No Such Thing As A Fish - Little Fish: Now You Three Me

Episode Date: December 1, 2025

Dan, James and Andy discuss YOUR facts. In episode five, subjects include cork, clocks, Patsy Cline and Ming Campbell. We also meet eight more listeners who have become Custodians of Fish Facts.

Hello and welcome to an episode, episode number five in fact, of Little Fish. Little Fish is the show where you send in your best facts and we rip them to pieces or, and hopefully most of this this week, we tell you how great they are. And we've done a little bit more research on each one of them so we can tell you a little bit more if we found some. So let's have no further ado. Andy, give us a fact. All right. Izzy Turner writes him with a fact about the St. Anne's Church in Cork City.

Cork City. Beautiful city. Yeah. It makes it sound like a factory town like, welcome to Cork City, son. We make all the Cork, but that's not it. Can't grow cork in Ireland. Wrong climate. So what's the...

Right, it's not about the etymology of the name Cork. No. And Izzy's fact, but there will be a Cork city somewhere, right? Yeah, Portugal. Portugal. What's... Tunisia is a huge cork... My understanding is Portugal is the world's largest exporter of cork.

And the reason I think that is because I've been to cork city, as in a city that makes corks. And I bought a cork bow tie from that city. And if I ever have to wear a bow tie, I still wear the one that's made out of cork. I'm believing James. I don't know why. It's something about what he said. And you know what? With a cork bow tie, if you're ever on a boat and accidentally fall overboard, that stuff floats. Well, there you go.

But it'll float so much that your neck will be out of the water. But unfortunately, your head will be some... Yeah, it's just... I'm googling cork production stats now. Yeah, and I'm so sure that Tunisia has a higher cork production than Portugal. Okay, I've googled it, and I don't want to talk about this anymore. Izzy's fact is about St. Anne's Church in Cork City. And all four clocks on the faces of the clock tower display a different time to each other.

Amazing. And the clock is known. as the four-faced liar. So none of them's right. I think they're all roughly right, but they're all different to each other. Oh, so it's not like a London, Paris, Tokyo. No, it's all like 315, 319, 324. It's like, ugh.

Question, so I have two people I know. One of them's my wife and the other one's Atta Tishinsky, who regularly have their clocks set to the wrong time so that they're never late for things. Oh, I do that too, yeah. You do that, Andy? My cassio naturally runs fast due to my body heat, but... What?

I don't remember that as part of Einstein's... Because, you know, it's a quartz watch. It's got a wafer of quartz inside. A wafer of quartz. A wafer of quartz. If you run an electric current through it, it vibrates a certain number of times per second. And under warmer temperatures, it vibrates more. Does it?

And that means that your watch runs slightly fast. So on a hot day, your cassio will gain... I can't tell if you're telling the truth. I'm telling it. This is gospel. How much time, like, I'll set mine to maybe 10 minutes faster. Yeah, you won't arrive. You're not suddenly going to be arriving 10 minutes early for things on a warmer day.

You're running, like, microseconds ahead, aren't you? Yeah, but that's how I plan my time. I'm very busy, Dan. I have to do it to the microsecond. So, anyway, I looked up this clock, basically, the St. Anne's Church in Cork City. And there's a tourist website I found, which claims that this was the first four-faced clock until Big Ben was built. rubbish. I just can't believe it. I can't believe that we didn't have the technology of clocks

with four sides on. I know. Think back. You're thinking about cathedral clocks and things, aren't you? But they're often on the front of a building. Thinking like, what's that tower in Warsaw? Is that got clocks on it? Oh, yes, it has. But maybe only two. I don't know. I don't know. I just, I think that's very interesting. Anyway, I have one related fact. Can I creboer in an extra audience first? Matt Ireland wrote in, and actually we were talking. And actually, we were talking recently about people with place name, surnames. Oh, yeah. Matt Island.

