No Such Thing As A Fish - Little Fish: Get To The Bus!
Episode Date: July 19, 2026Dan, James and Andy discuss YOUR facts including jellyfish and Jesse Jackson. James sets the record straight over some slander that occurred while he was on holiday. And we name eight more Friend o...f the Podcast custodians. Visit nosuchthingasafish.com for news about live shows, merchandise and more episodes.Join Club Fish for ad-free episodes and exclusive bonus content at apple.co/nosuchthingasafish or nosuchthingasafish.com/patreonEdited by James HarkinProduced by Leying LeeTeam includes Tara Dorrell, Joe Mayo and Ethan Ruparelia
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Hello and welcome to another episode of Little Fish.
My name is James Harkin.
I am joined by Daniel Schreiber.
Hello.
Andrew Hunter Murray.
Hello.
And we are here with a whole load of your facts.
You've been sending them in to podcast at QI.com.
Andy has whittled them down to the very, very best.
We're going to choose the ones to read out, and then we're going to chat about them.
Then we'll do some more stuff at the end.
Then we'll all go home.
You guys are probably already at home.
Never mind.
Let's go.
Who's got a fact?
I've got one. Go for it.
All right. This one comes in from Fergal Finley.
And Fergal says,
My fact is that sliced bread was invented on the 7th of July 1928,
whereas National Treasure David Attenborough was born on the 8th of May, 1926.
Therefore, sliced bread is in fact the best thing since David Attenborough.
And we're off the blocks.
So that's a very small window of,
David Attenborough being the best thing.
Yeah, and he was only a baby at the time actually.
Hadn't really achieved too much at that point.
He'd achieve very little.
Yeah, yeah.
He probably crawled around sort of pointing at his pet tortoise going,
here we are.
Just a nice fact about sliced bread and David Ashtonbury being about the same age.
Yeah, I think it's always surprising how new sliced bread is.
Yeah.
And the famous fact is that it was advertised as the best thing since wrapped bread.
Yes.
That's so good.
And the idea being that you would slice your own bread is.
obviously, but rat bread was good because it would keep it fresh. And it stayed softer.
And it stays softer. You wouldn't want to have sliced bread before that because it would just
go stale really quickly. So once ratbread came in, then you could start slicing it. There's
no point having it before then. And thankfully, no one has ever sliced David Attenborough.
At time of recording.
Very nice. I've got one here from David Byrne. Now I'm hoping this is David Byrne,
lead singer the talking heads.
Maybe.
I mean, he would listen to something like this.
Do you think?
Yeah, he's a real nerd.
Is he?
Oh, he's wonderful.
Wow.
Yeah.
But other David, who this might be, I'm sure you're awesome too.
So.
David's head been talking.
It's been saying.
He says, my fact is, for the original predator film,
the studio had to hire a bodyguard to follow Sunny Landon around to protect other people from
sunny as he'd been getting into too many fights on the set. Oh, who does he play? Is he like one of the
soldiers? Yeah, he's one of the main guys. So you've got Arnold Schwarzenegger, you've got Jesse Jackson.
But he didn't play the Predator. No, he didn't. Jesse Jackson. Sorry, yeah, I said the wrong name.
The Civil Rights hero. He had, yeah, he had Jesse Jackson. Wow. MLK has a cameo, doesn't he?
He does and playing the role of Predator in the suit, Mother Teresa. So,
It's a real hell of a cast.
No, Jesse Ventura is who I meant to say.
What's interesting is that this guy, Sunny, he actually ran for governor in Kentucky.
And had he have got that, he would have been the third cast member who made it into politics as a governor in America.
Oh, because Schwarzenegger did.
Schwarzenegger did and Jesse Ventura did as well.
Oh, okay.
So he didn't make it, unfortunately.
And he was just very fighty and aggressive.
He was very aggressive and he was a big guy.
And he was totally fine on the set.
It turned out.
It wasn't needed.
But the studio for insurance purposes
thought we better protect this guy
from killing everyone else on set.
What's interesting as well is
someone famous was meant to be the predator.
