Little Fish: Get To The Bus!

Dan, James and Andy discuss YOUR facts including jellyfish and Jesse Jackson. James sets the record straight over some slander that occurred while he was on holiday. And we name eight more Friend of the Podcast custodians. Visit nosuchthingasafish.com http://nosuchthingasafish.com for news about live shows, merchandise and more episodes. Join Club Fish for ad-free episodes and exclusive bonus content at apple.co/nosuchthingasafish http://apple.co/nosuchthingasafish or nosuchthingasafish.com/patreon http://nosuchthingasafish.com/patreon Edited by James Harkin Produced by Leying Lee Team includes Tara Dorrell, Joe Mayo and Ethan Ruparelia

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  Hello and welcome to another episode of Little Fish. My name is James Harkin. I am joined by Daniel Schreiber.

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  Hello.

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  Andrew Hunter Murray.

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  Hello.

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  And we are here with a whole load of your facts. You've been sending them in to [email protected], and he has whittled them down to the very, very best. We're going to choose the ones to read out, and then we're going to chat about them. Then we'll do some more stuff at the end, then we'll all go home. You guys are probably already at home. Never mind, let's go. Who's got a fact?

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  I've got one.

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  Go for it.

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  All right. This one comes in from Fergal Finley, and Fergal says, "My fact is that sliced bread was invented on the 7th of July, 1928, whereas National Treasure David Attenborough was born on the 8th of May, 1926. Therefore, sliced bread is in fact the best thing since David Attenborough."

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  Hmm.

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  And we're off the blocks.

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  So that's a, that's a very small window of David Attenborough being the best thing.

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  Yeah, and he was only a baby at the time, actually.

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  Hadn't really achieved too much at that point.

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  Very little.

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  Yeah, yeah.

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  He probably crawled around, sort of pointing at his pet tortoise going, "Here we are."

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  Just a nice fact about sliced bread and David Attenborough being about the same age.

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  Yeah, I think it's always surprising how new sliced bread is.

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  Yeah.

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  And the famous fact is that it was advertised as the best thing since wrapped bread.

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  Yes, that's so good.

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  And the idea being that you would slice your own bread, obviously, but wrapped bread was good because it would keep it fresh.

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  And it stayed softer.

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  And to stay softer, you wouldn't want to have sliced bread before that because it would just go stale really quickly. So once wrapped bread came in, then you could start slicing it. There was no point having it before then.

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  And thankfully, no one has ever sliced David Attenborough.

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  At time of recording.

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  At time of recording.

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  Very nice. I've got one here from David Byrne. Now, I'm hoping this is David Byrne, lead singer of The Talking Heads.

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  Maybe.

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  I mean, he would listen to something like this.

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  Do you think?

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  Yeah, he's a real nerd.

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  Is he?

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  Oh, it's wonderful.

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  Wow.

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  Yeah.

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  David, write it.

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  But other David, who this might be, I'm sure you're awesome too, so.

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  David's had been talking.

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  It's been saying.

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  He says, "My fact is, for the original Predator film, the studio had to hire a bodyguard to follow Sonny Landom around to protect other people from Sonny, as he'd been getting into too many fights on the set."

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  Oh, who does he play? Is he like one of the soldiers?

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  Yeah, he's one of the main guys. So you've got Arnold Schwarzenegger, you've got Jesse Jackson.

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  But he didn't play the Predator.

• 3:49Speaker 04

  No, he didn't.

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  Jesse Jackson?

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  Sorry, yeah, I said the wrong name.

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  The civil rights hero.

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  Yeah, you had Jesse Jackson.

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  Wow. MLK has a cameo, doesn't he?

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  He does, and playing the role of Predator in the suit, Mother Teresa. So it's a real, it's a real hell of a cast. No, Jesse Ventura is who I meant to say.

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  Okay, okay.

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  What's interesting is that this guy, Sonny, he actually ran for governor in Kentucky. And had he have got that, he would have been the third cast member who made it into politics as a governor in America.

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  Oh, because Schwarzenegger did.

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  Schwarzenegger did, and Jesse Ventura did as well. Yeah. So he didn't, he didn't make it, unfortunately.

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  And he was just very fighty and aggressive.

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  He was very aggressive. And he is a big guy and he was totally fine on the set. It turned out it wasn't needed, but the studio for insurance purposes thought we'd better protect this guy from killing everyone else on set. What's interesting as well is someone famous was meant to be the Predator. So if you don't know this movie, it was like an eighties action film, Arnold Schwarzenegger, and there was this monster, it looks a bit like Alien.

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  But he's kind of mostly invisible, wasn't it?

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  Yes, it was always a bit of a problem for the film that the baddie is mostly not visible.

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  But then he kind of comes visible sometimes. Is that right?

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  Yeah, yeah, yeah. He can turn it on and off.

