The London Underground isn’t *one of* the oldest. It is *the* oldest system in the world (services started in 1863 on what is now the Metropolitan line).

"Is Trafalgar Square in London?" THAT needs to go on a " Dumbest Thing an American has ever said to you" video. 😅

'London Underground' isn't a nickname- it's what it literally is called. The name 'Tube' on the other hand is a nickname - one that's used very commonly by everyone. The highest temp recorded in the UK is now hotter than that. It's now 40.3 C in Lincolnshire in 2022, which is about 104.5 F

In Britain, if we think of the territory that we know as England, English was spoken before 1066. This English was a development of Germanic languages and it continued to develop in the subsequent centuries. The ordinary people continued to speak this gradually developing English language until the arrival of the Normans in 1066 who imposed Norman-French as the official language. This did not mean that ordinary people suddenly had to stop speaking old English. Norman-French was the language of the conquerors. In the later 14th century the king ruled that Middle-English (as English had now developed) would replace Norman-French as the official language of the state. Norman-French was still spoken and used. English continued to develop and be used. In the palaces of our late queen, Elizabeth II she still enforced the custom of using Norman-French at her Court (Household) for example, all meal menus were in Norman-French.

American Hot Dogs - Meat from an animal's head, feet, liver, fatty tissue, lower-grade muscle, blood, and more can be included in what is described as “meat trimmings,” or the primary source of meat for hot dogs. If the ingredient list contains “byproducts” or “variety meats,” the meat may come from the snout, lips, eyes, or brains.

the UK is an island with water all around , we have mountain ranges which create a lot of rain, it makes for a green and pleasant land .

Tyler is worried about the contents of a haggis but eats fast food burgers.

Mother lost count of the number of umbrellas she lost on the Underground while she commuted in and out of Central London. In the end Dad made a kind of 'dog tag' for her with her name and phone number, and chained it to a replacement... and after she left it, someone from the lost property office rang and told her where she could collect it. Twice.

Football back in Edward I’s day was 2 goals at either end of town, the whole town could take part. The only rule was to get the ball through one of the goals. No time limit so the game could go on for days. This lead to mass fighting, stabbing and loss of life as everyone in medieval times carried a knife. It also interfered with long bow practice which really bothered the kings at the time.

Football in medieval England was really REALLY rowdy. That's why it was banned so many times through the ages. Re: speaking French. Spoken only by the Norman upper classes (descended from a mix of local French people, and Vikings who settled in northern France) who invaded England, under Duke William of Normandy in 1066, after defeating the Saxon English and King Harald Godwinson at the battle of Hastings.

Most people outside Wales call that Welsh place "Llanfair PG" Lot easier to say.

Only fools and horses is legendary

That long welsh place name was a deliberate marketing stunt - they renamed the town in the 1880s to encourage tourism, and it has worked ever since!

Only Fools and Horses was a great comedy series. Check out 2 particular excerpts - the chandelier episode and the one where Dellboy is in a pub with Trigger, trying to impress the ladies. OFAH at it's best

Most of the London Underground IS underground in central london. The parts that aren’t tend to be at either ends on the various underground lines ( in the suburbs) there are the odd few places where they are close to the surface in london ( where you can see daylight on the platforms), but I won’t go into which ones as it’ll take up too much time.

The Channel Tunnel is great (but a bit pricey). I live near Birmingham in central England but the tunnel allowed me and my son to drive to Belgium and back in a day just to visit a zoo (Pairi Daiza) last year 😂

