No Such Thing As A Fish - 273: No Such Thing As A Scuba Diver Covered With Meat

Episode Date: June 14, 2019

Live from Sheffield, Dan, James, Anna and Andy discuss urine-tasting, relocating entire buildings and the thing that's more painful to tread on than fire.

Hello and welcome to another episode of No Such Thing as a Fish, a weekly podcast this week coming to you live from Sheffield my name is Dan Schreiber I am sitting here with Anna Chazinski Andrew Hunts and Murray and James Harkin and once again we have gathered around the microphones with our four favorite facts from the last seven days and in no particular order here we go starting with you Andy. My fact is as a child the naturalist Frank Buckland learned to differentiate different kinds of animal urine by taste alone. What a guy! How did this happen? Well so he was the son of another naturalist a guy called William Buckland this is Victorian we're talking here 19th century and William Buckland was

an amazing guy and he you know taught his children lots and they grew up surrounded by animals so instead of having a hobby horse to ride on they had a dead crocodile and as part of his education he learned about different kinds of animal urine. Is that so you know which pet to tell off when someone weeds on the floor? Who did that? I'm just going to check. Freddie? That's a very good idea because they had loads of animals around the house. For instance William Buckland he was a naturalist like you say he liked experiments he likes to do that kind of thing so there was one time he was in bed and he was thinking about fossil footprints because they just found all these new footprints and he came up with an idea of how they might be formed so he woke up his

sleeping wife and asked her to prepare a slab of dough in the kitchen so he could get his pet tortoise to walk across it so you could have a look at the footprints that it made. So Frank's house, William's son Frank's house seems like it was riddled with animals there was an account from 1877 of a journalist who went to visit because he was quite famous and he said they opened the door and they immediately retreated because there was a jaguar in the doorway with monkeys seizing its tail and denuding it of fur and the buckles were like don't worry he won't hurt you it'll be fine. There was a jackass laughing jackass which I think is a cookaburra their word for cookaburra chasing live mice up and down a glass jar with a battalion of cats

waiting underneath and there was a battalion and there was a parrot that kept on calling cabs from the front window as soon as they arrived but apparently was equally ready to hail an omnibus if they so desired. Yeah I read a story of a guest I believe it was with Frank might have been with William but they tripped over in the night down the staircase over a hippopotamus but they weren't expecting yeah what yeah I'm not was it alive or dead the hippo? It was a dead baby hippopotamus and it was a small child and she fell all the way down the stairs and he was like be careful you could have damaged that. It sounds like the whole life was just incredible adventures with animals because Buckland both Bucklands really were popularizers of science as well as

actual researchers and scientists but he wrote lots of memoirs and lots of exciting books which sold you know hundreds of thousands of copies so for example one account he gave he was trying to make a cast of a three meter sturgeon but he could only borrow it for one night so he had to do it really fast and he had to get it. So he woke his wife up. Yeah well he had to get it downstairs and into the kitchen so what he did was he tied a rope around its tail because it was really heavy it was three meters long he let it slide downstairs in front of him and sort of pulled the you know pulled the rope tall and unfortunately obviously sturgeons are very very slippery and it got away from him and it crashed down the stairs and it smashed into the kitchen and these are his words

he said this sudden and unexpected appearance of the armor clad sea monster bursting open the door instantly created a sensation. The cook screamed the housemaid fainted the cat jumped on the dresser the dog retreated behind the copper and barked the monkeys went mad with fright and the sedate parrot has never spoken a word since. And we just couldn't get a taxi from then on. Well he used to chase the cook around the house with a dead goose squeezing its voice box to make it squawk at her. Was this in childhood? No no it was a grown-up. It was a grown-up. Yeah it was an adult. We should say that you've already mentioned that these guys were scientists but these were like proper scientists these these two guys really were they were sharing notes with Darwin about

ideas they were properly famous in their time. Although Frank didn't believe in evolution no he didn't. Actually neither of them did but Frank especially didn't believe in evolution and to prove it he did a lot of interviews with Pongo the gorilla after which he deduced that the creator had drawn a vast line between human and monkey so he wasn't getting much out of the interview I don't think. I reckon Pongo went away and thought the same thing. But he did like to eat animals as well didn't he Frank so he deliberately moved closer to London Zoo so that he could eat them as soon as they died in the zoo because he liked to eat animals that were all different animals not just like you know meat that we might do so. Frank and William didn't they?

