Who can add a little known, but interesting fact about Scotland?
(And who will be compelled to write a load of old toss?)
Bonnie Prince Charlie was not quite so Bonny. Following his defeat at Culloden in 1746 he was widely regarded as a faiure. Plus, though he was Scots, he spoke no Gaelic.
Did you know that most tartans date only from 1822? Or that Scotland had electric lighting 70 years before Watt patented the light bulb?
This year is the 300th aniversary of the union between Scotland and England. And Daniel Dafoe (of Robinson Crusoe fame) was a spy in Scotland for the English government.
The longest surname in Scotland is MacGhilleseatheanaich.
The bronze statue of Robinson Crusoe (who was actually a bloke called Alexander Selkirk) in Lower Largo has my initials scratched upon it, I’m ashamed to say.
Student Rallies in Glasgow are rarely reported in the English press even when some drunken idiot gets on the bus in London the night before in a t-shirt in February.
Oh and don’t ask for Scotch in Scotchland, they get pretty upset about it.
Oh, ye cannae shove yer granny aff a bus.
Sorry TomHill, my attention span is approximately 11 seconds today. I’ll accept my shaming with good grace and real contrition.
James Bond (fictional, obviously) was born in Germany, but raised in Scotland and 摳he considers himself Scottish.
Scotland Yard is actually way bigger than three feet.
The rest of the world knows Charles as the Prince of Wales, but to the Scots, he’s the Duke of Rothesay. (That’s apparently some kind of public-school homosexual slang.)
Although William Wallace is often credited with defeating the English forces under the Earl of Surrey at Stirling Bridge, the victory was owed at least in part to Sir Andrew Moray.
Unfortunately, Sir Andrew was mortally wounded during the battle and died a few days afterwards. Thus, he was only ever given credit in John Barber’s The Brus, written some 50 years after the event.
Although the Queen is referred to as Elizabeth II, she is in fact Elizabeth II of England and Elizabeth I of Scotland.
Edinburgh was the first city in the world which had its own fire-brigade
zaRDoz you have a fantastic avatar
Copper wire was invented in Scotland.
Two Scots were fighting over a penny.
Change the word Celt by 2 letters and you get a word that universally sums up all of them!
Scotland has its Stones back.
Many dinna know they was missing.
Celtic (Both Cs pronounced like Ks).
Yeah, i guess you’re right. 
Cool? Why thanks, Edgar. We like to think so.
Nemo me impune lacessit!
For you uneducated cads, that was the motto of the Kings of Scotland, and it means, “No one provokes me with impunity”.
Johnny Cash’s ancestor was a blacksmith in Strathmiglo, which is not far from Auchtermuchty, home of Craig and Charlie Reid, aka the Proclaimers, who recorded “King of the Road,” a song by Roger Miller, whose bass voice was once described by Johnny Cash as similar to his own.