#intresting

1) Many of Scotland’s most famous itemskiltsTartans and bagpipes were actually developed elsewhere kilts originated in Ireland Tartans have been found in Bronze Age Central Europe and bagpipes are thought to have come from ancient Central Asia.

2) Interestingly genetic studies are now pointing that the mutation for red hair which now reaches a world maximum in Western Scotland and Northern Ireland may have originated in Central Asia - this means that Scottish people may be partly descended from ancient people from Central Asia.

3) The city of Aberdeen in Scotland is famous for its grenade buildings nearly every building in the center of the city is made of the material because of this the suitable radiation levels for the city are slightly higher than they would be in other cities in the UK.

4)EDINBURGH ZOO is famous for its penguin parade the parade has been a major attraction since 1951 when a Gentoo penguin led a few of its friends to march the walkways after an enclosure door was left.

5) opened  in 2002 the Falkirk wheel is the only rotating board left of its kind in the world and is regarded as an engineering landmark for Scotland the final design is claimed to have been inspired by a Celtic double-headed spear a vast turning propeller of a Clydebank build ship the ribcage of a whale and the spine of a fish the structure contains over 15,000 bolts which are matched with 45,000 bolts holes.

6)the shorter scheduled flight in the world is one and a half miles long from Westray to Papa Westray in the Orkney Islands of Scotland the journey takes one minute 14 seconds to complete a return ticket costs 39 British pounds.

7) the famous shaggy-haired cattle with their hora genes in the Scottish Highlands are the holdest resister breed of cow in the world with first written records of the animal dating back to 1884.

8) One particularity of Scots law is that the criminal trial may end in one of three verdicts guilty, not guilty or not proven the not proven verdict may be referred to as the Scottish verdict abroad

9)Theflag of Scotland is a white x-shaped cross which represents the cross of the patron saint of Scotland send Andrew on a blue field the flag is called the soul tire or the st. Andrew’s cross.

10) The longest echo inside a man-made structure was recorded in there in chin down tunnels a world war two fuel storage facility near Inver Gordon in Ross-Shire researchers from Salford University fired a gun down the tunnels recording a record-breaking handle 12-second echo.

11) Gretna Green the Scottish town near is the English border as a reputation as Scotland’s Las Vegas many young couples from England choose to dash across the border to get married there because under the Scottish law people do not need to gather parents consent at the age of 16 whereas in England parental consent is required until one is 18