No Such Thing As A Fish - Little Fish: Shall we put a podcast on? What a stupid idea!

Episode Date: June 28, 2026

Dan, Andy and Anna discuss YOUR facts including pasta, Proust and pencils. Anna shares her secret 'Wheel of Life' game. And we name eight more Friend of the Podcast custodians.Visit nosuchthingasafis...h.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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Starting point is 00:00:00 Hello and welcome to Little Fish. This is the bonus Monday episode where we put down our facts from the last seven days and we get to chill out, sit back and really enjoy the facts that you've been sending us in. My name is Dan Schreiber. I'm sitting here with Andrew Hunter Murray and Anna Tashinsky. And Andy, you've been going through the inbox collecting the best gems sent into us this week. So let's begin. Let's have a gem. This one goes out to, I want to say it goes out to it. I mean, comes in from. Oh dear. It's from Leah Macai. Okay. So Leah's fact. Well, she sent a couple of facts, actually, and they're slightly themed.
Starting point is 00:00:52 Fact number one, women who pay for their coffee or meal on a first date tend to display more interest in matrimony. And then she adds a secondary fact to that, which is that Leap Day is no longer the only day that a woman can ask a man to marry her. And by the way, Ryan, Leah has something to ask you right now. This is huge. I think this is the first fish proposal. Are we meant to leave a blank space now for her to... I hope Leah's paused the podcast at that moment. Oh, wait, are we not asking?
Starting point is 00:01:23 I think Leah should be the one to ask. I mean, they'll have turned it back on by now and we'll know. Well, we don't know now what's happened as a result of this. But that's from Leah Macai. Wow. Amazing. Wow. Wow. Congratulations, all commiserations.
Starting point is 00:01:36 Oh, wow. Oh, yes. This is exciting, isn't it? So exciting. I really hope that they've listened to this in like a good moment of their day. Yeah. You can have bad moments, can't you as couples where you sit down in... Oh, should we put a podcast on?
Starting point is 00:01:46 What a stupid idea. I don't think you'd choose to put this podcast on in the middle of a huge argument, knowing what was going to be on it, or do they not know when we're going to sneak it in? I don't know if Leah knows when we're going to put this out. You absolutely have to tell her. I should probably warn her. That is insane. Okay, okay, I'll warn her.
Starting point is 00:02:02 Oh, my God. God. She'll be waiting 10 years. She just missed one episode. She forgot about it. I can't propose any other way. Look, I hope that we can say congratulations to you, Leah and Ryan. Please do email in podcast at QI.com. And actually, any other big life moments?
Starting point is 00:02:17 Maybe conception. We're happy to... The moment of or... Yeah, right. We're happy to soundtrack that with a fact. A bit like when Tudor Kings and Queens first had sex, they had like a group of people around them monitoring it. We could be like that.
Starting point is 00:02:31 Oh, you're suggesting we record an episode while they're doing it. Yeah. In the same room. Okay. Do you reckon? That's interesting. It certainly is interesting, Andy. All right, well, let's get another fact, Anna.
Starting point is 00:02:43 Well, this is going to be a bit of a damp squid, isn't it? I know. You've really saved the best for first. And yet, is this the best for second? It's from Izzy Turner. Here's a fact for you. In 1703, the High Sheriff of County Cork and Ireland was split between two men, the High Sheriff Hood, I guess, split between two men named Dick Cox and Willie Supple. That's just to get us back into downline fishbacks.
Starting point is 00:03:06 It's absolutely beautiful. Potential names for any newborn children coming your way, Leah. Willie supple. Is that what you want in a willie? It can't hurt. That's very good. Yeah, something to want the Tinder profile. That's really good.
