Scotland’s national animal is a unicorn.
Because mythical creatures can be national animals too, you know.
Scotland has the highest proportion of redheads in the world.
Around 13 per cent of the population has red hair.
Scots are most likely to have blue eyes than people in the rest of the UK.
The South East of Scotland has the highest proportion of blue-eyed residents at 57 per cent.
The Scots invented golf with St Andrews considered as the ‘home of golf’.
The sport has been played there since the 15th century.
The shortest commercial flight in the world is in Scotland.
The journey from Westray to Papa Westray in Orkney is approximately 1.5 miles long and takes just 47 seconds.
Scotland has approximately 790 islands.
660 are uninhabited.
The first International association football game was played in Partick.
The match was between Scotland and England in 1872 and was played at the West of Scotland Cricket ground in Partick.
But football was originally banned by King James I.
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.
The Scots invented the modern world.
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?
There are as many people with Scots heritage living in the US as in Scotland.
