Little Fish: Swallowing A Fabergé Egg

Anna joins Dan and Andy for her first Little Fish, discussing your facts including liver eating and toucan heating. We learn why you might want to put your socks on if you see Dan crawling around on the beach. And we name eight more Friend of the Podcast fact custodians. 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

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  Hello and welcome to another episode of Little Fish. My name's Andrew Hunter Murray. I'm joined by Dan Schreiber and Anna Tadzinski, and we are here with some of your best facts from the last seven days. That's the whole intro.

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  I like it. This is my first time and I'm wowed.

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  Something to know Andy's very good at intros.

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  I've heard that.

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  Prime example. Well, the outros are where I shine. But anyway, let's, let's get on. Does anyone have an audience fact they'd like to bring to the table?

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  Yeah, I've got one here. This is from Cara Eaton. And, God, this is my first little fish fact, so it has to be really good, Cara. And it's the fact that up until 1999, the state of Montana didn't have speed limit signs along their highways. The sign simply said, "Drive what is reasonable and prudent."

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  I like that. Treat, treat the, treat the public like grownups. And I'm sure they won't take the piss. What kind of debate do you have with the cop that's pulled you over? When they don't think that you have been driving like-

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  Well, I think that's an interesting conversation, isn't it? It was raining, but my tyres are very good, sir. I was in a hurry.

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  I've only had one, I've only had one drink. My wife is giving birth.

• 2:56Speaker 01

  I'm celebrating early. But every police car is followed by a philosopher car. That's the nice thing. Yes, right. And you talk about what is prudent. I wonder what the most unbelievable amount of excuses were in one single car that was speeding. A wife in labour, there were bees in the back.

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  A brick fell on the accelerator.

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  Well, you don't need excuses. There is no limit. I would question, Cara, the wording. "Drive what is reasonable and prudent." Drive-

• 3:25Speaker 01

  It's very Cockney, East London.

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  What is reasonable? So I'm not sure that's exactly what they read. But anyway, it's, it's true. I've checked it. And it was actually because there was a famous 55 mile an hour speed limit in America. What a, what a snooze between the 70s and the 90s because of the oil crisis.

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  Oh, really?

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  Yeah. So Nixon imposed, I know it could come again.

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  Look forward to that.

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  Yes.

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  Coming back.

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  All electric car drivers will be allowed to go at 300 miles an hour. But then it was revoked in 1995 and Montana said, okay, we'll just say, we've forgotten how to do speed limits, proper speed limits. So we'll just say, drive however fast you like.

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  Yeah, that's almost like if it was to do with the gas, it's drive at a patriotic speed, one that will not disrupt the system around you. Nice. That's great.

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  Well done, Cara.

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  Yeah.

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  Let's have another.

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  Yeah. Okay. Well, this one is from Mary Campbell, who says, movie actor Robert Redford, who was born in 1936, was a pallbearer for Liver Eating Johnson, a man who died in the year 1900.

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  Can we guess what he died of?

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  Give it a go.

• 4:35Speaker 01

  I'm gonna have a punt at raw liver?

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  Incorrect.

• 4:37Speaker 01

  Oh.

• 4:38Speaker 03

  Yeah. You've missed the bigger headline here, which is that how was a man born in 1936 burying a man who died in 1900?

• 4:45Speaker 01

  Oh, yeah. Completely passed me by. I've got to guess.

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  Guess it.

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  A long delayed funeral.

• 4:53Speaker 03

  It was a nightmare to organise. Yeah, absolutely.

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  Some guests have to come from a long way away, don't they?

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  And then before you know it, 45 years have passed. Yeah.

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  Yeah.

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  The canapes. Do you have liver? Is that?

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  No, what it was is that this was quite a famous American. This was a guy called John Liver Eating Johnston, or Johnson, but he was really Garrison. So he was born Garrison. He changed his name to Johnston, but then the newspapers misprinted his name as Johnson. So he's sort of got three names.

• 5:23Speaker 01

  I feel like we're focusing on the wrong element of his name to really drill that into.

• 5:26Speaker 03

  Well, it's just a very confusing story because this is one of those characters who's sort of stuck in myth, you know? He became famous because his obituary came out and everyone found out about him. But he didn't die for another 20 years after his obituary came out.

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  What?

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  Yeah.

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  Sorry. Can we quickly talk about the liver eating thing? I know this is elephant in the room.