He writes him with, in Beckles in Suffolk, the church tower only has three clocks on its four sides. The reason was when it was built, the people of Suffolk didn't want the people of Norfolk to know the time of day. That's so good. I'm getting our time for free,

those cheapskates. That's very good. It's funny. I think that Cork City is where they make Cox and Matt Island is the entire island where they make welcome mats. Would you know what Corks? Island, I've just quickly looked it up on the sly, what they are big producers of

for the world. Oh, the city of Cork. Yeah, the city. I swear. Well, County Cork, yeah, Ireland. No, I don't know. It is Viagra. Oh, yes, the Viagra factory is down there.

So they? Because I remember there's a story that locals in the town were standing downwind of the Viagra Park. Because it's like Charlie in the Chocolate Factory, he walks past the factory and he smells the amazing smells of the chocolate every day and he walks. slowly and would you do that

and slowly start bending over and you wouldn't get a golden ticket in your

chocolate but I'm not sure what you would get five golden Viagra pills the lucky

openers will receive a permanent erection will receive a permanent erection willie wonker

oh my God yeah yeah carry on Willie wanker yeah Okay, Jamie Thompson says, Dear Fishmongers, it's giving us the name Fishmongers there.

Nice. Thought you might like this if you don't already know about it. And he sent me a link to the Pentagon Pizza Theory. Now, I'm sure we all have heard of this before. This is the idea that if something is going down on a mass scale with the government in America and the Pentagon need to get involved, they're going to have to put in long hours. And so they're going to have to order in food. And it's been noted that there are certain times when there are huge order

orders a pizza for the Pentagon for these late night sessions. So the idea is that if orders are spiking at any kind of pizza place near the White House or Pentagon, it means something is about to happen, something's going on. And can you leverage that? Like, can you sort of short stocks or whatever? There are websites that will look at the different pizza parlors and see how busy there. Really? Yeah, the pizza meter.

It happened quite recently. I can't remember what it was for. Maybe it's Israel? I thought there was this whole rumor that went around because suddenly Donner. Trump disappeared for a weekend. Everyone's like, is he ill? When he died? When he died?

Yeah, yeah, exactly. And so they were monitoring. They were finishing, putting the final touches to the Robo Trump. Yeah, yeah. But it kept on making sense when it spoke. Some people knew. Come on, we don't want to have to make an apology or a one billion pound fine. If you were trying to persuade people, you weren't a super villain.

Would you sue for one billion? Yeah, very true. That's a great theory. Yeah, wonderful. And it is a theory. It's not. It's why it has the word theory at the end. Oh, yeah, yeah.

I love it. Okay, I've got another one here from Matt Bromhead. Matt says, my fact this week is that Patsy Klein, the first female artist to be inducted into the country music hall of fame, used to give out her home phone number to fans in case they wanted to call her, which she did. We kind of spoke about this recently with, Amy Gledhill about Laurel and Hardy, which is that Stan Laurel used to give out his phone number

and people would call him and he would just answer at home. I think that got cut from the final. Okay. Actually, but yeah, he did do that after Hardy died. Yeah. And so Patsy Klein is great. Do you know her stuff? I don't really.

She's bloody good. And she died very young. She was 30 years old. It was a plane crash. So she didn't have much time to carve out a full career. But I've got a couple of albums. in my music app. A church, a courtroom, then goodbye is one of her songs.

Sounds sad. Yeah. Yeah. That's great. Yeah. That happens less and less these days. But what? Oh, phone numbers being given out.

Oh, people dying and playing crashes. Yeah. Yes, that. Okay. Okay, here's one from Tom Hayes. Tom says, former Lib Dem leader, Min Campbell, once beat OJ Simpson in a 100-meter race. Amazing.

Mm. And it's true. That's what I can say. Min Campbell was an amazing runner in his time. And for international listeners, the Lib Dems are a big deal, political party in the UK. Yep. And for non-American listeners, OJ Simpson is a murderer. Well, that lawsuit fell.

It's dinging away. But was he a runner as well? OJ Simpson. Well, OJ Simpson was a football player, an American football player. And he was also extremely fast, like a lot of them are. But Min Campbell was a runner who captained the Scottish men's team at the 1966 Commonwealth Games in Jamaica. He was known according to Tom Hayes as the fastest white man on the planet. Wow.