Oh yes they did yeah. When he was living near the zoo they a panther had died and so that for him was like I've never had panther I really want to try that so he wrote this is from his writings he said I wrote at once to tell his friend who worked at the zoo to tell him to send me down some chops it had however been buried a couple of days but I got them to dig it up. It was not very good. Culinary advice no one needed. But he kind of had it also he was obviously doing this before lots of animals became endangered so slightly different times. It's still gross. It's still gross I'm not saying it's not gross but he but he there was a purpose behind all this mad eating that he was doing because he helped to found this thing called the acclimatization society

and they said well people need food to eat they need protein turkeys and pheasants are not native to Britain they were introduced and they've been a brilliant success what else can we introduce that will because they were worried that the population was going up and we won't be able to feed ourselves. Exactly so they just had banquets every year where they tried all sorts of stuff and said what can we introduce because after Brexit we'll all be digging up the panther as well. Okay it is time for fact number two and that is Chazinsky. My fact this week is that in the 1980s Romania lifted up and relocated dozens of buildings often with their residents still inside them. So why on earth did they do that? Well so this was in the 1980s in Romania and many in Bucharest

it was under Chaucescu who wanted as a classic dictator fashion to create this enormous palace for the people which involved bulldozing basically the entire city and he destroyed hundreds of buildings it was very devastating because it was a really picturesque town which was sort of flattened but there were a few heroes who thought okay rather than them destroy these buildings let's quickly move them and so they got to work and they moved dozens almost a dozen churches and they moved lots of other buildings including a hospital a bank and sometimes whole apartment buildings which they just move up like pick up and shift a few hundred yards with the people still inside them. They must have told the people inside mustn't they? They did although

there was one occasion where they people had been told that they were going to be moving their buildings at 9 a.m. and so most of the residents thought I'll just pack my suitcases and get out for that little period and it turned out it was 6 a.m. so they all got up at 9 and looked out their windows and were like oh my god. This was mainly one guy wasn't it who came up with the idea who passed away just this year and I'll attempt to say his name and then Anna can say it correctly after me Eugenio Lodalscu. Wow. I mean you got the first letter of his name completely wrong it's an I not an L. Oh that's an I. Okay you're Decescu? Yeah you're Decescu. Eugenio you're Decescu. That's who I said and so he died this year very sadly and he got the idea for it because he hated

the idea that these this was a rescue mission these were meant to be demolished and he thought that's unacceptable a lot of these were very beautiful churches that he wanted to survive and so he was sitting in a restaurant one day and he saw a waiter passing by carrying on a tray the the drinks that he was bringing to a table and he looked at that tray system and he thought that's how we could be doing this and then he started a search for the largest waiter in the world yeah you sounded so much like Jeremy Clarkson I know he didn't do that he built some rail tracks he basically built more mini railways didn't he that he so he could sort of roll them along into their new area so if you go to Bucharest now then you can see these old buildings sort of

hiding behind the huge ugly new soviet ones there'll be a lovely little church suddenly so the actually that parliament that was built you know that everything else was being demolished and moved to make way for it wiped out one fifth of the historic centre of the entire city that's how big it is and it took a third of the country's budget for several years a third of the budget of the whole country and it was so it was planned by Ceausescu but the chief architect Anker Petrescu was only 28 and the BBC described her as arguably the world's worst architect I've seen that it's not that bad I think it looks quite nice actually yeah and one of the buildings that they did destroy and didn't move was Brent Covinescu Hospital and the reason they did that