Starting point is 00:03:21 Very nice. I've got a fact here that's been sent in by PJ Neal. And the fact is, Barilla, the pasta company, Borilla, has a Spotify account with 10 different playlists. Each of their playlists is named after a specific type of pasta, spaghetti, you know, Linguini, and the length of the playlist is the exact length of the time you need to cook that pasta. Yes. So if you're doing Pene, you would fire up the 11-minute pleasant melancholy peni playlist. And I've got them all here. There's absolute carbunera, mixed tape spaghetti,
Starting point is 00:03:57 Bumab for silly, you know, it's all good. Brilliant. That's really good. Shall I give you another one? Yeah, I give it to us. This one comes in from Dick Berg, from the Netherlands, no relation we presume to what was it, Hugh Pieness and Willie boobies Willie Supple Dick Cox and Willie Soffle. Dick Berg from the Netherlands writes, this is about the name
Starting point is 00:04:19 of the Liddle supermarket It's not one of my name things, it's just a great fact The name of Liddle comes from a guy called Ludwig Liddle who was a retired school teacher and painter who I think was friends with a parent of the founder of Liddle, right? So Dita
Starting point is 00:04:37 Schwarz was the founder of Lidl, and in 1973 he was setting up this supermarket, but he didn't want to call it Schwartzmarked, which he should have done, who was calling it his shop, because that means black market. Schwartz marked. So instead, he just thought, Lidl is a good, short, powerful word, and I'm going to buy for a thousand marks the name from Ludwig Lidl. Wow.
Starting point is 00:05:00 So that's the guy who... Wow. Yeah, yeah. And what's Ludwig's surname now? I think he got to keep it. I believe. He doesn't have to give it up. No, no, no.
Starting point is 00:05:11 And the company, in fact, was founded in the 1930s before they renamed it as the supermarket. But the original company was called Schwartz Leibensmittles Sortiment Grosshandling. I think that is his new surname, isn't it? It was a swap. Yeah. That's very good.
Starting point is 00:05:28 Anna, let's get one from you. Yes, this I think, is one of my favorite facts I've ever had. It is bang at my street. This is from Tom Ween or Tom Wayne. W-E-I-N. And he says, if you're ever in an argument
Starting point is 00:05:41 with Senegalese footballer El Hajid Diuf, you can diffuse the tension immediately by calling him brainless. Now, this is part of a West African tradition, which I'm definitely looking into,
Starting point is 00:05:51 keep an eye on further podcasts for facts about this, because it's part of a West African tradition of joking kinship in which particular ethnic groups have standard gags they make about other groups.
Starting point is 00:06:01 So it's a socially approved thing and you're not allowed to get annoyed. So there'll be one group of people in Senegal who are allowed to say you're a wanker and you're not allowed to get pissed off because it just shows how close you are and it's used to get people to calm down
Starting point is 00:06:13 so if you're having a fight weirdly the way you can diffuse the tension is to say you tosser and they have to say oh the joking kinship thing you win that's really good it's so amazing
Starting point is 00:06:24 you twat yeah do I get it right I've just got to take it you mails it yeah that's our joking kinship moron twat no no you don't have more on I'm offended now selfish
Starting point is 00:06:33 you know greedy no no it's not just it's not just your feeling word you want to... My dad calls me dickhead and that's with affection. Is it? Yeah. Well, I need to double check but does he call anyone else that? Or is it just for you?
Starting point is 00:06:47 Oh, all the assholes in our local area called dickhead by him as well. So I don't know why he's grouped me with them but yeah, it's a... Wow. Are you dickhead? Yeah. I mean that's fair, yeah. You do some dickheading in our family. Yeah. But it's so cool that this is like written into law, L-O-R-E. And he does say that
Starting point is 00:07:03 in at least one recorded case, they persuaded a rebel group to release hostages just because people told the right jokes. And as he says, Duf is from the Sirere Group, which means the pay-all people are allowed to call him brainless. Wow. Lovely. Amazing.
Starting point is 00:07:17 Yeah. Yeah. Love it. Very cool. Really good. We seem to be on a little name theme going on here. So I'll read this one here, which is Sophie Williams writes in, Hi Fish, NHL player, so National Hockey League, player Steve Hines,
Starting point is 00:07:31 plays with the sweater number 57. Very good. Because there are a 57 variety. Exactly. Is that known in the NHL? Is that America or Canada? It's Canada, right? It's probably in America as well, but I know it more as a Canadian thing.
Starting point is 00:07:44 Yeah, so that's a thing. He was 57 and I don't think he was granted the number to begin with, 57. He asked for it and the first team he played for said no and then he eventually got it. Oh wait. Holden, so he was asking specifically because of the Heinz connection? Yeah. That's actually even funnier. I thought it was just a coincidence.