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  And they use, I think, infrared to see him, the body, or is that how he saw?

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  No, he sees them because they get in the mud and they get really cold and he can't see them anymore. Spoiler alert.

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  Spoiler alert.

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  Right at the ending, that's when Arnie's the only one left. Yeah.

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  Yeah.

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  Right. So the original person though, who was inside the Predator, so that you do get to see at some point, was Jean-Claude Van Damme.

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  No.

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  Yeah.

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  Was it?

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  Yeah. And he got fired from the set and there's a lot of reasons that that might have happened.

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  Well, he had an argument on set with Rosa Parks, I believe, who was one of the other Marines.

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  Get to the bus.

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  That's from that film, is get to the chopper.

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  Get to the chopper.

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  Wonderful.

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  But yeah, one of the reasons was is that he kept doing kickboxing in the suit and they were like, it's just too much.

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  Right.

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  It's like Tinky Winky getting fired from Telly Ties.

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  That's very funny.

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  Okay, very good. Here is a fact from Michael Bartmeyer and I'm gonna actually take his fact and then give you a different wording of it.

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  Okay.

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  Or maybe a question, actually. So how old do you think is the oldest ever immortal jellyfish?

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  Oh, uh, I'll say 121 years.

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  Okay.

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  Big bang, right from the go.

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  Right from the origin.

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  Came out of the explosion of the universe.

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  Part of it.

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  Whoa, what is this? Um, I'm glad you didn't go the other way of trying to spoil the game because you would have won it. So Michael writes that the problem with immortal jellyfish is they won't stop dying. Uh, and he read this in, uh, from Maria Pier Miglietta, who's an associate professor of marine biology at Texas A&M. Uh, and the thing is that theoretically immortal jellyfish can live forever. They become adults and then when they get in a bit of danger, they become children again. And then they go adult child, adult child, and they can theoretically do it forever. But in laboratory conditions, it's almost impossible to keep them alive. Uh, and the reason is you've got to have exactly the right amount of flow of water.

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  They're really small and delicate. If you put too much water in, they just fall apart. And if you don't put enough in, they kind of sink down to the bottom and fall apart. And the longest ever that anyone's maintained a colony of them, uh, was a, a guy called Shin Kabota at Kyoto University. And they managed to keep the colony alive for about two years, but that was lots of different ones. And I don't think that anyone's ever been able to keep an immortal jellyfish alive for more than about a month.

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  Isn't that amazing? That's very funny.

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  Cause I think we wondered when we covered them on QI all those years ago, why are we not wading through them? If they are genuinely immortal, like why are the oceans not just teeming with them?

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  Yes, yeah. Well, it turns out that just, you, if you just look at them, they explode.

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  That's brilliant.

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  Are we going to do anything to alter the name, do you think?

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  What? Well, they are immortal in theory.

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  Okay, in theory.

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  You could call them the theoretically immortal jellyfish.

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  That's cool, isn't it?

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  Yeah, yeah.

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  That's brilliant.

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  Just one more thing about them. There's a candidate in the Singaporean elections, uh, called Teryptopsis dorini, T O N Ming. Uh, and the first two words of that name is the Latin for a immortal jellyfish. And basically. He's always in every election, but he loses in every election. You know, a bit like Count Binface.

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  Brilliant.

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  And so he's changed his first name to the immortal jellyfish Latin name because he's a perennial candidate.

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  Very nice.

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  But always completely falls apart. That's lovely. That's brilliant. Um, I have a nautical, oceanic, sea life based one as well, actually.

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  Yes, please.

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  This comes in from Trevor Lambert. And it's that, uh, Great Yarmouth in Norfolk. For our international listeners, those are both places in the UK.

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  It's by the sea.

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  It's by the sea.

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  It's a place where you might go and retire once the city life is.

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  Absolutely.

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  Too much for you.

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  Yeah, charming coastal place and they have three river crossings, right? That's not the fact.

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  The river Yar goes through there.

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  The river Yar, Great Yarmouth is at the mouth of the Yar, right?

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  Oh, Yar mouth. Great.

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  Yeah, my mouth is telling you that.

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  They have a bridge, which they have a third one. It just opened up in 2024. So this is pretty new, exciting stuff. Cause it's avoided a lot of trouble. I used to have to go right around the houses and now it's made it a life a lot easier for a lot of people, this new bridge. Uh, and Norfolk County Council ran a vote for the name and it was either going to be the Queen's Gate or the Britannia Bridge or the Yar Bridge or the Herring Bridge, right? Herring Bridge won. Now that's because Great Yarmouth was a great town for the herring industry, really important. You know, the women who worked in the fishing industry, they were vital to it, like.

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  Herring girls.

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  Herring girls. It was one of the most important fishing ports in the whole UK. It was a really important town for that. Anyway. Unfortunately, most of the votes saying this should be called the Herring Bridge arrived after comedian, Richard Herring told all his followers, name a bridge after me. And then most of the votes came in after that.

