{"id":103,"date":"2006-11-02T22:11:14","date_gmt":"2006-11-03T03:11:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.avivadirectory.com\/trivia\/103-facts-about-scotland"},"modified":"2013-01-19T17:00:46","modified_gmt":"2013-01-19T22:00:46","slug":"facts-about-scotland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.avivadirectory.com\/trivia\/103-facts-about-scotland\/","title":{"rendered":"Facts about Scotland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Scotland\" alt=\"Scotland\" src=\"http:\/\/www.avivadirectory.com\/trivia\/scotland.jpg\" align=\"right\" \/>Scotland lost the greatest number of soldiers per head of population in WW1.<\/p>\n<p>The name Scotland derives from the word &#8220;Scoti&#8221; a Celtic tribe who migrated from Ireland to Scotland in the 5th and 6th Centuries.<\/p>\n<p>John Logie Baird inventor of the television transmitted the first pictures from a room in the Central Hotel in Glasgow.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nHamilton Mausoleum near Glasgow has the longest echo in Europe, it lasts 15 seconds.<\/p>\n<p>Britain&#8217;s highest mountain is in Scotland, Ben Nevis (height 4406ft).<\/p>\n<p>Scotland is the only country in Europe where Coca Cola is not the best selling soft Drink. The best selling soft drink is &#8220;Irn Bru&#8221; made by the Barr Company.<\/p>\n<p>Edinburgh was the first city in the world to have its own fire service.<\/p>\n<p>There are over 450 golf courses in Scotland.<\/p>\n<p>The Gaelic word for Whisky is Uisge Beatha (pronounced oosh-ga beh-huh) and means Water of Life.<\/p>\n<p>The only snake found in Scotland is the Adder.<\/p>\n<p>Scotland has 857 offshore Islands mainly on the West Coast.<\/p>\n<p>Bagpipes aren&#8217;t Scottish &#8211; they were invented in Iran.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scotland lost the greatest number of soldiers per head of population in WW1. The name Scotland derives from the word &#8220;Scoti&#8221; a Celtic tribe who migrated from Ireland to Scotland in the 5th and 6th Centuries. John Logie Baird inventor of the television transmitted the first pictures from a room in the Central Hotel in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.avivadirectory.com\/trivia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.avivadirectory.com\/trivia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.avivadirectory.com\/trivia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.avivadirectory.com\/trivia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.avivadirectory.com\/trivia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=103"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.avivadirectory.com\/trivia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":365,"href":"https:\/\/www.avivadirectory.com\/trivia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103\/revisions\/365"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.avivadirectory.com\/trivia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.avivadirectory.com\/trivia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.avivadirectory.com\/trivia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}