And I think he probably was for some of the time. He was at the 1964 Olympics but lost in the second round and the British relay team came last in that Olympics. But he gave up athletics in 1968 just before the next Olympics at Mexico. Mexico City and the year earlier he'd finished second to Tommy Smith in an indoor race in Sacramento. So do you know who Tommy Smith is? Yeah, but for anyone who doesn't. So in the 1960, Dan wasn't paying attention otherwise he would have jumped in. I don't know who Tommy Smith is, no idea.

In the 68 Olympics, he was the guy who stood on the podium and did the black power salute. Oh. Do you remember that? Yeah, yeah, yeah. And Min Campbell should have been in that race by all accounts, but he gave up, career the year earlier to become a politician and a lawyer. So in another reality, Campbell decides not to become a politician, beats Tommy Smith in the final of the 1968 Mexico City Olympics, and then Tommy Smith's never able to do his historic salute. Wow, what a sliding

doors moment. I would love to see the movie of this event. Is it still sliding doors, though? Is the film still sliding doors? So it's Gwyneth Paltrow and the politician from the Lib Dems. Is it Gwyneth Paltrow playing Ming Campbell? Yes. Great. Yeah. Good.

Who else is in that movie? I can't even remember if it's Gwyneth Paltrow. It feels like it's Gwyneth Paltrow. It's certainly John Hanna, I believe. Wow. So is John Hanna playing Tommy Smith? Yeah, going to be a challenging casting. Woke will need to receded quite a bit for this film to get made, I would say.

Well, great fact. That was really good. And I went into the newspaper archives and looked at the stories for when Min Campbell was around doing these races. And yeah, he was basically all the Scottish newspapers

were saying that he's the next fastest man in the world and the sass and acts need to believe it because will he get into the British team or not because maybe English will just put all the English runners in and stuff. How funny. It's really interesting when you look back. Yeah, because it would have been a weird headline.

Oh, great sprinter decides to go into politics. He'll never go anywhere. Actually, he's going to be the leader of the Lib Dems one day when he's extremely old. Yeah, still running. Still running. Brilliant. Okay, here's one from Jake Clements, who writes, My wife, Katie, has been taking a course in landscape gardening

and came across a particular type of bramble and hasn't stopped giggling at the Latin name. It's called a cockburnianus. Ooh. That was... Now, I would pronounce that Coburnianus. Yep. Because it's named after the Coburn family. But Coburn is spelled Cockburn.

And yeah. I tried to find out more about it. There was a blog that said, I've been trying to find out who among the Coburn family was being honoured by William Botting Helmsley when he'd named this newly discovered species, but without success. But I think I've worked out who it probably was.

I think it was probably Henry Coburn who served in China for 25. years as British Consul General. Okay. Because this is a, it's a bramble that's found in China. Hmm. Well, that's great. So I'm pretty certain it's that person.

Not 100% certain, but yeah. Has the name sort of limited the brambles popularity? You know what? Brambles, I think, don't have as much popularity as you might imagine. Oh, you go to any garden center and there'll be an extensive bramble section. You're like a rose or a dahlia? I think another bramble. I have brambles in my garden.

Do you? Yeah, yeah. Do you grow, are they blackberry? They have, I think it's blackberries, yeah. Some kind of berries on there. Do you know what? I don't know what a bramble is. I've just realized.

My whole life I've been casually referring to brambles. I don't know what they are. What is it bramble? Well, to me it was always just a spiky bush, but I guess there's some kind of other. Yeah. The tentals. Don't write in.

Don't write in. And apologies to my wife for last year's anniversary flowers. I see now that that was not romantic. What year is the Bradbel Anniversary? It's the last year, always. The Cockburnianus years.

The Cockburnianus years is an amazing name for an American sitcom from the 1980s, isn't it? That's the final Adrian Mole book. My turn, this is from Drew Ferguson. According to the International Union for Conservation of Nature, they have a conservation list. The least weasel is currently considered to be of least concern. What about the most weasel?