I'm not sure about most teenagers obviously but my friend's 16 year old daughter is obsessed with The Beatles and her girlfriend (17) loves 1960s music in general and is a massive fan of especially rock groups from that era but 60s pop and motown etc too. Her 14 year old brother likes modern music but is also into 70s classic rock. I'm in my 30s, my sister's in her 20s (so not kids!) but we love Bowie, The Beatles, Pink Floyd, T Rex, Led Zep, Jimi Hendrix, Queen, The Stones, The Kinks and loads more from the 60s and 70s and that's been since I was in my very early teens when I was fed up of hearing kids go on about Boyzone and Westlife etc. I knew there had to be actual good music I was missing out on and I delved deeper into bands I liked a bit already like Queen and The Beatles and went from there. The good thing is, I've grown to discover more and more great music over the last couple of decades and still love the groups I listened to back then whereas my friends outgrew their favourite pop groups as soon as they weren't 'cool' anymore. Some groups are just timeless and I'm sure (hope!) there are lots of kids and young adults still listening to the greatest 60s and 70s bands.

As I live in the uk I love to watch Americans react and learn facts about the uk. I don’t know why it just makes me feel that the world is different everywhere.

The reason that medieval kings wanted to ban ball games was that they wanted people to only practice archery as a sport, as the English longbowmen were highly effective in war, and had been crucial for England to defeat much larger French armies (for example the battle of Agincourt).

20,000 lost phones a year is not a lot when you consider 5,000,000 passenger journeys are made on average EVERY DAY!

That highest temperature was beaten in 2022 when we had a day over 40 degrees C ..... we even had wildfires in the London suburbs

You asked about 'the size of London' ..... it's about 36 miles across from east to west and 25 miles north to south, the most recent population figure is just under 10 million with about another 5 million in what is called the wider metro area. Some tube lines do go outside the city boundary to more outlying areas.

The London Underground is not one of the oldest, it’s the oldest opened January 10th 1863 but some of its stations are older, like Harrow & Wealdstone on the north end of the Bakerloo line built 1837

Tyler, have you ever eaten a Hotdog and looked at the ingredients? They make Haggis seem like Prime Rib. And good haggis tastes fantastic. If you come to Scotland, let me know, we'll get you sorted.

I'm still laughing over the chocolate 😂😂

Most of the London Underground is the oldest underground rail system in the world as it was the first to be done but some parts of it got bombed during the war so they had to replace them with different routes.

I’ve been to the USA a lot TV in the past. Don’t fancy haggis but have you seen the ingredients for McDonald’s fries over there. Around 20. We have 3. Potatoes. Oil. Salt. Please don’t knock haggises. Healthier than US fries.

There are a few reasons for UK's weather with mainly being down to location & size with some being; Distance from the seas (Continentality). Ocean currents. The Gulf Stream. Direction of prevailing winds. The shape of the land ('relief').

Hay on Wye has a huge international book festival every year. I don't know why there but it seems to have reached a critical mass over the years.

Here in Hiroshima, we have an extensive rail system (streetcar and train), but we only have one subway/elevated line. The Astram line, operational since 1994, has four subway stations under downtown, but becomes an elevated line (with 20 stations) as soon as it reaches the edge of downtown.

Over the ages all sports have been banned at some time except Archery which was compulsory for a very long time for boys and men from age 12. Cromwell even banned Christmas as too Catholic.

Henry VIII (I think) hated the game of football because it stopped people practicing Archery, which for an island at constant war was a problem.

Haggis is actually quite nice - a bit like savoury minced beef

21 miles away from France. You have it the same in the US. Its the same sort of difference between America and Russia

When you do the V sign for the number 2, you do it with the palm facing outwards in the UK (same as the peace sign) as doing it the way you did with your palm facing towards you is the same as giving people the middle finger.

The first underground railway in the world was the Metropolitan Railway of 1863, now the Metropolitan line of the London Underground. It was originally worked by condensing steam locomotives, and later converted to electricity. Pretty much all of the Underground in central London is underground, but once it gets outside the centre it tends to go above ground (except, for instance, to enter Heathrow Airport).

Rain in the UK, is the result of warm Gulf Stream air rising over the UK land mass and cooling, especially over the Welsh and Scottish mountains (I believe!)