Starting point is 00:08:00 No, no, he asked for it specifically. But he's not connected to the family? No, he's not. I mean, they were millionaires. I think they were billionaires, actually. The Heinz. That makes sense. Billions of beans have been sold.
Starting point is 00:08:12 Yeah. Yes. It does make sense. Does make sense. And they do other things too. There's another player who plays for the NHL who wears the number 22. And that's Jordan Tutu. Really good.
Starting point is 00:08:24 And again, I feel like he's had other numbers and that's the one that he's chased. I like it when teams let their players do that. Do you remember we did a fact years ago about how Ray Kroc bought a baseball team? Padres and one of his first signings, even though the person was sort of past their peak as a player was a guy whose nickname was Big Mac and he brought him into the team. Stuff like that. Yeah. Lost a whole lot of money for the investors.
Starting point is 00:08:46 He really did. Nice to have the in-joke. Yeah. In jokes, they're worth more than actual wins, I would say. Yeah. Good one, Dickhead. Okay. Okay.
Starting point is 00:08:58 My dad can call me dead. Sorry. Here's one from Shan Valvus from Sal Powell. The first personality quiz was devised by Marcel Proust. Interesting. So I looked into this one. He actually didn't come up with it. He did answer it.
Starting point is 00:09:16 He's the most famous early recipient of this quiz or partaker in it. Because the Victorians, they had this hobby of writing a confession album. Okay. What's that? A diary? No, it sounds a lot more fun than it is. basically you have to answer a list of questions which is your chief characteristic
Starting point is 00:09:37 your main fault your favourite occupation your idea of happiness you know all of these and it gets quite philosophical you know the more you get it starts off with what's your favourite colour you wouldn't even answer that one would you let alone you're just tearing it up a question of your business I prefer not to say
Starting point is 00:09:55 so this album that he answered it belonged to his friend who was called Antoineette Forre And basically, he lists a whole load of his, you know, most, most intimate and deep secrets in this questionnaire. So that was the first kind of popular parlor game version of a personality quiz. That's interesting. Because there's a thing that's done, I think it's in Vanity Fair at the back, which is the Proust questionnaire. Oh, I mean, that'll be this. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:10:17 That is this. I think it's largely asking about books, or at least that's my memory. Maybe it's not, though. Maybe it's all about your favorite everything. Yeah. So that must be connected. Yeah, yeah. It will absolutely be that.
Starting point is 00:10:26 It's known as the Proust questionnaire these days. And it's basically kind of instead of a board. game. You play a game where you answer these questions and then you talk about them. Interesting. All your friends have written, I think, in your confession album, all of their answers to the quiz. Oh, fun. Yeah, which is quite cool. You, not to throw too much of personal life in here, Anna, but you play a similar game to that, but you got me to do. Oh, Wheel of Life? Yeah. God, should I share the Wheel of Life? Yeah, tell people. Oh, this is, me and my friend compiled this about 20 years ago, and it's basically to work out how well your life is going. There are seven categories. And
Starting point is 00:11:00 They are relationship, friends, house, job, self-improvement, health. So that covers your diet and your exercise. Yes. And another one. But you can make that one up yourself. And you go through them and you grade them out of seven. And then you look at your total score and you think, well, here's where I'm in trouble. I don't have a house.
Starting point is 00:11:18 I hadn't realised before that that was why I was unhappy. Yeah. Or something like that. Yeah. It's great. And you and I've played it, Anna. I don't think I gave you anything. No, it lasted about half a minute.
