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It's time to brush up on your British general knowledge I'm Ashley with watch mojo UK and today we're counting down our picks for the top 10 lies you believe about Britain Before we begin we publish new content on latest video about this country Number 10 all swans a property of the Queen We've all been brought up to believe I've never even heard that never even heard that first of all I haven't seen a swan in Like two three years coming from America I ain't seen a swan in two three years, but I've never even heard this Leave that all swans belong to the Queen and therefore harming them or eating them. It's a big no-no However one five-year-old swan enthusiast wrote to the Queen asking if she could have one and the response she got surprised as all a Representative wrote back debunking the common misconception that seems to date back to the 12th century The Monarch actually only owns all unmarked mute swans in open water Around certain areas of the River Thames and Windsor every year local children are invited to witness the swan-upping event Which helps keep track of the birds? I Didn't know she owned any swans, okay? Number nine London is buried under fog Fog everywhere so begins Charles Dickens bleak house and yet somehow the Rebutation is stuck even to this day due to the industrial revolution during the 19th century So for this one, yeah Before I knew about London. I thought it was a foggy place all the movies is starting off in fog So Dennis did see an average of 63 foggy days per year and in 1952 the Great Smog was said to have killed around 12,000 people smoke from the capital's chimneys has been trapped in street level which is aggravating the fog Nowadays you'll actually find that London or anywhere else in the UK really doesn't even cut the top ten foggiest countries around the world With Grand Banks, Newfoundland, Canada taking the top spot Canada knew it once coal fires were banned London saw less fog and today it's not as common as you would think Number eight Lady Godiva wrote naked on horseback Lady Godiva wasn't just a made-up figure from a Tennyson poem or a delicious brand of chocolate I Know that was a real person who wrote around what on horses naked in Tennyson's versions of events Lady Godiva rode naked on horseback through the streets of Coventry in response to her husband Leo Frick's Oppressive tax in reality There are some sources that suggest that her Lord husband requested. She do just that But there is insufficient proof That she followed through with most historians insisting That it never happened this story only started making the rounds around 100 years after her death and by a monk whose Storytelling didn't always adhere to the truth Number seven Great Britain the UK and England a synonyms for it No, I used to believe that I didn't know there was a difference, but now I know when James No, what if you could do SEO smarter number eight Lady Godiva made up victims versions of Didn't always adhere to the truth Number seven Great Britain the UK and England a synonyms for England James No Getting this wrong is a surefire way to make enemies across the UK Just try asking a Scott what part of England they're from go ahead We dare you great Britain is an island made up of England Scotland in Wales Great Britain and Northern Ireland together make up the United Kingdom emphasis on the northern. Yes, that's I'm not even a lie That is long. I'm not even a lie as long as I've been doing UK reactions. I just found that out this year That's crazy another body. You don't want to mix up We'd also tell you about the Channel Islands British Isles Isle of Man and so on But we suggest you get your head around the basics first and then we can talk Number six, you're never far from a rat in London Another stereotype of England's capital is that you're never more than six feet away from a rat at any given time I heard this But you gotta remember like I've been in New York and I lived in Chicago Two places with way more rats than this Now London is approximately 1572 kilometers squared and there are around 10.5 million rats in the UK You do the maths It's possible that a former minister of agriculture invented this little rumor to promote hygiene in homes Which makes you wonder just how bad things must have been According to dr. Dave Cowan The truth is that you're more likely to be around 50 meters away from a rat at any time Sounds a lot less disgusting now, right? No, it doesn't it still sounds equally disgusting as what you said before It's all nasty Number five Richard the third was a bad guy chances are Heard that or if you grew up in the UK You were taught about the villainous Richard the third who walked around with a limp and had a hunchback History tells us that he was this terrible geezer who stole the throne from his brother Isn't a lot of movies too locked his nephews in a tower and ultimately had them killed But in reality when his reign, okay, come on. What movie is this? He he suffocated somebody with a pillow standing up Just hey back up Just back up Back up Came to an end the Tudor dynasty took the throne And let's just say that historians decided to record things a little differently Shakespeare may have played his part in this retelling of events too There's taken creative license and then there's completely rewriting history Exactly the same as he did in Shrek It's crazy My kingdom Number four big Ben is a clock One of the most I how rude Big Ben is more than a clock Conic features of the london skyline Has been dubbed big ben by tourists and locals alike But it wasn't always called that in the victorian era It was called saint stevens tower and until recently it was just named the clock tower And you really can't go wrong with that However today its official name is the elizabeth tower in celebration of the queen's diamond jubilee in 2012 But as interesting as this is it's all superfluous for the discussion at hand That's because big ben is the nickname of the bell not the tower that houses it Oh my god Wow Wow, that's a sneaky one. That's like a quick question Out yeah big Ben is the bell not the clock. Okay Literally just watch the video on this Last one Number three the great fire of london ended the plague When you learned about the black plague at school It was almost always immediately followed by a lesson about the great fire of london Because it was said that this fire that devastated london actually brought an end to the plague, right? Well, right No, not really the fire only burned up about a quarter of urban london with the worst areas affected by plague Whitechapel, clerkenwell and south walk getting through it with barely a singe By the time the fire started Deaths from plague were already on the decline. But once the fire was over it was still my extinct Number two the royal family always lives in buckingham palace Crowd swam buckingham palace every no, that's not true From, you know prints and megan year in the hope of seeing the changing of the guards Or better yet a member of the royal family leaving the palace to run some royal errands The only problem is none of the royal family live full time in buckingham palace It's more like the queen's office and a nice venue for special events Nobody lived there. Okay. Yes People also mistakenly look out for the union jack to know if the queen is in But it's actually a different flag the royal standard that's flown at the royal residences buckingham palace wins a castle All sanering of house when she's present Number one the queen is all powerful The job description of monarch has changed since the days of henry the eighth But the queen still does have a number of powers Before this year. I thought the queen did everything too. I thought she was the president. I thought she did everything And it's not all about traveling the world and waving politely but in today's british constitution She has minutes more so of the prime minister in a lot and the house of parliament Masters who are entrusted with exercising her powers The queen can summon parliament sign bills into laws appoint or remove ministers appoint the prime minister and declare war just to name a few Oh really? She still did a lot please Boom a lot of these motions are ceremonial But it's good to know that if we were ever on the verge of war the queen has the power to pull that plug So What I say I learned a lot from this video Tell a little bit like comment. I'm going