Portal:Scotland/Did you know
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- ...that xenon, argon and krypton were discovered by Scottish scientist William Ramsay (pictured) and Morris Travers, and that they were the first to isolate helium?
- ...that Kaichi Watanabe was a Japanese person who was engineer on the Forth Bridge in the 1880s?
- ...that the Scottish Touch Association will host the 2011 Touch Rugby World Cup in Edinburgh?
- ...that Super Bowl winner Lawrence Tynes, who plays for the New York Giants was born in Greenock in 1978?
- ...that Séon Carsuel's Foirm na n-Urrnuidheadh (1567) was the first work printed in any Gaelic language, including Irish?
- ...that the first edition of Collins Encyclopaedia of Scotland took seven years to compile, contained nearly 500 illustrations, 4000 separate entries, and is around a million words long?
- ...that the Holm of Noss in Shetland could only be reached by a huge cradle from Noss for two hundred years?
