what was in the bin was important

[@sputukgmail]

I went in some of those caves in Kentucky when I visited America - while caves are caves (bear with me), the experience in the caves in America was VERY different to a visit to caves in the U.K. In Kentucky, the caves had light shows and the tour guide spent the time saying things like “that stalagmite there looks like batman” (or whatever). In the U.K., the tour guides spend the time telling you about the ancient geology, how the caves were formed, animals who sheltered in them etc… The American experience was turning the caves into entertainment - in the U.K. the priority was education. - and one of the caves I’ve been in in the U.K. is Peak’s cavern :)

[@keslitsmith1252]

Fun fact about Isle of Man - Robin & Maurice Gibb, of The Bee Gee's fame, were born in the Isle of Man! Andy was born later in Manchester, England! So technically, only 1 of the Bee Gee's is from the UK! (They are not Australian like someone tried to argue with me once! They returned to England in '67, so were only in Australia no more than about a decade! But their first hit as the Bee Gee's, was while they were in Australia)!

[@dcarbs2979]

Although they did live in Australia from before starting school.

[@keslitsmith1252]

@dcarbs2979 The twins were born in '49 and the family moved to Australia in '58! The twins, older Brother Barry (born '46) were already of school age! Their Sister Lesley was born '55, youngest Andrew was born '58, so only 2 of 5 siblings were not of school age when moved to Australia! So partially correct! Lol.

[@dcarbs2979]

@@keslitsmith1252 With age ranges like that they were never ALL going to move before school! Their first fame was in Australia of you count local kids talent shows on TV.

[@keslitsmith1252]

@dcarbs2979 I was just confirming that actually they were of school age when they moved from Manchester to Australia. As original reply seemed to state none of them were of school age is all! :) Like what the video was about, didn't want people to take in an incorrect fact lol. And yes, also their first hit as The Bee Gees was in Australia, not long before moving back to UK!

[@dcarbs2979]

@@keslitsmith1252 Many of these questions were answered in their 'Audience With...' special episode on ITV which I still remember (quite) clearly. They had a new album out off the back of it ("One Night Only"). In particular was what they called the IOM 'national anthem' - Elan Vannin [not sure of spelling, it's not English]. That was 1998. Don't know if you were alive then?

[@andrewbowman4611]

Derbyshire is pronounced with an 'a'; Darby-sher'. The Devil's Arse is part of the Peak District, which is a beautiful part of the country, consisting of many towns and villages, a bit like the Cotswolds in the south-west. One Peak District area of note is Dovedale, which is absolutely stunning.

[@RaineSophiaLewis]

Thank you! It’s abit annoying when everyone pronounces it wrong.

[@christinehoare-jones811]

Enjoyed watching you reading the facts, so funny. Love you and Anna’s videos.

[@stephanie.r382]

That was great fun JT !! Definitely do another one 😂

[@MrChasanDayve]

I was working at 55 Bishopsgate when the IRA detonated a truck bomb outside the building next door (99 Bishopsgate). It was the most destructive bombings that they ever set off in London and unfortunately killed one person. Most bombings by the IRA in the city were at the weekend, to cause financial impact rather than loss of life, but after this event, there was fear that they may change their strategy and use smaller bombs on weekdays. It was this bombing that lead to the removal of bins within the City of London. If I remember correctly it was fear that the IRA might use the bins, and the sheer amount of destruction caused that day, that brought in the policy. They eventually returned some bins back after 20 years, which were designed to make them more difficult to drop large items in, as well as being made from material that was less likely to cause large fragments of shrapnel.

[@peterjackson4763]

I think it was Warrington where they put bombs in the bins that caused them to be withdrawn until new, safer designs were available.

[@MrChasanDayve]

@@peterjackson4763 Thanks for the info and you may well be right. I don't remember any bin bombs in the city, but I remember the disappearance of the bins after the truck bombing. Maybe it was a fear that once used, the tactic used in Warrington, would spread.

[@tinagrayson6571]

Please do more of these I find them interesting even though I’m from uk

[@petersp63]

I tried to use the Bank note but they said exact change only! The other thing wrong with the book is we don't use KM's we use Miles!

[@Pvt_Garry_G]

Flirted with US to UK reaction channels over time. But man, you cementing yourself at top dawg. Love from Salford. Addition Edit: Also, Whats the Kelly Baits hat? You fish? Would love to hear/see more.