is quite long-winded so basically David Steele who was the leader of the Liberal Party in Britain gave Ceausescu a pet dog who Ceausescu absolutely loved okay so he made the dog a corporal in the army I mean he was a dictator he did crazy shit like that and then they went to this hospital and the hospital had had problems with rats and so they got cats in the hospital to chase after the rats and then the dog came in and got in a big fight with one of the cats and then because he'd been injured by a cat Ceausescu went I'm afraid this hospital has to go and the very next day the order came in for the hospital to be demolished all because this corporal dog had been beaten up by a cat at what point do you realise you are the bad guy when you're wow I mean this this dog

was called Corbu he was really loved by Ceausescu so much so that the Romanian ambassador in London used to go to Sainsbury's every week to buy Winnellott Prime to send back to Bucharest in a diplomatic bag wow yeah he was crazy he used and in fact the guy you order Ceausescu got permission to move all of these buildings but Ceausescu was so impatient to knock them down that he knocked a lot of them down even though they were supposed to be moved and there was one that he wanted to knock down but all the workers refused to do it was this beautiful old church I think it was medieval and so he had to release people from prison to employ them to knock down this building but his palace was incredible so his palace which he called the People's Palace I think or Palace of the

People which is one of those ironic titles its Union Hall featured two huge spiral staircases and that was so that he and his wife Elena could descend simultaneously from different sides of it and also he made them rebuild the staircase twice that he was supposed to walk down because he was really short and very paranoid about his height so as soon as they made the steps a bit too hard for him to stretch down he was like no get rid of it it makes me feel small wait how short was he wasn't a borrower there were a thousand steps to descend one meter that's amazing I mean that's still there as well isn't it that building all that stuff yeah yeah god yeah I've got one more fact actually about Ceausescu so yeah as we've said not a nice guy had 20,000 political

prisoners really just such a bad guy um he ruled that you had to have at least five children or face a fine wow five that's a lot but so he has had a state visit to Britain he had a state visit to Britain in 1978 and it was a big political thing because you know we were trying to pry uh prioromania away from the Soviet Union and they were kind of semi-independent of that but anyway it was very embarrassing and it was you know it was the most embarrassing state visit until last year um anyway so that you know it was awful but during that visit is one of my favorite ever anecdotes happened which is that Queen Elizabeth hid in a bush with her dogs to avoid him she really didn't want to have him she'd be having a terrible time and then she

was walking her dogs in Buckingham Palace Gardens and she saw him coming the other way and she jumped into a bush amazing he was really paranoid that people would poison his clothes so he only wore clothes that have been under constant surveillance he also um when he met Queen Elizabeth he washed his hands with alcohol immediately after shaking her hands because he was worried that he'd been poisoned wow what you'd have to be pretty top level to recruit the queen to be an assassin it's always a person you least expect wow just on buildings in Romania yeah the weird thing about this is this wasn't the only instance in which people in Romania were in buildings that were suddenly moved so um there was

also a separate project in Alba Julia which is another city in Romania where there was this big Soviet actually apartment block and he Chalcescu then wanted to build this huge boulevard and he happened to want to build it right through the middle of this Soviet apartment block so the only thing to do was cut it in half and shift one half to one side of the road and one half to the other apparently it was very smooth it took five hours and forty minutes and one woman put a glass of water on her balcony throughout the whole thing and none of it spilled wow impressive but sometimes because they move buildings on rollers in other countries too sometimes it's really rare but it happened so in boston in 1869 that long ago they had to widen the street so they had to

say to the hotel on the street can you just move back a bit um and it took three months because they obviously it was a 19th century and um but over that time the first floor businesses and all lots of residents stayed in place during those three months and the amazing thing was the plumbing and gas services stayed on because they had flexible tubes but it's so confusing if you're going to visit your friend who you haven't seen for a couple of months and you find yourself knocking on an empty space where the door used to be that actually happened there's a place called Hibbing in America where they had to move because there was a mine underneath the town and um there was a few things that happened so there was um a woman who went into labor in one town and then

