No Such Thing As A Fish - Little Fish: This Could Tail Off Really Quickly

Episode Date: December 7, 2025

Dan, James and Andy discuss YOUR facts. In episode six, subjects include malls, astronauts and bonds. And we also try some quizzes of various quality. Finally, we meet eight new Custodians of Fish Facts. 

Hello everyone, welcome to this week's episode of Little Fish before we start. Andrew Hunter Murray has something he'd like to say to you all, just to keep his inbox from bulging quite so much. So this is a little, thanks James, hi everybody. This is a little pre-apology and correction. Irony small quiz in the middle of this show about the oldest ever James Bond. I can't wait for you to hear it. It's really fun.

And in it we say, the two oldest James Bonds I won't give away which ones now but I'd just like to point out I do know that Sean Connery was 53 when he was in Never Say Never Again but it's not a canon Bond film

it's not one of the official ones which is why it's not included in the quiz I woke up sweating realizing that I had not made this clear in the show itself all will make sense soon let it never be said that we don't take these silly little quizzes extremely seriously

there's a quiz about character coming up that is honestly the most serious quiz I've ever run on this show. I'm so excited. Too many spoilers, Andy. Sorry, yes. If you would like to get more apologies, corrections and bonus info, why not join Club Fish? This is our special secret members club. We do a fortnightly show called Dropers Align where you get this kind of sizzling behind the scenes hot goss about the show itself. So if you want to join that, just go to patreon.com slash no such thing as a fish. Next announcement before we start this week's show If you heard our episode

Which went out a few days ago With none other than Michael Palin Then we got a little bit of an extra treat for you We filmed the whole thing And we put it up on YouTube What? Yeah I'm sorry James Did you not know

What? I was wearing my mancini the whole way through Yes I know It did Michael did comment When you were out of the room He said what a What a friendly young lady that is Yeah so no we filmed the whole thing

It's on YouTube you can see us, like, worshipping Michael Palin in real time. It's great. It's great fun. Just go onto YouTube and search for our names or search for... No such thing as a fish. No such thing as a fish, and I'm sure you'll find it. But for now, enjoy this little fish. On with the podcast.

Hello and welcome to Little Fish. This is our new weekly show where we read out your facts. We've had enough of our facts. Let's have some of yours. You've been sending them in to podcast at QI.com, and they are terrific. And so we're going to share some of the absolute creme de la creme with you now. Who's got a fact? Who would like to kick off?

Oh, I'm here with Dan Shriver and James Harkin. My name's Andrew Hunter Murray. Does I say all that? I don't think I said that last week. Well. Last week, I was here with Andrew Hunter Murray and Dan Schreider. Great. And in case I forget to say it, next week, I will be with Andrew Hunter Murray and James Harkin.

Quite stolen. Give us a fact. All right. Gabe Bullard said, big fan of his show. I saw Dan post on Instagram that he found a book claiming to feature posthumous interviews with Elvis Presley's ghost. This is true. It's written by Hans Holzer, who is the person who sort of defined what a ghost hunter was and very much inspired Dan Aykroyd for at Ghostbusters and so on. He's added a fact that has nothing to do with that. Says, in the early 90s, when the United States Postal Service proposed issuing an Elvis

Presley stamp, there was an effort to block it because someone must be dead in order to appear on a U.S. postage stamp. And Elvis, they said, was still alive. That's wonderful. That's really good. That is very funny. That is a thing, isn't it? You have to be dead in order to be on a stamp.

Definitely used to be the case. I'm not sure it still is. So Neil Armstrong landing on the moon was okay because you couldn't see his face. So it was a generic astronauts even though it was... Such nonsense. It's clearly just we're proud we put someone on the moon so we're going to break the stamp rule.