[@timmyelite2951]

The last kingdom is a great show all about the time around Edward and Æthelstan

[@ffotograffydd]

Great maybe, but not historically accurate.

[@user-kt7tg6qe2t]

You may know that Westminster has an opening of parliament ceremony, so does the Isle of Man, their parliament is called Tynwald ( which is from the vikings ) , it is held outside on Tynwald hill in St John's. While serving in the Royal Navy in the 1970's, the ship I was on provided a guard of honour for this event.

[@Anti_Woke]

> £1,000,000 note. It's ok, but you can hardly ever find someone who has change.

[@urbanshadow777]

The size of the note indicates the value for the blind. I can imagine the million pound note is the size of a gym mat

[@apostatereacts]

"Y'all been adventuring in the Devil's ass?!" 😂

[@garywallace8521]

Stopped carrying the Giant notes as shop keepers were annoyed at having to count my change!

[@darylg]

don't forget new roads are built every day so it's impossible to get it spot on

[@Rusty_Pig]

Fun Fact the world famous cheddar cheese originated from a small village in Somerset UK and they used caves to mature the cheese.

[@kelly6504]

There was originally 7 kingdoms in England which united & after Eastelstan became the first "High" king of England (early 900c). One of the original Kingdoms was Kent & king Eadbald of Kent had a daughter called Eanswythe who he built a abbey/nunnery for. This was the first nunnery ever built in England, Folkestone Kent, where I am from. Now there is an 11th century church built on/close to the original dwelling named St Mary & St Eanswythe. Her relics are kept within a special place in the church foundations, & when tested were found to be accurate to the time period. There is a very old primary school called St Eanswythe opposite the church, which is still operational. Unfortunately last year one of the schools pupils, age 7 I think, got killed in a hit & run. His family wanted him buried within the church graveyard, but it was closed for burials sometime in the 18th C. (Funerals are allowed btw) His mum traveled on Christmas day to Sandringham, where the royal family have their xmas service each year. She hand delivered a letter for King Charles, asking for his help in making this burial possible. So King Charles spoke to who he had to in order for this young boy to be buried close to the school he loved, with success. This was big news locally & even made national headlines. The strength this woman showed makes my heart want to burst. A bit off topic I know, but still some VERY PROUD facts about England & my town, where both include Kings & strong women

[@ericg5791]

Little known facts: Robin Hood was thrown out of Oxford Uni for that exact fact,and foreign exchange student William Tell,was banned from their orchards and the cities residents were warned not to place apples on their childrens heads when was studying there.

[@marionjames4986]

😂😂😂 very good

[@LordWarden76]

We had a £100 note one time (back in the 80’s), brought Sainsburys to a halt when we tried to pay for our shopping with it. Everyone was saying it was fake and they were worried about taking it, eventually the manager rang his boss etc, and I think someone rang a bank eventually to find out it was legit.

[@samstevens7888]

This would make a good series.

[@jennil7797]

This book was filled with "facts" that seem to be lifted from Wikipedia, which is a collection of contributions from the general public that are not then verified. There are many errors on Wikipedia on a great many subjects. I believe the recycling bins entry (we don't use the term trash can) refers to the City of London, not the city of London. They are two different things. Capital C denotes the banking area of about 1 square mile where very few people live but millions work. Small c London means the vast area that includes suburbs, the central and local shopping areas etc and covers what used to be many, many villages and farms but got swallowed up as London became more important and need to expand beyond the site that the Roman occupiers walled in approximately 2000 years ago.

[@The-Like-Button]

JT i been here since 1k subs, and its crazy that your on 1502k happy for you man

[@PedroConejo1939]

Many of the bins that were removed were cast iron or concrete construction, which makes for excellent fragmentation to create the highest casualty rate. An unpleasant detail that the terrorists used to murderous effect.

[@docksider]

The Isle of Man's parliament, which is called Tynwald, which one of three oldest parliaments in the World, far older than the Parliament at Westminster. (The other two are the parliaments of Iceland and the Faroe Islands),

[@gutz323]

That is one of the most annoying things about london, there is no rubish bins to but your waist. It also annoys me in other smaller towns, you can never find a bin when you want one, and then people just throw their rubbish everywhere. I know it is wrong, but sometimes you can see why people throw stuff on the floor.

