- ... that Greyfriars Kirkyard (pictured), famed for its association with Greyfriars Bobby, is haunted by the spirit of "Bluidy Mackenzie" and featured in the early photography of David Octavius Hill and Robert Adamson?
- ... that tradition traces Clan Drummond, a Scottish clan from Stirlingshire, to Hungarian origins?
- ... that pioneering Scottish Victorian photographer, John Thomson, was honoured by having one of the peaks of Mount Kilimanjaro named "Point Thomson" on his death in 1921?
- ... that Bud Neill was a Scottish newspaper cartoonist whose best loved strip was set in "Calton Creek", a fictional Arizona outpost of the wild west populated with Glaswegians, including Sheriff "Lobey Dosser" who rode a two-legged horse?