So if you don't know this movie,
it was like an 80s action film,
Arnold Schwarzenegger,
and there was this monster.
It looks a bit like alien.
But he's kind of mostly invisible, wasn't it?
Yes.
It was always a bit of a problem for the film
that the baddie is mostly not visible.
But then he kind of comes visible.
sometimes. Is that right?
Yeah, yeah, yeah, he can turn it on and off.
And they use, I think, infrared to see him.
The body, or is that how he saw the face?
He sees them. He sees them. He sees them.
Because they get in the mud and they get really cold and he can't see them anymore.
Spoiler alert. Spoiler alert.
That's right at the ending. That's when Arnie's the only one left. Yeah.
Right. So the original person, though, who was inside the Predators suit that you do get to see at some point was John Claude Van Dam.
Oh, no. Yeah.
Was it?
Yeah. And he got fired from the set. And there's a lot of reasons that that might have happened.
Well, he had an argument on set with Rosa Parks, I believe.
Who was being one of the other Marines.
Get to the bus.
That's from that film.
Yeah, yeah.
To the chopper.
Wonderful.
Yeah.
One of the reasons was that he kept doing kickboxing in the suit and they were like,
it's just too much.
It's like tinky winky getting fired from teletubes.
That's very funny.
Okay, very good.
Here is a fact from Michael Bartmayer.
And I'm going to.
actually take his fact and then give you a different wording of it. Okay. Or maybe a question, actually. So
how old do you think is the oldest ever immortal jellyfish? Oh, uh, I'll say a hundred and
twenty one years. Okay. Big bang, right from the go.
Right from the origin. Came out of the explosion of the universe. Wow. Part of it. Wow. What is this?
I'm glad you didn't go the other way of trying to spoil the game because you would have won it.
So Michael writes that the problem with immortal jellyfish is they won't stop dying.
And he read this from Maria Pierre Miglietta, who's an associate professor of marine biology at Texas A&M.
And the thing is that theoretically, immortal jellyfish can live forever.
They become adults, and then when they get in a bit of danger, they become children again.
and then they go adult child, adult child,
and they can theoretically do it forever.
But in laboratory conditions,
it's almost impossible to keep them alive.
And the reason is,
you've got to have exactly the right amount of flow of water.
They're really small and delicate.
If you put too much water in,
they just fall apart.
And if you don't put enough in,
they kind of sink down to the bottom and fall apart.
And the longest ever that anyone's maintained a colony of them
was a guy called,
Shin Kobota at Kyoto University
and they managed to keep their colony alive for about two years
but that was lots of different ones
and I don't think that anyone's ever been able to keep
an immortal jellyfish alive for more than about a month
isn't that amazing?
That's very funny
because I think we wondered when we covered them on QI all those years ago
why are we not wading through them
if they are genuinely immortal
why the ocean's not just teeming with them
Yes, yeah.
Well, it turns out that just, if you just look at them, they explode.
That's brilliant.
Are we going to do anything to alter the name, do you think?
Well, they are immortal in theory.
Okay, in theory.
You could call them the theoretically immortal jellyfish.
That's cool, isn't it?
Yeah, yeah.
Tidge.
That's brilliant.
Just one more thing about them.
There's a candidate in the Singaporean elections called
Tiriptopsis Dorniai, T-O-N-Ming.
and the first two words of that name is the Latin
for a immortal jellyfish
and basically he's always in every election
but he loses in every election
you know a bit like Count Binface
and so he's changed his first name
to the immortal jellyfish Latin name
because he's a perennial candidate
very nice but always completely falls apart
that's lovely that's brilliant
I have a nautical oceanic
sea life based one as well actually
this comes in from Trevor Lland
But it's that. Great Yarmouth in Norfolk, for international listeners. Those are both places in the UK.
It's by the sea. It's by the sea. It's a place where you might go and retire once the city life is a bit too much for you.
Yeah, charming coastal place. And they have three river crossings, right? That's not the fact.
The river Yarr. Great Yarmouth is at the mouth of the Yarr, right?
