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1:22 Speaker 01 Hey, everyone. Welcome to another episode of Little Fish. This is the show where we put down our four favorite facts from the last seven days, and we go through the podcast at qi.com, email inbox, and cherry pick the best facts that you, the listener, have sent in. We get amazing facts every week, so if you do think of one, please send them in. And also, if you want to be part of our club, Club Fish, at the highest tier, you'll be getting something very special, as everyone does at the end of this episode, which is we hand out a fact for you to be the custodian of from the 12 years of our archive. So why don't we get into it? Why don't we get some facts? Who wants to go first? Here's one that's from Dom and Kolchak, and it's on our favorite subject at the moment.
2:06 Speaker 00 Oh, great.
2:07 Speaker 01 We're putting together a book, as you guys know, of things that...
2:10 Speaker 03 That you think are named for one reason.
2:12 Speaker 01 But they're actually named for a different reason.
2:14 Speaker 03 That's my second favorite subject. Number one being people who paint things on the top of roofs. But yes, go on.
2:21 Speaker 04 You know what? Like genuinely, when I'm doing my research for the main show now, I'm finding myself looking for these people.
2:27 Speaker 03 I know, I know.
2:28 Speaker 04 They're so hard to find.
2:30 Speaker 03 Well.
2:30 Speaker 04 We need a book.
2:32 Speaker 03 They've been flooding into the inbox. We do some of them on Drop as a Line and we're gonna do, I think, probably keep doing some of them here. It's become a little fish in joke. Anyway, Domon writes, "The online poker boom that became huge in the early 2000s was caused by the moneymaker effect."
2:48 Speaker 04 Oh, Chris Moneymaker.
2:50 Speaker 03 Don't give away my punchline. It was named after 2003 poker champion Christopher Moneymaker.
2:58 Speaker 04 Right, of course.
3:00 Speaker 03 Who was an amateur who won the, um.
3:02 Speaker 04 World Series of Poker.
3:04 Speaker 03 World Series of Poker in 2000.
3:07 Speaker 04 Oh gosh, I don't know, like 2005?
3:10 Speaker 03 It was 2003. And the moneymaker effect was basically poker going mainstream. And, um, obviously, most of the people who got into it will have lost huge amounts of money by now, but.
3:20 Speaker 01 How's he, how's Chris Moneymaker doing?
3:22 Speaker 03 Well, he won the World Series of Poker, which I think is, that does set you up reasonably well.
3:26 Speaker 04 You would see him on like, you know, when in those days you would have like quite a lot of TV poker games. And he'd, he'd kind of rock up on those every now and then. But he is a good poker player. Of course he was. He won the World Series of Poker. But like the people who came after him were quite a lot better, I think. I think.
3:43 Speaker 01 Are you familiar with the poker player Daniel Schreiber?
3:47 Speaker 04 No, I'm not actually.
3:49 Speaker 01 He's, he's who like, uh, owns the Daniel Schreiber without qualification on Wikipedia.
3:55 Speaker 04 Daniel Schreiber.
3:55 Speaker 03 So that's a different, that's not you.
3:57 Speaker 01 It's a different.
3:57 Speaker 03 I thought you were saying I play poker.
3:59 Speaker 01 Oh no, I played it once and I won and then I lost everything. I was shocked. I was, I was absolutely decimated. Yeah.
4:06 Speaker 03 Was it at that Daniel Schreiber convention you went to?
4:09 Speaker 01 Shouldn't have sat down with that guy.
4:13 Speaker 03 Great, all right, James.
4:14 Speaker 04 Interesting. Yeah, sorry for walking all over your front there.
4:17 Speaker 03 No, don't be daft.
4:18 Speaker 04 But yeah, I was really into poker back in the day.
4:20 Speaker 03 I remember.
4:21 Speaker 04 Yeah, it was how I met my wife.
4:23 Speaker 03 Yes.
4:23 Speaker 04 And you won a fair on square.
4:26 Speaker 03 She's called Daniel Shriver, isn't she?
4:28 Speaker 04 It's very confusing, your work life and home life. Okay, this fact is from Kev Osman and Kev said that he was reading about the Winter Olympics held in Cortina, or they were, they've just finished, in northern Italy. And that was the old name of a Ford car. So he decided to write a quiz on where cars get their name from. Okay, and when he was doing that, he found that all Lamborghini car models, except one, are named for something related to bullfighting.
