Portal:Scotland/Did you know/29




 * ... that David Byrne (pictured), lead singer-songwriter of Talking Heads was born in Dumbarton on 14th May 1952?


 * ... that Super Bowl winner Lawrence Tynes, who plays for the New York Giants was born in Greenock in 1978?


 * ... 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 Domhnall mac Raghnaill was the founder of the MacDonald clan?