London is not the only place in UK with an underground, there's one in Liverpool and another in Glasgow. Glasgow's has been there for over 130 years.

tyler, there are 3 tunnels, one going one way and anoter going another way, with a third tunnel as a service tunnel, but also escape route, there are also, from what i know 3 types of trains, the eurostar, the cars, and the freights, all diferent designs, and uses, it takes around 28 to 30 minutes to travel through

Regarding the language - before 1066 England spoke English, Wales spoke Welsh, Irish was spoken in Ireland and Scotland... was a bit more complicated but we'll leave that. All four were independent nations. Everything changed when the Normans invaded from France and conquered England, wiping out the English ruling class and making their own French language the official language as used in the legal system and Royal courts. The ordinary people still spoke local dialects of English though. By the 1300s, the English monarchs had lost their French territories and decided a more English identity was called for, and more importantly a lot of prominent courtiers knew English and saw themselves as such. So back into official use it came, evolved considerably since 1066, with a lot of French loan words.

A lot of rain in the UK.This is because the mountains of the northern and western UK force the prevailing westerly winds to rise, which cools the air and consequently enhances the formation of cloud and rain in these locations (this is known as orographic enhancement).

The change of official language from Norman French to Middle English happened because of the Black Death. French was the language of court (nobility), but the commoners spoke English. The Black Death caused so many to die that commoners ended up in court positions and English and French collapsed into a single language as a result and is why English has two parallel vocabularies to this day. This smushing of two languages into one also triggered the Great Vowel Shift, which is the reason English spelling is so unpredictable. The astonishing thing about all this is that it happened so fast: about one generation.

The reason why football was almost banned was that at the time, there was no offical regulation of ruels to the game and so teams (typically whole villages) would often get horribly injured or killed during the game or afterwards as a result of football. This was a huge problem considering we were at war with most of Europe at the time and armies need and relied on strong and healthy people. Therefore if people are getting injured/killed from football, the quality of the armys would be significantly weakend making you more suseptable to defeat and your land invaded.

The reason for the rainfall is the country’s location: it is on the western edge of the North Atlantic, at the edge of one of the atmosphere’s circulation cells. This drives a huge amount of moisture against the coastline where it is forced to condense. That said, the rainfall is concentrated on the west of the country. The east is much drier (London gets less total rainfall than New York or Rome, although spread out over more days).

Rain,rain and more rain😬We have a saying here in Cymru(Wales) “ How green are our valleys”. I wonder why😂Talk about hilarious random facts. Sex and largest book mark!Hilarious!🤣😂🤣The reason behind the longest Welsh name place, is that it was done to boost tourism in the later 1800’s.

French was the language used officially in court and amongst the aristocracy...The normal middle class and commoners spoke English!!! It was during the 100 Years War against France that Edward III changed the official language to English!!

Regarding HAGGIS, you have the opportunity to learn more about it in the next few weeks. On 25th January, it is Burns Night when the Scotland celebrates arguably the greatest Scottish poet, Robert "Rabbie" Burns. Haggis is served at Burns Night dinners and the haggis is brought into the room in a procession and Burns' poem "Address to a Haggis" is read. Robert Burns also wrote "Auld Lang Syne"

Ancient (mob) football used to be quite violent. The temp record fell last year at 104°F.

About 30% of the English (UK) language consists of words that came from French...

The longest place name in Wales was named that just to attract tourists, it works lol. It was named that in the 1880s, it has 58 letters and has four letter Ls in a row within the name. It has the longest name even though it's a small Welsh town lol. In English it means Saint Mary's church in the hollow of the white hazel near a rapid whirlpool and the church of saint tysillio near the red cave, basically it's just directions to get there lol. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿. By the way the names Jones and Williams are Welsh names. Also English alphabet has 26 letters, Welsh alphabet has 29 letters. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

football used to have people die playing it, there were less rules and there were weapons involved and there was a fake person John-a-Stiles who was blamed in court when people died so that the whole team/village wouldn't be punished

