A.M.A.A. - Ask Moonface Anything, Again

[Moonface]

My cousin's fiance is from England and he just recently moved to California permanently. I've yet to meet him and I'd like to make a good first impression when I go back home for summer break. So far all he knows of me is that I talk fast and stutter, and have an incredibly-dry sense of humor. What's something about England I should know that you think would impress him?

Hmm. I've been thinking about this for a couple of hours and the best I could come up with would be these things I would share about England to people because they're things that I feel are actually pretty obscure unless you lived in my home town or near to it:

1. There's an entire area of streets in my home town that are all named after Lord of the Rings. They were originally placeholder names because at the time these streets were made LotR was a big thing, but then they just never bothered to change them.
   
2. My home town is the primary reason that Simon Cowell lost his streak of X Factor UK having the Christmas No. 1 after a movement was started in my home town to make Killing in the Name Of by Rage Against the Machine the Christmas No. 1 instead in protest.
   
3. Not a hometown thing, but my parents were present in the pub on the night that Iron Maiden were signed to their first record label. The pub was a common spot the band were playing at prior to being signed by a label.
   

Would be easy to segue into it by just mentioning you have a friend who is also from England but currently lives on the total opposite side of the US.