- ... that Walter Scott's narrative poem The Lady of the Lake (pictured) is in six cantos, each of which concerns the action of a single day?
- ... that Lady Isle, a small Scottish island in the Firth of Clyde, is Britain's first seabird reserve?
- ... that students at the four ancient universities of Scotland are no longer afforded a traditional Meal Monday holiday, but manual staff at the University of St Andrews still are?
- ... that rugby union footballer Robert Wilson Shaw was so influential in Scotland's Triple Crown winning victory over England in 1938 that the match became known as "Wilson Shaw's match"?