gave birth in the other town because they moved the whole town along there and because they moved the entire town house by house to this new place they put it back not exactly in the same way as they left it and so people who had like grown up there came back you know 30 years later and they're like i'm sure there used to be a co-op there that's so good that's amazing there was in a in America in 2016 um they wanted to knock down Rosa Parks house um they wanted to demolish it and no one was really sticking up for it and there was one artist who said we can't let this happen so he bought it for $500 American and this is in Detroit and he said we we have to keep this house so he looked to people to to sell it to to say can you can you now take on the costs and maybe we

can relocate it but no one took it so he had to bring it home with him to Berlin and Rosa Parks's Detroit house was dismantled and rebuilt in Berlin and was sitting there for about two years and it went back to America and then i think it might have to move back to Berlin because they don't want it again what yeah this is absolutely true so the house was completely dismantled shipped to Berlin and sat in the backyard of this artist's house that's why is it now having to go back there surely if they don't want it a second time you just gotta chuck it away she won't mind he wanted to get it back there so he kept saying let's get it back there and that's so annoying for a woman who you know who's kind of main claim to fame and publicity and her big moment

was not moving from a spot i wonder which is the back of the boss out of Berlin and America and we're gonna have to move on very shortly to our next fact i just got one little thing it's it's just that so i was trying to find out what the biggest thing you can move a thing on is so okay so do you mean the thing on which the thing is exactly the thing which is on top of the thing which i'm moving the lower thing the thing supporting the bigger thing these are all great google search terms so it just is just a cool thing so nasa they have to move sometimes a launch tower and i didn't know the launch towers ever moved but sometimes they have to drag them around and they've got a they've got a thing which is called a crawler a crawler transporter

and it's massive okay so you have to have a degree in engineering just to drive it there are only four qualified drivers on the planet there are there are only two of these things in the whole in the whole world and you only drive it for 35 minutes even if you are one of the drivers and then you have to swap with someone else because it's just so mentally exhausting driving a nasa launch tower which weighs five million kilos so it's big wow one gallon of petrol gets you about 15 yards is it like a maximum speed limit of like one mile an hour or something yeah if that is really slow so are there there are just petrol stations literally just back to back all the way i'm actually just one super quick building removal in 1903 there was a

mansion called the captain samuel brown mansion in pennsylvania and it had to be demolished because they were building a railway and a descendant of the original owner said would you mind rather than demolishing it just moving it 160 feet up that massive cliff next to it that would be really nice and so they for some reason the authorities agreed to this and so 160 feet is quite a lot almost sheer cliff so they had to excavate the entire cliff and they put these giant shelves in it so they put four enormous shelves and then they lifted it up on winches one shelf at a time that were powered by horses that he had 20 000 beams to do it so pulled it up onto one shelf plopped it down horses had a rest pulled it up onto the next one and it eventually cost more than the original

house it cost to build and then extremely soon afterwards it was completely destroyed in a fire embarrassing okay it is time for fact number three and that is my fact my fact this week is when at home freddy mercury slept in a queen size bed so nice to know that um this was freddy mercury's final home that he lived in it was in london he bought it from a big banking family called the whore family so he referred to it as the whore house and his partner jim hutton who was with him for about the last seven years of his life and he gives a fantastic description in this book he wrote memoir about his time with freddy called mercury and me in which he describes the top floor of freddy's london house which was three

rooms that were the walls were smashed down and made into one big room there was a big dome and he said in the corner was freddy's queen size bed and uh yeah do we know if it was deliberately chosen for the wordplay no i it probably wasn't it's just a nice little detail that is skitted over as he's describing the room yeah yeah i have read that book as well or i got it on kendall and then i i just searched through it for references to beds so you've read it yeah yeah the only other reference i could find to how he liked to sleep was that um when they went to japan he embraced the way of life of the japanese and liked to sleep on the floor so he really liked sleeping on the floor um so but he didn't really embrace it as far as learning the language because he only learned