4:57 Speaker 03 Bullfighting?
4:59 Speaker 04 Can you name a single?
5:01 Speaker 03 Matador.
5:02 Speaker 04 No, no, not a single bullfighting term, a single Lamborghini car.
5:07 Speaker 03 Do you know what? Lamborghinis are so rare and expensive that I just see, oh, it's a Lamborghini. I would never, I would be able to say, oh, look, there's a Skoda Enyaq or whatever.
5:15 Speaker 04 Unless I mean, I only knew one, it's Lamborghini Diablo.
5:17 Speaker 03 Oh.
5:18 Speaker 04 And Diablo is a famous fighting bull, along with Temerario, Revuelto, Islero, Uracho, Uraco, all these words that I never really heard of. There's one called the Lamborghini Charama, which is the area of Spain where fighting bulls are bred, and a few other ones. And the only exception is the Countach. Okay, Lamborghini Countach. And Lamborghini Countach comes from a Piedmontese dialect exclamation of astonishment. And it basically means, holy shit. And apparently the owner of Lamborghini saw this car's amazing design for the first time and went, holy shit. And then they went, we should call it that.
6:04 Speaker 03 Super.
6:05 Speaker 04 And literally, Countach in Piedmont means plague. So you know, in some countries, like you use the name of an illness as like a swear word, like smallpox or...
6:16 Speaker 03 Yep, I'm always doing that.
6:18 Speaker 04 Sniffly nose. Or whatever. Like in some countries, that's quite big.
6:23 Speaker 03 I didn't know that.
6:24 Speaker 04 Yeah.
6:24 Speaker 03 Sorry, the car's name means plague?
6:26 Speaker 04 It means plague, but like, really, it means holy shit. It means wow.
6:29 Speaker 03 Right. Okay, okay, okay. That's so funny. Um, Lamborghini is Italian, right?
6:35 Speaker 04 Yeah, they were Italian, weren't they?
6:37 Speaker 03 Why are they all Spanish bullfighting-y?
6:40 Speaker 01 What's that all about then?
6:40 Speaker 03 What's going on there? Probably you can drive from Spain to Italy in one of their fantastically fast cars.
6:45 Speaker 04 Yes, and if they would like to send us some.
6:49 Speaker 04 Yeah, they were, um, they were Italian, but I wonder if perhaps it sounds foreign and exciting.
6:56 Speaker 03 Maybe, yeah.
6:57 Speaker 04 Obviously, these days, bullfighting very much frowned upon.
7:01 Speaker 03 Yes. Um, you wouldn't want to turn up to a bullfight in a Lamborghini anyway.
7:05 Speaker 04 No.
7:06 Speaker 03 I feel like a determined bull could do some damage to your, your wing mirrors.
7:09 Speaker 01 Not a red Lamborghini anyway, yeah.
7:13 Speaker 03 Lovely.
7:14 Speaker 01 You know who, um, I saw an interview with, friend of the podcast, uh, Johnny Knoxville.
7:17 Speaker 04 Hi, yeah.
7:18 Speaker 01 Recently, where he got really emotional about the fact that he's now at an age and a, and his body's gone through so much that he can no longer have pranks done with bulls with active life. But like properly got emotional, started crying. Like it was, it was a real tragedy in his life.
7:34 Speaker 04 I can't be God by a bull anyway. I've got a little bonus to pick with Johnny, actually.
7:39 Speaker 01 Do you?
7:39 Speaker 04 Yeah, because I read the other day that there's a new Jackass coming out.
7:43 Speaker 01 Yeah.
7:43 Speaker 04 And I think they might have already filmed it.
7:45 Speaker 01 Yeah.
7:45 Speaker 04 But I have a contract that says I'm gonna be in that film.
7:48 Speaker 01 Yes, because when he was on, so I was away for this episode, but he was on.
7:51 Speaker 04 He was on the show and we made a joke about I could be in the next Jackass. And then the next day, he sent me a contract saying, I agree to be in the next Jackass. And I returned it to him and I was expecting the call. I was expecting to be on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in a few years as the guy who got speared by a bull.
8:08 Speaker 01 Yeah.
8:09 Speaker 03 You should send him one of your balls in protest that you've accidentally lost in some hideous Jackass-style prank. That'll show him.
8:16 Speaker 04 Yeah, that'll show him.