So just hanging in there. Andy mentioned this on a podcast recently. Did I? Yeah. I can't remember what it was, but it's definitely something I've edited recently. Have you edited it out? No. Oh, dang.

Oh, sorry. Maybe it just came to me in the moment. I forgot. I'd earmarked it. I think you might have said that someone sent it in. Oh, there we go. Who sent it in? Drew Ferguson.

Well, thank you, Drew. double mention for you Well actually I don't think you mentioned his name the first time Single mention of you Drew But your fact has been on twice Really good Here's one from Soam Mojiji

Brackets NB email is so old The fact may have changed I think that's some commentary from you Andy Yep So this person said After staying up late on Wednesday To watch Don't know which Wednesday it was

Could have been any Wednesday in the last five years To watch United And he's talking about Man United Manchester United lose away to Grimsby Town, 12-11 on penalties. Going to work the next morning was probably the worst thing that's ever happened to me. Anywho, it turns out that after this result, Grimsby Town, currently in the 4th Division of English Football,

are now unbeaten against Manchester United for nearly 100 years, last losing in 1946. Wow. In that time, they have only played three matches with Grimsby winning two and drawing one. So, nice facts, if you like football. If you don't like football, imagine what the headlines might have been for Grimsby beating Man United. So Grimsby is a very famous area for making fish or fishing.

What might they have gone for? I saw this in a tweet by Martin Samuel, the journalist. So can you guess what the headlines were when Grimsby beat Man United in this amazing game? And they're a big fishing town. Yeah. Feels like us. I feel like that's a clue. Who was a clue?

Cod Almighty. Very close. Same pun. Slightly different phrase. Cod. Where is your cod now? I'm going to give it you. Act of Cod.

Cod is very good. And the other one was something you might say about a football team when they've been beaten. They're in a bad place. Very good, but no. They think it's all over now. It is trout. They think it's all over. It is trout.

Final answer. The answer is battered. Oh. Anyway, I did some Googling about other football teams who've got good records against Man United. M.K. Don's have never lost against Manchester United in their entire history, which admittedly is very short because they're a franchise who kind of took over another football team. But they've had one win for nil. And Southend United have never lost against Man United. They've had one win of one-nil.

If you beat them once, you're just like, well, we're never playing Man United again. Yeah, that was like when I used to play chess and my brother got better than me. I beat him once. They said, right, that's it. That is so child. I was a child. 4 nils is a battering. Very good.

Unfortunately, that was M.K. Donts who did that. And Milton Keynes is not a very famous fishing carrier. Milton Keynes, they really set them roundabout to houses. Very good. Lovely. Yeah, yeah. Okay, I'll do one here. This is from Phil Pee.

Phil P says, 1918 in the UK, there was a Chinese magician who became, quite famous named Chung Ling Su. He was quite old, spoke no English. On stage, though, he got shot trying to perform the bullet catch trick. Shocking as it was, his dying words shocked the audience even more when he said, lower the curtain, something went wrong. And so he had been playing this character. It's a very famous character within the world of magic, William Ellsworth Robinson. And yeah, he basically... Wait, that was his real name. That was his real name. And he basically created a character that was an old Chinese magician who would do amazing tricks on stage

but if anyone has seen the movie The Prestige, it's used as an example of how a magician's act extends beyond, yeah, I know, Andy just... Sorry, the listener doesn't see this, but Andy just rolled his eyes in such a way. It's a ridiculous film. He's got a big old Nolan issue. I once asked my wife to read me out the plot of the prestige during a long card journey so that I could be annoyed about it.

We were stuck in traffic and I was driving. Oh, you weren't annoyed enough by the traffic. I needed an edge. You know what I unironically love is the Now You See Me Movies? I've watched it like 10 times in the last month. Okay, that's a trick that they've pulled on you. I actually really, really love them. I think because it's magicians who do a con.