two words in japanese domo and mushy mushy which he said at every opportunity freddy mercury was a very interesting guy i i i found that he once had a verbal spat this is one of the famous stories about him he once had a verbal spat with um cid vicious from the sax pistols and he managed to infuriate cid vicious by deliberately misnaming him simon ferocious did he have four extra teeth he did yes did he had four extra teeth behind his first teeth yeah really is that why he had such protruding first teeth front teeth yes it is yeah because he used to be called bucky balsara that was his nickname at school because buck toothed and he was born uh farok balsara he was born in zanzibar and his parents were originally indian weren't they and so yeah farok balsara bucky balsara

yeah he never got rid of them because the worry was it would affect his vocal chords he had such a fantastic range so his problem in life was do i go for vanity or do i go for what i love music and he went for music so queen of very famous for having big extravagant parties um and there are lots of lurid stories about you know dwarves with cocaine on their heads and all this stuff but roger taylor the drummer said another thing they had at their parties i can't believe this they had basically a specific party consultant he said we had a man whose job was to find unusual people and in america he hired a guy whose thing was to lie on the ground covered in these great big cold meat collations that americans love he would be completely covered by meat and then

he would shift and make the meats move the idea was to freak people out i can imagine that freaking me out i had a load of greg sausage rolls on a table and suddenly one of them wiggled around wow so it just draped in salami when it's just lying on the ground covering me and this huge pile of meat would start sort of writhing around i think that's a great party trick but surely people can tell if i went to get meat of something i think i could tell if i was getting it off a plate or a person or was it so many of us he was just so covered in meat so covered okay he was completely covered in meat i can't that was his thing how did he breathe did he have like a straw coming out through the meat he must have done right i imagine you would have to have a straw yeah

always look out for the straw if you see a big pile of meat yeah or he could have had a scuba gear on but with a full yeah with a full time but then you need even more meat to cover the oxygen tank and the flippers of course so i would you'd roll up bits of salami and use them as the straw and then breathe through them brilliant so do you know that the um bohemian rhapsody the movie that's now won all these oscars what do you want to stop talking about meat man the single greatest party man we've never heard of what was i thinking sorry there was apparently there was also a woman who offered for a hundred thousand dollars to decapitate herself with a chainsaw what i don't i'm not sure they had

that at the party i don't think so that's quite a low price for doing that it's kind of irrelevant price is it of course you're gonna spend it on some blue tack sorry sorry dan you were sorry if i could just mention a fact um so bohemian rhapsody um we rami malik was the actor playing freddy murky but it was originally when it's been in production for many many years in pre-production rather and sasha baron cohen ali g was meant to play freddy murky and he got fired because he wanted it to be the more the meat man party kind of stuff going on and the decapitation and they said no we need to do it differently but he said this interesting thing which was he was talking to one of the members of the band didn't name who

but he said the person the band member said you know this is such a great movie because it's got such an amazing thing that happens in the middle and and sasha said well what happens in the middle of the movie and he said well you know freddy dies and so sasha went but what happens in the second half of the movie then like that's why people are there to see it they're there to see freddy and they said well you know they then see a band that goes from strength to strength so the original idea was that we were gonna watch how queen sort of became who they really were post freddy really yeah and i'm not sure that i mean they've done some good things but the only real fun thing i could find uh in musically from brian may who was the guitarist was that in 2003 he set up a band with

brian blessed um i mean that's good oh here we go yeah um they were part of an animal rights groups to protect the badger um is it good uh good yeah yeah they were they were they were um they were called team badger um and yeah and they released a song uh which was called save the badger badger and um and then they formed another band uh with david attenborough and slash the guitarist from guns and roses oh my god to create a super group this is brian may um and they were called the artful badger and um and they released a song dedicated to badgers called badger swagger i'll be honest i want to watch this film yeah um i would have had it we're in the second half freddy murk it'll vampire freddy mercury comes back but he's got extra teeth so he's more of a risk but we we should