8:18 Speaker 01 Speaking of balls, I've got a fact here, which was sent in by Robbie Brennan, uh, who says LeBron James recently ended. So LeBron James is a basketball player and he, um.
8:30 Speaker 03 That was for both of us.
8:32 Speaker 04 I like the way you said that as if every listener knows who he is, literally everyone, but there is one person who does need to know.
8:40 Speaker 01 So he recently ended a record streak of consecutive games played where he scored 10 plus points.
8:47 Speaker 03 And that's good.
8:48 Speaker 01 It's very good.
8:49 Speaker 03 Yeah. It's better than losing 10 points, I suppose.
8:51 Speaker 01 Yeah. Now, what's phenomenal about this is that this record is longer than the career of every other currently active NBA player. So the amount of games added together was 1,297 games.
9:06 Speaker 03 He's got at least 10 points in every one of those.
9:08 Speaker 01 10 in every single one of those. And he is the longest active basketball player, I think, in history. He's played 23 seasons.
9:17 Speaker 03 They're all long, aren't they? They're very tall, tall, tall fellows and gals.
9:21 Speaker 01 Yes.
9:25 Speaker 01 But he's, so he's been in for 23 seasons. The streak.
9:28 Speaker 03 Nearly six years.
9:30 Speaker 01 What?
9:30 Speaker 03 There are four seasons in a year.
9:33 Speaker 01 Jesus. Maybe just sit down for a sec.
9:39 Speaker 01 Someone's got to speak to the non-sporting listener. A lot of our listeners like being indoors with a nice cup of tea and a book. I speak for them.
9:48 Speaker 04 I'm not sure how many of those enjoy your interjections either.
9:54 Speaker 04 That's really interesting. I think what it says to me is how easy it is to score points in basketball.
9:59 Speaker 01 Yeah.
9:59 Speaker 04 Like, that's the problem.
10:00 Speaker 01 Such a change of response.
10:03 Speaker 04 Like, the scores are always like 97, 86 or something.
10:07 Speaker 01 Yeah, yeah, there are a lot.
10:08 Speaker 04 You don't get a nice 0-0.
10:11 Speaker 01 Yeah, a satisfying 0-0.
10:16 Speaker 01 Yeah, I mean, but that's amazing. It's a pretty astonishing run from Jan 5th, 2007 to December 4th, 2025. He always scored 10 points or more in a game.
10:25 Speaker 04 Ironically, you're not allowed to run in basketball.
10:27 Speaker 01 Yes.
10:28 Speaker 04 The ball.
10:28 Speaker 03 Oh, with the ball.
10:29 Speaker 01 Yeah, yeah.
10:30 Speaker 03 I do know, I do know that.
10:31 Speaker 01 Yeah.
10:31 Speaker 03 I do know that.
10:32 Speaker 01 But that's a sort of example of an interjection that works really nicely, kind of contributes.
10:37 Speaker 03 I would say, I would say that I'm in the middle of maybe a 600-episode run of this show where I've made at least 10 stupid interjections every single show.
10:49 Speaker 01 Anyway, very cool. That's an astonishing, if you know basketball, like I'm a big fan of basketball, that's a wild achievement.
10:56 Speaker 03 Is he beyond the age at which he can still safely be gored by a bull, LeBron James? He's younger than Johnny Knoxville.
11:03 Speaker 01 He'll be younger than Johnny, yeah, but he's...
11:05 Speaker 03 He's younger than me, I would say. He must be in his early 50s.
11:08 Speaker 01 He's like Djokovic, you know? We don't know how much more we're getting.
11:12 Speaker 03 Sure.
11:12 Speaker 01 It should have ended already, but we've...
11:14 Speaker 03 So is he substantially older than, I presume, much, he's much older than most other players on the court?
11:19 Speaker 01 I would say so.
11:21 Speaker 03 But that's tricky though, isn't it?
11:22 Speaker 01 What do you mean?
11:22 Speaker 03 Well, it's just tough to find things to talk about with your teammates.
11:25 Speaker 01 Oh, yeah.
11:27 Speaker 03 They're all talking about tickety-tucks and... You're trying to talk about, you know, you don't get those good tartan slippers anymore, do you?
11:35 Speaker 01 He's 41.
11:36 Speaker 03 Okay.
11:37 Speaker 01 So I'm older than him by like six months.
11:40 Speaker 03 I'm younger than him, but so we're saying there's still a chance for me? Oh, yeah. As in, you know, we don't know if I'm incredible at basketball. Whereas he's probably past his prime of making tedious interjections. You're that tedious now? No, they were always tedious.