Oh, Yarr mouth. Great. Yeah, my mouth is telling you.
that they have a bridge which they have a third one.
It just opened up in 2024.
So this is pretty new, exciting stuff,
because it's avoided a load of trouble.
You used to have to go right around the houses
and now it's made it life a lot easier for a lot of people,
this new bridge.
And Norfolk County Council ran a vote for the name
and it was either going to be the Queensgate
or the Britannia Bridge or the Yarbridge bridge or the Herring Bridge, right?
Herring Bridge won.
Now, that's because Great Yarmouth was a great town
for the herring industry, really important.
You know, the women who worked in the fishing industry, they were vital to it.
Herring girls.
Herring girls, it was one of the most important fishing ports in the whole UK.
It was a really important town for that.
Anyway, unfortunately, most of the votes saying this should be called the Herring Bridge
arrived after comedian Richard Herring told all his followers, name a bridge after me.
And then most of the votes came in after that point.
So even though they set up the vote saying this bridge is named after the Herring,
industry, we know that the reason this bridge is called the Herring Bridge, did it win in the
end?
Yeah, then the reason it's called that is because of Richard Herring.
Yeah.
So are you going to get him to write the forward to your book?
Yes.
That's amazing.
He's an example of the thing.
You know an example.
Yeah, that's pretty spooky.
Yeah.
That's cool.
So anyway, there you go.
And it costs 120 million quid.
And it's named after Richard Herring probably.
That's quite something.
That is cool.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Okay, still on Nautical.
Should we stay in the ocean?
Yeah.
Kay Stone writes, knowing how fond you all are about the weird animal organ called the cloaca.
Thought you might enjoy this article published in the New York Times.
And she's given a small excerpt here, which says, when danger calls, some animals bear their teeth.
Others take to the sky or curl into protective balls.
But the remora, a fish that often hitches a ride on a larger marine animal like a sea turtle or whale, sometimes follows a less dignified strategy.
It disappears inside a Manta ray's rear end.
And this is a new discovery.
The Rommora does what is known as cloacal diving.
And according to a scientist who looked into this called Catherine McDonald,
it does not look like the Manta ray likes it.
When you climb up a manta, but you say it's just banta, that's Romora.
Yeah, nice.
Very good.
It's not bad.
It's not bad.
It's not bad.
I didn't say it was.
my face just said that. You looked bad. Yeah. So, yeah, this is a new discovery, but the remora,
pretty fascinating animal. It's used for fishing as well, the remora. Is it? Yeah, it's a really
interesting process because you would attach the remora to your fishing line, you lower it down,
it sucks onto the animal below, and then you bring it back up. Wow. So it's a sort of reusable
bit of bait because you can then take it off and put it back in. That's incredible. The bait sort of
eats the fish in a way. Yeah, or
just holds on to enough of it.
So like a turtle, for example, if you're looking to get
turtles, you might put a couple
of remorres, you might put a few of them.
No. That's what they're. It's what it says.
It's what it says. Give over.
That's what it says. Give over.
I've never heard such cobbler's.
Well, it's cited in a book from 1787.
Oh, wow, that case.
Well, yeah, yeah.
It's 300-year-old knowledge, then
can't be wrong, can it?
Okay, speaking of fishing, I have a fact here from Mark Fisher.
Beautiful segue.
And Mark Fisher has given me a fact.
I say given me because I think this is one especially for me.
Mark says that it takes six containers to get 100,000, hundreds and thousands.
And Mark attaches the calculations, which I won't subject you all to.
But for Americans, these are sprinkles that you put on like fairy cakes and stuff.
and Mark has taken a load of them, put them on some scales, weighed how much they each weigh,
and then worked out how many you get in each container, and then worked out how many you
get how many you would need in order to get 100,000.
And the answer is six, and looking at the working out, I absolutely believe him.
Oh, it's so nice when a fact does not harkin, but surprising.
No, feel very happy with this. I think the maths is all good.
But fancy a game.
Yeah.
