No. 001
Did You Know - it is against the law to buy or sell cigarettes or any tobacco product in the City Of Glasgow between the hours of 6pm and 6am. This dates back to a bylaw during the days when Glasgow was the centre of the Scottish Tobacco Trade. In order to restrict "dodgy deals" the City Fathers declared during which hours tobacco could be traded (6am and 6pm) and made any trade in tabacco products outwith these hours illegal with a maximum penalty of 2 years in jail. The law was never repealed
No. 002
Edinburgh was the first city in the world to have its own Fire Brigade
No. 003
Scotland is a Protestant dominant country. Despite this fact, Scotland’s Catholic Church has the greatest number of observed Saints days in the world
No. 004
The current value of the banknotes of Scotland in circulation is £1.5 billion
No. 005
The official animal of Scotland is the Unicorn
No. 006
Scotland lost the greatest number of soldiers per head of population in World War
No.007
As per the census conducted in 1909, the Scots were the tallest race in Europe. But due to the World War I, the average height of the men in Scotland fell by 9 inches in 1930
No. 008
English is the official language of Scotland. Only about 1.5% of the entire population speak Gaelic with less than 1% able to read and write Gaelic
No. 009
Scotland has over 790 islands; less than a quarter of them are populated
No. 010
Scotland's area is 78,772 km. It is the 112th largest country in the world by size
No. 011
In Scotland attending school was made compulsory in 1496 and was controlled by the church until 1872
No. 012
The largest loch in area is Loch Lomond; Loch Ness is larger in volume
No. 013
The average temperature in July is 15 degrees Celsius; in January it is 3 degrees Celsius
No. 014
Nemo me impune lacessit is the Latin motto of the Order of the Thistle - - or rendered in Scots as Wha daur meddle wi' me? - or in English ""No one provokes me with impunity"
No. 015
The 10 most common surnames in scotland are, smith, brown, Wilson, Stewart, Thomson, Campbell, Robertson, Anderson, Scott and MacDonald
No. 016
And the highest temperature in scotland was 32.9 degrees Celsius and was recorded in 2003
No. 017
Scotlands longest River, the River Tay flows for 190 kilometres
No. 018
Edinburgh, like Rome, was built in 7 hills
No. 019
Television, telephone, pneumatic tyre, video cassette recorder, finger printing, golf, tarmacadam, ATM Machine, Fax Machine and penicillin were all Scottish innovations (to name but a few)
No. 020
Scottish territorial coastline adds up to 6189 miles in length
No. 021
English football team Berwick Rangers actually plays in the Scottish League. The only English team to do so
No. 022
The Forth Rail Bridge took 8 years to build. Contains 55,000 tons of steel, 650,000 cubic feet of granite, 8 million rivets, 150 acres of paint. Stands 361 feet, or about the height of a Saturn V rocket that took man to the Moon. During warm weather it expands about 18 inches at both ends, a total of 3 feet. At peak of construction over 4500 folk were employed
No. 023
Scotland has over 300 Castles, or one per every 100 square miles
No. 024
Edinburgh, the capital of Scotland has a population of 430,082 but Glasgow has a population of 629,501
No. 025
Scotland is approx 275 miles (440km) long. 25 miles (40km) wide at it's narrowest between the River Clyde and River Forth. 155 miles (250km) wide between it's furthest point