That's what that is. They were saying, oh, it's an astronaut rather than Neil Armstrong. Well, what's the astronaut's name? Do you remember as well that that led to Buzz Aldrin's dad standing outside the White House with a placard that read, my son stood on there too? And it was him being furious there. Michael Collins' mom was there saying

Michael didn't actually stand on the moon. She was just in a car driving around the ring road of the White House. Yeah, I think as well that one person in the UK did sneak onto a stamp accidentally, who was still alive, and that's Roger Taylor from Queen. Because they did a Freddie Mercury stamp,

but in the background, Taylor's drumming. And so technically, they have put someone on it. But you are allowed the Queen on stamps. Compulsory. So a member of Queen feels fair as well. Brilliant. There we go. Are you like, surely you're allowed.

Are you not, there's the rule the same in the UK that you can't be on a stamp unless you do? Again, I think it used to be. I'm not sure if it still is now, but definitely used to be. We've lost so many of our traditions. Here is a fact. So this is from Chris Bemis. And Chris Bemis says, my fact is the largest shopping mall in the US. Mall of America is kept warm in winter by human body heat.

Oh, so is that the humans who are shopping in the mall, or is it a separate cadre of trained humans who just go around being hot? Do you remember in the last episode, we said that you have very high body heated, so your watch runs faster than most people's? Yeah. They keep a lot of people like you in the basement. No, this is just people who are shopping. And actually, like, I saw Reddit on this, and they say that really the amount of heat that's given off by the human bodies is really, really negligible. And while it does say on the website that the mall has no central heating

and that it uses the body heats, they're quite cagey with what they actually say and probably all the individual stores have their own heating systems. We also have a huge coal fire burning in the centre. So we don't have central heating, but we... So I think it's like, it's definitely claimed by the mall, but whether it's 100% true, I'm not absolutely certain.

And also they have all these skylights that the sunlight can warm it up as well. But here's a point. question for you. Do you know in a few recent podcasts I've been saying, I'll ask you a question and if you get the answer right, you'll get a million quid or 10 million quid. Yes. Well, I'm going to do another one of those, but I'm a bit wary that eventually you will get one of these right. But for now, I'll give you 100 million quid if you can tell me which country the world's largest mall is, according to Wikipedia. Okay. Um, Eritrea. No. Mexico. No,

unlucky lads. That goes into the pot for the next. episode. It's the Iran Mall in Tehran. The largest mall in the world. That's pretty good. Is it just very... It's just big. It's got hotels. It's got lots of... It's just got all sorts of stuff in there. It's a big mall.

It's a big old mall. Very nice. I've got another fact. Go for it. From Susanna Pate of British carrots. Okay. This came in a little while ago. Sorry, you say plate of carrots. Sorry.

Pate. Oh. Of British carrots. Oh, okay. Her name is Susanna Pate and she works for, I don't need to tell you guys who British carrots are,

but just, you know, for the international list there. They're a trade body whose main job is to get us all eating more carrots. Right. It's a hugely powerful organization, shadowy, I would say.

Yeah. And she wrote because British Carrot Day was coming up. Okay. It was on the 3rd of October. So we have missed it. by quite some way, but I just, I didn't want to leave, leave her out because, you know, yeah, because of us. I love, you know, I love a carrot. Absolutely. Is it strange that, well, that National Carret Day is

in October when presumably all the carrots have been well farmed by then? James, I'd like to refer you to Susanna's email. Okay. Carrots are harvested 12 months of the year in the UK. Give me a break. So they, so they're one of the freshest and most versatile vegetables we can all enjoy. That's according to Harry Strawson, who I presume grows carrots. Anyway, I thought a couple of just little quiz questions based off her facts. How many

carrot seeds are sown in Britain each year? How many carrot seeds each year? If I get within 10 billion of this, I'll be astonished. I'm going to say 50 billion. Okay. Oh, I'm glad you're that high because I was going high. I was going to say 200 billion.

Well, it's 22 billion. So Dan is out by a factor of 10. James got reasonably close. I mean, I didn't get close in the grand scheme of things. No, if they did plant 50 billion, we'd have an insane over capacity of carrots. It's not a world I want to live in, walk along the street, just wading through carrots as you go to the office every day. All right. What is the total tonnage of carrots that those 22 billion seeds between them produce?