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  So even though they set up the vote saying this bridge is named after the herring industry.

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  Yeah.

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  We know that the reason this bridge is called the Herring Bridge, did it, did it win in the end?

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  Yeah, one.

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  Then the reason it's called that is because of Richard Herring.

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  Yeah.

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  So are you going to get him to write the foreword to your book?

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  Yes.

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  That's, that's amazing.

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  He's an example of the thing.

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  You know, an example.

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  Yeah, that's pretty spooky. Yeah. So anyway, there you go. And they cost 120 million quid and it's named after Richard Herring, probably.

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  That's quite something.

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  That is cool.

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  Yeah.

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  Yeah.

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  There you go.

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  Um, okay, still on nautical. Shall we stay in the ocean?

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  Yeah.

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  Kay Stone writes, knowing how fond you all are about the weird animal organ called the cloaca, thought you might enjoy this article published in the New York Times. And she's given a small excerpt here, which says, when danger calls, some animals bare their teeth, others take to the sky or curl into protective balls. But the remora, a fish that often hitches a ride on a larger marine animal like a sea turtle or whale, sometimes follows a less dignified strategy. It disappears inside a manta ray's rear end. And this is a new discovery. The remora, uh, does what is known as cloacal diving. And, uh, according to a scientist who looked into this called Catherine McDonald, it does not look like the manta ray likes it. Um.

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  When you climb up a manta, but you say it's just banter, that's remora.

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  Yeah, nice.

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  It's very good.

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  It's not.

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  It's not bad.

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  It's not bad.

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  No.

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  It's not bad.

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  I didn't say it was. My face just said that.

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  You looked bad. Yeah.

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  Yeah. So, um, yeah, this is a, this is a new discovery, but the, uh, the remora, pretty, pretty fascinating, uh, animal. It's, it's used for fishing as well, the remora.

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  Is it?

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  Yeah. It's a really interesting process because you would attach the remora to your fishing line. You lower it down, it sucks onto the animal below and then you bring it back up.

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  Wow.

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  So it's a sort of reusable bit of bait because you can then take it off and put it back in.

• 12:24Speaker 05

  That's incredible. The bait sort of eats the fish in a way.

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  Yeah. Or just holds on to enough of it.

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  Yeah.

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  So like a turtle, for example, if you're looking to get turtles, you might put, you might put a couple of remoras, you might put a few of them.

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  No.

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  That's what this is.

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  It can support the weight of a turtle.

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  Yeah.

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  Give over.

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  That's what it says.

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  Give over. I've never heard such cobblers.

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  Well, it's, there's, it's cited in a book from 1787.

• 12:46Speaker 05

  Oh, wow. Okay. Well, yeah, yeah.

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  If it's 300 year old knowledge, then it can't be wrong, can it?

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  Okay, speaking of fishing.

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  Oh, yeah.

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  I have a fact here from Mark Fisher.

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  Beautiful segue.

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  And Mark Fisher has given me a fact. I say given me because I think this is one especially for me. And Mark says that it takes six containers to get 100,000 hundreds and thousands.

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  And Mark attaches the calculations, which I won't subject you all to. But for Americans, these are sprinkles that you put on like fairy cakes and stuff. And Mark has taken a load of them, put them on some scales, weighed how much they each weigh. And then worked out how many you get in each container and then worked out how many you get, how many you would need in order to get 100,000. And the answer is six. And looking at the working out, I absolutely believe him.

• 13:44Speaker 05

  Oh, it's so nice when a fact is not harken. It's surprising.

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  No, feel very happy with this. I think the maths is all good. But fancy a game?

• 13:52Speaker 05

  Yeah.

• 13:52Speaker 03

  Um, realising that Americans call hundreds and thousands sprinkles. We call them hundreds and thousands.

• 13:59Speaker 05

  Yeah.

• 13:59Speaker 03

  I've looked at what they're called in lots of other languages. And I want you to tell me whether the following is the translation of a word for hundreds of thousands in another language, or an item you can buy on Gwyneth Paltrow's website, goop.com.

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  Okay.

• 14:17Speaker 03

  So, Smile Makers. Someone's banging away next door.

• 14:23Speaker 05

  Sounds like someone's been on goop.com already.

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  Uh, I'm gonna say hundreds and thousands are Smile Makers.

• 14:33Speaker 04

  Well, I'll go for goop then.

• 14:35Speaker 03

  Dan is correct. Goop.com. Next one, that's Star Bullets.

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  Hundreds and thousands.

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  It's goop.

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  Yes.

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  Mouse droppings.

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  And he's all gonna be from goop.com.

• 14:46Speaker 03

  You're gonna go on a sex toy website and buy some mouse droppings?