The kind of football that was so disdained in the past was "mob football", involving basically a free for all with hundreds of participants, causing lots of injuries and disorder. The highest recorded UK Temperature has changed since this video. In 2022, a temperature of 40.3C / 104.6F was recorded in Lincolnshire. For reference, a temperature of 134F / 56.7C was reportedly recorded in the appropriately-named Furnace Creek in Death Valley, California, in 1913. I believe that's the current world record, although some are now questioning the accuracy of the measurement. A completely reliable measurement of 130.1F / 54.4C was taken in almost the identical location in 2021, so the 134F reading is still very plausible.

French was the official language, as in the language that court officials (as in the royal court) had to use from 1066 to 1362 because England was invaded by William the Conqueror, a French duke of viking descent. Over time the ruling class (being made up of people who supported William's campaign and their descendants) started to get used to the common tongue (an early form of English which I think sounds more like German) which eventually lead to the abolishment of French as an official language in England. This is the route cause of why there are so many French words in the modern English language.

If u wanted to go through the channel tunnel to get to France, it takes about 30 minutes on the train.

The London Underground started off all under the ground in central London because buildings and streets were already there and land was expensive, so building tunnels was easier and cheaper. When it started to grow out into the suburbs where, back at the end of the 19th and start of the 20th century, there was very little building at all, it was much easier and cheaper to just stay on the surface and buy cheap land rather than building expensive tunnels under nothing.

The Overground goes underground in places too, shock horror! In fact the Overground uses the oldest (Brunel) Thames tunnel by Rotherhythe / Wapping...

is there an older underground? i.e. before 1863? seems like it's the oldest

The tube is THE oldest subway system in the entire world. Yes, Trafalgar Square is right near the centre of London. London itself is twice the size of New York City. As for that Welsh town with the mad name. If memory serves me right, it was deliberately made to be the longest place name in the UK.

Oh my God, Tyler! William the Conqueror from Normandy, which is part of current day France spoke medieval French and French was the official language of the court of the government but the people pretty much stuck to medieval English. They couldn’t read or write anyway.

The Channel Tunnel is not underground but under water, bringing the UK to connect with France and it’s a geological man made miracle.

The UK receives warm air from the gulf stream that cools once it hits the UK & turns into rain.

Hi Tyler don't forget that the UK is further north than all US states apart from Alaska!!

If you have any questions, don't hesitate to ask. Here's one - the Underground comes up to the surface on most lines, when it arrives in the suburbs. In fact, some lines carry on to the countryside, so yould hardly expect to have tube trains running under a farmers field.!!!! French was the "official language of administration" during that era. But the 'common' people carried on speaking Anglo-saxon. However, during that 300 year period, a lot of the French words we speak today, started to find their way into our language. So, as an example, faucett is french, while tap has germanic origins (anglo-saxon).

In central London it’s all underground as far as I know, it’s just in the outer areas that it goes at ground level.

The UK record temperature was broken on 19th July 2022 when 40.3°C (104.5°F) was recorded.

It’s very simple. The London Underground connects practically all of London AND the outskirts of London. The outer parts are normal overground railways, which then dip underground for travelling through London. The first underground railway in the world opened in London in January 1863. (More than 40 years before New York).