11:53 Speaker 01 Okay.
11:54 Speaker 03 Let's get to another fact.
11:55 Speaker 01 Let's do another fact.
11:56 Speaker 03 Here's one, here's one from Noah Gettle. We haven't had a really good weird animal for a little while, I'd say.
12:04 Speaker 01 Okay.
12:04 Speaker 03 Noah writes, well, Noah claims that we haven't. He says our biology game's already dropped off recently. Does he have two of this one?
12:12 Speaker 03 Because he's called Noah? Amazing. Yep, good.
12:15 Speaker 01 I don't want to drill it home, but that's a wonderful interjection once again.
12:20 Speaker 03 Well, Noah writes, "There is a group of insects in the genus Styllops, Styllops, that parasitize bees, okay? And what's bizarre is the females live their entire lives inside the abdomens of the hosts. Males develop wings and they fly around looking for a bee that's carrying a female. And the female has stuck her neck out between two sections of the bee and is releasing a pheromone into the air to draw in a male.
12:49 Speaker 03 Females never leave home. They never really interact with the males who they're mating with. The male just arrives. I'm afraid does traumatic incense..."
12:58 Speaker 04 Just start stabbing where he can.
13:00 Speaker 03 Just sort of, right, you know, in it goes.
13:03 Speaker 04 Mostly in the head.
13:04 Speaker 03 Yeah, there's very few niceties here. They have a sort of neck pocket and then the offspring hatch and they eat the mother pretty much alive. They cannibalize the mum.
13:15 Speaker 04 Wow.
13:15 Speaker 03 And then they leave.
13:16 Speaker 04 I know about these guys.
13:17 Speaker 03 Do you?
13:18 Speaker 04 Uh, yeah. And also they will make the bee turn into a queen, kind of, but fly off to where the queens go because all the other bees also fly there for mating. So you get a big bunch of bees together. And then, um, because there's loads of bees together, that's how they can jump from one host to the next host.
13:37 Speaker 01 I'm really surprised by what the insect world does and doesn't notice in those kinds of situations.
13:44 Speaker 03 Yeah.
13:44 Speaker 01 Like if one of us came in and just had a bit of a parasite sticking out our neck.
13:48 Speaker 03 It's big for them.
13:50 Speaker 01 And no one says anything. That's, it's just a fascinating thing.
13:55 Speaker 03 Yeah.
13:55 Speaker 01 That that's just normal to the, to the other bees and to the bee itself.
13:58 Speaker 04 Cause not only do you have a parasite sticking out of your bum or whatever, but you've also got another parasite sort of flying around stabbing it in the head, mating with it.
14:08 Speaker 03 Hmm.
14:09 Speaker 04 To just feel like in a party, that is gonna draw some attention.
14:12 Speaker 01 It's gonna be gossip, isn't it?
14:14 Speaker 03 Cramp your style. Yeah.
14:15 Speaker 01 Did you see Brian last night?
14:19 Speaker 03 Yeah. So thank you, Noah.
14:21 Speaker 04 Yeah, amazing.
14:21 Speaker 01 Amazing, James.
14:22 Speaker 04 Um, here is another one about animals, uh, not a weird animal, but an animal nonetheless. This is from Kellen McGuire and it's about groundhogs. Kellen wrote about America's National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association, who every year rank the accuracy of all the groundhog prognosticators, who are gonna work out whether it's gonna be a sunny spring or a rainy spring.
14:46 Speaker 03 I thought it was just, I thought it was just Punxsutawney Phil from the film Groundhog Day.
14:50 Speaker 04 He's the, he's the one who got all the plaudits because he was in the movie, but actually there is loads of these guys sort of working away behind the scenes. There are 13 live groundhogs, three taxidermied groundhogs, one statue of a prairie dog, one tortoise and one presumed groundhog, who has only been seen by a few people and they're not sure whether he actually exists or not. Crypto-groundhog, Dan, get on it. Yes, that's so good. And it turns out that even though he's the famous one, Punxsutawney Phil is one of the least accurate one. So he's only managed to correctly predict February and March temperatures 35% of the time. And the only one worse is Mojave Max, who's a tortoise in Nevada.