probably say since brian may is on topic that um he is a really cool guy in his own right so he finished his thesis his doctoral thesis maybe you guys know that he's a physicist um and he wanted to do physics and then he got involved in this whole queen shenanigan but he went back to doing his thesis and in 2007 then he submitted it it's a survey of radial velocities in the zodiacal dust cloud and he submitted it 37 years after starting the research which is actually harder than most theses because you have to catch up on the intervening 33 years of research which have been quite a lot but he was studying a super interesting thing so zodiacal light is this it's a misty cone of light that appears a few hours before sunrise in the east or a few hours

after sunset in the west and it's what we call false dawn so we've all kind of seen it and you often think it's sort of a town on the horizon or something it's actually the reflected sunlight sort of shining of scattered bits of dust in the solar system and they only worked out really what it was a few years ago um but yeah that's what that's what his whole thesis is on and he just did it very cool i preferred his team badger stuff okay it is time for our final fact of the show and that is james okay my fact this week is that according to people who make their livings walking on fire and walking on broken glass neither is as painful as walking on lego amazing this is true so um this was an article from the smithsonian they were talking to a guy

called scott bell who is a former fire walking world record holder and he now runs a company where they do walking on fire walking on glass and walking on lego and he still does the glass and the fire but he refuses to do the lego stuff no way and the basically the reason is that walking on fire as long as you do it quite quickly is not that bad at all because the conductivity of the coals is not so great um the glass if you walk on it they really make it very very small and so when you step on it it kind of moves around underneath your feet but lego do not move at all and so and they're really hard and they're really pointy and i don't need to tell you guys that it's fucking painful when you stand up and so when you're walking across them there's

nowhere for them to go they just stay there and they just dig into your feet and they're really really painful and so he refuses to do it it's such it's a really good article the smithsonian because they talk about how much mass lego can withstand before it crumples or goes and every single brick can withstand a mass of 400 kilos before it even starts moving what it means is that you know that scene in diehard where bruce willis is crawling over broken glass if he'd been crawling over lego that would have been a really exciting scene just the glass bit in that article they got that confirmation that it hurt more to go on lego from a a cabaret performer called bazoo the clown spelled k l o u n so this is a guy who juggles balls of barbed wire and he lets people staple

dollar bills to his chest he also walks on glass and he confirmed lego is just way worse yeah have there is a thing called the lego well i think there are some crazy youtube people who did a thing where they did a lego treadmill challenge so you're running on a treadmill but people in front of the treadmill are pouring lego from a bucket onto it and it just looks like the worst thing in the world that's a really good prank to play at the gym isn't it if you want to so you can't you can't walk on lego but you can't swallow it can't you so swallowing you're basically fine because that's if i need to walk into a room where a child's been i always walk in on my mouth this is that they put holes in the legs of lego they put sorry they put holes in the heads of

lego pieces so that if kids swallow them they can still breathe and in fact to really check this is okay there were six scientists a short while ago in the uk and australia who swallowed lego pieces themselves to allay parents fears that it would be a bad thing so they all swallowed these heads and they said that they all had different techniques so you had to swallow the heads and then work out how long they took to come out the other end yeah i mean they didn't work it out they just waited for it to come out and that was the other time well no but the working out is comes from the search because we're searching through your own feces can be quite difficult and they said they all use different techniques so they use chopsticks or forks some of them

squashed their poo into a ziploc bag so that they could find the lego piece in it if it was there and it sorry does everyone else not put their poo in a ziploc bag and they always hangs it on a tree as he walks around the town it must be so confusing if you had corn for dinner the night before they actually literally said this they said they didn't eat corn because that would be too confusing because those little yellow bits yeah dan you're a born scientist and anyway there were six scientists and for five of them the lego head came out within three days dead yeah yeah but you've got a five and six no it just never came out but we think it came out came out we think he didn't look in the bag properly he didn't look in the bag properly yeah but they all survived the experience