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  Goop.com, final answer.

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  Hundreds of thousands then.

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  It is. They're called mizenstrontjes in Belgian-Dutch.

• 15:05Speaker 04

  That's brilliant.

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  And I messaged Leven to ask if that was true and he said a hundred percent. They're called mouse shit really, is what they call them. Love Pearls.

• 15:14Speaker 04

  Oh, well, yeah, I've got those.

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  It is the German word, liebesspellen, for hundreds of thousands.

• 15:23Speaker 04

  Oh, wow.

• 15:24Speaker 03

  And finally, viva la volva.

• 15:27Speaker 05

  Hundreds of thousands.

• 15:28Speaker 04

  Hundreds of thousands. That was on my son's fifth birthday cake.

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  Can you believe she's got a sex toy called viva la volva?

• 15:36Speaker 04

  Well, her husband, yes, Chris Martin, former husband.

• 15:40Speaker 05

  Yeah.

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  He had an album that was called.

• 15:42Speaker 03

  Viva la vida.

• 15:43Speaker 04

  Yeah.

• 15:43Speaker 05

  Oh, that's very clever.

• 15:44Speaker 04

  That is good.

• 15:45Speaker 05

  That's fun. I think that's fun.

• 15:46Speaker 03

  I wasn't keeping scars.

• 15:48Speaker 05

  I don't think anyone.

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  Has.

• 15:51Speaker 05

  I would just say, they're not called hundreds of thousands.

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  Hundreds and thousands.

• 15:55Speaker 05

  That's what I'm saying. They're not called hundreds of thousands. They're not claiming there are hundreds of thousands in every one. I mean, if they were being really accurate, they'd call it 16,000 roughly.

• 16:04Speaker 03

  I know what you mean. But I suppose if you call them hundreds and thousands, then the word hundreds becomes a little bit obsolete. Because having a thousand implies that there's at least a hundred.

• 16:18Speaker 05

  That's true. It's a bad name. Love Pearls is much better.

• 16:56Speaker 05

  Here's one from Sarah Logan. This is about something that uses water. So it's very interesting. They sort of group themselves, the facts. Like, we had a load of naval fish-based ones in the same week, and they just sort of bunched together.

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  Do you think it's that, or do you think you're just shoehorning them into that category?

• 17:14Speaker 05

  Can't be that. Can't be that. Let's go to Sarah's fact. Sarah Logan writes, um, she listened to a very old episode recently where we were excited to learn about the song played at the end of a Samsung wash cycle, uh, "Di Forella" by Schubert.

• 17:29Speaker 03

  Yeah, yeah.

• 17:30Speaker 05

  And that does, it's about some kind of fish, isn't it? I think it is. It's the trout.

• 17:34Speaker 03

  Oh, is it? I think it might be. You definitely did one called the trout. I don't know if it's the same one.

• 17:39Speaker 05

  Well, the bizarre thing is, there are many models of Fisher and Pakel top-loading washing machines that with the right prompting will play you the New Zealand National Anthem.

• 17:47Speaker 03

  What?

• 17:48Speaker 05

  Isn't that good?

• 17:49Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 17:49Speaker 05

  It's just an Easter egg. They've got a couple of national anthems loaded in. But if you get the right buttons on your right washing machine, it'll play you "Go On, New Zealand", or whatever the National Anthem's called.

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  "Go On, New Zealand"?

• 18:01Speaker 05

  I don't know it. I don't know the name.

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  Do they have, do they have them all? Do you know?

• 18:06Speaker 05

  Is, no, I think it's just "Go On, New Zealand".

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  "Deutschland, Deutschland, du berales".

• 18:10Speaker 05

  That's the one.

• 18:12Speaker 03

  That's the one you've got, of course.

• 18:16Speaker 03

  Have we established that you're quite into Hitler at the moment, or in previous episodes?

• 18:20Speaker 05

  I don't think I'm, I don't think I'm into Hitler, I wouldn't say.

• 18:23Speaker 03

  No.

• 18:24Speaker 05

  But I'm a second world history buff. I'll go that far. Dan's got all the stuff in his shed.

• 18:29Speaker 04

  Nice try, buddy. Nice try.

• 18:32Speaker 03

  One more fact before we go on to custodianship?

• 18:35Speaker 04

  Yeah. Um, I've got one here from Sebastian Bro, who says, "My favourite fact is that the heat released in the Manukurgen impact crater was so intense that it took between 1,600 and 5,000 years before the melted rocks cooled."

• 18:52Speaker 05

  Yeah.

• 18:53Speaker 03

  Is that the dinosaur one in Mexico?

• 18:55Speaker 05

  It was.

• 18:55Speaker 04

  I thought that was called Chick-fil-A. That's the, that's the big one. But this was, this was during the, the time of the dinosaurs.

• 19:01Speaker 05

  Oh, okay.

