30 fascinating facts about the majority of British people

REUTERS/Nigel RoddisA Manchester United fan in 2009.

Most British people drink tea and eat fish and chips — or at least that’s what the rest of the world thinks.

To see which facts really hold true for the majority of the 64 million people who live in the United Kingdom, we used data from the Office for National Statistics, Ipsos MORI, Pew Research, and others.

The UK population has many things in common. We’ve highlighted the most interesting similarities below.