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Britain was once the largest empire of all time |  | The empire was approximately 24 million square feet and stayed the largest for around a century |
The British Empire started in 1555 when Elizabeth I came to the throne. |  | The Queen died in 1603 as the last monarch from the house of Tudor |
The British empire fell in the mid 1960s after surviving for over 400 years |  | It was severely weakend by both the world wars and simply ran out of money to fund itself, which caused the collapse |
Queen Elizabeth II has had the longest serving time as queen of all time |  | The queen is over 95 years old |
84% of the British population drinking tea and herbal infusions every day |  | tea was popularized in Britain after Queen Catherine of Braganza started drinking it |
Britain has a population of over 67 million people currently |  | The population eventually peaked in 1938, on the eve of World War II, by which time the British Empire accounted for over 531 million people |
Life expectancy in the U.K. is around 80 years. |  | Charlotte Hughes was the oldest British of all time, living over 115 years |
Britain is currently the 9th strongest military in the world |  | The british empire was once the #1 most powerful in the world |