• 19:02Speaker 04

  It was near the end of the Triassic period. It was an asteroid. That was five kilometres wide and it hit what is now Canada today. And it kind of create, you can see it from outer space and it's kind of one of those shots that a lot of astronauts on the ISS like to get a shot of. Because there's a visible ring of water.

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  It's the annular lake.

• 19:20Speaker 04

  Yes.

• 19:21Speaker 03

  I do know this one. Yeah, yeah.

• 19:23Speaker 04

  The Eye of Quebec.

• 19:24Speaker 03

  And the, it's an island because the, the land raised as well. And then I think the humans diverted some water there or something. But what happened is you've got an island with a lake around it. And the area of the island is larger than the area of the lake that it's in.

• 19:42Speaker 05

  Uh, don't like it. Don't like, what do you mean? No, what do you mean?

• 19:46Speaker 03

  If you take your cup that's on that round coaster.

• 19:48Speaker 05

  Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

• 19:49Speaker 03

  The area of the bottom of the cup is bigger than the area that you can see of the coaster.

• 19:53Speaker 05

  Yeah, yeah, yeah. Nice.

• 19:55Speaker 03

  Isn't that cool? I think I'm almost certain it's that one.

• 19:57Speaker 05

  Eye of Quebec is so metal. So cool.

• 20:01Speaker 04

  And yeah, really amazing that that distance of time for something.

• 20:04Speaker 05

  It was cooling down for 5,000 years.

• 20:06Speaker 04

  Up to 5,000 years. Yeah. And, and this, this was a fact that Sebastian sent in.

• 20:12Speaker 05

  I'd give it 5,000 years if I were you.

• 20:14Speaker 04

  By the way, I think it was because the, it wasn't the asteroid itself, the rocks from that that was hot. I think it's what it exposed underneath and it sort of melted that.

• 20:22Speaker 03

  Okay.

• 20:23Speaker 04

  And created that. But yeah, this, this fact Sebastian found it from this guy's website. He's called Crater Explorer. And it's a fascinating website. I highly recommend if you're interested in this kind of stuff to go because it's quite old school. So it's one of those sites where this guy's just put everything on there.

• 20:40Speaker 03

  He's the crater creator.

• 20:41Speaker 04

  Curator, creator.

• 20:43Speaker 03

  Curator.

• 20:44Speaker 04

  Of creators.

• 20:44Speaker 05

  Content crater.

• 20:47Speaker 03

  Doesn't quite work, does it?

• 20:48Speaker 05

  No. Crater curator. Works like a charm. Yeah.

• 20:52Speaker 04

  We'll go with that.

• 20:53Speaker 03

  What does he go with?

• 20:54Speaker 04

  Crater Explorer.

• 20:55Speaker 03

  Yeah, probably why. He probably tried all these other ones and they didn't quite work.

• 20:59Speaker 04

  Yeah.

• 21:00Speaker 05

  Wow.

• 21:01Speaker 03

  Okay. Well, thank you very much for that fact, Dan. Thank you for all your facts, Andy. But actually, thank you most of all to the people at home who sent the facts in. And we are going to thank you back by giving you some of our old facts in the form of our curatorship. If you would like one of these facts, then all you have to do is go to patreon.com slash clubfish. Join at the top level, which is friend of the podcast, and we will give you your own fact. Okay. Which of you guys is going to give us the first curatorship today?

• 21:30Speaker 05

  I'll dish one out to Randall Cleaver.

• 21:34Speaker 05

  And it's that every second, a star in the universe explodes.

• 21:39Speaker 03

  I think it'd be tired by now.

• 21:41Speaker 05

  Very good.

• 21:42Speaker 03

  No, it's a different star each time.

• 21:44Speaker 05

  It's a different star every time.

• 21:45Speaker 03

  Do you know Beetlejuice is going to explode soon?

• 21:48Speaker 05

  I didn't know that.

• 21:48Speaker 03

  Do you expect?

• 21:49Speaker 04

  What does that mean for us?

• 21:50Speaker 03

  Um, might be a good light show in the sky.

• 21:54Speaker 04

  Wow.

• 21:55Speaker 05

  But when we say it's going to explode soon, does that mean that the light will reach us in kind of 400 years?

• 21:59Speaker 03

  Uh, well, we don't know if it's exploded 500 years ago.

• 22:03Speaker 05

  Right.

• 22:03Speaker 03

  The light hasn't reached us yet, but certainly it's well overdue and it's doing some funky stuff.

• 22:08Speaker 05

  Oh.

• 22:09Speaker 03

  Like sending off different colors and stuff that we think that it might go soon. And when it does, it'll be worldwide news because it's one of the most obvious stars in the sky.

• 22:16Speaker 04

  Yeah.

• 22:17Speaker 03

  It'll be a supernova.