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  Okay, Dan, this is the most confusing one we could possibly introduce.

• 5:48Speaker 03

  It's really easy.

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  Okay, a man born in 1936, buried a man who died in 1900, whose name was either Garrison Johnson or Johnston, and he became famous in America 20 years before he died because his obituary was released.

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  Okay.

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  What are you not getting?

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  Nothing, nothing.

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  Why was he famous?

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  No further questions.

• 6:06Speaker 03

  Okay, so his obituary was accidentally released 20 years before he died. Um, and...

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  Question.

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  Yes.

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  You wouldn't write an obituary for someone unless they were already famous.

• 6:16Speaker 03

  Uh, no, that's not true, because there are lots of people, when you read the Times obituaries, who you go, wow, how did I never hear about this person? They may have been famous in their own field.

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  It's never someone who's just done nothing. You never have the obituary, big, full page in the Times, empty space.

• 6:32Speaker 03

  Absolutely.

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  Born, lived, died. So had he done anything?

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  Uh, yeah, I think John Liver Eating Johnston had done something, Anna. Yeah, he ate livers. Uh, so this was...

• 6:45Speaker 01

  I'm sorry, because James edits this show and he's not on, it's just incredible to see you laying this massive bear trap for him.

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  So early on as well.

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  He was an American frontiersman, and he became famous because these myths went around about him, that he was killing a lot of Native Americans of one particular tribe. And, uh, it was in revenge of the fact that they had murdered his wife. And the idea was that he would kill them and he would remove their liver. And supposedly it was 300 of them that he'd done this with.

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  Right.

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  And this became a big myth about him that kind of got spread around America.

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  Was he liked, or...? It doesn't sound like a good...

• 7:21Speaker 03

  No, but also it's kind of a, it's a weird myth, because interviewers and biographers have looked into it, and they say, actually, it was all myth, and, and actually, he was friends with that tribe, and they shared liver with him from other animals, you know? So he was a good friend of theirs. Um, but he, he became particularly famous because Robert Redford starred in a movie about his life, telling this story. And at the time that that was happening, there was a school, a middle school in America, and the teacher was telling the story of this guy who had died penniless, and he died in an area of San Diego, where he was basically buried under a freeway. But he'd said he'd love to be buried in the Rockies, so there was a big push to have him reburied, and as a result, Robert Redford was a pallbearer.

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  Because he'd played him in the film?

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  Yeah, exactly.

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  And he had to carry the coffin from his original burial place to the Rockies.

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  It's, it was a long, long distance, yeah.

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  So what I said in, at the start, like, long delayed funeral. We could have just said yes to that and.

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  No, you can't just leave it at that, can you? I mean, it was general enough that.

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  No, fair enough. Stunning.

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  I still, I still don't feel like we got to the bottom of it.

• 8:26Speaker 03

  Really? Interesting.

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  No, I do.

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  Okay. Here's one from John LaRiche and John writes, I was talking with a friend who works in the pool and technology industry. She sells pool related technology. Okay. Like swimming pool, water pools. She says, one of their biggest clients is Kerberg Nuclear Power Station here in the Western Cape of South Africa. My fact is that Kerberg Nuclear Power Station uses Kamikaze scuba roombas to help clean the water that's been used in the reactor. So these are vacuum cleaners.

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  Yeah.

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  Water vacuum cleaner, wet vacuum cleaners, because you get wet or dry ones, don't you?

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  Yeah.

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  And the filter units they have are unable to filter out really small radioactive particles. So these scuba diving underwater vacuum cleaners, robots are sent in to just filter the water and they're doomed because obviously it's radioactive, they will break. And apparently this is a really common solution for nuclear reactor maintenance.

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  Hang on, so they just clean as much as they possibly can before they eventually expire?

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  And then they're radioactive and then they have to be buried with the radioactive waste.

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  And Robert Redford always is the pool bearer.

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  Always, yeah.

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  That's cool.

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  Yeah. Sellafield has a load of, they found an old radioactive vacuum cleaner that was buried at Sellafield after an accident there. Yeah, it's quite, it's just a common thing. It's like kitchen roll, isn't it?

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  Yeah.

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  Once you use the kitchen roll, you have to throw away the kitchen roll.

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  No, I put it back onto the perforation.

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  That's so horrible. That's so horrible.