[@phoebegreig6523]

We still have a working red telephone booth in our town! It’s a proper tourist attraction because it’s the only one I know that has a working phone and doesn’t smell like pee! The council even had it repainted last year 😂

[@johnp8131]

Been into the "Devils Arse" in Derbyshire about twenty years ago, really interesting with all the varying mineral deposits like stalactites etc....... Lot's of caves and really old copper and zinc mines, to visit in Derbyshire's Peak District. The Speedwell Cavern had a boat trip through the caves and there's a well known Blue John (mineral) mine closeby.

[@dcarbs2979]

Strange book. It has Americanisms like 'trash cans' but also uses Km as a unit of measurement, which neither UK or US commonly use.

[@laurenC91.]

FUN FACT: Northumberland has the most castles within one county of any other county in England. ❤

[@SteveBagnall-gh1fu]

The cavern is about 50 Km from my house. It's extremely hilly for 90 km north and south of us.

[@karl-70]

This was such a coincidence!!! I watched this this morning as I was planning a trip for today to the caves in castleton...truly!!!. Sidenote: A quartz type gem called BLUE JOHN is mined from these caves and it is only place on the entire planet wear it is found. Often used to make jewelery and other decorative artifacts.

[@jamesdignanmusic2765]

Those banknotes are non-circulating - so no-one has one to carry around. They're held in the Bank of England as a form of fiscal insurance (don't ask me how that works, reading about it was making my mind spin). And remember that the CITY of London is only a very small area in the middle of Greater London - the rest of it has plenty of recycling bins. The Isle of Man is a Crown Dependency, separate but connected - it's a bit like thinking of Guam as being part of the US. PS - I'm in New Zealand, so you're a lot further from me - the internet is amazing!

[@pabmusic1]

The letter ash (Æ) is one of the letters English has lost. It was pronounced like the a in cat - a was usually more like o.

[@sharonellis8776]

This was fun, please do some more JT xx

[@user-og9kr7tp6o]

I've been to London on numerous occasions and never seen any problem with litter and in fact compared to alot of other large cities around the world it's pristine

[@Sachik30]

I used to live in (north) London & worked shifts in WC1, and on early shifts I'd see mass road sweepers (men with brooms AND road-sweeping vehicles) quickly clearing up yesterday's rubbish that didn't hit the bins. The only difference then (80s), was there were so many more rubbish bins around.

[@Welshwarrior85]

"Æ, mate, that's a letter you find in a bunch of Germanic languages, even in the old days of English and Danish. We call it 'ash,' and it sounds like the 'a' in 'cat.' Nowadays, in English, you see it pop up mostly in borrowed words from other languages, like 'æsthetic' or 'encyclopædia.' But a lot of times, folks just swap it out with 'ae' when they're spelling things out."

[@barneylaurance1865]

For the Trash Cans one, it needs to clarify the distinction between the City of London and Greater London. The fact is referring to the City of London, not Greater London. Greater London is what people normally call London. The City of London is very much smaller, sits inside Greater London, and is roughly the ancient Roman City and now primarily a financial district. Also known as "the square mile" because that's about its size.

[@zebedeemadness2672]

It needed to say Rubbish bin, rather than Trash can, but it failed there, for a book on the UK 😂.

[@Hairnicks]

That was good fun JT.

[@conclaveofthelost513]

I thought that "The Devils Arse" was a Curry House in Bradford! Thanks for putting me straight.

[@jacksonmacmanus1001]

the one about the cave might not be the case of it being untrue, more just that new caves keep being discovered so it may be that peak cavern was the deepest when the book was written but a deeper one has been found since

[@Poliss95]

Did you know that there isn't a king or queen of England. The last king of England was Edward VI who died in 1553. The last queen of England was Elizabeth I who died in 1603. The City of London is a small area surrounded by Greater London. It is a separate entity that has its own police force which is separate from the Metropolitan Police.

[@elliesconcerts]

I went to peak cave (the devil's areshole) ...yes that's really the other nane for it...its very interesting. It's where they made rope back in the day 😊

[@mauk2861]

We did all the Derbyshire caves... we are on 24 in england and Wales so far

[@judithhope8970]

Aethelstan was a great king. I didn't know about those big bank notes. Can you imagine going into a shop and asking for change. 😅 I don't remember seeing rubbish everywhere last time I went to London

[@susanambrose7745]

I remember seeing a colleague walk into the office in London after being caught up in a nail bomb attack at Victoria station. The bomb had been in the bin.