• 22:18Speaker 05

  But it might have happened 400 years ago, but we don't know.

• 22:20Speaker 03

  Absolutely.

• 22:21Speaker 05

  That's exciting.

• 22:22Speaker 04

  Do they think possibly within our lifetime?

• 22:25Speaker 03

  It could happen tomorrow.

• 22:26Speaker 04

  Oh my goodness.

• 22:27Speaker 03

  It could happen before this show goes out, it could have happened. Or probably after we've all long gone.

• 22:33Speaker 04

  Wow. Will it be a bright sky?

• 22:36Speaker 03

  It'll be very noticeable. You might be able to see it in daytime.

• 22:40Speaker 05

  Oh, that's cool. That is very cool.

• 22:41Speaker 04

  That is cool.

• 22:42Speaker 05

  Yeah. Wow. That's a great fact.

• 22:44Speaker 04

  That is an amazing fact. Um, here, let's give another one out. Um, James, why don't you do this one?

• 22:51Speaker 03

  Okay, this next one is under the curatorship of Fiona Maguire Jennings. Now, that isn't hard at all. I don't know why you didn't want to read that out. Uh, the fact is that the Tlatel Camila cannibals of ancient Mexico ate the human flesh with chili sauce.

• 23:08Speaker 05

  Really nice.

• 23:09Speaker 03

  Great.

• 23:10Speaker 05

  Really nice.

• 23:13Speaker 03

  It's supposed to taste like pork, isn't it? Human flesh.

• 23:16Speaker 05

  Is it now?

• 23:16Speaker 03

  Long pig.

• 23:17Speaker 05

  Oh, I've heard long pig. Yeah, yeah, yeah. James, you must have tried it at some point on your travels.

• 23:24Speaker 05

  You've tried all so much creative stuff.

• 23:26Speaker 03

  Can I just say, as I edited, um, the Jamie Martin podcast earlier this week.

• 23:32Speaker 05

  Yep.

• 23:32Speaker 03

  And just for the record, I have not eaten a dog's penis.

• 23:35Speaker 05

  Well, you might have. Have you ever been to a Greg's?

• 23:39Speaker 03

  No, I've never been to a Greg's.

• 23:41Speaker 05

  Oh, then you may have avoided it altogether.

• 23:45Speaker 03

  They do vegan dogs' penises, don't they?

• 23:48Speaker 03

  In fact, I cut it from the main show, so if you're watching this, you might not remember it. It's in the Excel version, which you'll only get if you're a member of the middle tier of Clubfish.

• 23:58Speaker 05

  Yeah, yeah, yeah.

• 24:00Speaker 03

  I have eaten Bull's testicles, which is what you are half remembering.

• 24:04Speaker 04

  Was it Andy?

• 24:06Speaker 03

  No, I think it was Anna who said that I'd eaten maybe the penis of a Labrador.

• 24:11Speaker 04

  Wow, she went for a specific breed. What a false memory to have of James that you're just happy to put out on a podcast. James has eaten Labrador dick, Labradoodle dick?

• 24:22Speaker 03

  Labradoodle?

• 24:22Speaker 04

  Was it Labrador?

• 24:23Speaker 03

  A Labrador's doodle.

• 24:26Speaker 03

  I think that's how she introduces me to her friends. She's like, oh, my friend James is coming around. Oh, yeah. Oh, you'll remember him. It's the one who I, oh dear.

• 24:35Speaker 05

  Oh, my God.

• 24:36Speaker 04

  All right, let's do another one.

• 24:37Speaker 05

  There's nothing wrong with Greg's.

• 24:41Speaker 05

  All right, let's do another one. Dan, do you want to?

• 24:42Speaker 04

  Yeah, this is Emma Wood. You are now the custodian of dogs aren't allowed.

• 24:49Speaker 05

  We're doing a two hour radius of change this place.

• 24:53Speaker 04

  Dogs aren't allowed at Selwyn College, Cambridge, so the master's Basset Hound has been reclassified as a very large cat.

• 25:02Speaker 05

  Lovely.

• 25:02Speaker 03

  That's really good.

• 25:03Speaker 05

  Lovely.

• 25:04Speaker 03

  And was this the one also with Byron's bear, maybe?

• 25:09Speaker 04

  Oh, the same college. Cambridge was the same.

• 25:12Speaker 03

  Yeah, I don't know what college he went to, but.

• 25:14Speaker 05

  He was at Cambridge, yeah. But I don't, I don't think he was at Selwyn.

• 25:17Speaker 03

  Similarly, he wasn't allowed some animal, but he was allowed a bear. Is that right?

• 25:21Speaker 05

  Something like it. That's the story. I've never known how true it is and I've never, I never wanted to check. You know, it's one of those too good to check ones.

• 25:28Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 25:28Speaker 04

  Yeah.

• 25:28Speaker 05

  If you know what I mean.