• 9:57Speaker 03

  You sell a taper back up, don't you?

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  I do, yeah. Yeah, hang it out to dry.

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  Oh, good to, good to see that there's an underwater vacuum cleaner now.

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  You gonna invest?

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  Well, I should be dead for what I did about two years ago.

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  Oh, no.

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  I had a broken washing machine and I managed to get the door open, but there was a pool of water underneath and I don't know what I was thinking, but I thought I'll vacuum it out. And Finella saw me and quickly I explained that.

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  Your wife shouting, "You suck" from the doorway.

• 10:27Speaker 01

  You can get wet/dry vacuum cleaners.

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  As in they can do both?

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  Yes. Yes.

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  Nice.

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  That was the big revelation for me researching this fact.

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  Yeah.

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  Why? I can't work out why I'd use that for if my bath is dirty but there's someone in it at the time, so I can't empty it?

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  I mean, maybe that, yeah.

• 10:43Speaker 03

  That's really passive aggressive cleaning, isn't it?

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  No, we love having you over. No, please. Feel at home.

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  But I just invited you for lunch and now you're in my bath, Dan, so...

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  Okay, do you want another fact? A fact for you from Paul Bernard. "A fact for you," he says, "related to an older segment you did about haiku poetry, so old that I remember that. The northern California town of Yucaya hosts an annual haiku festival. Can you guys guess why?"

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  Big Japanese population.

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  No.

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  Okay.

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  Yucaya.

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  Is it an anagram?

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  Well, it's an anagram.

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  Anagram, yeah, a festival.

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  Of haiku?

• 11:26Speaker 00

  Of haiku, yes. But that's not why it's called that. It's named after a village, Native American village, the Pomo people called Yocaya. But I guess they thought, you know what, we're almost an anagram of haiku. So let's do it. They have a haiku festival.

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  Is it a palindrome?

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  It's a palindrome, yeah.

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  Nice.

• 11:44Speaker 00

  Hold on, no, no, it's not a palindrome. What do you mean? It's haiku backwards.

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  But I don't even know if there's a word for what this is, a reverse...

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  It's, yeah.

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  Wrong way around.

• 11:53Speaker 03

  Wrong way around words.

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  Because anagram is just you scramble the words, so it's no big deal.

• 11:57Speaker 03

  Isn't that butchers speak in Australia when they speak a word the wrong way around?

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  Yes.

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  We did this on Fish a long time ago and we had Susie Denton talking about it, where they speak...

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  They speak backwards.

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  That's difficult.

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  To confuse customers.

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  Okay.

• 12:09Speaker 01

  To lure them into buying pork, low quality meat.

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  I just, that wouldn't tempt me at all. I think you'd gone mad.

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  This meat is wriggling with tomags.

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  Shall we have another letter? This is from Alex from Manchester, who says, "On top of Khoctabe, which is one of the highest points of the city centre of Almaty in Kazakhstan, stands a monument to The Beatles."

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  That's very nice.

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  Do they play Kazakhstan?

• 12:39Speaker 03

  They never played Kazakhstan, and this is an interesting point, I guess, that Alex is trying to make, that QI, or No Such Thing As A Fish, once covered that the furthest point on earth from the ocean is in Urumqi, on the Kazakhstan-Chinese border, otherwise known as the Eurasian Pole of Inaccessibility, and this is a mere few hundred kilometres from Khoctabe in Almaty, I'm going to claim that Khoctabe is The Beatles' Pole of Inaccessibility, being the furthest point that a Beatles monument exists from a performance by any Beatle.

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  Lovely.

• 13:08Speaker 03

  Yeah, and they've said, "I'm open to being corrected," and I had a quick look. Paul McCartney did play The Red Square, he did play Russia, so, okay, it's still a great distance, but I don't know whether or not there's anywhere closer.

• 13:22Speaker 01

  Did they go down under, The Beatles? Just as really obvious.

• 13:25Speaker 03

  Absolutely, they did.

• 13:26Speaker 01

  Okay, okay.

• 13:27Speaker 03

  But without Ringo, so if you're missing a Beatle, does that count?

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  Did he not go?

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  What the hell?

• 13:32Speaker 01

  The other three of them went.

• 13:33Speaker 03

  Yeah, and they had another drummer come in who was not Pete Best, it was a different one, yeah.

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  Did anyone notice?

