No Such Thing As A Fish - Little Fish: You've Been Harkin'd

Episode Date: November 16, 2025

Dan, James and Andy discuss YOUR facts, in episode three of our brand new weekly show. This week's subjects include Oklahoma, dinosaurs, pumpkins and the ISS. We also meet EIGHT listeners who have become Custodians of Fish Facts.

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God, you know a lot of these. Well, I work in television. I have to know this stuff. Antiques Road Show, the cheap shit. So we've got some audience facts that have been sent in by a range of listeners. They're all brilliant. Let's get into it. Does everyone have a fact that they'd like to kick off with? I can do one.

Yeah, go on. All right, this comes in from Kyla Jemison. And the fact is that the P-Tank on the International Space Station has a blue-sky account to update everyone on how full it is. So what do you say a pea tank? Yeah. Tank of we? Yeah. So there's a toilet on the ISS.

There's a few toilets on the ISS. One in particular. You don't want to be called short. Yeah. And they have been. They have been. Have they? Oh yeah.

They've had some international problems as well. When stuff on the ground is going wrong and let's say one toilet is clogged, maybe the Americans won't allow the Russians to use their toilet or vice versa. There's a lot of problems. But they do have, they do have a tank that collects the urine. Yeah. The urine then gets turned into drinkable water. so it's reused and so on.

And this is not an official account. It's very explicit that it's not affiliated with NASA, but there is an account on Blue Sky called the ISS Pist Tracker. And it's because the data of how full the tanks are are available to the public. And so, and like it updates all the time. Come on then. How full is the P-Tank right now?

Right now. Should we have a game? Yeah, okay. Is it percentage? Yeah, it's percentage. Okay. I'm going to say 37%. Okay.

I've got 38%. Just play the averages. Okay. Lundra math of a titan's answer. That's absolute bullshit. I'm sorry. I'll change it. 37.1%.

Unbelievable. Okay. You sure? All right. As of six minutes ago, the last update, it was 38% full. You're joking. No. I said 38.

Yeah, you did. Then you pulled back to 37.1, so you're still ahead of Andy. Yeah, but you can only accept my first answer. And the thing is, it's like, I knew. I just, I had a feeling it was 38 and when Andy said 37, I thought, oh gosh, he's going to get really close, but I know it's 38, so I'm just going to go for 38 because you thought I went for 38 because it's one more than 37, but that, no, I had an inkling. And when you said, just play the averages, that was just, that was just your code for, I know it, I just know it. Are you serious? James got it bang on. He got it bang on. So annoying. If we'd done it 22 minutes ago, it was 36% full and you would have, you would have got it. You would have got it.

But yeah, so. We've got to start these shows on time. I'm sorry. I'm really annoyed. I was looking into just urine in space and how it works in the International Space Station and general shuttles and so on. And there was a mission in 1984 where something went wrong with the exit point of where the urine gets let out into space. It froze up at the end. There was a giant icicle.

And they were really worried because they thought that if it loosens up, it might crack the heat shields as we're going back down. They almost did a spacewalk to sort of chisel it off. But in the end, they had a robot arm that came and knocked it off and knocked it away. It also meant that once they'd got rid of it, the toilet was now out of order. So for six days, they had to pee into plastic bags. And also in space, really hard to pee because of the microgravity, right? So you've got to be very careful. So how do you think you do it?

You've got the bag. Bag for life? It's got to be. Because the flimsy ones have small holes in the bottom, don't they? No use. I assume these are more like what you'd put your sandwich in, right? rather than, I don't think... Oh, don't put your sandwich in it.

I don't think Sainsbury's bags made it to the ISS or challenge it. Do you get in the bag? Have the pee. How would that help? Because none of the peers get in the bag. Someone holds it close. You have your wee quickly. Then you just get out of the bag.

It doesn't make sense. Put the bag on the penis. This is for men. Uh-huh. A couple of crocodile clips. Hold it in place. Good. Very nice idea.

