30 incredible facts about Scotland you (probably) didn't know
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dailyrecord.co.uk1. The Scots language has a word for when you are introduced to someone whose name you can't recallThat awkward moment has a name - tartle.2.Scotland is home to some very strange names for meals including crappit heid and festy cockThe former is a dish made using the heads of cods steamed in seawater and the second is a type of pancake that was originally made by Scots monks to mark Shrove Tuesday.3.
The world’s first colour photograph was taken in ScotlandTaken by Scottish scientist James Clerk Maxwell in 1861, it was perhaps suitably, a picture of a tartan ribbon.4.
The coastline of Mainland Scotland is 6,160 miles longThis is three times longer than England's, and would increase to over 10,250 miles if you included all of the islands.5..
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