• 13:40Speaker 03

  Yeah, yeah, they were pretty famous at the time.

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  It was just a slam on Ringo's.

• 13:44Speaker 03

  Yeah. But this was, do you know what this was? This was largely Kazakhstan trying to say that The Beatles have had an extraordinary influence on Kazakhstan generally. People would have started learning English because they were listening to Beatles records. And so this was done, I think, in about 2007, that this monument was put up, and it was also put up because they were trying to fix the reputation of Kazakhstan from the damage that Borat had done, and the perception.

• 14:12Speaker 01

  I've got to say, a Beatles monument thousands of miles from anywhere they've ever played does sound like the sort of thing you would set up, Dan, in much the same way that your, where was it? Your Laurel and Hardy-themed ice cream parlor in?

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  In Kosovo.

• 14:25Speaker 01

  In Kosovo.

• 14:26Speaker 03

  You've missed this, Anna.

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  What?

• 14:28Speaker 01

  Oh, well, I'll do it, we'll tell you later.

• 14:30Speaker 03

  There's no time, yeah.

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  Don't need to.

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  Here's a great one from Cash Howard. The fact is, the Toko toucan's beak can comprise up to half the total surface area of its body. Imagine the surface area of a toucan. Yeah. A Toko toucan. You've got me on the subspecies there, I'm not. It's the one with the really, really big beak. Oh, okay. Yeah, yeah.

• 14:53Speaker 00

  It could be just like a really...

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  Fifty percent.

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  But it could be that this toucan has a really spiky beak.

• 14:57Speaker 01

  It's not that it's wrinkled.

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  Oh, okay.

• 14:59Speaker 01

  Birds' beaks tend not to be wrinkled. It's hard. It's gonna be hard, the beak. Yeah, yeah. Please write in if you know a bird with an amazingly wrinkled beak. But basically, what they use it for is so cool. It's partly for heat transfer, so it gets obviously very hot in the tropical environments where they live, and it uses it to pump heat out into the surrounding area. So it's got this network of blood vessels under the surface, and it just radiates heat out away from it, kind of like elephants do with their ears or that kind of thing. It's basically a massive radiator. They can pump out 400% of the heat that they are generating if they are overheating. So if you touch their beak, it would be noticeably hot if it was a very hot day? I guess it would, yeah, yeah.

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  You could use them as radiators, couldn't you?

• 15:43Speaker 01

  You could hang your socks on the beak of a toucan. You could.

• 15:46Speaker 00

  They don't like that, though. It's very disrespectful.

• 15:48Speaker 01

  It is. Points available for whoever can guess the newspaper headline that I read when this scientific study was done and discovered.

• 15:57Speaker 00

  Toucan play...

• 15:59Speaker 01

  Yeah, that's what I was going for. That's not bad.

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  At... no, it's not good, though.

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  A bird with a big air conditioning bill. Yeah.

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  I don't think I would have got there, ever.

• 16:10Speaker 01

  Well, it's your first show back.

• 16:12Speaker 00

  Yeah, I'm rusty. Stop the podcast.

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  Stop the podcast.

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• 17:59Speaker 00

  I'll give you guys a fact. This is from Chris Locke, and it's a baseball fact. He says it's another baseball fact. I don't know if you've had one from him before, but his fact this time is that the first recorded mention of the game baseball was actually in Guildford, not in America. And it's in the diary of a guy called William Bray of Shear.

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  Wow.

• 18:18Speaker 00

  And yeah, it's very cool. And he sent a link, so I read it, went to the trouble of reading it. And he did say, I'm biased towards this fact because I helped run Guildford Baseball Club. And it's nice to think we're the home of baseball globally, but...

• 18:29Speaker 01

  And still, I'd say the mecca for baseball fans. I mean, I've been to Guildford, and I know that's why I went.

• 18:34Speaker 03

  It's in the UK, it's worth saying, for a lot of overseas people. We're saying it's not in America. It's not far. We've played Guildford.

• 18:40Speaker 01

  Have we?

• 18:41Speaker 00

  We sure have. Years ago, it's lovely Guildford, actually. It's nice, nice bookshop.

• 18:45Speaker 01

  Yeah, yeah. Oh, yes. I do remember Guildford now.

