article: The claim has baffled many of those who live in Birmingham and led to a series of satirical tweets under the Twitter hashtag #FoxNewsFacts. So what are the facts about the city that likes to position itself as England's second metropolis? According to the city council, more than one million people live in Birmingham. The council also says the city is ethnically mixed - around 42% of residents are from an ethnic group other than white. It is religiously diverse, with 46.1% of Birmingham residents saying they are Christian, 21.8% Muslim and 19.3% had no religion. The council also says Birmingham's population is relatively youthful - 45.7% of Birmingham residents are under 30, compared with 36.8% for England. In contrast 12.9% of residents are over 65, compared with 16.9% nationally. Did you know the Reverend Wilbert Awdry wrote some of the Thomas the Tank Engine books at St. Nicholas' Church in Kings Norton, where he worked as a curate? He grew up at Box in Wiltshire, and is supposed to have got the idea of engines talking ("I CAN do it. I WILL do it....") from the sound as they puffed up the incline on the Great Western line nearby. He worked in Birmingham from 1940 to 1946. Within Birmingham lies the "village" of Bournville, which was built by the Cadbury family for the chocolate factory's workers. It contains no pubs because the family were Quakers. The company was founded in 1824 by John Cadbury and, by 1930, had become the 24th largest manufacturing firm in Britain. Rita McLean, former head of museums and heritage at Birmingham Museums, said: "The Cadbury family made a fortune from chocolate. "Beatrice Cadbury inherited a sizeable amount. But in the 1920s, she turned her back on the opulent lifestyle and gave her shares to the workers at the Bournville factory." The creator of Sherlock Holmes, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle lived and worked in Aston between 1878 and 1881. Historian Ben Waddington said: "Birmingham may not be the first city you associate with Sir Arthur Conan Doyle or his creation Sherlock Holmes. "But Conan Doyle was working as a chemist in the city while studying at the University of Edinburgh. "In the short story, The Adventure of the Stockbroker's Clerk, Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson come to Birmingham to investigate an office at 126B Corporation Street. "Conan Doyle's earliest mysteries were written while he lived in the city and a lot of Birmingham names crop up in the stories, including Baskerville." According to the educational film More Canals Than Venice, in 1875 three quarters of the world wrote using pen nibs made in Birmingham. During the industry's heyday, there were more than 100 companies manufacturing pens in the city. However, by the end of the 19th Century, the number of manufacturers had declined to just 12. And in the following century, Laslo Biro's ballpoint pen invention, in 1938, sounded the death knell for the mass production of traditional pen nibs. One of the UK's first petrol-driven cars was built in Birmingham by engineer Frederick Lanchester while he
summary: A terrorism commentator has apologised for suggesting Birmingham was a "Muslim-only city" where non-Muslims dare not venture during an interview on US broadcaster Fox News.