Starting point is 00:11:29 Okay. I've got another one here. This is from Anders Nissen, and this is that sharks can bite you in their sleep. And this does seem to be one particular case in 2005 in New Mexico, which recorded its only so far shark attack incident, because it's landlocked, but it took place at the Biopark Aquarium,
Starting point is 00:11:47 and there's a diver called Ken Pitt who needed six stitches. The email says sustain minor injuries that required six stitches, which I actually would say that's moderate injuries, when a captive sand tiger shark bumped into him, and Sand Tiger Sharks, if you picture and they've got teeth that's sticking out. So the San Tiger shark was sleeping, wandered over, bumped into him and bit him with his
Starting point is 00:12:07 or scraped along in with his teeth. Oh, okay, yeah. So it didn't. Because sometimes it's like, say like you pet a sleeping dog and suddenly it has a reaction and it bites you and yeah, I thought you meant like that. No, didn't even have a reaction. You don't need to let sleeping sharks lie. They're fine with it. Stoke
Starting point is 00:12:23 away. But this one did inadvertently bite him. But weirdly, this event was considered a provoked attack, which seems kind of unfair. Maybe you've just got to fill something in on the form. I don't know. Yeah. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:12:35 What's an unprovoked attack? Yeah, I don't know. If that is provoked, how much gentler do you possibly have to beat than just being there? Have you guys been bit by many things? No. No, I don't think I've. Children?
Starting point is 00:12:49 Yes, I have been bit by a child. Not, like, not my own child. Oh, really? Oh, yeah. What did you do? Well, you've got to put them down afterwards. It's too dangerous to roam the streets. At least with any other animal,
Starting point is 00:12:58 you're allowed to really shake it. Yeah. Kick it. You can't do that when it's trying. And, of course, I go lock, draw on you, and you've got a really good... Pencil up the bum. The dogs do that if you strike them while they're asleep. I think you can freak a dog out and it turns in bites.
Starting point is 00:13:18 I've never had that. I've never touched a sleeping dog. Because I listen to the sayings. Okay, here's another one. I got an email from someone called Ed Robinson, who says, you mentioned reading. recently that we can't say for certain that Charles Darwin didn't ride the tube. So we spoke about this.
Starting point is 00:13:35 There's an overlap between the beginning of the tube and the end of days of Charles Darwin. So to my knowledge, we also can't say for certain that Karl Marx didn't have a fruit pastel as they were invented in 1881 and he died in 1883. Actually, I think he died in 8082, but still. It's a year. It doesn't take that long to meet a fruit pastel. Yeah. Do we know what killed him?
Starting point is 00:13:58 I mean, apologies. Sorry, no, that's my fault. We're talking about Karl Marx there. Darwin died 1882. Sorry. So Darwin and Marks could have both had a fruit pastel. Yeah. They could have died having a fruit pastel eating competition, in fact. Is that a good news? Karl Marx won. Depends how well the competition goes, doesn't it? Yeah. If you win the food pastel eating competition, you may die.
Starting point is 00:14:22 Of diabetes or something? Sugar rush. Of just fruit pastels. Death by fruit pasta. Of course, it's very common one, wasn't it? I looked into other things that Darwin might have been able to experience. 1882, Darwin could have had Heinz ketchup on his chips when he was eating. He could have had a sip of absolute vodka while he was eating those chips with Heinz ketchup. Of course, back in those days, Heinz ketchup just came with the big number one on the bottle,
Starting point is 00:14:49 because they'd only invented one variety. He also could have been walking around in denim Levi jeans. Darwin could have had a pair of Levi jeans You don't picture it do you Sort of cut off or with a hole ripped in the knee Do you think he'd go for? Do you know what's weird? He would have known about genes in his lifetime
Starting point is 00:15:08 Levi's but he wouldn't have known about genes In genetics in his lifetime Oh dear What kind of genes did Darwin know about that? Yes Quiz question That's so good That came years later
Starting point is 00:15:19 Someone had found the foundations of genes So genetics is dated while he was still alive But no word was put to it Nothing was properly published. Charles Darwin goes out for a night on the vodka, on his way home, in his jeans, has some chips with Heinz ketchup on. And then gets the teaphobe eating his fruit pastels. Yeah. But it's interesting, isn't it?
Starting point is 00:15:40 Because what's the equivalent now of doing that? So Dame Vera Lin, I think, has only very recently died. Dame Vera Lin could have got a lime bike to the vape shop and paid for it with some Bitcoin. Yes. I've got one more Last one from me This is from Dominique Turin Who writes
Starting point is 00:16:02 I'm a long time listener First Time emailing from Montreal For those listening at home You have to understand There's always a pause afterwards Because Andy's mouth Drops to the floor When he hears these exotic locations
Starting point is 00:16:17 That have been sent to us He's from Darwin's area He can't believe the technology exists What other podcast Can You To Hear us? What other podcast gets emails from Montreal, Sao Paulo. Just loads of them.
