Checking under the toilet seat for redbacks.
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Most of what an American would call bread, we don't consider bread. Bread is dark. They don't really sell bread in American stores, not sure about western Europe.
Our mustard will make grown men cry and your nose runny. Can be helpful when it's blocked actually.
We eat a banana with our soup.
And we like to put cheese in hot cocoa.
I almost instinctually downvoted that.
Ketchup chips.
What kind of chips do you mean? French fries or Lays? If the latter, I doubt it. If the first, I doubt it. Salt and vinegar crisps on the other hand, are uniquely popular in the UK.
Potato chips! We have salt and vinnies here too. Not unique to the UK at all.
Our court system can sue a bag of money, find it guilty, then the bag of money goes to the coffers of the police department that legally stole it from a citizen that committed no crime other than having a bag of money.
In 150km of travel you can technically cover elevation of > 8,500 m
My country is the opposite. It's pretty much impossible to travel 150km and accumulate more than 8500 height meters. (highest point is 170 meters, and it's a loooong walk to get there).
School shootings.
Almost as many saunas as cars. One sauna for every ~1.7 people.
You have the best hard seltzer full stop. Also how's USA cosplay day lately?
UK. Cold and hot water coming from separate taps. WTF? I was once told that it is because hot water boilers used to have their tops open to the outside, which meant the hot water could contain some debris, so it was important to use it only for washing and not let it mix with cooking water. But in bathrooms in some modern builds that definitely don't use that kind of boilers you still get separate taps. I told one of my British colleagues about how it's been bothering me since I moved here and she said "oh yeah, I never realised that I've never seen that in any other country". She also told me that kids are just taught to wash their hands quickly under the hot tap, so that they don't run the water long enough for it to turn scolding hot. WTactualF?
Weirdest UK experience for me was the electrical shower heater thingy. Still can't wrap my head around that one. But it's apparently not unique to the UK. 
kids are just taught to wash their hands quickly under the hot tap, so that they don't run the water long enough for it to turn scolding hot. WTactualF?
That's a wtf within the UK as well, just fill the bowl with water using the taps to get the right temperature.
But are showers just one head still?
Haha luckily yes!
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