Just a book with some random facts about anything and everything.
(Formerly 'Factastic! - Random Facts')
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#779 Random - 08/04/16
#756 Random - 12/04/16
#652 Random - 15/04/16
#585 Random - 17/04/16
May I just say that Scottish accents are the absolute coolest? I'm doing my Cambridge Certificate at the moment and we practiced listening comprehension today and one of the guys talking had a Scottish accent and it was the best thing ever! Okay, enough of that now... Wish me luck for the Certificate, though, I wanna get to native speaker level! 😁
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851. The flight from Westray to Papa Westray in the Orkney Islands of Scotland takes 1 minute and 14 seconds and is thereby the shortest scheduled flight in the world!
852. One of the three national languages in Scotland, Scottish Gaelic, is spoken by 1 percent of the population only.
853. A lot of things Scotland is famous for were actually invented somewhere else. Whiskey, for example, was actually invented in China, kilts originated in Ireland, tartans have been found in central Europe and bagpipes most probably came from ancient central Asia.
854. The official animal of Scotland is the unicorn.
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(Jesus Christ, I don't believe I just spent five minutes on searching a unicorn gif and this is the best I came up with... xD)
855. The capital of Scotland, Edinburgh, was the first city in the world to have its own fire brigade.
856. The longest echo in a man-made building can be produced in the Hamilton Mausoleum in South Lanarkshire, it's 15 seconds long.
857. The oldest tree in Europe (which is a twisted yew) has stood in Fortingall for 3,000 years... 3,000 years. 3,000 FREAKING YEARS!!!
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858. The country has approximately 167.5 people living per square mile.
859. Almost 75 percent of European tourists say they travel to Scotland because there are so polite and friendly people.
860. One of the most notable Scottish inventions is the method of logarithms which was invented in 1614 and still makes thousands of students worldwide (including me) break out in a cold sweat when mentioned in maths class.
By the way, an anecdote for all the Harry Potter-fans:
One of the websites I went on for research showed a photo of the Phelps-twins (who played Fred and George Weasley) when talking about redheads in Scotland and I'm just so utterly confused. Like, neither are they Scottish nor do they have red hair... So, what the hell?
Why can't you just do your research properly?
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Also, James Phelps just married this year... Like, did anyone know that?