Starting point is 00:16:28 I've got one from St. Albans. Just stunning. Dominique Thurenne writes. Montreal, by the way, Home of the World Record for most tickets sold for a podcast recording. 20,986. Then she adds, slightly snippily,
Starting point is 00:16:43 when will you do a live show here? Well, as soon as we clear that 20,000 seater venue, you soon as we get it booked. Yeah, yeah. We'd love to do that. Anyway, Dominique wanted to write about the fact that Canada has, Icebreaker hovercraft.
Starting point is 00:16:57 How cool is that? Basically, when the ice melts, big chunks of ice can sometimes jam up the mouths of streams or rivers or whatever. You know, it's a problem because that leads to flooding of towns and farmland or whatever. So they deploy the ice hovercraft. And they just hovercraft over and blast down and the vibrations break up the ice into smaller chunks. I think they've got two of them. And yeah, just wicked. So good.
Starting point is 00:17:23 Just a cool invention. At what height do you stop being a hovercraft and start being a helicopter? Because I feel like helicopters could do. They could get low enough, couldn't they? Like, I suppose it's whenever the rotor blade has moved from the bottom to the top. That's when you're a helicopter. And there's horrible budget helicopter experience that you've signed up to. Are you sure?
Starting point is 00:17:44 This is, it looks like a boat. It does occasionally leave the water, though. There's a big wave. That's great. Have you been on a hovercraft? Sorry? Have you been on a hovercraft? They used to be once crossing the channel, didn't there?
Starting point is 00:17:56 And I used to go across the channel when I was a kid. Maybe I went in one. Maybe I didn't. If I did, I didn't wish it. Have you? Yeah, Hong Kong had. Yeah, had hovercrafts to get us between islands. I recently went on a bike ride past the first ever, first ever international
Starting point is 00:18:11 hovercraft port. Amazing. The first ever international hovercraft port. I cycle past it. Does anything interesting happen? It's very near you, Dad. Is it? It's Pegwell Bay.
Starting point is 00:18:21 No way. Yeah. Now we do. interested. Now it's relevant to dance. Because actually is really interesting. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I'll move to Margate. Maybe I'll see the light. Okay. Well, that's it for your facts. Thank you everyone for sending them in. But before we wrap up today's episode, we have one more thing to do, which is hand out our latest batch of facts to the custodians of the clubfish tier known as friend of the podcast. Who wants to start?
Starting point is 00:18:49 I will kick off and I will donate a fact to Laura Grace. And that is that the Natural History Museum is stopping moths from destroying the exhibits by turning them gay. Mm. Mm. Very clear. I think was this. Actually, I remember this is one of yours, but it's one of mine. It's yours.
Starting point is 00:19:05 Yeah. Everything good I do, I attribute to you, Dan. Yeah, this is cool, isn't it? Moss eating them up, so you turn them gay, they don't have kids. So the kids can't eat them up. Yeah. How do you turn? Oh, yeah, no, that's the hard bit, isn't it?
Starting point is 00:19:19 Yeah, yeah, yeah. I think they give them some hormones, like spray some pheromones on them or something. And then don't they? I think you're right. They spray what male moths with female hormones. Exactly. They spend all their time trying to mate with each other. Is that turning them gay?
Starting point is 00:19:29 It's more like dragging up male moths as females. Yeah. You're right. It's tricking heterosexual moths into performing a homosexual act. Yeah. I wonder if that's still the method, because this is obviously an old fact. What times have changed you're saying? As in culturally.
Starting point is 00:19:46 Someone might have come into the Natural History Museum the next year and said, actually, we've got a different method. We're going to have to stop this whole idea now. It's a mad idea and we can just actually spray this moth killer around. You can't do anything anymore. Shall I do one? Yeah. Okay, this fact goes out to Jane.
Starting point is 00:20:06 Jane with a Y, right in the middle. And the fact is this. The word, Marvelous, has fallen in use from 155 times per million in the 1990s to only two times per million today. that is a catastrophic decline. It's sad, isn't it? That's down what, that's, yeah, almost down to 1% of its former range and habitat. I think that's tragic.