• 25:29Speaker 04

  Well, at what point can you keep a bear in theory until it turns on you?

• 25:33Speaker 03

  Have you ever watched Gentle Ben?

• 25:35Speaker 04

  No, what's that?

• 25:36Speaker 03

  It's a TV show, maybe, or a movie? No, it's a TV show, I think, from America about a family that has a bear. But he's very gentle, hence the name.

• 25:44Speaker 05

  And it doesn't turn on them.

• 25:45Speaker 03

  Well, season seven is called Fishers Ben.

• 25:50Speaker 03

  At that stage, things do go a bit awry.

• 25:52Speaker 05

  Yeah, yeah.

• 25:53Speaker 03

  I know, it doesn't turn on them.

• 25:54Speaker 05

  Um, should we have another one?

• 25:55Speaker 03

  Yes.

• 25:56Speaker 05

  This one goes out to Janus Vermac. Janus, your fact is, according to the diary of the first chief of MI6, this is how the first day went. Quotes, "Went to the office, saw no one, nor was there anything to do there."

• 26:12Speaker 03

  Oh, they're good, those spies, aren't they?

• 26:13Speaker 05

  Yeah.

• 26:18Speaker 03

  As soon as he left, they all were hiding behind the plum pots going, "Ha ha!"

• 26:22Speaker 04

  That should be it. He should walk into an empty office every day and if he spots anyone, they're fired.

• 26:26Speaker 05

  Yeah, brilliant.

• 26:27Speaker 04

  You know, good at your job, buddy. This was, um, this, I love this fact.

• 26:31Speaker 03

  Mansfield Cummings, was it?

• 26:32Speaker 04

  It was, it was called, yeah, Mansfield Cummings. And this was a book that when I first started QI, I bought this book just called See, which was all about him. And I, it was the most enjoyable thing of just finding all these incredible facts about this one human. Something we love doing on FISH all the time. Um, he used to have a wooden leg and go around on a scooter. And I think he was busted when he went into Germany once, trying to pretend to be a soldier, but didn't speak a word of German.

• 26:59Speaker 05

  Yes, that was.

• 26:59Speaker 04

  And was busted immediately when they said hello to him.

• 27:02Speaker 03

  You'd think you'd at least learn hello.

• 27:04Speaker 04

  You'd think you'd have that.

• 27:05Speaker 05

  Yeah, I mean, it's hello.

• 27:08Speaker 05

  It's not.

• 27:11Speaker 03

  He never went in with "Bonjour." Oh, shit!

• 27:17Speaker 05

  Oh, lovely.

• 27:18Speaker 03

  Okay, here is one more. This one is going out to Connie Ball. And Connie, your fact is that there is a distillery in Kentucky that claims playing Bruce Springsteen to the whiskey improves the aging process.

• 27:33Speaker 05

  Very nice.

• 27:34Speaker 04

  Very nice.

• 27:34Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 27:35Speaker 04

  That happens a lot now. You hear a lot of these studies where rock and roll is used or.

• 27:40Speaker 03

  I remember they played metal to sperms for the IBF process.

• 27:44Speaker 05

  Wow.

• 27:44Speaker 04

  Yeah, there was also in Japan, I think it was called Rising Beethoven Bread, something like that, where you would play Beethoven to the bread and, yeah.

• 27:53Speaker 05

  Wait, why didn't they call it Beethoven? Why do I have to do all the work around here?

• 27:58Speaker 03

  Hovis is not the name of a bread company in Japan.

• 28:02Speaker 05

  Well, oh god, do I, but just, do you know what I mean?

• 28:06Speaker 03

  What about Beethoven?

• 28:07Speaker 05

  Beethoven?

• 28:08Speaker 04

  There we go.

• 28:09Speaker 05

  That's better.

• 28:10Speaker 03

  Beethoven, there's a lot to do here, isn't there?

• 28:12Speaker 04

  Who thought this name would give so much to the world of bread and ovens?

• 28:17Speaker 05

  It's just ridiculous, isn't it? You know, we're out here every day creating value that's not being picked up.

• 28:24Speaker 03

  If these people were still trading, because I'm sure they're not, and they heard this, do you think they'd think, oh, we should, we need to change our name, guys?

• 28:31Speaker 05

  Biggest forehead slap of all time.

• 28:32Speaker 04

  Yeah.

• 28:32Speaker 03

  Do you think?

• 28:33Speaker 04

  They're probably saying, maybe if you had the brains of these guys, we would still be operating, honey.

• 28:40Speaker 04

  Rising Beethoven Brad. What a dumb name.

• 28:43Speaker 05

  Baked oven. Perfect. Let's have another. This one goes out to Rupert Davis. Rupert doesn't actually have Patreon, but, but he's 10. It has been arranged on his behalf.

• 29:00Speaker 03

  And Hope you enjoyed all the dog penis talk.