So how many tons of carrots are we talking? 22 billion seeds, but how many tons of carrots? I hate this quiz. It's a bad quiz. I watched Richard Asman's House of Games for the first ever time this week. No offense, I'd because you were on it and I didn't watch it when you were on it. But they do this stuff, don't they? Where you have to just make a random guess on things.

Yeah. This is worse than House of Games. I'm not afraid to admit that. Okay. All right. I'll go first. You want my first last time. Okay.

Six. Come on. Play the game, me. I'm going to go 100 billion. 100 billion? You think that every carrot seat produces five tons. of carrot. This is why you got invited on House of Games and I didn't.

Yeah, that's a good point. But this is good because now we're a tie. Yeah, I'm afraid you're both. Well, I'll guess 700,000 tons, which is the correct answer. Oh, well done. And just out of interest, that would stretch 1.4 million miles if you put the carers end to end. Great. Okay, carry on.

Next fact. Thank you miss plate. Pate. Only two questions in this quiz Okay, one last question What? 1.9 million miles Percentage

Oh yeah Of the carrots Consumers Buying the UK Are grown in Britain 38 You think Okay 38 We're only 38% self-sufficient in carrots

Ah interesting You said the word only there 39 Oh James wins It's 97 That's good I know So there's almost

no need to buy imported carrots, almost. So that's, thank you, Susanna. Very good. And if you work for like the wool board or whatever, podcast at QI.com. The cheesebards, they're always doing stuff, aren't they? Brilliant. And we'll forward this up to Richard Osmond. You should have a new job.

Very same. Tony Shane writes about a bond, so a financial bond. Yep. You know, you buy a bond and it pays out a certain rate of interest for a certain number of years, right? And then when the bomb returns, you get all the original money you put in back. So I pay 100 quid. I get $3 quid a year for 10 years, and then I get $100 quib back. Pretty good deal.

And it's if companies or governments need to raise a lot of money initially and fund something big. A war for instance. A war. A war time bonds. Well, there is a bond which was issued in 1648, which is still paying out. Oh, yeah. It was issued in the Netherlands 377 years ago. Charles I was still alive in England

and it was the water authority they issued a bond and it's still paying that you said yeah yeah yeah like you knew this I feel like we may have covered this Oh really? A long time ago on the show I'm not familiar with it

It's just stunning So the actual original bond is in Yale now It's passed through many hands over the centuries It's written on goatskin I mean it's so old And the waterboard The Netherlands just needed to raise money for something and this isn't even the oldest bond in the world

that's still active there is one that was issued in 1624 it had its 400th birthday last year it is still paying out and it was again Dutch water utility they had this disaster where some drifting ice broke through a dike huge problem in the Netherlands because it's all underwater

they needed to raise money and this one pays about 13 euros still every year that you're the bond holder it's just so cool I think I should set one up so people can send me money and I can become a, like, a spy or something. Wait, are you issuing the Bond?

Yeah, yeah, it'll be called the James Bond. Oh, my God. I gave you a second to notice what you were walking into. Yeah, yeah. All right. Well, I actually did prepare a separate little quiz. Who was the oldest Bond? Oh.

As in James Bond. James Bond. James Bond. The oldest actor to play James Bond. Roger Moore. Correct. Second oldest? Daniel Craig?

Daniel Craig, correct. Carry on. Come on. What is this quiz? And sometimes, they're not all in pot. It's not all like how many carrot seeds are there in the UK every year. Sometimes it's just a little confidence builder. So Roger Moore was 57 when he hung up his false teeth and wig and all of that.

But Daniel Craig was 51 when he stopped doing it. Yeah. In that last Bond film. I'm not massively surprised. What about Laysenby for number three? I haven't written down any other. Connery? I haven't written down any other.

Names and ages. Should have done. You probably didn't think we were going to get the first two so quickly, I guess. I gotta say I didn't. Laysenby, George Laysenby. Someone painted my old flat years and years ago who had come, he'd, did I talk to this before? No. Andy, this would be the best anecdote you've ever told us. I'm sure we would remember it.