15:34 Speaker 04 He's correct 20% of the time. Oh, that's bad. That's bad. Well, that's just fame going to Punxsutawney Phil's head, isn't it? It probably is. Like, it's just, it's so typical, isn't it? Like, the real talented ones never really get the good gigs. Whereas the people who keep making tedious interjections are, you know, showered with praise by their colleagues who value them. You know, yeah. Can I tell you about another prognosticator that I learned about? Yeah. So this is Annie Charlotte, a Tottenham Hotspur supporter, with a rare anatomical condition in that she has two vaginas. And in recent years, the tabloids in the UK always seem to ask her when there's a football
16:19 Speaker 04 match, who's gonna win? I'm dreading, I'm dreading to think what her method is. Can we work it out? What would you do? Well, you know what? I cannot tell. Like, she doesn't give the real details. Oh, okay. I think it's a vibe. I don't really know how she does it, but she says she uses her anatomy to work out what's gonna happen. Right. And she said that in the recent Tottenham Arsenal game, she predicted that Spurs were gonna beat Arsenal and that Arsenal would bottle the league and fail to win the Football League. We don't know what will happen in the league yet, but Spurs did not win that game. Right. Arsenal won. Yes. At the Arsenal. Yeah. I'm so glad you stopped when you said you think it's a vibe, because I thought you were gonna extend a vibrator there.
17:04 Speaker 04 Yeah, it's not, I think it's a feeling that she gets. It's really uncertain what she does, but she has become a bit of a meme in the tabloids in the last few years. I feel it in my fingers. Is that a wet, wet, wet joke? It is. Oh, no. It wasn't meant to be.
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19:09 Speaker 01 This is a fact sent in by Warwick Poole, who says, "I believe you once mentioned Insane Clown Posse." But here's a fact for you. Before they were a huge success, Violent J and Shaggy Too Dope from Insane Clown Posse used to steal car stereo systems to support themselves. Once, they stole a car radio, which actually had one of their own Insane Clown Posse tapes loaded into it. They felt bad. And apparently reinstalled it back into the fan's car. Yeah. And there's an interview where you can see them talking about it. Um, but yeah.
19:45 Speaker 03 So they were still stealing cast areas even after they had music released.
19:50 Speaker 01 Not all bands just become massive, right? They probably made tapes that they were selling at the end of gigs and so on. So yeah, they just happened to have stumbled across a fan of their stuff. Quite a cool thing to see when you're robbing it. You know, it'd be like us mugging a house and seeing a fish poster on the wall.
20:05 Speaker 03 Mugging a house?
20:08 Speaker 03 How are you doing that?
20:10 Speaker 01 What do you say?
20:11 Speaker 03 Robbing a house?
20:12 Speaker 01 You don't mug it.
20:12 Speaker 04 Burglarizing in America.
20:14 Speaker 03 Absolutely. You can, no, you don't, you don't mug a house. You burglarize a house or you rob it.
20:19 Speaker 04 You mug a person.
20:20 Speaker 03 You mug a person on the move.
20:21 Speaker 01 This is why we've never got around to doing it. It's the language hasn't been agreed on.
20:26 Speaker 03 Right. Balaclava's off. What are we saying? What's our terminology here?
20:30 Speaker 04 No, come, come back, Shaggy Two Dope.
20:37 Speaker 03 What are you in for? Mugging a house? No, you were robbing. Oh man, that's, um, that's very exciting. I've got another insane clown posse, uh, fact, which is that. Cause the insane clown posse was a band that has a lot of controversy about them throughout the years.
20:52 Speaker 01 Well, if your main members are called, what was it? Violent Dave?
20:56 Speaker 03 Violent Jay.
21:03 Speaker 01 Nothing inherently worse about Violent Dave than Violent Jay. I'm standing by it.
21:07 Speaker 03 Yeah.
21:08 Speaker 04 Dave, you see, the thing is like, we did want you to change your name, but it was the Dave part that was the problem. And simply adding violent, like your surname was great. We were happy with that.
21:19 Speaker 03 Dave, Naughty Tony, of course. Rude Paul.
21:22 Speaker 01 Rude Paul. There's a great fact, which is that they were once, um, on a Disney owned record label. And so they released an album called The Great Malenko. And on the day of release, Disney kind of realized, hang on a second, we can't release this. It's full of graphic natured lyrics and so on. So they recalled the 100,000 shipped units of CDs. And it didn't come out through Disney in the end.
21:47 Speaker 03 Wow.
21:48 Speaker 01 Yeah.