Yeah, usually. They're four magicians who are brought together and they don't know why, but there's a big magic idea for them to pull off this ultimate thing, but they don't know who they're working for, and they slowly have to complete this, and then are they good? Because are there two of them, these films? There's two of them.

Well, the third one comes out, came out a couple of weeks ago, but actually when we're recording this, comes out on Friday. Is the third one called Now You Three Me? No, it's called Now You Don't or something. That's a terrible. I think my main problem with those films is the names, because Now You See Me, which is a good title for a magic film. It should have just been called Now You Don't,

the second one. Absolutely. But instead it was called Now You See Me Too. Yeah. That's a bad title. Yeah. And then the third one is called

Now You Don't, when that should have been the second. It makes no sense. It should have been Now you see me, then now you don't, then now you three me. I think we'll think of something

for the fourth film. Yeah. Unless this is a cleverly planned misdirection, the second title, the third title, it's all going to make sense in the fourth.

That'll be it. I can't believe you've watched them so much over the last fortnight. That's mad. They were just good to have in the background. while I needed to do other stuff. It's a good background movie.

Woody else and he's just got something about him. Okay, well, on that note, I think we've come to the end of your facts. So we're going to go to some of our old facts, and we're going to dish them out to people who are members of the friend of the podcast here on Patreon. So drum roll, please, everyone. Well, that was okay, Andy, but I might add it in post. Let's hear the first person who is a friend of the podcast. Yeah, okay.

Here is a fact, and Luke La Jois. Luke La Joy, it's a brilliant name. I'm sorry if I'm saying it wrong. But anyway, Luke is your fact, and it's that a computer game has been invented that takes more than a lifetime to complete. This was a James Harkin. Yeah, and the idea was that you could play the game and then you could pass your high score onto your decisive.

He could then continue the game. And it was the idea, I mean, quite a long time ago, we did this fact. It was the idea of like digital currency and how that will go when you die. Because we know what happens to your money when you die, but what happens to your, you know, digital stuff. We could have invented crypto. Bro. Could have invented. We could have done.

Because this would be 2014. Was that? Where was crypto? It's probably Bitcoin had been invented. But imagine if during that show, we'd really. researched it and found out that there's a thing called Bitcoin and told all of our listeners about it and everyone bought one Bitcoin. Yeah.

All of our listeners, we could be selling a friend of the podcast for 50 grand. You've just, did we ever mention this guy who, someone who bought in something like 2010? I think Bitcoin had been a venture a while ago. He bought a couple of pizzas for something like 10,000 Bitcoin. He would have been a billionaire several times over today if he'd just not done that. And now Papa John's is who they are. Anyway, Luke, that's your fact now to safeguard and shepherd and keep forever. And maybe you can play the, in fact, why not play the game?

Yeah, you'll have to go back to episode number seven to find out what it was. Dan, can you give us another one? Yep, this one is for Jacob. And the fact is that 2013 was the first. first year since 1933 that there hasn't been a sighting of the Loch Ness Monster. Oh, do you know what's happened since then? There's been plenty of sightings. Well, interestingly, it was the very nature of releasing a headline like that, which this was

in the papers at the time. That spurred people on to claim and send in photos and say that they've seen it. Is it not the fact that basically they had lots of sightings while cameras were really shit for about 50 years? And suddenly everyone had a phone and cameras got really good and then they stopped being sightings. And then Photoshop was invented and suddenly there were loads of sightings again. It's been tough. There is a theory when you can't pass off a leaf floating on the water.

There is a theory that what if it's not that those photos were always blurry, but what if, say, the Loughness Monster and Bigfoot themselves are blurry? So that's one of the counter arguments to that. And it's a devastating counter argument. What if they're all former members of the IRA and they have to be blurred every time they're on screen? And their voices have to be done by out-of-work actors. Yes. Yeah. That's an excellent theory.

Okay. Well, Jakob, congratulations. No guessing whose fact that was when it was originally said? That was mine. Okay, I've got one from Anna here, which is now under the custodianship of Mark Osborne. And Mark, your fact is that the French government forced Madame Tussaud to make models of her French. decapitated heads. Oh, a bit of a macabre one.