• 29:03Speaker 05

  Sorry, sorry Rupert. Sorry Rupert's parents.

• 29:06Speaker 03

  Sorry, everyone who's listening.

• 29:08Speaker 05

  Absolutely. Yeah. But Rupert, your fact now and forever is that there is a statue of Nikola Tesla in Silicon Valley, which radiates free wifi.

• 29:20Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 29:20Speaker 05

  I'm sure it's still there. And this is just a great fact about Nikola Tesla, the mad, the mad scientist, the original mad scientist, almost.

• 29:28Speaker 04

  Yeah.

• 29:29Speaker 05

  Yeah.

• 29:29Speaker 04

  Very, very cool.

• 29:30Speaker 03

  Lover of pigeons.

• 29:32Speaker 05

  Lover of pigeons.

• 29:32Speaker 03

  Inventor of death rays and purveyor of wifi.

• 29:37Speaker 05

  The man who invented the 20th century, as he's sometimes known. Congratulations Rupert.

• 29:41Speaker 04

  We got another one here. This is going out to Jason Kidd. I wonder if that's Jason Kidd, the basketball player.

• 29:49Speaker 05

  Probably.

• 29:49Speaker 04

  Nah. A third of people in Britain have written almost nothing by hand in the last six months.

• 29:57Speaker 03

  Wow.

• 29:58Speaker 05

  This fact went out in 2017. Do we reckon there's been a great renaissance in handwriting since then?

• 30:03Speaker 03

  I suppose not.

• 30:04Speaker 05

  I think it might be more people who have written very little by hand in the last six months since, since then.

• 30:09Speaker 03

  Okay, one more, I think, for today. And that fact is now under the custodianship of Tom Viart. And Tom, your fact is that the first man to swim the English Channel later had a show where he floated in a tank for two hours.

• 30:26Speaker 05

  Wonderful.

• 30:28Speaker 05

  Matthew Webb?

• 30:29Speaker 03

  Yeah, Captain Webb.

• 30:30Speaker 05

  Captain Webb.

• 30:31Speaker 03

  Or was it David Blaine? I can't remember.

• 30:34Speaker 05

  Did he drown?

• 30:35Speaker 03

  Captain Webb.

• 30:36Speaker 05

  I feel like Captain Webb eventually drowned doing something.

• 30:39Speaker 03

  Did he?

• 30:39Speaker 05

  Yeah.

• 30:40Speaker 03

  I'm not really sure about that. The first thing that came into my head was the first person who went over the Niagara Falls, or first man, maybe, who went over Niagara Falls in a barrel, died after slipping on an orange peel.

• 30:50Speaker 05

  Yes.

• 30:52Speaker 03

  Archibald Leach. But Captain Webb, I don't know whether he died or not. I know that he basically just went on doing swimming tricks for quite a while. And obviously, you can't sell tickets to people to see you swimming long distances because

• 31:05Speaker 05

  Right, because they need to be on the boat.

• 31:07Speaker 03

  They have to follow you, right? So you have to do lots of acrobatics and stuff, I think.

• 31:12Speaker 05

  I've just checked. I'm afraid he did drown.

• 31:14Speaker 03

  Did he?

• 31:14Speaker 05

  Over Niagara Falls.

• 31:16Speaker 03

  Did he? That's probably why the Niagara Falls thing came into my head.

• 31:19Speaker 05

  Yes. And I'm just gonna say it's Bobby Leach, not Archibald Leach. Archibald Leach was Cary Grant. That was his real name.

• 31:25Speaker 03

  You know what? All these facts are in my head, but they just all mix up in different ways.

• 31:30Speaker 04

  I love that as a show. You can't bring the English Channel to the stage, but you can bring a little tank of water and show what you look like in the water. It's amazing.

• 31:38Speaker 05

  Yeah, yeah, yeah.

• 31:39Speaker 04

  Amazing innovation.

• 31:40Speaker 05

  And I can confirm that audiences like to see someone struggling and treading water for an extended period of time, because I sometimes do the intros and outros for this show.

• 31:51Speaker 03

  And it might be time for another one of those now. So, thank you so much to Tom, Jason, Rupert, Connie, Janus, Emma, Fiona and Randall. Thank you so much for becoming custodians of facts and for supporting No Such Things As A Fish on Patreon. If you would like to do so too, go to patreon.com/clubfish and you can become a friend of the podcast there. Or if you would like us to read out some of your facts, send them to podcast at qi.com and Andy will save all the best ones for himself and send all the other ones to the rest of us, bastard. And then we will read them out on Little Fish. Thank you again for listening. Thank you, Andy and Dan for being here.

• 32:32Speaker 04

  Thank you, James.

• 32:33Speaker 05

  Thank you.

• 32:34Speaker 03

  About time someone thanked me. Goodbye.

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