Now we're thinking like astronauts. Now we are. Astronauts that did not make the cut. No, what you would do is you would put socks in and you would put underwear in so that the liquid would instantly soak into something. So they were losing their socks. They were losing all of the clothing for six days while they're up there. But they made it back safe. So all good. Great. Here's one from Lauren Kramer. In spite of being completely landlocked and because of its man-made lakes and reservoirs, Oklahoma has more shoreline than the east and west coast of the continuous states combined. It also has an international port because the river connects to the Mississippi. Wait, Oklahoma has more shoreline than the eastern west coasts of America. That's what they're saying. But isn't Oklahoma part of the contiguous eastern west? Yeah, but they don't have a Pacific or Atlantic coastline.

So it's saying that the shoreline in Oklahoma is more than the Pacific and the Atlantic combined. What? Wow. How can that be? Have you run the math? Well, I've looked into it and I think probably it's not true, unfortunately, because if you just take Alaska, the shoreline of Alaska is 33,904 miles, and according to the official bureau, Oklahoma has 55,646 miles of shoreline on its lakes. So if Alaska is like 60% of the total, probably once you add the eastern seaboard and... Western Seaboard.

Yeah, then you're going to go above it. So I think it's probably not true, but it was difficult for me to find the exact figures. Wait, did you say Oklahoma on its lakes? On its lakes. So basically, Oklahoma has a ton of lakes. And so they count a shoreline all the shores of the lakes. And it's like this thing that, you know, if you're a sooner state person, you would just know that as a fact you're told as a kid.

But I think probably it's not quite true. Lauren also said that at high school, she learned that Oklahoma has the world's largest salt flats, alabaster deposit and parakeet farm. The largest salt flats is in Bolivia. The largest gyps and deposits are in Spain. And the parakeet farm closed in the 1950s after a fire.

So I'm sorry, Lauren. Oh, Lauren, you've experienced a rite of passage for anyone involved in QI on no such thing as a fish, which is called a thorough hearkening. And it's like, it's never a nice experience, but you do come out of it a wiser person. Yeah, I'm sorry, it's not Lauren's fault. She was told this at school.

James, that is, I know, but that is a thorough That's a thorough job. Because now, Lauren, you get to watch when James dishes out, hearkening to the next person, and you can be like, yeah. It's a club. It is a club. Every other human being is in that club. Who's farming parakeets?

It was one person. It was one guy in Warwicka. Now, I might have mispronounce that, so Lauren might write in and say I've mispronounced it. But they brought in just a few parakeets from abroad. And then parakeets have like four or five babies every year. And so by the 1950s, they had about 15. hundred breeding pairs.

Wow. But then there was a fire and they never quite reached their form of glory. And now if you go on the internet and you Google Oklahoma parakeets, you see Oklahoma was once the parakeet caps of the world and no one knows why. Well, that's why. Now we know. I've got one, which I think is true from Tracy Thexton. A common British job used to be operating a shake-willy machine.

That's in the ISS once you've finished. Take off the crocodile clips. Shake you, Willie. Get out of that bag. This is so good. So you know the word shodgy. Dodgy. Shodgy is dodgy?

Yeah, low quality. It was like a kind of old cloth or something shoddy, wasn't it? That's what it's about. So I don't know if it's a word that's traveled outside the UK. I don't know if in America or Australia it's house, it's a bit of a shoddy job, isn't it? No, yeah, yeah, yeah, you say shoddy. Oh, do you? Yeah, okay.

Well, there was this cloth, and it was a mix of ground-up rags and virgin wool. and it was then woven into new cloth. And some of the makers started upping the amount of recycled material and that led to low-quality cloth because the new stuff was getting more expensive. So the word gained the meaning shoddy, low-quality. Shoddy just used to mean, oh, this is shoddy. You know, it's just, oh, what a nice piece of shoddy cloth.

Great. Anyway, one of the steps of making the shoddy cloths was to do the willying in a shake-willy machine. What it meant was roughly cleaning the material to fluff it up and to remove any dirt. Can you stop doing that with your hands? Why you tell us about it? And there are these census records of willies, willie girls, willie men.

Do we know why it was called Willie? Is it because they got Wully? Two theories. One is that there were willow baskets involved. And one is that it's a derivation of winnowing, where you're winnowing out the low-quality stuff. So you had to feed the wool into the shake-willy, and that fluffed it up,

and that got rid of the nips, which is the dust and the dirt. The second willying machine is called the teaser, which is teasing it apart so as far as I can tell you do the fluffing in the shake willy you get rid of the nips put it through the teaser

and then finally add the lubricant did Kenneth Williams invent this job imagine what's your profession I'm a willie man that's good I didn't we were doing this recently with the Rachel Paris episode

where we talked about extinct jobs yeah I must admit I had willying on my list but we never got round to it that's surely extinct there's nobody willying these days no willy is now no there is a brilliant Yorkshire company called E. Nuyo.