[@teresanew9247]

Yes please another episode, this was fun and I even learned something and I live in England!

[@angelahawman4263]

Yes please. More like this. Ta

[@lisagreenhalgh1685]

Yay, I'm from the Peak District ❤ they have bands and stuff perform up the Devils Arse 😁

[@franktuckwell196]

As far as i know, we measure our roads in miles, not kilometers.

[@tonyrantnrave6854]

Check it out off all the lakes in the Lake District how many are called "something" Lake example ( Manchester Lake or America Lake )

[@XENONEOMORPH1979]

we have over 9000 miles of railway track in the uk.

[@Krust1991]

I love Peak Cavern, I live not far away and we go to cinema nights inside the cave quite often. We're off to see The Descent there next month! I know it to have the largest cave opening in England but never heard of it being the deepest/largest in general

[@benstradling7615]

You should do a series of videos showing us some of Kentucky's places starting with the caves

[@sidthesnek-fv6hi]

Trash can one is also false

[@as400techman]

Joining two letters together like that is called a dipthong as in onomatopœia.

[@andygozzo72]

the village i live in was once supposedly the most mis spelt place name in the UK ! and the actor jeremy irvine comes from here !

[@Lily-Bravo]

With regard to the thumbnail of the iconic phone boxes, although many have been taken out of service due to the prevalence of mobile technology, some still hang on. Many villages have used them as book swaps, or defibrillator points, but our village has managed to hang to to ours, probably because much of the village does not have a good mobile signal. Although the boxes are very much loved, visually the design by Gilbert Scott is great, they were widely used for urinals, and stunk of cigarettes and wee. I think the last time I had to use one I picked up the receiver and a voice cut in with all sorts of obscenities. It was dark and he might have been watching me, but I felt so cross and told him to stop being silly and to get off the line as I had an important call to make and he did. Also someone had put chewing gum on the receiver and it got in my hair. Why they didn't just add plumbing and make them loos, with the glass made obscure, I really don't know.

[@KatherineD0506]

All the miles of road in the Uk and it is said that just two mile does not have a pot hole in them

[@paulmidsussex3409]

After decades of no public bins I think the tube now has bins with no sides and clear plastic bin liner so you can look in and see the explosive devices.

[@ruthe71]

I’m British and I never knew about the bank notes or the Isle of Man

[@stevvieb]

London has a littering problem becuase of the non indigenous population and NOT lack of trash cans, you can always take trash home with you

[@Poliss95]

@stevvieb Odd then that I see mostly white people dumping their rubbish everywhere. The UK doesn't have an indigenous population btw. We're all mongrels.

[@fletch332001uk]

love the new house by the way 🤩

[@yurihuffles]

Here’s a small fact for you. The best place to see an old red telephone box, is inside the Anglican Cathedral of Liverpool. This is due to the fact that the person that designed the red box also designed the cathedral, and so they decided to install the smallest thing he was famous for designing inside the biggest thing he was famous for designing. Sadly the phone doesn’t work any more, but last I checked it was still there.

[@Nicole-IH]

Great video JT and I learnt about the bank notes which I didn't know but then the average Joe blogs doesn't have that much money sat around do they

[@patriciacuddihy1417]

Eyup, JT. First of all we love you and Anna's video. Second of all well done for your spot on pronunciation of the county of Derbyshire, as most Americans really struggle with that one in my experience. My partner, Scott was born and raised in Derbyshire and he used to go caving in Castleton down the Devil's Arse when he was young. lol That cave system has a rare stone occurring naturally called 'Blue John' and is the only place on the planet that you can find it. They make jewellery from it. You should look it up, as it is a really beautiful gem. 😊🎉😊

[@mathiasosiriswoodhal]

lol both my cats have the Æ there names are Æthelred and Ælfwynn there an old king and queen of Mercia and old Anglo Saxon part of the uk

[@user-xk3ej6jd5h]

Only about 8600 live in the city of London. I was actually surprised it was that many. They also have their own police force which is the concidered the hardest police force to apply for, you have to be pretty special to get the job. It's a fraction over 1 square mile. I worked there years ago we received extra in our salary each month from the other parts of London called London waiting. We also got more free luncheon vouchers than others working in London. Just a few perks of working the area.