• 18:48Speaker 00

  And home of baseball, of course. That's why we played there. And it's in a diary entry from the 31st of March, 1755. It's on Easter Monday, and Mr. Bray says, "played baseball," with a space between base and ball, "with a group of people having visited Stoke Church in the morning, drank tea, stayed till eight, weather cloudy." So life has sort of not changed in England. Cloudy weather.

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  Guilford, anyway, yeah.

• 19:10Speaker 00

  Yes. I will say, actually, it's not the first instance of baseball in this country because another one was found in 2019 in Walton-on-Thames in Surrey, again in the UK. And that was from 1749.

• 19:22Speaker 01

  Wow.

• 19:22Speaker 00

  And that's, but instead of a bat at the time, you use the palm of your hand to bat the ball.

• 19:27Speaker 01

  Oh, those are hard balls to hit a...

• 19:29Speaker 00

  Yeah, I think the balls were a bit softer then, but still, I don't think it's going as far, is it?

• 19:33Speaker 03

  And largely the same rules, a diamond with bases.

• 19:37Speaker 00

  I don't think they specified. They were mostly commenting on the tea and the cake and stuff.

• 19:43Speaker 01

  Shall we have one more?

• 19:44Speaker 03

  Yeah, sure. I go on here from Melissa Whitcomb, who says, "I've got a fact about sniffing feet. According to the Guinness World Records, Madeleine Albrecht from the USA has sniffed around 5,600 feet and plenty of armpits in her career of 15 years working at a foot care and footwear firm in Cincinnati, USA." And I looked, I went into it, and it's true, this is a Guinness World Record. It's a very loosey-goosey Guinness World Record.

• 20:10Speaker 01

  Yeah, because they can't have observed that happening.

• 20:12Speaker 03

  They can't have. And also, it says she sniffed approximately 5,600 feet and an indeterminate number of armpits, which doesn't feel like something...

• 20:23Speaker 01

  It's not scientific.

• 20:23Speaker 03

  No, but what it does sound like to me is something beatable. And Anna, you and I are former Guinness World Record holders.

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  I'm okay.

• 20:31Speaker 03

  You sure?

• 20:32Speaker 00

  I think there must be something else out there. Sniffing flowers?

• 20:36Speaker 03

  Maybe we'll still do it as a team, but you can just be the witness to me doing the sniff.

• 20:41Speaker 00

  I'd absolutely love to do that. Who's going to provide the armpits?

• 20:43Speaker 03

  Well, you're...

• 20:44Speaker 00

  Have you got a ready supply?

• 20:45Speaker 03

  You're patient zero.

• 20:47Speaker 01

  I guess swimming pools and saunas and gyms, there'll be a few bare feet around.

• 20:52Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 20:52Speaker 01

  Go sniffing around there.

• 20:53Speaker 00

  Yeah.

• 20:54Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 20:54Speaker 01

  I love that.

• 20:55Speaker 03

  With your clicker. I live by the beach. I just need to go for walks.

• 20:59Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 21:00Speaker 03

  Or crawls.

• 21:00Speaker 01

  You've got to get up close.

• 21:05Speaker 01

  Oh, well, that's lovely. Yeah, thank you, Melissa.

• 21:07Speaker 00

  Yeah, it's an appetizing one to end on.

• 21:09Speaker 01

  Okay, that is all of your facts. And now it's time for our facts to be issued to you. If you have joined Club Fish, our exclusive members' club, at the friend of the podcast here, then you get one of our headline facts allocated to you in perpetuity. And so we're going to dish out a few of those now. Let's kick off with one going out to Gramarian. And the fact is, before trains had corridors, guards had to climb along the outside of the carriage to check your ticket.

• 21:39Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 21:40Speaker 01

  This is one of mine, I think.

• 21:40Speaker 03

  Very memorable fact.

• 21:42Speaker 01

  This was from a book, I think it was called The Railways by Simon Bradley. And it's an absolute stunner of a book. It's so good. And it's about the insane history of early, well, it's about railways.

• 21:51Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 21:52Speaker 01

  But these early trains, you had to, the guard would just have to clamber the outside of the train.

• 21:57Speaker 03

  I wonder what speeds.

• 21:58Speaker 01

  You were locked in your carriage sometimes as well. They were low speeds, I guess. It wasn't like being on a bullet train.

• 22:05Speaker 01

  Crawling past Tom Cruise who's having a fight on the roof. It wasn't like that, I think. But yeah, it was pretty scary, I reckon.