Football in medieval times had few rules, was often played between rival villages, & regularly descended into riots & disorder. It also took up time which was meant to be spent in practicing archery, which all men were supposed to do regularly, for the defence of the country. The majority population being in England is because much of Scotland, Wales & Ireland, is wild & mountainous, with little agricultural land to support many people. The railway underground in London was created because they couldn't destroy all the buildings there when the railway was invented, so streets were dug up & trainlines laid in them in tunnels to reduce disruption. This was only necessary in the central areas of the city. The long Welsh place name was invented by a railway company as a clever piece of PR, to draw in visitors to the area. It was made up of a group of small places close to the railway station, & was retained ever after, as if it was a real place name. Many sports were invented in the UK , including golf, football, rugby, the origin of American football, rounders, the origin of baseball, as well as many athletic activities & other games & pastimes. Basketball is almost the only game that originated in America, not having a start in Britain .Even cricket was regularly played in the US until the Civil War, when the need to create perfect pitches was impossible, while a baseball field was easier to arrange. The weather in the UK comes mostly from the Atlantic, causing rain in the mountains of the west & north. The eastern side of Britain is much dryer, with London getting less rain than Lisbon, Rome, & New York. It's not true that Anglo-French was the language of England for 300 years. At the Norman conquest in 1066 an ruling elite of Norman French took over the country, & their natural language was Norman-French, so this was the language of the ruling class, but by about 1200 most of these had become English speakers, & so the court language gradually changed to English, though much changed by addition of Norman-French words etc. The official language of the Law, however was always Latin, because the clerks (clerics) who did the writing were churchmen.

Only fools and horses the funniest - yes! We still watch and laugh at it every Sunday.

William the conqueror was French, and all the nobles that came with him were french. Which meant all the posh lot were french and spoke in French and all the rest of the English riff raff who were already there didn't understand what they were talking about. They all spoke Latin as well so they could talk to the clergy. Then they got fed up issuing orders to the workers and no one understanding a bloody they said. So they had to learn to speak the English of the day xxxxxx

Outside of the City centre the rail system is older than most of the built up areas so there was no need to tunnel. Also, in the City Centre there are a lot of underground rivers connecting to the Thames (especially in the East of the city) and crossing the Thames itself that make it a lot simpler to just bring the line back above ground.

The British Isles (UK and Republic of Ireland) get their weather mainly on the winds from the West and the Atlantic. The moist air having crossed the ocean, hits land, rises over the hills and dumps the moisture as rain. The East of the UK is driER than the West, although still quite rainy.

19:00 The rain thing probably is because GB is just a big island. On the other side, if you count the amount it rains... Italy usually gets more.

Football and other pastimes were banned on Sundays, so that the men could practice with the bow and arrow to prepare for wars.

You have plenty of reasons to feel more than "a bit embarrassed."

Happy New Year!!! I love your need to learn and your excitment in your videos!!!

French was only the language of the ruling class after the Norman conquest, but English (old English and then middle English) was always spoken by the peasant and working classes. Edward III was the first monarch to issue statutes in English and Henry IV was probably the first monarch to speak English as his first language in the 15th century

London is roughly twice the size of the US city of New York to give you some idea of the size.

You could always import live Haggis to the USA and set up your own Haggis farms ! They just need a hilly region as they live on the slopes. " Is Trafalgar Square part of London ?" !! That's like asking if " is the White House where the president lives ?" !! TUBE is pronounced CHOOB not TOOB ! MOHAMMED is fast becoming very popular as a boys name in the UK. It reached 40.3 degrees (104.54 F) in CONINGSBY, LINCOLNSHIRE in July 2022. The Normans conquered Britain in 1066 and the were FRENCH ! Hence the language !

The Christmas tree in Edinburgh is a gift from the people of Vestland, Norway - though it is now sourced in Scotland.

Three centuries to the British is not a long time. It may be longer that The US has been around. But three hundred years is a small fraction of the history of the British isles. Where I live in the UK. Remains of Hunter Gather settlement's have been found in my city circa 4000 BCE. Recent history of my city. A church built, and still standing in 674 CE.

English (or at least an early version of it) was spoken by the Anglo (hence English) Saxon population - French was only used by the ruling Aristocracy who came over in 1066 - good sense won out. It may surprise you that London is on the same latitude as Alaska so 101f isn't bad.

French was the "official" language but spoken mostly by nobility who were themselves from Normandy (France). Most were still using Saxon words. This created a 2 tier language system that survived today. We use French based words for fancy things and the Saxon based ones for common things.