What? Was that your Yorkshire accent? It's what it's called E. Nuyo, which is an abbreviation of it is not over until it is over. But it's almost all vowels. Sorry, and what's that to do with Williak? They're a recycling firm. It's about

recycling cloth. I got it. And Shoddy was pioneered in Batley in Yorkshire by Benjamin Law, who founded a company called Shoddy Manufacturing, which is just lovely Right, who's next? I've got one. This was sent into us by Jackie Gemmell. She writes,

The reason aeroplanes have round windows is because old planes used to have square ones, which created weak points, which caused metal fatigue. And metal fatigue failure would be where the window was weakened further by air pressure at high altitude. And supposedly a few crashes were off the back of this. And so they now, as we all know, have circular window. and that is to distribute the pressure evenly. Yeah, it's a strong, very strong shape, isn't it, a circle? Yeah.

I think now the materials are strong enough that you can get any shape of window. Could you have a plane that was all window? Yeah, now you can. Wow. But people just wouldn't go for it. I think I wouldn't either. I think I would not go for that. I would like a plane where you can see into the hold.

So you look down, you're like, oh, there's my bag. Yeah. I think that'd be really great. Do you think? You probably, I'd reckon you'd reckon you'd. don't want to know what goes on in there. I always imagine some weird shit goes on in those holes. Yeah, lots of Willie Shaken down there.

Well, like snakes on a plane kind of thing. Yeah. Yeah, I don't want to see snakes down there. But a novelty glass bottom plane is a very interesting concept. Yeah. Like, that is quite interesting to, I'm a terrified flyer, but even I think I might do that. No. Yeah.

Have you ever been in a glass bottom boat? I have. They're great fun. Thank you. you didn't invent them and well done and we should say Dan invented the glass

and now he's going to do it again with the plane apparently what about an aeroplane you know those rides at theme parks where you're not in a carriage

you're sort of suspended by your shoulders oh the danglers you're a dangler what about a Ryanair or it's a dangle all the way to Malaga oh my goodness

so the plane has a top but no bottom yeah that's a good idea I'm thinking you know saves a bit of money on fuselage it's going to make

serving the drink's very tricky. I'll say that. I guess the stewards are hanging upside down. I suppose they could winch themselves along. Because there's no bottom on the plane. Why are they hanging upside down? Why are they not just attached the right way up like you are? They're all vampires.

Okay, okay. I'm going to row back on that. They can be the right way up. Now we're talking. Remember to not let Andy pitch our weird roller coaster plane ride. It will be stressful when you can. coming into land though because it'll feel like you have to run

very, very fast at a certain point to slow the plane down. So Flintstone's plane. Mark Logie writes, in the 1760s Simon Harcourt, the first Earl Harcourt, demolished the village of

Noonham Courtney, as well as Nunham House, in order to make room for his garden, and he rebuilt the entire village one mile to the northeast. Wow. To make room for his garden? Yeah.

It feels to me like it's easier to move a garden than it is to demolish a village. The thing is about rich people. They're not really bothered about what's easiest. They're more bothered about what's more convenient for them. And what's affordable? Like if that's just within your budget. I think for Simon Harcott, the first Earl Harcourt, everything was within budget. All right, there you go.

And just rebuilt it correctly? Yeah. So if you drive through that area now, so it's like basically from the M4 to the M40 up there, you can go through Nuneham-Cartney and basically all the buildings look almost identical because he had to build them all

at the same time for the people who he moved from that village Wow Well it's good Look, it's good that he rebuilt it I'll say that You know

Yeah Yeah I would be a bit annoyed If someone said I'm going to move your house For my garden But if you're putting it back What difference does it make If he moves everyone's