Wait, wait, wait, wait. This could tail off really quickly. Lazy's dead now, isn't he? He's died. think he is. I better not say it. Wait, let me see. Let me see. Listener, imagine this anecdote begins, a friend of mine was

painting a flat and ends with something that's libelous against George Leasonby. He's very much going strong. Let's move on. Yeah. I told you it was going to tail off. I told you, we trusted you.

You had such a front-loaded it so well. He supposedly got the gig of Bond, when he was sitting, having his hair done, this is one of the stories that he gets told, and one of the broccoli's was sitting next to him. Big broccoli was sitting next. Gabby Broccoli, the producer. Garby Broccoli.

Or Barbara. Or Barbara. It could have been Barbara. Yeah. And Lazy me shot him six times through the head, didn't he? Yes. You've got what it takes, kid. Yeah, yeah.

Yeah. He's also, do you remember that there was going to be a bond of a very different nature, a different kind of character, not strictly an actor? And he wasn't allowed to be bond in the end because his face looked a bit too much like a farmer's. We've spoken about this on the podcast. It might have been part of an edit. Someone's, Brian Blessed?

No. You look too much like a farmer. Who looks like a farmer? Interestingly, a book of theirs is right behind me, but you're sitting in front of 500 books. Wait a minute, I know. Anne Miller. It is Ranel Fines. Oh, yeah.

Remember, Ranel Fines went to auditions and was... He was in the running. Yeah. I think it was either his hands looked like a farmer. over his face, one of the two. I've got one, Andrew Price. I'm a long-term listener living in North Carolina, USA, where I work as a nurse. I'm sending you an article I found in the New York Times about a type of seabird, the

streaked shear water, and the article is headlined, these majestic seabirds never stop pooping. Basically, scientists did an experiment on the streaked shear water where they put cameras on the bottoms of the birds pointing backwards. And I think they were trying to work out something about their flight or their flight dynamics or something.

But basically what they found is oh, these birds are constantly poeing. It's extraordinary. It's 5% of their mass every hour. Oh! I know. And Andrew writes, to put this into perspective, this would be like me pooping out

an 11 pound poop. I don't like that word poop. Every hour about the same weight is a normal house cat or or 132 pounds the weight of two Dalmatians in the course of a 12 hour work day Wow

50 and a half days and you have 101 Dalmatians That's amazing That's very upsetting What a bird What a bird What a bird Thank you Andrew Great fact

Yeah that's brilliant One more Dan Yeah I got actually another poo one to read out here. This was sent in by Liz May. And she says that this is an article she spotted. A woman in Australia has now been in a years long remission from severe bipolar disorder after receiving homemade fecal transplant enemas from her husband. Oh, boy. Her case is one of the first in the world that may lead to improved treatments for bipolar disorder. I don't think it will. I just, sorry, homemade, I don't even know how you would

how you would think of homemaking a fecal transplant henema do you know what I mean it just wouldn't occur to me to do which bit homemaking I suppose

like if I went to the doctor and he said look it sounds crazy but actually we think your microbiome might be maladjusted and we think maybe we can get it back

into equilibrium by doing this procedure but I don't think they would then say can you just go home and ask your but would you rather have someone else's poo up there

Or would you rather have someone you know? I only think someone else is. Oh, really? Yes. Very trusting. Yeah, but that's because I have to keep, if it's your close person, if it's someone close to you like a partner, you have to look at them.

I think it would, I think it takes a little of the spark out of a marriage. I'm wondering the circumstances in which you raise your idea, you know. Yeah. Oh, you've got to build up to it. That's baby steps. You can't just go straight in and say, I think we should do this. You've got to be like,

I wonder. I heard the Joneses at number 14 are doing quite an interesting thing I'm not saying we should do it I just I just you know it's something that kind of interest me a little bit I guess we could try

we could try it but your birthday maybe great great that it worked as well Miranda Coates right according to the Shakespeare company, 50% of the world's children study Shakespeare. Wow.