During the period that French was the official language, the vast majority of the common people continued to speak English (which was derived from the Anlgo-Saxon), French was the Court language, spoken by the wealthy and titled. Interestingly, you can still see remnants of this division in modern English. Terms for animals, like cow, have Anglo-Saxon linguistic roots, whilst terms for those animals when the ended up on a posh table, like beef, have French linguistic roots.

the reason London Underground , also rides Overground is , North of the river Thames , the ground is mainly clay and easy to build tunnels in , South of the Thames and the ground is more ' brittle ' , so the trains are on the surface =-)

I teach Spanish kids and plenty of them know who the Beatles are. A couple of years ago I was doing a "gap fill" listening based on a Rolling Stones song and my stroppiest of stoppiey teenagers came in the following week and told me "My Dad listens to that song we did last week". On a side note I often do "The Things that Dreams are Made Of" by the Human League (early 80s electro-pop) which has a line about "Johnny, Joey, Dee, good times". When we have finished I ask them if they know who Johnny, Joey and Dee are. Blank looks. I then get up an image of a Ramones tee-shirt on my phone and 80% go "My dad's got that tee-shirt"

Only parts of the U.K. have heavy rainfall the east of the country tends to be very dry.I live in Hartlepool NE and we only average 2.2 nches of rain per annum

Just to let you know, when he said we spoke French for 300 years...that would be just in official law and very rich and royalty the rest of the country still spoke English but only by common and lower classes.

Since the 101 uk facts video was made in 2016 the hottest temperature since was 40.3 °C (104.5 °F)19 July 2022Coningsby, Lincolnshire

From 1066 the Norman rulers, spoke (Drum roll) Norman French. While many words filtered down into the English language, the peasants continued to speak... well English. One effect of this is that we use the English (German) word for the animal and the French word for the meat that comes from them.

I'm Norwegian ❤ But this was some funny facts 😂❤ Happy newyear!

Hi Tyler, Happy New Year to you, my friend! The London Underground, Tube or whatever you might want to call it, is with the exception of just two lines, parts of the tangle of formerly independent railway companies' lines that were originally built to compete with one another, from about 1840 to 1900, give or take a few years. They're not - as the famous tube map suggests, wide apart or distant from one another and they'd don't comprehensively cover the whole of even inner London. With a few exceptions, they're also only under the ground across an area of perhaps 3 by 6 miles in the central area, and in the suburbs, their trains run alongside, or instead of, conventional surface railways that are part of the national railway system. Rather confusingly, some but not all of these within the London area are branded 'Overground' as these lines are funded by the same body and tend to serve areas that the underground does not, although there are many interchange points where transfer from one to the other is possible. In addition, a tramway system in the far southern and a light railway system also operate in Eastern London, where there are also relatively few undergound or overground lines. London's Buses are also mostly regulated by the same overall company, Transport for London or TfL, which is a government quango in effect.

The temperature record is now 40.3 C, set during the glorious summer of 22.

6:00 And at some stations some of the Underground lines are above the Overground lines 😂

The tube as said is the oldest in the world, and to be honest the tube is failry clean also, and when running with no problems, there is usually a tube every 3 minutes, also great bust service, that runs around every 6 mins, some routes bit longer,

Only fools and horses is absolutely brilliant!

Only the nobles and royalty spoke French back then, the common people did not - they spoke an early form of English. It does explain why so many French words have been incorporated into the English language, however.

i am 21, LOVE the Beatles

It is an awful lot cheaper to build railway lines above ground than it is to drive tunnels under central London, and then lay tracks in them. So as soon as practicable, one’s the lines are out of central London, they emerge from the tunnels.

French became the main language in 1066 because that was when William the Conqueror & the Normans invaded Britain from Normandy in France (the last time anyone successfully invaded Britain). Approx. 300 years later English once again returned as the main language. In reality it never disappeared it just wasn't officially considered as the main language by the Normans.

The underground is spreading further and further out from the city centre. So the newer bits are just between the buildings.