It is. Mark Carbara, more like. Very good. I want you guys to know that I would do that for you. You would make models of our cappated heads. It wasn't for the people whose heads had been decapitated. It was for

their enemies. I just want you to know that I would make models of your decapitated heads. Would you? If I was forced to buy the government. Right. I just want you guys to know that I would do that for you. I'm sorry. I've thought you'd react better to it. I'm wondering in what genre of model, like a puppet head, like a waxwork. We've already got puppets of the four of us. The job's done, mate.

The job's done. Do you want that to be your model in perpetuity, though? Yeah. Do you? I mean, you can't. I'm fairness, it looks more like Dan than Dan looks like Dan. Why don't we just get Donn music from Sesame Street? Look it up. No, but I would do that for you guys. Thank you. I do appreciate that. But I feel like you don't have the requisite training on modeling heads and possibly the heads that you make of me, Dan and Anna, might not be exactly true to life. Yeah. That's a fair point.

Why are you doing it? In what situation you're imagining? The government is forcing me. I don't know. I think so was it, why was she being forced to make models of her friends? Was it that they wanted to commemorate the friends? No, not commemorates. They've been decapitated.

They were enemies of the revolution. Oh, so it was like, look, here are the enemies of the revolution. And here's what they suffered. But Madame Toussaud was friends with those people. But instead, she wasn't killed because she hadn't done anything really bad, but they forced her to make the heads, which was... It wasn't like DuPierre, your next door neighbor. It was prominent people. Yeah, well, you guys are prominent people.

You're prominent in the podcast world. Andy, before you dig yourself any deeper into this Madame Toussouard-shaped hole, why do you tell us about the next custodian of a fact? Okay. Hello, Todd Norbury. You are getting a fact. which I would say is one of my faves of all time. During the Normandy landings, the Allied forces deployed dogs by parachute.

Do you remember the days when we used to have parachuting animals in every episode? It was a happy time in my life. I love this fact so much. In fact, it might have been the first feat to touch the ground in the Normandy landings were dog feet. Really? Wow. Because they were German shepherds and they were maybe... Is that to trick the Germans into thinking that they were on their side?

Well, because they could speak German. They could say surrender in the German language. I was about to say in the local language, but of course the local language was French, which was the whole problem in many ways. You know what I'm saying? Are we saying that the whole problem of the Second World War was that French people were living in France?

No, I'm saying... Because that's short what it sounded like. I'm saying the presence of the German army in France was one of the problems of the Second World War. Oh, that was a problem for sure. That was a big problem. That was.

We're not one of those podcasts. You can find them elsewhere on the podcast store. They do it. There are plenty now. Anyway, these were German chappers, and they were parachuted in to help with the Normandy landings and be the kind of first dogs on the ground. Kind of what they did now. Money just been barking orders.

Brilliant. It's so nice when you get a second bite at the cherry 11 years later. Dan, give us another one. Okay, I got one here. This is an interesting one. This is an interesting fact to be a custodian of because it's been 11 years and sometimes facts that we've said have been looked into more. And we discover that they're not strictly as true as we thought they were when we first set them. So this is a fact that is going to ARJG.

And the fact is that the music track on the anti-piracy advert used on all DVDs was itself pirated. Lovely fact. Great fact. You know that. It would be a sort of, you wouldn't steal a handbag, you wouldn't steal a car. It was this big ad. And the story was at the time that this had been itself pirated. I believe I got it from an Australian scientist who's been on no such thing as a fish.

Carl. Dr. Carl. Dr. Carl got it from one of his books. I think it was a, there are slightly disputed versions of events. Some people say the music was used without permission. That has been a bit disputed because there was a different anti-piracy. pirate there was a different anti-piracy ad which definitely did use stolen music

so that that did happen and also there were questions about whether they'd license the typeface yes I mean it was a kind of a it was kind of a nightmare all we know for sure is they caused an absolute massive upsurge in people stealing handbags

okay here is another fact this one is under the custodianship of Louisa Biviano and Louise your fact is Oh, it's one from Alex Bell It's his first ever fact on the podcast And it is that one of the last things

That NASA had to do before launching space shuttles Was removed their inflatable owls Nice So that was Alex Bell's fact It is now under your custodian ship Louisa Congratulations And if they used these inflatable owls To scare away other smaller birds, didn't they?