21:48 Speaker 03 Wow.
21:49 Speaker 01 Yeah.
21:49 Speaker 03 Controversial. Gosh.
21:51 Speaker 01 Anyway, hey, listen, let's put down these facts and why don't we get to the business of handing out custodianship to the members of Club Fish? So, as I said at the top, if you would like your own fact, you just need to join Friend of the Podcast, which is the highest tier of Club Fish, go to patreon.com/clubfish and we will assign you a fact, we'll send you a digital certificate, it's very beautiful and you can put it on your wall, but on top of that, we're also going to give you a shout out now and let you and the wider public know which fact you are custodian of.
22:22 Speaker 04 So, sorry, just before we do this, can I just add that if you do get your custodianship certificate and you do put it on your wall, we promise if we see it, we will not mug your house.
22:32 Speaker 01 Yep, there we go. See, benefits, that's a further benefit of being part of this club. So why don't we get to our first one? Who's gonna go?
22:41 Speaker 03 I'll go. This one goes out to Violent Dave and it's...
22:49 Speaker 03 No, this one goes out to Robert Marsh. Robert, your fact is that the Ministry of Defence owns 15 golf courses.
22:59 Speaker 04 Very good.
22:59 Speaker 03 Yep, just in case war breaks out on a golf course.
23:03 Speaker 04 Nobody who likes golf could possibly be a warmonger. That's all I would say.
23:12 Speaker 03 Yeah, it's just for President Trump to come and play and butter him up. Yeah, yeah. So, but that's good that his name is Robert Marsh, the new custodian of this fact, because a marsh is a bit similar to a golf course, isn't it?
23:22 Speaker 04 Absolutely not.
23:23 Speaker 03 Well, but it would be...
23:25 Speaker 04 Outdoors.
23:26 Speaker 03 It's outdoors, they're both outdoors.
23:27 Speaker 04 Oh, yeah, can't deny that.
23:28 Speaker 03 Well, you do indoor golf sometimes, don't you? That's really, indoor marshes, probably not. Anyway, Robert, I hope you like the fact.
23:36 Speaker 04 Okay, here is another one. This one is now under the custodianship of Sean Battersby. Sean, your fact this week, and forever in fact, is that the rise in the use of female contraceptive pills is making fish too effeminate. Now, that's not the podcast.
23:54 Speaker 04 It's not no such thing as a fish. This is the animal group. And it is that people were taking the pill and weeing out some estrogen. And estrogen was finding its way into the rivers and into the fish indeed, and making them more feminine.
24:10 Speaker 03 Hmm. Yes, and there was something about fish that they just start producing eggs. They stop producing sperm and start producing eggs.
24:18 Speaker 04 Yeah, I think so.
24:19 Speaker 03 Shift that over.
24:20 Speaker 04 It does do that. And also, I remember, I don't know if we mentioned this in this episode, but there's quite a lot of fish that have got a lot of cocaine in the system in the Thames.
24:30 Speaker 03 Wow, yes, that's right, yeah.
24:33 Speaker 04 So basically, don't flush it down the loo. If you've got drugs and the police are coming.
24:38 Speaker 03 Hoover them up, that's what we're saying.
24:42 Speaker 03 Brilliant, all right, well, here's another one. This is going out to Graham Binns. Your fact is that the actor Charles Hawthorne hoarded bedsteads in his house, thinking that one day he would make his fortune from them.
24:54 Speaker 04 Amazing.
24:55 Speaker 03 Now, this is from a poker player, Victoria Corrin Mitchell.
24:59 Speaker 04 Oh, yeah.
24:59 Speaker 03 Early victim of the money maker effect, yes.
25:01 Speaker 04 Yes.
25:02 Speaker 03 She was a guest. Do we need to explain what a Charles Hawthorne is?
25:06 Speaker 04 I think, I think there's a few things in this sentence that might go over the head of some younger listeners.
25:11 Speaker 03 Or international ones. Charles Hawthorne was an amazing, brilliant comedy actor. He was in a series of British films called The Carry On Films, which I much loved. I grew up watching them.
25:21 Speaker 04 Haven't seen them for a while. I'm not convinced they would stand up to modern scrutiny.
25:26 Speaker 03 I think maybe they might haven't aged terrifically. Those very, very naughty, raunchy, rude, British, like seaside postcard rudeness style comedy films. And there was Carry On Cleopatra, and there was Carry On Cowboy, and Carry On Up the Khyber. That one was especially bad, actually thinking about it now.