Right Yeah no difference I guess you're going to have A bit of time Where the renovation is going on That's going to be quite inconvenient Yeah Those jobs do stretch

stretch on, don't they? Especially if the builders would be quite busy because they've got to rebuild everyone's house. What would have been great is if one family happened to have gone away on a really long trip and everyone decided not to tell them what had happened. And they're just go on as normal. I swear to God, we were closer to that house. Am I going nuts? Something else about Nuneum Courtney. Yeah. I was looking into famous residents. Mavis Lever. She was the person who broke the Italian Enigma Code, which allowed the Royal Navy to ambush the Italian fleet at the Battle of Matapan, which was quite decisive. And she also broke the Abder Enigma, which was one of the German enigmas. They had a few different codes

that they used. Right. And that one, she solved it with her colleague Margaret Rock, which led to the great saying, Give me a lever and rock, and I can move the universe. Bloody, brilliant. That's what one of her bosses said. That's really good. Here's one. It's from Jude Caffrooney. This is maybe the most stoner fact in the inbox over the last... You know what I mean? Like the sort of... Whoa!

Like the sort of cosmically mind-blowing fact. Let's hear it. The T-Rex is closer to us in time than it is to the Stegosaurus. Now, I really like this. I love dinosaur timing facts. Yeah. And this is that the T-Rex went extinct when they all did. about 65, 6 million years ago, right?

But the T-Rex was actually quite new. It only properly arrived in its final form in about 72 million years ago. And I got really sad reading that, and I thought, no, they had six million years. That's a long time. That's such a long time. I don't know what, I got a bit misty eye thinking,

God, they were in their prime. They had so much to give. They could have built their own HS2 in that time. Exactly. But when that happened, when T-Rex arrived, years ago, in the late Cretaceous, Stegosaurus had already been extinct for over

70 million years. So the Stegosaurus and the T-Rex are further apart than the T-Rex is from us. Do you know that Sergeant Peppers, the album, is closer to the modern day than it is to when Cleopatra

was alive? No way. Whoa. And that's a stone effect, is it? It sounds like an impressive fact until you actually listen to it. It doesn't make you think, though. That was the thing with the name Jurassic Park that often gets said is that half the dinosaurs in the movie,

yeah, not Jurassic. It implies that the dinosaurs in the park would have been incredibly freaked out by each other. The T-Rex would have been looking at the Stegosaurus, what is that? Whereas the humans, they would have been relatively calm about because we're closer in time to them. So they'd be like, oh, yeah, yeah, it's a normal.

You know what I mean? Yeah, it's an interesting point. I don't think so. Not an interesting point. No. I retract mine as well That's a shit point, mate You can't retract your point

Just because to go along with James If you look now At an animal that was extinct 55 million years ago And then you see an animal Which hasn't been invented yet And will come in 20 million years Even though it's closer to you

Which is going to be more surprising Yeah Yeah, okay Yeah, all right I retract Take that we're all agreeing My point was not interesting You've been hearkened

Oh God It's tough. It's tough. But the T-Rex used to be the size of a Dalmatian. When it started. Ages ago. Yeah, yeah. Right. But I think that's cool. Three metres long and 30 kilos. Was that a T-Rex or like another Tyrannosaur, like a related tyranos? It was an ancestor. It was what eventually turned into the T-Rex. Because I wonder if a baby T-Rex when it's born is already bigger than that size. I don't know. Three meters is a big egg, isn't it?

Yeah. Oh, that's true. Anyway, there you go. Here's one. This is from Ron Layback. And Ron says that Case Western Reserve University, which is home of the famous physics study, the Mickelson-Morley experiment, which disproved that the ether existed. Of looking at me like, you know what that means. The theory was that the Earth was going through some kind of air or some kind of field, but actually it turned out that it's going through space and these guys proved it. Anyway, this university. they test whether or not Galileo's theorem of gravity is true every Halloween by dropping two jumbo-sized pumpkins from the top of the auditorium building. And the idea is they could be different weights, but they should land at the same time. Right. And spoiler alert, gravity works, and they are correct. Good to check every year, though. You never know. You never know. It might change. Yeah, I think that is fun. Scientists have to check these things. And it brought me on to

Pumpkins. I've done a bit of my own research on pumpkins. There's an old QI fact that 95% of pumpkins in the UK are not eaten because we basically buy them and turn them into Jekyllansans and then throw them away. But actually, that is not true anymore. That fact is really, really old. But there was a 2024 survey that found about 37% of pumpkins are eaten. Which is just under the amount of urine currently sitting inside the ISSP tank. That's food for thought. But it's still not enough. And there is a campaign run by Hubbub, which is a charity for the environment. And someone called Emily Gussin, who wrote something called Don't Waste Your Pumpkin, to try and get people to eat pumpkins. And they have like pumpkin recipes and just to raise awareness of not wasting food. And they claimed that they've almost halved pumpkin waste in the last year.