Starting point is 00:20:30 I use the word marvellous all the time. I do as well. You'll be astonished to know. I do as well and I've got a theory about all these facts about like use of word as declined. I think we don't write them, but we still use them. So these are always taken from like Google Ngrams, aren't they? Or things like that, which see how many times we've mentioned them.
Starting point is 00:20:45 So maybe it's fallen out of fashion in our high literature. But Andy and I, half of our conversation, conversations of the word, marvelous. No one's recording that, are they? I can in my head hear Stephen Fry saying it a lot. Yeah, yeah. Marvelous. Oh, marvelous.
Starting point is 00:20:58 Yeah. Me too. Okay, here's another one. This is going out to Ryan Gilgallon. Your fact is to prepare for China's National Day, 100,000 pigeons receive anal security checks to make sure they're not carrying anything suspicious. That, Ryan, can now be framed on your wall.
Starting point is 00:21:19 Ryan will have had his certificate months ago and in fact 100,000 pigeons receiving anal security checks And is just the one person Do we remember with a very small finger? Oh actually we have more detail in the archive I think they get
Starting point is 00:21:34 Gosh, they get cavity searches twice Just when they think they've got through the first test There's another one Is that in case they've hidden it up a different hole Or? I don't know But they're all pigeons that are released For the National Day
Starting point is 00:21:46 And again this was a few years ago Maybe they've maybe things have changed. But I hope they have. Do you think the anal security is as necessary? I don't see what's changed to make it less necessary.
Starting point is 00:21:58 The deal is that they're used a lot in National Day, aren't they? So they're released and they do amazing performances. Exactly, yeah. Or they fly into the air and they look really cool. Otherwise, why are they trying to get into this night? They're going to a gig because they love Taylor Swift or whatever.
Starting point is 00:22:13 But they shouldn't be, but what if they're smuggling something? No, you've got to check. You've got to check. Carter. You've got to train. Let's do another one. This is for Cam Bee. Canby, enjoy this little nugget. Only 28% of people
Starting point is 00:22:26 know when they're being flirted with. Cam B, what a great fact that is on you. Yes, Cam. Looks really nice. Have you been exercising your fact? Cam, I don't know if I'm flirting with you. Sorry. I remember we actually did this on QI last year, I think, as well.
Starting point is 00:22:47 And it's interesting. because who do you think is less aware that they're being flirted with? Women. Women are less aware that they're being flirted with. And that is because... Men are bad at floating? Men are too subtle. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:23:01 That's what's always said about us, isn't it? I know, it seems weird. The study looks at it and it found that men actually, when it comes to the crux of it, you're too scared of rejection to actually make it clear enough. So most women have no idea. So all those missed opportunities, lads just get out there, you know, pull your trousers down, whatever is.
Starting point is 00:23:18 I think it's pretty clear. If I say to a woman, would you like to come with me to the site of the world's first international hoverport? How much more blatant do you want me to get? No, no, you're absolutely right. I've got my tongue hanging out by saying that. It's outrageous. It turns out he just didn't fancy me. No, he just liked hoverports. And it's just me and Andy again hanging out by the hoverport. I think I have no idea if I'm being flirted with in my single days. And I was terrible. at flirting. I was sucked on both sides. Really? Yeah. Well, it sounds like it still led to a pretty good result. All right, next fact.
Starting point is 00:24:02 Let's have another fact. This one goes out to Robbie Brennan. Robbie, your fact is that ancient Sumerian beer was as thick as porridge and was drunk through a straw. And we talked, I think, I can't remember if this is one where we talked about the porridge draw. Do you remember that? Yes, I do. You would pour your porridge into a drawer if you were a Scottish crofter
Starting point is 00:24:23 or whatever and then you could just cut off a slice and I tried to do this recently. Did you? Yeah. Was it your underwear drawer one of your white's drawers? No, I didn't try and do the draw thing but I had some porridge which had gone I just, it hadn't worked out properly and I thought, I know, I'll just make a porridge
Starting point is 00:24:42 I'll just turn this into porridge, draw porridge like flapjack. Oh yeah, nice. And it doesn't work. I just thought it happened naturally that porridge turns into flatjacks. If you put it in a drawer, leave it for three years. I'm so stupid. I just say that Anne Miller, friend of the podcasters, who's been on the podcast, her grandparents had a porridge draw.