25:44 Speaker 04 Kenneth Williams and Sid James.
25:46 Speaker 03 Charles Hawthorne, Hattie Jakes, Barbara Windsor.
25:48 Speaker 04 Yes.
25:49 Speaker 03 Amazing British comedy actors who were just in these incredibly ropey films, but that were kind of loved. And Charles Hawthorne was one of them, but apparently felt the need to collect bedsteads.
25:57 Speaker 04 And a bedstead.
26:02 Speaker 03 Yeah, no.
26:03 Speaker 04 Great, great fact.
26:04 Speaker 01 That was so Victoria Corn Mitchell came on that episode and I still remember the absolute fury she had when I said that my favourite movie was Apollo 13.
26:13 Speaker 04 Oh.
26:14 Speaker 01 It like derailed the episode for quite some time. She just couldn't believe it. Your favourite film is Apollo 13.
26:21 Speaker 03 What was hers? Carry on camping or something?
26:22 Speaker 01 Yeah, yeah.
26:27 Speaker 01 I mean, she was annoyed enough that it was the wrong Daniel Schreiber sitting at the table.
26:32 Speaker 01 Okay, Andy?
26:33 Speaker 03 Okay, this one goes out to Ashley. Ashley, your fact is that in 1937, you could visit Romford Dog Track and watch cheetahs racing.
26:43 Speaker 04 Wow.
26:43 Speaker 03 This was an experiment they did where they raced cheetahs against each other and, and they, I think, showed no interest in racing because they just, they saw this little mechanical rabbit.
26:54 Speaker 04 They're like cats, aren't they?
26:55 Speaker 03 They're just cats. They're very, very fast when they're very hungry and they need to prey on something, but they just, I think they saw through it fairly quickly.
27:03 Speaker 01 Yeah.
27:04 Speaker 03 And, uh, yeah, you don't get, you don't get so many dog tracks as you used to.
27:07 Speaker 04 No, I also think the problem was that the jockeys were too heavy.
27:10 Speaker 03 Very nice. Very nice.
27:14 Speaker 04 Thank you, Andy.
27:16 Speaker 04 Okay, okay. So, um, here is another fact. This one is now under the custodianship of Sam Kirk. Sam, your fact is that in 2010, the US military built a supercomputer out of 1,760 PlayStation 3s. And what's exciting about this one is that just a couple of weeks ago, Leven Skyra mentioned this in a show and I kept it in the edit because I'd forgotten we'd done this fact already. And here it is.
27:46 Speaker 03 Here it is. It was a great fact.
27:48 Speaker 04 It's an amazing fact, yeah.
27:49 Speaker 03 And they'd be doing it because it was cheaper, wasn't it?
27:51 Speaker 04 It was cheaper. And what I didn't keep in the edit and what Leven did explain is that, um, when you make a PlayStation, you sell it for cheaper than you make it, more or less, really, or cheaper than it should be. And that's because you want people to buy the console because then they'll buy all the games and stuff. So it's almost like a loss leader. Uh, and so actually the US military is getting a really good deal by buying these PlayStations and getting all the parts out of it because they're cheaper than they should really be.
28:19 Speaker 03 Right. That's great. That'll have allowed them to save, uh, save a bob or two and I'm sure they'll have put it to a good use.
28:27 Speaker 01 All right, I'm gonna read another one here. This is for Chris Dally. And your fact is now that in 1552, a man in England managed to shoot himself with a bow and arrow. That's, that's pretty amazing.
28:39 Speaker 03 I think his name was Henry.
28:41 Speaker 04 Pert.
28:42 Speaker 03 Henry Pert. It was Henry Pert.
28:44 Speaker 04 Yeah.
28:44 Speaker 03 I've just looked in the archive. I was trying to remember with that. It wasn't Henry Perky. I nearly said Henry Perky, but Henry Perky invented shredded wheat.
28:53 Speaker 03 Um, shot himself with a bow and arrow. That's very impressive. Was it a straight up and straight down?
28:56 Speaker 01 Has to be a straight up and straight down.
28:57 Speaker 03 Has to be.
28:58 Speaker 01 How else was it gonna work?
28:59 Speaker 03 Trick shot, trick shot off a few corners.
29:01 Speaker 04 You know what? I have shot myself with a bow and arrow.
29:05 Speaker 03 Here we go.
