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Ten Weird Facts I Bet You Didn't Know About the World.

*Unless you read or watch or listen to the same things I do—which is not a far-fetched notion.

1. Every night, for the five minutes straight after Eastenders, the British Electricity network goes into overload to counteract the drain of power created when between one and one-and-a-half million people get up to pop on the kettle for a cuppa. Sometimes they even need to get extra power from France. This happens nowhere else in the world. (Except for when everyone turns their lights on again after Earth Hour.)
2. The Haskell Free Library and Opera House in the American state of Vermont has been built on the Canadian-US border. No, literally on the border. the stage is in Canada, the seats in the US, the carpark is in Canada and the front door in the US. Border security operates between the cooking section and the children's library. I made that last bit up, but it is probably not far from the truth. the library floor has a black line across ir that marks the border. It's a little bizarre.
3. CDs actually play from the inside to the outside: they are back-to-front records.
4. Tyndale, the priest from the Old Sodbury Church, was burned at the stake for translating the Bible into English so that the raff-and-rubble could read it. They did build a tower on a high hill to make up for their arguable over-reaction.