- Houses of Parliament are officially known as the Palace of Westminster and it is illegal to die there
- Big Ben is the bell, not the clock tower
- More than half of the London Underground network in fact runs above ground
- Great Ormond Street Hospital in London owns the copyright to Peter Pan and receives royalties from all associated works and performances
- Blackfriars is the only train station to have entrances on both sides of the Thames
- In London, prior to 1907, different routes had different-coloured buses
- If you see someone tooling around London on a scooter with a fluorescent jacket and a large map, it could well be a prospective cabbie studying for the Knowledge exam, which takes 2-4 years
