1. Hampstead School is not in Hampstead (it's in Cricklewood)
2. Charing Cross Hospital is not in Charing Cross (it's in Fulham)
3. St Marylebone Cemetery is not in Marylebone (it's in Finchley)
4. Clapham Junction is not in Clapham (it's in Battersea)
5. The Kansas City Chiefs are based in Missouri not Kansas. There are two Kansas cities and one is not in Kansas (it's in Missouri)
6. Cardiff airport is not in Cardiff (it's in the Vale of Glamorgan)
7. Munich West airport is not in Munich (it's in Memmingen)
8. Gibraltar Point is in Lincolnshire and Gibraltar Point Lighthouse is in Canada (neither are in Gibraltar)
9. The dead centre of Europe is not at Europos Park, Vilnius, Lithuania, as claimed but eight miles away from there, as the French scientists who calculated the spot had to admit to errors,
10. The Greenwich Observatory Monument marking the Greenwich Meridian is in fact 102 metres (334 feet) out. Marked in 1851, the calculation was later called into question and GPS and modern instruments have now shown the real spot is in a park to the east of the observatory.
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