Nah, mate; Freckles is a game.
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And they were used to make explosives in the world wars
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All hale the conkering hero!
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Well, playing conkers has been a school playground game in most of the UK (not just England) as far as I know, for generations. I don’t believe there is anything regional about it.
The world championship in question has been going since 1965.
Bloody hell - that’s exactly my old school tie!
(But I guess its colours are not uncommon for school ties.)
And for those noting other weird UK sports…
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I think swinging together two turds on strings would be a slightly different game. 
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That article mentions record holders for the shortest times for swimming the bog, but not the longest times.
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Amateurs.
No snorkels.
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In German, what the horse leaves behind is called Pferdeäpfel, i.e., “horses’ apples”.
(The nut in question is a Rosskastanie, Ross being a more upmarket synonym of Pferd.)
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It involves drunk squaddies, so maybe?
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I guess this could be described as conker’s bad fur day
The men’s world record was set by Neil Rutter in 2018
Believe it or not, I went to school with this guy.
Nice Bloke, we used to spoonerise his name, and now you know why.
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Does that count as nominative determinism?
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