• 22:10Speaker 03

  It would be. Any speed is scary if you're grabbing the outside of a train.

• 22:14Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 22:15Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 22:16Speaker 00

  This one's for Hannah Marie Christensen. And this is that in the 1990s, Tonga's official finance minister was also its official court jester. Oh, I remember this. This was so long ago. This is vintage.

• 22:29Speaker 01

  All of these are going to be vintage. Just heads up.

• 22:31Speaker 00

  Well, it'll be interesting to see when I stop saying that was so long ago, won't it? Wasn't he quite a questionable character, it turned out?

• 22:38Speaker 01

  He committed some fraud.

• 22:39Speaker 00

  Yes.

• 22:40Speaker 01

  Or he certainly did a lot of dubious investing and then fled the country.

• 22:45Speaker 00

  But we make it sound in our headline fact like it's just a really fun, light thing and not a big criminal, which is what we do.

• 22:51Speaker 01

  That's what we do. We trivialise crime.

• 22:53Speaker 00

  Yeah.

• 22:54Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 22:55Speaker 00

  That's how I see myself.

• 22:57Speaker 01

  Shall we have another? Yeah. Archie Craig, this one goes out to you. And the fact is that Kaiser Wilhelm once lost a valuable arms contract for Germany because he slapped the King of Bulgaria on the bottom.

• 23:09Speaker 00

  Yes.

• 23:10Speaker 01

  This is yours, Anna.

• 23:11Speaker 00

  This is one of mine, yeah. Yeah, he was just a bit of a lad, a bit of a Jack the Lad.

• 23:17Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 23:17Speaker 00

  And I can't, I think he, I don't think they were having an argument, were they? I think he was just inappropriate.

• 23:23Speaker 01

  Exactly. I think he was just incredibly inappropriate with everyone around him and he didn't know how to behave.

• 23:29Speaker 00

  Yeah, yeah. And we've all met people like that.

• 23:31Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 23:32Speaker 00

  No, no names being mentioned.

• 23:34Speaker 01

  Obviously, but she was looking at Andy.

• 23:35Speaker 00

  Yeah, I know.

• 23:39Speaker 01

  Yeah, we did a whole thing about Kaiser Wilhelm, who was eccentric.

• 23:42Speaker 00

  Yes, he was amazing, wasn't he?

• 23:44Speaker 01

  Yeah. Also Commander in Chief of the Royal Dragoons at the start of the First World War. Was he? Yeah, and was quickly demoted from that job. There's a conflict of interest there, obviously. And he would have been fighting on our side if he, if he turned up. Oh, yes.

• 23:57Speaker 00

  Why was he Commander in Chief of the Royal Dragoon?

• 23:59Speaker 01

  Oh, because they were cousins, weren't they? They were all cousins.

• 24:01Speaker 00

  Oh, you give your cousin something you don't expect to go to war with him a year later, kind of thing.

• 24:05Speaker 01

  Is the King, the Kaiser and the Tsar, I think, might have all been cousins.

• 24:09Speaker 00

  Yeah, okay.

• 24:09Speaker 01

  It was incredibly awkward, anyway.

• 24:11Speaker 00

  Yes.

• 24:12Speaker 01

  Here's another one. This one goes out to Tom Tom. Tom Tom, your fact is, signs saying beware of pickpockets attract pickpockets. I love this one. And it's because people see the sign, they pat their pockets, they go, ah, there's my Faberge egg. Yes. And then the pickpocket sees that and could just, could just have it.

• 24:33Speaker 00

  I need, did you mention Faberge because of that story recently?

• 24:36Speaker 01

  No.

• 24:37Speaker 00

  But did you not see that woman who, for, for her job, for some reason, she had to be custodian of a Faberge egg for 24 hours or something, took it home in her handbag, left her handbag on the floor in a pub or something, and then a pickpocket just wang it away. But must have got home, opened the handbag and thought, what's this piece of tat?

• 24:55Speaker 01

  Oh, no, thought, I've overshot here. I'm now going to be the subject of an international manhunt. I just wanted someone's bag. Yes, that was an incredible story.

• 25:03Speaker 00

  Extraordinary. I want to hear the conversation with her boss the following day.

• 25:06Speaker 01

  I thought someone had swallowed one.

• 25:08Speaker 00

  What?

• 25:08Speaker 01

  No, I haven't seen that story.