Starting point is 00:25:00 Did they? Pretty certain that's the case, yeah, in her house. Nice. That's cool. All right, another fact to give out. This one is going out to Nessie. Surely not. Come on, Dan.
Starting point is 00:25:10 After all these years. Imagine this is how we prove Nessie exists. They're part of club fish. Nessie, your fact is. is baby turtles coordinate when they're going to hatch from within their eggshells. Wonderful. An amazing. As far as you know, as a baby turtle, you're the only life in the universe.
Starting point is 00:25:30 Because you're inside a shell. It's almost like if you went to a campsite, you put your tent up, it turned night, and then everyone arrived and put their tents up. And you just started going, hello? And someone's like, hello? You're like, what? There's other people in the campsite. But I'm in my tent.
Starting point is 00:25:46 I don't know how many. I don't know who's there. We now have to invent a language to talk to each other. And we all have to get to the riverbank together for safety of numbers to avoid the predators. What? What campsite are you going to? Sorry, I get a really horrible camp site. You're at the hunger games campsites.
Starting point is 00:26:04 Sorry, I was trying to drag it back towards the fact. I shouldn't have done it. Don't be stupid. You need to say, when you're exiting a metaphor, it needs to be an alarm. When I'm on a roll, join. Here's a fact for Tessa Rask. It's written as all one word, but I see. Two minutes two, or it could be Tesserask.
Starting point is 00:26:19 Anyway, the fact is that Henrik Ibson's last words were to his nurse. She said he seemed to be looking better. He replied, on the contrary. And then he died. The next day. That's one of those facts that's perfect until you get to the final three words. Yeah. He held on.
Starting point is 00:26:38 All the family coming in trying to chat to him. No, I've done my last word. They were good. Yeah, I wonder if this is a true one, haven't actually checked it, because a lot of last words, not true, and this is Dan's fact, so... Oh, dare you? So, probably true.
Starting point is 00:26:53 Don't frame it, Tessa, just in case. That was, that's, last words are always really fine. They're wonderful. My favourite of all time, we did on the show, is the Roll Doll one. He had a nurse by his side. He had his family there, and he said something really poignant, like, the thing I'm going to miss most is all of you. Beautiful last words, closed his eyes.
Starting point is 00:27:13 and as he appeared to be going, the nurse gave him an injection of some drug to sort of help him slip seamlessly into death. And as she put the needle in, he went, oh, fuck! And then died. The last words are all dull. And I found a big biography of him the other day. And there's more detail to it in that book. So that's definitely real. So good.
Starting point is 00:27:37 As is the Ibson. Don't worry. It's frame away. Let's get one more. All right. This last one goes out to Kim Dachl. And the fact is, I love this so much, in Peru, depictions of the last supper show Jesus and his disciples eating a guinea pig.
Starting point is 00:27:57 It must be very big as a guinea pig. It must be a big guinea pig. It must mean one each. Or, well, we know he could do his thing, obviously. Multiplying the guinea pigs. Yeah, yeah, exactly. Do your thing with the guinea pig. Loads of the fishes and the guinea pigs.
Starting point is 00:28:12 was it, they were just edited down a little bit. It's not, yeah, and this is because eating guinea pig is a big thing. James has eaten guinea pig in Peru, not a euphemism. I don't even know what it would be a euphism. Didn't, when we had Michael Palin on the show, he say, God, I don't know if it was guinea pigs, but they were the size of cars back in the day.
Starting point is 00:28:31 I think they were. Back in the day. And when we say back in the day, a while ago. Yeah, but maybe, maybe there's an in-between between then, Jesus and now. Two thousand years ago, it was actually the size of a mini. Oh dear Apparently you can cut them into five at the table
Starting point is 00:28:46 Can you? Okay So only would have had to have been two and then Yeah two and a bit We'll have three guinea pigs for the table And then I actually only have one piece of the guinea pigs So is it alright if I don't pay the full One in 30? Is that okay?
Starting point is 00:28:59 Yeah Okay well There you go Congratulations to Kim Tesserac Nessi Robbie Cam Ryan Jane Laura
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