Scottish towns: fun facts

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A writer flying from this northern city was stopped at Birmingham airport because his haggis was mistaken for a bomb.

This oil hub used to have the world's biggest heliport. The self-seal envelope was also invented here.

Mary Shelley once lived in this city, which influenced her novel Frankenstein. It is Scotland's smallest council area.

The man who pioneered the world's first working TV came from this town in Argyll.

Guinness list this eastern coastal town as having the world's oldest surviving golf course.

Every Ne'erday, people gather here to swim in the frigid water of the Forth.

A man from this new town in Fife gets up and cooks meals in his sleep.

A rare example of a place being renamed thrice, this west coast town was previously called Maryburgh, Gordonsburgh, then Duncansburgh.

This town has a university which dates back to 1413.

In 2014, a woman on a flight to this capital city attacked a passenger with her prosthetic leg.

An 8th century warrior was found buried in this Easter Ross village with four other skulls in the grave.

In 1437, King James I tried to flee assassins here via a sewer, but he'd recently had the escape route blocked off to prevent his tennis balls going into it.

Alexander III met his end in 1286; while riding in the dark to this Fife town, he fell off a cliff.

The gritting lorry keeping this town's roads ice-free was named TroonRaker.

In 2014, a man in this former shipbuilding hub robbed a Ladbrokes betting office armed with a cucumber.

Aberdeen

Dundee

Edinburgh

Fort William

Glasgow

Glenrothes

Helensburgh

Inverness

Kinghorn

Musselburgh

Perth

Portmahomack

South Queensferry

St. Andrews

Troon

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