• 25:10Speaker 00

  Have you seen Faberge?

• 25:12Speaker 03

  No, because they're big, aren't they? In my head, the police were waiting for him to lay it. You know, there was a...

• 25:17Speaker 01

  Dan, I think you've created... You've seen this in a cartoon.

• 25:20Speaker 03

  I dreamed this?

• 25:20Speaker 00

  No, you're thinking of... You're thinking of someone was fed bananas in India so that they would shit out a bunch of something that they'd eat.

• 25:29Speaker 01

  Emeralds or rubies or something.

• 25:31Speaker 00

  Yeah, yeah.

• 25:31Speaker 01

  Yeah, but that was many years ago. I think Dan is saying, like, valiant effort to try and get Dan off the hook. Doesn't work. Weirdly, I saw a separate Faberge egg story recently.

• 25:41Speaker 00

  Oh, yeah?

• 25:42Speaker 01

  Which was, I read the book about Prince Andrew.

• 25:44Speaker 03

  Oh, yeah.

• 25:45Speaker 01

  And...

• 25:46Speaker 03

  Big fan.

• 25:46Speaker 01

  Big fan. I just, I just love the guy and I just want to get some life tips. No, he, he was touring Russia and I think accounts of the visit were just that he was shown around, you know, this is when relations were better and there wasn't a war on and all of this. And he was just, not that that would stop him. Anyway, he was just visiting and he was being shown around somewhere like the Hermitage or one of the, you know, the royal palaces with the collection of stuff. And apparently he was just heavily, heavily hinting that he'd love to be given a Faberge egg. He'd love to own a Faberge egg one day and was just trying to get a free Faberge egg off the host. Outrageous.

• 26:19Speaker 00

  Try your luck.

• 26:19Speaker 01

  The more I hear about this guy. Yeah. Right, let's have another one.

• 26:23Speaker 03

  This one goes out to Ryan Jackson. Ryan Jackson, your fact is now that no one is quite sure how to say Louis Armstrong or Lewis Armstrong.

• 26:36Speaker 01

  Are we not?

• 26:36Speaker 03

  No, this, and we did it on the show. So, basically, this was one of my facts and I was reading the fact that no one, including his wife, was quite sure which version of it was. It changed all the time. If he was announced on a show, it was one version. There's multiple versions, I believe, of him saying it in different ways. So there just wasn't one agreed version.

• 26:57Speaker 01

  Oh, that's great. I love that.

• 26:58Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 26:59Speaker 01

  Here's another one. This one goes out to Grumbert. The man with the Guinness World Record for the lowest voice can hit notes so low only elephants can hear him.

• 27:12Speaker 03

  Okay.

• 27:12Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 27:13Speaker 03

  I'm gonna go sniff those feet over there. You create a distraction.

• 27:19Speaker 01

  Who's got the lowest voice out of the four of us?

• 27:21Speaker 03

  I think you or me.

• 27:22Speaker 00

  Yeah.

• 27:23Speaker 03

  But the question is, who can go low? Give me the lowest.

• 27:26Speaker 01

  Lowest.

• 27:27Speaker 03

  That's pretty low.

• 27:29Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 27:29Speaker 00

  You can't just put a silly accent on and make it lower.

• 27:32Speaker 01

  Weirdly, you're acting like the silly accent is gonna help you get those depths.

• 27:36Speaker 03

  Well, it does, because it helps bend your mouth into places.

• 27:39Speaker 01

  Oh, there we go. It's Anna.

• 27:43Speaker 00

  This is a fact for Steph Delory. The first thing was a parliament, and it was the old thing in Iceland. It's been going since the 10th century. This is one of James's, wasn't it?

• 27:52Speaker 03

  It was James's.

• 27:53Speaker 00

  The word thing, that's where we get the word thing, right? It's from that parliament. And it's become meaningless enough to just mean thing now.

• 28:02Speaker 00

  Is that one of the many claims to have been the first parliamentary democracy?

• 28:06Speaker 01

  I think it was, wasn't it?

• 28:08Speaker 00

  Yeah.

• 28:08Speaker 01

  I think it must have been. And we did a lot of stuff about Icelandic horses. Do you remember this?

• 28:13Speaker 00

  Yeah, because are they the ones that have the special trots as well? Icelandic horses, I think, have a special way of trotting where they trot with their feet the other way around to normal horses. Something like that.