29:06 Speaker 04 It was just a graze.
29:08 Speaker 03 Thank goodness.
29:08 Speaker 04 Um, but when I learned how to do archery, there's lots of things you have to do and lots of things you have to remember. And one of the things I messed up, I can't remember what it was exactly, but it meant that when I let go of the arrow, it skimmed past my nipple.
29:22 Speaker 03 Oh.
29:23 Speaker 04 And really, really hurt my nipple.
29:25 Speaker 03 Yeah.
29:26 Speaker 04 As it went through.
29:27 Speaker 03 That's a heck of a flick.
29:28 Speaker 04 Yeah.
29:29 Speaker 03 Oh.
29:29 Speaker 04 It was not, it was painful. And I was like, does this happen to everyone? And they were like, well, not really. You should have done what we told you.
29:36 Speaker 03 Yeah.
29:36 Speaker 04 So like, I'd, I'd missed one of their instructions. But yeah, apparently it's relatively common to that.
29:42 Speaker 03 Which is to, uh, put your nipples away.
29:47 Speaker 04 And point the arrow away from your nipples.
29:49 Speaker 03 Absolutely. Use the pasties provided, sir.
29:53 Speaker 03 I've just had a look. Henry Pert did not fire. He was trying to fire an arrow straight up in the air, but apparently the bow lodged at its fullest extent. So I think it might have been one of those things where you're looking over the mouth of the cannon.
30:03 Speaker 04 Oh, dear.
30:04 Speaker 03 Why hasn't the cannonball come out yet? I mean, look, he shot himself with a bow and arrow to death. I mean, there's no good way of doing it.
30:09 Speaker 04 Yeah, yeah, yeah.
30:09 Speaker 03 Um, here's another one that goes out to Luke Frendo. Luke, you're.
30:14 Speaker 01 Frendo of the podcast.
30:15 Speaker 03 Frendo of the podcast. Oh my God, that's it. Uh, your fact is until the mid 2000s, the best method for counting pandas was to sift through their poo.
30:27 Speaker 04 And now, this isn't if you're in the zoo and there's like three pandas in front of you. He was like, one, two, three. It's like in the wild and you can't see them all and...
30:38 Speaker 03 Yeah, trying to do a census because it's very important to assess and they had to just find poo and look for tooth marks on bits of undigested bamboo. And I'm sure nowadays it's all DNA these days, isn't it? It's all technology these days. The old, we've lost so many of our traditions.
30:53 Speaker 04 Okay, here's one more. This is now under the custodianship of Kevin Morrell. And Kevin, your fact is, since 2007, Wikipedia Brian Henderson has made 50,000 edits, changing comprised of to consists of.
31:12 Speaker 03 Hmm. Couldn't, could not agree more.
31:15 Speaker 04 Really?
31:15 Speaker 03 With Wikipedia Brian Henderson there. That's, that's what you say?
31:19 Speaker 01 Fair enough. There was, I feel like this has a story to it that I now can't remember, which is after the episode went out, I was saying it, he's going to be very annoyed because he can't change this one.
31:29 Speaker 04 I see. So there was a Wikipedia which had all of our facts in it?
31:33 Speaker 01 Yeah.
31:33 Speaker 04 Was there?
31:34 Speaker 01 That's it.
31:34 Speaker 04 And so that means that there would be a comprised of in that, in that list, right?
31:39 Speaker 01 Exactly.
31:39 Speaker 03 Bingo.
31:40 Speaker 04 But does it exist anymore, that list of our facts?
31:42 Speaker 01 No, it got taken down.
31:43 Speaker 04 By, by Brian Henderson by any chance?
31:47 Speaker 01 It could be.
31:48 Speaker 03 It's got to be. Brian, you win. Put it back up, you scumbag.
31:54 Speaker 01 All right. Well, listen, we got to wrap up, but congratulations to Kevin, Luke, Chris, Sam, Ashley, Graham, Sean and Robert. We hope you enjoy your facts. We hope you enjoy the digital certificate that you get along with it. And if you yourself want to be the custodian of one of our facts, you just have to go to patreon.com slash clubfish and join the highest tier friend of the podcast and one of these could be yours. All right, everyone. Thank you so much for sending in your facts. Please do send them in. We love doing this show, podcast at qi.com. We'll pick out another batch for next Monday. And you've also got a big fish coming this Friday. So we'll see you again soon. Goodbye.
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