The first savings bank was opened in 1810 in Ruthwell, Dumfriesshire, by Reverend Henry Duncan.

Having spent an estimated 5000 years as a male, Perthshire’s Fortingall Yew produced red berries in 2015, which are only found on female trees.

In 1705, Edinburgh City Council received a from baker Adam Kerr about an elephant living in the flat above his shop. He claimed his bakery was being ruined by dung falling from above.