Did you know...

[Bunny Bagger]

In 1945 a flock of birds landed on the minute hand of Big Ben (Big Ben is not actually the name of the clock,it is the name of the bell which is inside the clock) and put the time back by five minutes.

[Bunny Bagger]

Scotland is the home to some of the worlds more significant inventions, including the telephone, the television, the modern steam engine, the adhesive stamp, penicillin and the pedal bicycle.

[Outandabout]

It is stil illegal to die in the houses of parliament.

[Midasi1]

If you swing a cat around by its tail and its head hits all four walls
It means its rather a small room

And a prompt visit from both the RSPCA & Cats Protection League !

[Sake-san]

Scotland is the home to some of the worlds more significant inventions, including the telephone, the television, the modern steam engine, the adhesive stamp, penicillin and the pedal bicycle.

The Scots invented the modern world, a super book...

[james79]

Scotland is the home to some of the worlds more significant inventions, including the telephone, the television, the modern steam engine, the adhesive stamp, penicillin and the pedal bicycle.

The Scots invented the modern world, a super book...

James Clerk Maxwells " A Dynamical Theory of the Electromagnetic Field"?

[Bunny Bagger]

Edinburgh is the top destination for overseas and UK visitors to Scotland.

[Sake-san]

50% of Scotland's land (area) is owned by fewer than 450 people

[Bunny Bagger]

Edinburgh has 112 parks as well as more trees per head of population than any other City in the UK.

[Timmytree]

Edinburgh has 112 parks as well as more trees per head of population than any other City in the UK.

Every tree has six empty Buckfast tonic wine bottles buried around the roots and a ginger minger snoring on the grass.