1. It is illegal to die in the Palace of Westminster.
2. The reading room at the British Museum is where Karl Marx wrote Das Kapital in between bouts of getting very drunk and asking Friedrich Engels to lend him more money.
3. More than half of the London Underground network in fact runs above ground.
4. Harrods sold cocaine until 1916.
5. The Beatles played their last gig on the roof of Apple Corps at 3 Saville Row. It’s now an Abercrombie and Fitch store.
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