Wow. So that's really good work for them. So if you're listening to this, it's three weeks after Halloween already. But don't despair. If you've still got a few pumpkins there, just scrape off the mold, they might still be good. Nice. Can I just do one more thing? Because I have an extra one that we never got to.

And I did lots of extra research for it. So Frederico Sanna wrote that if Tom and Jerry was made in ancient Rome, Tom instead of being a cat would have been a weasel. And that's because, according to Federico, the, Romans had pet weasels instead of pet cats to get rid of mice and stuff. Lovely. I found a website called Foundingantiquity.com. And they have a really, really long explanation of this.

And they don't think it's true. They think that weasels were not used as pets. They were in the houses, but they were kind of a pest themselves. But the reason I wanted to say it is because they found on this website that this theory was first theorized in 1718 by Magnus. Rydelius and Andreas E. Weasel. And they reckon that maybe he came up with this theory that they had pet weasels because his name was Mr. Weasel.

Amazing. Amazing. Oh, Federico, you've been hearkened. That's good, though. That's very interesting. Yeah, I think the jury's still slightly out, but... Because they're in the house. I mean, that's a big animal to have in your house as a pest.

Yeah, but a lot of the sources when they talk about, these weasels, they talk about them in the same as you would say there is a fly in the house, or there's a mouse in the house or a rat in the house is like an annoying thing. Right. Are they basically like ferrets? Well, they are smaller than ferrets. And the other thing is ferrets actually are quite easy to tame. And like I have a friend, Sid, who I don't know if he still has a pet ferret, but he definitely

used to. I think John Mitchinson from QI used to have a pet ferret. Oh, that's right, yes. But I think a weasel, they're just a little bit angry. and I think they don't make good pets. Do we get them in the UK? I can't actually. Oh, yeah.

We get weasels. Good facts. Old QI facts. Most weasels in the UK are least weasels. Because there's a species called the least weasel, which is the most common one in the UK. That's lovely. I think we had a fact in the inbox. Someone's saying, sorry, I don't remember the correspondent now, but the least weasel is

currently rated as least concern, which is nice, because their population's kind of doing all right. Yeah. My old neighbor used to take a ferret for a walk on. on a lead as a pet, which is a cool thing to do. I think it's cool. Yes. Yes.

You do. Okay. Okay. Let's end it there. Let's go to inaugurating the latest members of the Friend of the Podcast Hall of Fame. Exciting. Anyone who has signed up to Clubfish at the Friend of the Podcast tier gets one of our headline facts in perpetuity.

You are then the sponsor, patron, whatever you like of that fact. And you get a little shout out on this show. That's what we're trying to say here. So we should do some shoutouts. Guys, we've had a bit of a rush on membership, a friend of the podcast. So we are going to up the pace of the number of shoutouts we give for show and get through a few more. So we're sorry, we may not get to some of you for a little while, but your names are in the system. And we're going to try really hard to get through them.

There's been a swell. You know those companies when you ring them and they say, sorry, we're having an unexpected large number of calls, but they say it absolutely every single day. Yeah, we're going to have that. I'm afraid we've experienced unprecedented demand. And we're going to be dealing with it in a precedented way. So your fact will be dealt with in around seven months. It'll be before then we hope. It will be before then we hope.

Let's do that right, let's do some. Right. Today, shout out number one goes to Orion Slater. Brilliant. What a terrific name. Orion. Three stars. Lovely.

Orion must be absolutely sick of that joke. Um, belt up. There we go. Very good. Anyway, Orion, your fact is that the earliest known dentistry is 9,000 years old. Yes. Now, the exciting thing about this fact is it's not one of our facts or even one of Anna's. That's right. It's Greg Jenner's.

Historian Greg Jenner. And this was our third episode. Yeah. And Greg Jenner and comedian Alex Edelman were sitting there with me and James for this episode. So where was I? I think you didn't really care about the show at that point. You're sort of a bit loose-goosey. And I've maintained that.