Realizing that Americans call hundreds and thousands sprinkles, we call them hundreds and thousands, I've looked at what they're called in lots of other languages, and I want you to tell me whether the following is the translation of a word for hundreds of thousands in another language, or an item you can buy on Gwyneth Paltrow's website goop.com.
Okay.
So smile makers.
someone's banging away next door
sounds like someone's been on goop.com already
I'm going to say
hundreds and thousands of smile makers
well I'll go for goop then
Dan is correct
Doopcom next one
Star Bullets
Hundreds and thousands
It's Goop
Yes
mouse droppings
He's all going to be from goop.com
You're going to go on a sex toy website
and buy some mouse
droppings.
Goop.com.
Final answer.
Hundreds of thousands,
it is.
They're called
Mizenstronchus
in Belgian Dutch.
And I messaged Levin
to ask if that was true
and he said 100%.
They're called mouse shit,
really, is what they call them.
Love pearls.
Oh, goop.
Well, yeah, I've got those.
Goop.
It is the German
word.
Vibish spelling for hundreds and thousands.
Oh, wow.
And finally, Viva Lavalva.
Hundreds of thousands.
Hundreds of thousands.
That was on my son's fifth birthday cake.
Can you believe she's got a sex toy called Viva Lavalavala.
Well, her husband, yes, Chris Martin, former husband.
Yeah.
He had an album that was called Viva La Vida.
Yeah.
Oh, that's very clever.
That is good.
That's fun.
I think that's fun.
I wasn't keep his scores.
I don't think anyone.
Cas.
I would just say
they're not called
hundreds of thousands.
Hundreds and thousands.
That's what I'm saying.
They're not called hundreds of thousands.
They're not claiming there are hundreds of thousands in everyone.
I mean,
if they're being really accurate,
they'd call it 16,000 roughly.
I know what you mean.
But I suppose if you call them hundreds and thousands,
then the word hundreds becomes a little bit obsolete.
Because having a thousand implies that there's at least 100.
That's true.
It's a bad name. Love Pearls is much better.
Here's one from Sarah Logan.
This is about something that uses water.
So it's very interesting.
They sort of group themselves, the facts.
Like, we had a load of naval fish-based ones in the same week,
and they just sort of bunched together.
Do you think it's that, or do you think you're just shoe-hawning them into that category?
Can't be that.
Can't be that.
Let's go to Sarah's fact.
Sarah Logan writes,
She listened to a very old episode recently
where we were excited to learn
about the song played at the end of a Samsung
Wash cycle
DeForella by Schubert
Yeah yeah
And that does about some kind of fish
Isn't it?
I think it is it's the trout
Oh is it
I think it might be right
You definitely did one called the trout
Yeah
I don't know if it's the same one
Well the bizarre thing is
There are many models
Of Fisher and Pakel
Toploading washing machines
That with the right prompting
Will play you
The New Zealand National Anthem
What?
Isn't that good?
Yeah. It's just an Easter egg.
They've got a couple of national anthems loaded in.
But if you get the right buttons on your right washing machine,
it'll play you, go on New Zealand or whatever the national anthem's called.
Go on New Zealand?
I don't know it. I don't know the name.
Do they have them all? Do you know?
No, I think it's just, go on New Zealand.
Deutsche, Deutschland, Newberalice.
That's the one.
That's the one you've got, of course.
Have we established that you're quite into Hitler at the
moment in previous episode.
I don't think I'm into Hitler, I wouldn't say.
No.
But I'm a Second World War History buff.
I'll go that far.
Dan's got all the stuff in his shed.
Nice try, buddy.
Nice try.
One more fact before we go on to custodianship.
Yeah.
I've got one here from Sebastian Bro,
who says, my favorite fact is that the heat released in the Mani-Cooigan impact crater
was so intense that it took between 1,000,
600 and 5,000 years before the melted rocks cooled.
Yeah.
It's insane.
Is that the dinosaur one in Mexico?
It was...
I thought that was called Chick-Shallab.
That's the big one, but this was during the time of the dinosaurs.
Oh, okay.
It was near the end of the Triassic period.