That's nice, isn't it? That's great, I've got to say. It's good for Britain because it gives us soft power around the world. And the plays are bloody good. They are really good. Shakespeare's one of those writers who everyone says he's good, and then you read him. Actually, he's really good. I can't believe you're telling.

Tell us more about this Shakespeare dog, Andy. Good up. Well, the guy who decorated my plan. He had a really interesting story about Bill. He is dead, I can say that much. Oh, well, he said he was a wanker. So this was a study done in 2014, okay, and it also named Shakespeare as the most popular person associated with UK art and culture in the world. Can you name any other people who are on that list?

And I have a list of 13 other people. Charles Dickens. Nope. These are just of any kind, any field. Anyone in the world. associates them with UK art and culture. George Orwell? No.

John Lennon. The Beatles. The Beatles, I'll give you. Jane Austen? No. Oh my God. Dan's way more likely to get these. Okay.

David Bowie? No, but good guess. Edmund Hillary? No. Brian Blessed. Edmund is from New Zealand. Oh, yeah. Okay.

Dan's way more likely to get this. So we're thinking obscure... John Cleese? John Cleese, no. Freddie Mercury. No. I genuinely thought you'd get a few more of these. The queen? The queen, yeah.

Queen. UK culture? Well, culture. She's not horse racing. I'm sorry to be snobby, but she just didn't... Do you mean the old queen? Queen Elizabeth the second? Yeah, the true queen. Yeah, yeah, go on.

Okay, so we had the queen, we had Shakespeare. We've had the Beatles. Are there 10 more to go? I'll give you McCartney as well because you said the Beatles. Twiggy? No. Sting? 2014.

No such thing. is a fish. They've got Anastrinsky, so I'll give you that. No, not that. 24. Is that, that's a clue? Ed Schering. Similar. Lily Allen.

No. Dapper laughs. More famous than Lily Allen for sure. Endubs. Bernard. Bernard. Adele is what I was saying for there. An author.

An author. Philip Pullman. Terry Pratchett. Come on, guys. The most famous British author. J.K. Rowling. Yes. A soccer player?

Beckham. Correct. An actor? Alan Rickman. No. Ray Fines. No. Simon Callow.

Benedict Cumberbatch. Okay. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And a puppet dog that sells car insurance. Winston Churchill. It just says Churchill. It's not called Winston. It's not called Winston.

Good quiz, guys. Great quiz. Well done. Wow. How did Churchill make it on to the dog? The dog over the politician. It will be Winston Churchill, I'm sure. Oh, it's just...

I was just doing a funny... Let's go compare me a cat's play on there? Anyway, join us next week for my quiz pulling teeth. Only on Channel 5. Okay, well, I think we... Oh, it's not... I'm not even hosting this, am I? Who is hosting this one? Andy.

You're me. Yeah. Yeah. Don't you think we should maybe end and maybe do some curatorship? No, I want to do 20 more minutes of these, of the UK culture and art figures. Yes, you're right, James. We should wrap this up.

Thank you so much for sending your facts in. Just a reminder, podcast at qI.com, if you'd like to have your fact. Oh, I don't think I did that last week. So just to say that also last week, if you want to send a fact last week, then it's podcast at QI.com. That explains the dearth of facts we've had in the inbox since last week. No, thank you so much for listening to this bit. And now let's have some fact custodial.

Award Ceremonies This is a thing we're doing where if you join Clubfish on Patreon at the friend of the podcast tier if you join at those exalted heights you get a fact, a headline fact that we've done on the show

in the past to be yours, your fact in perpetuity forever and ever amen. It is your fact. So we're going to be dishing out a few of those now to a few friends of the podcast. You've joined, so let's start with one. Anyone want to kick off? I'll do one.

Lovely. Because this was originally my fact from episode nine, and it is that it was fashionable in New York at the end of the 19th century for women to wear bird of paradise feathers. Hmm. And that fact is now under the custodianship of, drum roll please, David Addis. Congratulations, David. Well done, David. I actually have no memory of that fact whatsoever.

