Forget your history textbooks or stuffy university lectures. This video tells you everything you need to know about Britain and its residents in around five minutes.

Disregard everything you’ve heard before. The British Civil War was really over whether Blur or Oasis produced the better album. And I’ll bet you didn’t know that St. Dick van Dyke of Marypoppinsshire is the patron saint of Cockneys!

OK, OK, so perhaps this video’s lessons should be taken with a grain of salt. You probably don’t want to repeat any of its claims on your next college history paper. But it is very funny!