Fun facts about Scotland.
16 Jan 2012
1. The shortest 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 1 minute 14 seconds.
2. It is home to 19 universities and institutes of higher education, including St Andrews, where the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge met.
3. The two first Prime Ministers of Canada, Alexander Mackenzie (1822-1892) and John A. Macdonald (1815-1891), were Scottish.
4. The raincoat was invented in1824 in Scotland by a chemist by Charles Macintosh. In Great Britain, the garment is still called a “Mac”.
5. Other famous Scottish inventions include the television, by John Logie Baird in 1925, the telephone by Alexander Graham Bell in 1876 and penicillin, by Alexander Fleming in 1928.