Yeah, I think it was like hawks as well I think it was yeah It was flying animals and it worked. And I guess mice. Possibly. I mean, I don't know how big. And burglars who are afraid of vows. It's awful when you get downstairs to the space shuttle in the morning and it's gone and you feel like such an idiot and you realize it's been burgled.

And you spend a while looking like maybe I parked it in the next space along and it's just not. I've had that situation. It's a kicker. Okay, we're going to have two more, I think. So Andy, why don't you give us one now? I'll do one. This one goes out. to Craig Taylor. Congratulations, Craig. Your fact is this Zinger is that according to the government

of the Czech Republic, there are three symbols of Easter, Easter eggs, the Easter lamb, and whipping. Being whipped. Yeah. And that was because whipping was like a tradition, wasn't it? Yes. That they did. Like young boys would go around whipping young girls or something. It was a different time. It was a different time. But yeah, I mean, that was one of those facts where I didn't know for sure because I'm not Czech and I didn't have anyone in the Czech Republic to check with, so to speak.

But that's why you said, according to the government, because it was on the government website. Yeah, that's right. So, yeah, I mean... Was the country still the Czech Republic then, or had it become Czechier? I do believe that the government has recently said, if you don't really want to call it, Czechia, we don't mind.

That's a botched rebrand, isn't it? That's embarrassing. Yes. I just, I think that's really interesting that we've now been going so. long that that's changed. Wasn't there another country? Was it? What are those two inside South Africa? Swaziland. Yeah. Oh, Eswatini. Eswatini. Yeah, yeah. Which used to be Swaziland, is now Eswetini. It's because of e-sports, isn't it? Yes, exactly. Yeah, yeah.

They're like getting in that branding. But Turkey has changed its name to Turkey, but spelled differently. Has it? Yeah. I didn't know that. I know. Oh, you'd not be spelling it old-fashioned way, have you? How embarrassing. Oh, no. Oh, dear. Oh, no. Is it sort of turkey? Yes. It's turkey, yeah. Oh, no. And I've been going around spelling it turkey. Yep. Oh, no. Oh, God, we've been eating turkey at Christmas. Oh, you're still allowed to spell that the old way. Oh, no. We've been eating turkey yeah, at Christmas. Okay, one last fact before we wrap up for today, Daniel Schreiber. Yeah, this comes from Anna Tosinski and Matt G.S. This now belongs. to you at Earl's Court tube station in 1911, a one-legged man was employed to ride the escalator.

His name was Bumper Harris. That was also a classic at the time. A classic, a classic fact. Yeah. Bumper Harris. And he was hired. He was hired, wasn't he, to show that it was safe? Even if you were one-legged.

Yeah. It was not a scary thing to, because there must have been someone who was the first ever person to go on an escalator. Yeah. They couldn't know it wouldn't eat them. And there are descriptions of people. In fact, I think I said this at the time on the podcast at Stratford International Mall. I was constantly, as I was going down the escalators, there would be people on there who clearly, and they're like in their 70s, were going on for the very first time. And not knowing and almost falling on you and stopping at the bottom, not knowing to move.

It was wild. I got to watch what the bumper Harris world was experienced. So for hours on end, you used to sit there. You're laughing at those old people. Get a few tins of beer. Sit in your camp chair. I reckon there'll still be a couple of billion people who've not had a chance to go on an escalator yet on Earth alive today, I would say.

Absolutely. I mean, so many people lack electricity, you know. Which is one of the very few diesel-powered escalators, I'm guessing. Yeah, no, sorry, they can't know. There are no nuclear ones that I know of. Well, if you are a maker and distributor of nuclear-powered escalators, then do write in to podcast at QI.com. And indeed, if you want to write in with anything,

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