You ever tell somebody a weird piece of trivia you know only to have it become a viral news story the next day?

Because yesterday in an editorial meeting I happened to mention that it’s illegal to eat a swan in England, because they’re all technically property of the Queen. Now we’re finding out that somebody tried to do just that.

On Sunday afternoon a group of tourists visiting on Baths Island in Windsor, Berkshire came across the remains of a swan’s body. Park wardens were called in to examine the Royal Bird and found it had been cooked with its feathers still attached, and that that some of the meat had been stripped from its bones.