• 28:23Speaker 03

  That sounds plausible, yes.

• 28:24Speaker 00

  I think they do. And it's got a special name, like "trotting", or something like that.

• 28:30Speaker 03

  What we find, and you'll find as we do more Little Fishes, Anna, is that it's amazing what you do and don't remember.

• 28:36Speaker 00

  Yeah.

• 28:36Speaker 03

  It's amazing, like Dan's story of the guy who swallowed a haberdash egg and the police were waiting for him to lay it.

• 28:43Speaker 01

  You'll find that your mind is foggy than you thought. When we're dealing with something we researched for like one day 10 years ago, it turns out it can go anywhere, yeah.

• 28:51Speaker 03

  Yeah, but the difference is, is that I immediately got picked up on it until you told that story about how we've got mismemories. You basically accepted Anna's premise that their horses have backward legs.

• 29:01Speaker 00

  I'm sure they do. They trot on one side of their body, then the other, and they're always falling over.

• 29:06Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 29:07Speaker 00

  Something like that. Anyway, have that fact.

• 29:09Speaker 01

  Lovely. Let's have one more.

• 29:10Speaker 03

  Yeah, here's the final fact. This goes to Bronwyn. One of the largest majorities in a Brazilian election was won in 1958 by a rhino called Kakareco.

• 29:21Speaker 00

  Kakareco. I remember Kakareco.

• 29:24Speaker 03

  Do you?

• 29:25Speaker 00

  Yeah.

• 29:26Speaker 03

  Still serving? It's been a while since we did this fact.

• 29:28Speaker 00

  Yeah, you'd think it was just a protest vote, but no, he just had a very strong campaign. Workers' rights, sorting out immigration. Yeah, was they, everyone hated the current leaders, didn't they? Why don't we do more of that here, putting animals up for election? That would be fun, wouldn't it? I think that would have made the latest council elections in Britain more entertaining.

• 29:48Speaker 03

  Yeah, yeah.

• 29:49Speaker 00

  Would you have voted for a rhino if there'd been one on your ballot paper? Regardless of party?

• 29:55Speaker 01

  I don't think I would.

• 29:57Speaker 00

  Okay, killjoy.

• 29:58Speaker 01

  But I'm just trying to remember the details of this fact. I think "cacoreco" means rubbish?

• 30:04Speaker 00

  Yeah, it does.

• 30:05Speaker 01

  But I don't think that, I don't think that was a part of the electoral pitch. I don't think the pitch was, "I'm a rubbish candidate."

• 30:11Speaker 03

  Okay.

• 30:11Speaker 01

  I think it was, "I'm a rhino and you hate all the humans."

• 30:13Speaker 03

  Okay.

• 30:14Speaker 01

  Yeah, you're right, actually, Anna. I mean, given the choice, I probably would vote for a rhino.

• 30:19Speaker 00

  There you go.

• 30:20Speaker 03

  Yeah. What's the headline? We did the beak air conditioner.

• 30:25Speaker 01

  He'll give you the horn.

• 30:26Speaker 00

  And that's what you want, is it, from your elected politician?

• 30:28Speaker 01

  Slightly too sexy, I regret.

• 30:33Speaker 01

  I regret saying that as a slogan. I've got it. To be a politician, you need thick skin.

• 30:40Speaker 03

  Yes.

• 30:41Speaker 00

  Very good.

• 30:42Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 30:42Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 30:43Speaker 01

  That's it.

• 30:44Speaker 03

  That is it.

• 30:45Speaker 01

  And I'll give you the horn.

• 30:48Speaker 03

  That's the scandal that makes you leave office. That's when we take the rubbish out.

• 30:52Speaker 01

  Yeah. Okay, that is it. That is all of your facts. If you would like to have a fish headline fact dedicated to you from now and forevermore, all you need to do is go to patreon.com/clubfish. Even if you don't want to sign up to be a friend of the podcast, there is so much fun stuff on there. There's a free tier where you get little extra videos and goodies and all sorts of bonus material, and there's all sorts of other stuff on there. Patreon.com/clubfish. And if you would like to submit a fact to be on Little Fish in Future, just email [email protected]. We read absolutely every single one and we love receiving them. So [email protected] is the email to send it to. That's it from us and we'll see you in a few days for another episode of No Such Thing as a Fish. Bye for now.

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