You need to go back and listen to episode nine. I'm going to do you. This is exciting for all of us to revisit old episodes. And that was the thing that kicked off bird protection, wasn't it? As in people were just wearing these bird feathers willy-nilly. Is that right? These birds. There aren't as many birds of paradise as there used to be.

A lot of lovely hats being made. Interesting. Yeah. I think that is what happened. It was the Audubon Society, wasn't it? I think, if memory serves. Yeah. Don't write in if it wasn't.

There was a thing called the Plumage League, which is just a flat-out good name for a society. That's your own name, yeah. Yeah. But yeah, congratulations to you, David. Lovely stuff. Should I read one out? Yeah.

This was my fact from episode nine. Alan Turing lost his buried treasure when he couldn't crack his own code. What an idiot. Oh, what a story. This is now under the custodianship of Martin Hill. Congratulations, Martin. And this was Alan Turing in the lead up to World War II, worried that all of his valuables were going to be stolen. So I think he traded it in for a couple of.

silver bars or gold bars. Oh, yeah. And he buried them, and he made a code of where he buried them, and he made a code of a code of a code, and then possibly even a code of a code of a code. And then after the war... He loved his codes. He's big on codes. It's one thing that we will say about Alan Turing, because he loved the code. We love to crack a code. And unfortunately, in this case, when he went back after the war to crack it, the landscape had changed. He couldn't quite understand his actual code itself. And so he never found it. It might still be out there. I think the bit of England where he was meant to have buried it is now

sort of council estate, so I think they would have dug it up possible. Is it near Bletchley? I can't remember to be honest, but yeah. I thought it was. If you live anywhere in the Midlands, why not dig up your garden? Absolutely. Yeah. It's good for you anyway. Oh yeah, gardening. Yeah. There you go. Well, congrats Martin Hill. That's yours.

Here's one. This is going out to Aaron Hung and it's the fact that, in 2011, the largest sperm bank in the world stopped accepting sperm from redheads. Sorry, Aaron, you got a bit of a rude one. It's a blue fact. There's no doubt about that.

And I think it was Classic Anna, really. It's an Anna fact, yeah. It's an Anna fact, of course it was. I think it was a lack of demand. I think it was classic anti-redhead prejudice. That is prejudice. Yeah. There's an interesting thing in history. I read a paper about this that people have typically thought

that people with red hair are very sort of sexually active. And they've had that reputation throughout history but the researchers found out that the reason that they had that reputation is because people just generally found them more attractive and so they were having more sex but it's just because everyone fancied them yeah right oh that's a nice counter-narrative to all the anti-inger prejudice absolutely good uh wesley veta you are now the proud custodian of this fact the english language has more words borrowed from

from Hawaiian than from Welsh. Really? Yes. Wesley, that one is now yours. This was an Andrew Murray original. Yeah. And it's, I can't remember any words that are borrowed from Hawaiian now. Aloha.

Wiki. Wiki. Hula? Hula. As in Hula Hoop. Yeah. Hula dancing. Yes.

But also I think the thing is that in Hawaii, they had lots of new plants that needed names. So we took them from Hawaiian. Right. Whereas when we went to. into Wales, they had the same plants as we had, which is slightly, like, maybe leak. No, we already had leaks. Daffs? Daffs, yeah, they still existed. So, you know, there was no need to give Welsh names to these things. You're right. And also, let's not forget, the anti-Welish prejudice. Of course. But one interesting thing is that everyone found the Welsh extremely

attractive. Yes. Oh, yeah. Let's do another one. Yeah. This, we had a guest on in this episode, episode 10. And that guest was Eric Lampere. I haven't seen him for years. Well, do you know what? You can see him currently in a movie. That's why I haven't seen it because he's way more successful to me. So there's a movie out at the moment called Grief is the Thing with Feathers based on a Max Porter book and it's Benedict Cumberbatch. And there's a big black bird that appears in it. Is he playing the bird? He's inside the bird. Wow. So you don't see Eric, but he's on stilts and he's he's uh he is the bird in that film very cool we love eric yeah what was his fact his fact was in 1923 jockey frank hayes won a race in belmont park in new york