It was an asteroid that was five kilometers wide, and it hit what is now Canada today.
And it kind of create...
You can see it from out of space, and it's kind of one of those shots that a lot of astronauts on the ISS like to get a shot of,
because there's a visible ring of water.
It's the annula lake.
Yes.
I do know this one.
Yeah, yeah.
The Eye of Quebec.
And it's an island because the land raised as well.
And then I think the humans diverters some water there or something.
But what happened is you've got an island with a lake around it.
And the area of the island is larger than the area of the lake that it's in.
Don't like it.
I don't like it.
What do you mean?
No, what do you mean?
If you take your cup that's,
on that round coaster.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
The area of the bottom of the cup is bigger
than the area that you can see of the coaster.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Nice.
Isn't that cool?
I think I'm almost certain it's that one.
Eye of Quebec is so metal.
Yeah.
So cool.
And yeah, really amazing that that distance of time for something to cool.
It was cooling down for 5,000 years.
That's stunning.
Yeah.
And this was a fact that Sebastian sent here.
I'd give it 5,000 years if I were you.
By the way, I think it was because the,
it wasn't the,
asteroid itself, the rocks from that that was hot. I think it's what it exposed underneath and it sort of melted that and created that. But yeah, this fact, Sebastian found it from this guy's website. He's called crater explorer. And it's a fascinating website. I highly recommend if you're interested in this kind of stuff to go because it's quite old school. So it's one of those sites where this guy's just put everything on there. He's a creator creator. Curator, creator, creator of creators. Content. Creator.
Doesn't quite work, does it?
No.
Creator curator works like a charm.
Yeah, we'll go with that.
What does he go with?
Crater Explorer.
Yeah, probably why.
You probably tried all these other ones and they didn't quite work.
Yeah.
Wow.
Okay, well, thank you very much for that fact, Dan.
Thank you for all your facts, Andy.
But actually, thank you most of all to the people at home who sent the facts in.
And we are going to thank you back by giving you some of our old facts in the form of our curator ship.
If you would like one of these facts, then all you have to do is go to patreon.com slash clubfish,
join at the top level, which is friend of the podcast, and we will give you your own fact.
Okay, which of you guys is going to give us the first curatorship today?
I'll dish one out to Randall Cleaver.
And it's that every second a star in the universe explodes.
They think it'd be tired by now.
Very good.
No, it's a different star each side.
It's a different star every time.
Do you know, Beetlejuice is going to explode soon?
I didn't know that.
What does that mean for us?
Might be a good light show in the sky.
Wow.
But when we say it's going to explode soon,
does that mean that the light will reach us in kind of 400 years?
Well, we don't know if it's exploded 500 years ago.
Right.
Because the light hasn't reached us yet.
But certainly it's well overdue,
and it's doing some funky stuff.
Oh.
Like sending off different colors and stuff that we think that it might go soon.
And when it does, it'll be worldwide news,
because it's one of the most obvious stars in the sky.
Yeah.
It'll be a supernova.
But it might have happened 400 years ago, but we don't know.
Absolutely.
That's exciting.
Do they think possibly within our lifetime?
It could happen tomorrow.
Oh, my goodness.
It could happen.
Before this show goes out, it could have happened.
Or probably after we've all long gone.
Wow.
Will it be a bright sky?
It'll be very noticeable.
You might be able to see it in daytime.
Oh, that's cool.
That is very cool.
Yeah.
Wow.
That's a great fact.
That is an amazing.
fact. Here, let's give another one out. James, why don't you do this one?
Okay, this next one is under the curatorship of Fiona Maguire Jennings. That isn't hard at all.
I don't know why you didn't want to read that out. The fact is that the Tlatel Camila cannibals of ancient Mexico ate the human flesh with chili sauce.
Really nice. Really nice.
It's supposed to taste like pork.
Isn't it? Human flesh.
Is it no?
Long pig.
Oh, I've heard long pig.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
James, you must have tried it at some point on your travel.
You've tried all so much creative stuff.
Can I just say?
