20 Interesting History Facts About London To Tell Your Friends

 

20 Interesting History Facts About London To Tell Your Friends                                       

1. Over 300 languages are spoken in London.                   

2. Big Ben is not actually called Big Ben       

3. It is not illegal to die in the Houses of Parliament.             4. Police never caught Jack the Ripper

5. The Great Plague killed a third of Europe’s population

6. The Tower of London houses six ravens

Charles II’s ordered for six ravens to be placed in the Tower of London.                 

 7. The London Underground could have been water-based                               

8.There were only six deaths in the Great Fire

9. Black cab drivers are tested                                  10. London has a smallest statue              

11. St Pauls Cathedral could have looked very different      

12. The Queen lives in Buckingham Palace 

13. Cleopatra’s Needle is a time capsule

14. Feeding pigeons in Trafalgar Square is banned                15. London was home to many famous faces                           16. The Millennium Dome is the biggest structure of its kind in the world               

17. Waterloo Tube Station is the busiest for public transport                                   

18. London has over 170 Museums          

19. Aldgate Station has 1000 bodies buried underneath it  

20. The London Eye Was Not The First Big Wheel in London