despite being dead wow yeah amazing fact that's for emma govin and uh congratulations this is now your fact this was he he died on the final leg didn't he i think he had a heart attack well on the horse right but the horse just kept running and won the race right yeah Gosh, that's amazing. Have we got time for any more, Andy, or? I think we've got time for three more. Three more. Okay, well, I'll do one.

This one was a Dan Shriver fight from episode 10 of no such things of fish. And Dan said, some Buddhist monks run marathons to achieve enlightenment. And that fact now belongs to Mr. Dan Turner. So, Dan, congratulations. Yeah, that was one of my favorite. earliest facts on the podcast. It's just this extraordinary thing that they run these insanely long marathons

and the idea is that after however many days of doing it they would achieve enlightenment. So rather than meditating your way to it, you can actually bolt to it. But the thing is about meditating is you can just sit there. Right.

I think I would prefer to do that method of enlightenment than the, you know, having to get your gym gear on. Rub your nipples with Vaseline? I mean, I'll be doing that even if I'm just sitting down, so that's sort of, that's a wash for me. That's sort of, yeah, accidentally achieving enlightenment for you. Yeah, yeah. Runners do that, don't they? Yes, they do they do? Oh, they do they? Yeah, I thought we're just getting an insight to your life,

Andy. Okay. That's the thing. Otherwise, you get joggers nipple. Yeah, which can be very painful, actually. Oh, it sounds bad. I've never run far enough to get joggers nipple. I've had it. Have you? Did you butter them, or? No, I just suffered for the next couple of days. Sensitive, yeah. We should move on. All right, let's have a couple more. This one goes out to Ben Caligari. Congratulations, Ben, because you're getting an absolute slammer,

is that the Slovakian and Slovenian embassies in Washington meet once a month to exchange wrongly addressed mail. Brilliant. Yeah. Again, an early classic. I feel like that was one of the poster facts in our early days. It was. Slovakia, Slovenia.

Yeah. They're not very close. They're close in a global sense, but they're not... Not in a European sense. No. Yeah, not in a European sense. They're not very close. They're probably close in an embassy sense.

Oh, yeah. Maybe. They're all in Elfettoclawed of those embassies in Washington. It's awful when the guy from Afghanistan has to go and visit the guy from Zimbab. Yeah, but that's just a great fact. And do we have time for one more? Yeah. Let's do it.

This one is going out to Alan Clark. In the 18th century, there were genuine medicines called Alan's Nipple Linneman. for those joggers out there, Grimston's eye snuff, Miller's worm plums, and Italian bosom friend. This was your fact, Andy. I remember that.

I remember that. That was a great fact to find. I can't remember how I found it now. But, yeah, Miller's worm plums is such a dodgy sounding. It's like they put, Miller is a very nice word, like our colleague on Miller. But worm and plums are two of the worst words

you could hear from a doctor. if you've got in the same sentence you've got plum worms that's really bad yeah I think it just meant that's the unit of medicine

like a lozange it's just a little plum that you have to take to deal with your worms it's almost as if they've surrounded the unpleasant word worm with miller and plums which are you know

I don't mind a plum I love a plum actually do you yes I cook it doesn't matter we do we can move on but I cook it I cook a rather nice

plum and oat slice, which I'm sure I've brought into the office for you guys in the past. No? I don't think so. Next week. Next week. Chocolate sausage is the last thing I have from you. Okay, we can't get back into that. Okay, so time to finish, Andy? I think so. Thank you so much everyone for listening to Littlefish. We'll be back in another week with another one with more of our facts, with more of your facts. If you'd like to get in contact with any of us, just email podcast at QI.com or track us all down on social media. That's it for now. See you next week. Bye. You know what I'm going to do.