Scotland Fun Facts

Around 13 per cent of the population has red hair.

The South East of Scotland has the highest proportion of blue-eyed residents at 57 per cent.

All the more for us!

It is located near Meikleour on the A93 Perth-Blairgowrie road. The hedge is over 1,700 feet in length and 100 foot high.

The sport has been played there since the 15th century.

This large and elusive female is said to have attacked two fishermen in August 1969. They saw a creature described as around 30ft long with rough brown skin, three large humps and a snake-like head. Loch Morar is even deeper than Loch Ness, more than 1000ft in places.

The journey from Westray to Papa Westray in Orkney is approximately 1.5 miles long and takes just 47 seconds.

660 are uninhabited.

The match was between Scotland and England in 1872 and was played at the West of Scotland Cricket ground in Partick.

He decreed that Na man play at the fut ball, in the Football Act of 1424. Luckily, it fell into disuse and Scotland became home to one of the most heated rivalries in world football – the Old Firm derby between Rangers and Celtic.

Researchers from Salford University fired a gun down the tunnels, recording a record-breaking 112-second echo.

Despite this, Mel Gibson used the name for Wallace in his Hollywood blockbuster.

Just one per cent of the population use the last.

It is, Loch Morar, which reaches 1,077ft (328m) down and is ranked the seventeenth deepest lake in the world.

The town has more than 300 sightings of Unidentified Flying Objects reported every year.

John Logie Baird created the world’s first TV picture on October 2, 1925 while Scotsman Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone in Boston in February 1876. Where would we be today without this technology?