I edited the Jamie Martin podcast earlier this week.
And just for the record, I have not eaten the dog's penis.
Well, you might have, have you ever been to a greggs?
No, I've never been to a greggs.
Oh, then you may have avoided it altogether.
They do vegan dogs penises
In fact, I cut it from the main show
So if you're watching this, you might not remember it
It's in the Excel version which you'll only get
If you're a member of the middle tier of clubfish
Yeah, yeah, yeah
I have eaten Bulls testicles
Which is what you were half remembering
Was it Andy?
I can't remember
No, I think it was Anna who said that
I needed maybe the penis of a Labrador
Wow, she worked for a specific
a big breed. What a false
memories I have of James that you're just
happy to put out on a podcast.
James is eating Labradordoodle dick.
Labradoodle. Was it Labradoodle?
A Labrador's doodle.
I think that's how she introduces me to her friends.
She's like, oh, my friend James
is coming around. Oh yeah. Oh, you'll remember him.
It's the one who I... Oh, dear.
Oh, my God. There's nothing wrong with Greg's.
Let's do another one. Dan, do you want to...
Yeah, this is Emma Wood.
You are now the custodian of dogs aren't allowed.
We're doing the two-all radios have changed his place.
Dogs aren't allowed at Selwyn College, Cambridge.
So the master's Basset Hound has been reclassified as a very large cat.
Lovely.
That's really good.
Lovely.
And was this the one also with Byron's bear, maybe?
Oh, the same college.
Cambridge was the same.
Yeah, I don't know what college he went to, but...
He was at Cambridge, yeah.
Yeah, yeah.
I don't think he was at Selwyn.
But similarly, he wasn't allowed some animal, but he was allowed a bear.
Is that right?
That's something like it.
That's the story.
I've never known how true it is, and I've never, I never wanted to check.
It's one of those two good to check ones.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Well, what point can you keep a bear in theory until it turns on you?
Have you ever watched Gentle Ben?
No.
What's that?
It's a TV show, maybe?
Or a movie?
No, it's a TV show, I think, from America, about a family that has a bear.
But he's very gentle, hence the name.
It doesn't turn on them.
Well, season seven is called Fischer's Ben.
At that stage, things do go a bit awry.
Yeah, yeah.
I know it doesn't turn on them.
Should we have another one?
Yes.
This one goes out to Janus Vermak.
Janus, your fact is,
according to the diary of the first chief of MI6,
this is how the first day went.
Quotes, went to the office,
saw no one, nor was there anything to do there.
Wow, they're good, those spies, aren't they?
Yeah.
As soon as he left, they all were hiding behind the plant pots going, ha ha!
That should be it.
He should walk into an empty office every day, and if he spots anyone, they're fired.
Yeah, brilliant.
You're not good at your job, buddy.
This was, this, I love this, mansefield coming, was it?
It was called, yeah, Mansfield Coming.
And this was a book that when I first started QI, I bought this book just called C,
which was all about him.
And it was the most enjoyable thing
of just finding all these incredible facts
about this one human,
something we love doing on fish all the time.
He used to have a wooden leg
and go around on a scooter.
And I think he was busted
when he went into Germany once
trying to pretend to be a soldier
but didn't speak a word of German
and was busted immediately
when they said hello to him.
You'd think you'd at least learn hello.
You'd think you'd have that.
I mean, it's hello.
It's not.
He went to in and went,
Bonjour.
Oh shit.
Okay, here is one more.
This one is going out to Connie Ball.
And Connie, your fact is that there is a distillery in Kentucky
that claims playing Bruce Springsteen to the whiskey
improves the aging process.
Very nice.
Very nice.
That happens a lot now.
You hear a lot of these studies where rock and roll is used or...
I remember they played metal to sperms for the IBF process.
Wow.
Yeah, there was also in Japan.
I think it was called rising Beethoven bread, something like that,
where you would play Beethoven to the bread and, yeah.
Wait, why don't they call it Bait Hovis?
Why do I have to do all the work around here?
Hovis.
Hovus is not the name of a bread company in Japan.