so because you won't just be thinking for the rest of your life i wonder if it's still in there and the face will gradually get sadder and sadder as it stayed in you everything is not awesome there is one awesome lego thing there is a crab who lives in a shell made of lego is there only one known to science but how did he get this he wasn't built in himself so where did he get it from he lives at lego land so really he's called harry the crab and he's a hermit crab and they they're the ones who move into empty seashells so the staff there they made him a shell out of lego and they gave him the choice of lots of shells and the lego one and he chose

the lego one really there are videos of film online just scuttling around with his lego house if you work at lego land you're known as a model citizen nice so they call themselves that's great that's good though isn't it what if you employ a criminal are you still calling that i didn't know where the name lego actually came from like the origin of it so it means play well in danish which i think we maybe have mentioned before but i didn't know that it was the result of a competition in 1934 by olly curt christensen who's the person who basically invented lego and he came up with a competition to name the new company that he was setting up the toy company and he opened it up to lots of friends and family and people in

his business and employees and he offered up a bottle of his own homemade wine as a prize so um at the end of it the winning entry was the name lego and it was his own entry cheers i had this weird echo in my head of you saying he offered a bottle of his own urine i think because we've been talking about frank buckland and about did i say his own you did you say he said his own homemade wine no but homemade wine is another way of putting it isn't it well very true do you know this is this is um just i found this quite fascinating because i don't understand maths but um you if you have you know what a qualifier how are your royal institution christmas

lecture series coming on so if you have a um a piece of lego that has eight studs in it and then you had six of those the combination of connecting those six different pieces to an eight studded lego brick is over nine hundred and fifteen million possibilities of how you can make those combinations yeah all the lego in the world could build you ten towers to the moon if you want to go with nine friends that you don't need a tower reach do you to get to the moon hang on each of you climbing up one piece of lego uh or one lego tower sorry one lego tower but mate is one piece wide i believe so yes yes i'm not doing that i don't think the integrity would hold yeah i would rather have one tower ten pieces wide yeah and then just have people follow behind you that makes a lot

i'm gonna redo my architectural plans for this you do not understand maths so they did a study quite recently another one where they put a bucket of old lego bricks inside a washing machine and just let it run they let it run for 70 minutes of 40 degrees celsius and they want then tuck it out to see what had happened and they found that some of the bricks had just automatically stuck together cool this is really cool right so they found that um quite a lot of two bricks had stuck together but then there were some as many as six or eight of them had stuck together and what people who did this study said now it's a bit of a stretch but they said that it was a bit like the primordial soup that happened at the start of life whoa and the building blocks of

life are like the building blocks of lego and maybe all of the RNA and DNA and proteins all came together in the same way as lego it is bullshit isn't it oh wow in a way we are all washing machine lego's yes imagine if you put a bunch of lego in the washing machine opened up an hour later and there was a massive pirate ship or something if you did it enough times that must happen that's the new infinite monkeys and infinite typewriter infinite washing machines with infinite amounts of lego inside will eventually form a pirate ship we're gonna have to wrap up I just got one more fact about trending on things you don't want to tread on okay please it's a fact from the news this week and it weirdly it involves ziploc bags um so in Cheshire this week a resident in Middlewich he

was really annoyed about the amount of dog poo around and he's 47 he walks his dog and he decided there was too much dog poo about so he said I'm going to turn it into a competition and he told the local newspaper I had a spare 20 pound note that I did not need so I put it in a ziploc bag and hid it under some dog poo and then notified his local neighbors and community oh my god he said I posted it on facebook and a lot of people got back to me the woman who found it said she had been looking for quite a long time I did not shake her hand should we wrap up okay that is it that is all of our facts thank you so much for listening if you would like to get in contact with any of us about the things that we have said over the course of this podcast we can be found

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