Well, I can't do I, but just, do you know what I mean?
What about Baked Hoven?
Bakedhoven.
There we go.
That's better.
Bate oven. There's a lot to do here, isn't it?
Who thought this name would give so much
to the world of branded ovens?
It's just ridiculous, isn't it?
You know, we're out here every day
creating value that's not being picked up.
If these people were still trading
because I'm sure they're not
and they heard this, do you think they think
we need to change our name guys?
Biggest forehead slap of all time.
Yeah.
Do you think?
They're probably saying,
maybe if you had the brains of these guys,
we would still be operating, honey.
Rising Beethoven bread
What a dumb name
Bakedhoven
Perfect
Let's have another
This one goes out
To Rupert Davis
Rupert
Doesn't actually have Patreon
But
But he's 10
But it has been arranged on his behalf
And
Hope you enjoyed all the dog penis talk
Sorry
Sorry Rupert
Sorry Rupert's parents
Sorry everyone who's listening
Absolutely. Yeah. But Rupert, your fact now and forever is that there is a statue of Nikola Tesla in Silicon Valley which radiates free Wi-Fi. I'm sure it's still there. And this is just a great fact about Nikola Tesla, the mad scientist, the original mad scientist almost. Yeah. Yeah.
Very, very cool. Lover of pigeons, inventor of death rays and purveyor of Wi-Fi.
The man who have entered the 20th century
He's sometimes known
Congratulations, Rupert
We got another one here
This is going out to Jason Kidd
What if that's Jason Kidd the basketball player
Probably
A third of people in Britain
Have written almost nothing by hand
In the last six months
Wow
This fact went out in 2017
Do we reckon there's been a great renaissance
In handwriting since then?
I suppose not
I think it might be more people who have written very little by hand in the last six months since then.
Okay, one more, I think, for today.
And that fact is now under the custodianship of Tom Viat.
And Tom, your fact is that the first man to swim the English Channel later had a show where he floated in a tank for two hours.
Wonderful.
Matthew Webb?
Yeah, Captain Webb.
Captain Webb.
Or was it David Blaine?
I can't remember.
Did he drown?
Captain Webb.
I feel like Captain Webb eventually drowned doing something.
Did he?
Yeah.
I'm not really sure about that.
The first thing that came into my head was the first person who went over the Niagara Falls,
or first man maybe who went over Niagara Falls and a barrel died after slipping on an orange peel.
Yes.
Archibald Leach.
But Captain Webb, I don't know whether he died or not.
I know that he basically just went on doing swimming tricks for quite a while.
And obviously you can't sell tickets to people to see you swimming.
long distances because they need to be on the boat of.
They have to follow you, right?
So you have to do like lots of acrobatics and stuff, I think.
I've just checked.
I'm afraid he did drown.
Did he?
Over Niagara Falls.
What?
Did he?
That's probably why the Niagara Falls thing came into my head.
And I'm just going to say it's Bobby Leach, not Archibald Leach.
Archibald Leach was Kerry Grant.
That was his real name.
You know what?
All these facts are in my head, but they just all mix up in different ways.
I love that as a show.
You can't bring the English channel to the stage.
but you can bring a little tank of water
and show what you look like in the water.
It's amazing.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Amazing innovation.
And I can confirm that audiences like to see someone struggling
and treading water for an extended period of time
because I sometimes do the intros and outos for this show.
And it might be time for another one of those now.
So, thank you so much to Tom, Jason, Rupert, Connie, Janus, Emma, Fiona,
and Randall.
Thank you so much for,
coming custodians of facts and for supporting no such things of fish on Patreon.
If you would like to do so too, go to patreon.com slash clubfish and you can become a friend of
the podcast there or if you would like us to read out some of your facts, send them to
podcast.q.com and Andy will save all the best ones for himself and send all the other ones to the
rest of us.
Busted.
And then we will greet them out on Little Fish.
Thank you again for listening.
Thank you, Andy and Dan for being here.
Thank you, James.
Thank you.
About time someone liked me.
Goodbye.