In those days, yeah, we did two in one day, actually. Do you remember? And we got Greg and Alex to come in and do a show. And then as soon as we finished, as soon as the mics went off, they came back on again. And we did a show with the four of us, I think. That's right. They basically came in to have a cup of tea. James and I said, why we just make an episode instead while they're here.

So, yeah, well done to Orion Slater. Great fact. Ancient dentistry. Let's have another. Okay. Well, this one is. is going to Christine and Tom Asbridge, and the fact is that according to Dr. Hans Ulrich, the Middle Ages never happened.

This is a wild theory called Phantom Time Hypothesis, largely put into the show because we knew that Greg would be horrified he was sitting on a show that was discussing this particular thing. It was just upset him, really, wasn't it? Yeah, in a friendly way, we do, we did like him. But that was the idea, yeah. And the excited thing about that one is that this is a special. medieval fact requested by Christine for Tom, who is a medieval historian and writer. So we're not going to say you can request your facts if you're a friend of the podcast,

but you can put a little note in, you know, like where you put, I'm allergic to nuts or something. Yeah. But as the guy who does the emails, I'd like to specify that as the chef in this restaurant, I may put nuts in anyway. That's absolutely, well, while Andy's replied to your emails, he may be touching nuts. So let's go to the next one. Which was, the fact is, the most medically indispensable sea creature in the United States is the horseshoe crab. And that was originally a fact from Alex Edelman, a good friend. It's like he's in the room. But now it is under the custodian ship of Anna, also known as Anna MC, Anna Mac.

She's a regular contributor to various emails and stuff like that. Yeah, congratulations Anna. Yeah. And I do like the fact the most medically indispensable sea creature in the United States. Like, it's Qualifier City, isn't it? Yeah. Yeah. I think Alex had just read a documentary or watched a documentary about the horseshoe crab and just wanted to talk about that. I love the idea of reading a documentary. It feels like it's the kind of thing you would do, James, where you print out the transcript for the documentary and then you read it because you'll do it faster and it won't be irritating pictures in the way. Yeah. I have a friend who reads all of our podcasts. Doesn't listen to them. Reads them. Wow. Yeah. I mean, you read famously, you read, um, scripts of Toy Story.

All four of them. Never seen the films. Did you cry at the right bits? Yeah. Just dripped on the printout. Couldn't read the next bit. Oh, dear. Right, let's have another fact.

This one is going to double O dynames. Dynamies. It's a terrific name. And it's that Queen Elizabeth slept in a bedroom with 28. women. So congratulations double O. She's the bonnie blue of her time. That's rude.

Is it? I'm going to pretend I don't know who that is. Me too. Oh, me too. I think that was the vibe we were going for to try and do a bit of innuendo, but actually this was the fact that she had lots of handmaids and stuff who used to sit in, sleep in her bedroom. Yeah, they'd watch her give birth as well. Queen Elizabeth first.

Wow. You have changed. history, Dan. That's huge. Sorry. I was thinking about the chambermaids who would stay and births in those periods were often viewed by huge poronies. So for Queen Elizabeth the first, nicknamed the Virgin Queen,

I think probably that wouldn't have been a big part of the job spec. Not the nickname of Bonnie Blue. Okay, well, I don't know who that is. Right. Carry on. So the next one, I'll do this one. It's that 30 million Chinese people live in caves.

And that fact is now under the custodianship of Nathan Morgan. Congratulations, Nathan. Feels like a fact that we'll have undergone some depreciation. Yeah, I think it was a fact of its time. It could have been an appreciation because the population's gone up a long way in the last 11 years. Yeah. What of China?

Oh, yeah. I suppose it has. Yeah, definitely. I feel like the housing boom in China might have... There's lots of rural bits of China that... There are, but increasingly more people live in these mega cities, don't they? Yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah.

It's interesting that we can now... We've been going so long that we can talk about our own facts and say, well, that was a different time. And it's us we're talking about. Well, it's weird if you listen back to that episode, you'd probably hear yourself saying stuff where you're going, what am I? I don't know that. When did I say that? Oh, I mean, that happens with every episode, bar the last three. Yeah.

Like, I just, I just, like, who's this guy? He sounds handsome. Are you one of those people who always gets me and you mixed up? I have voices. Every time I look at the mirror, I'm shocked, not have your face. Should I do one? Yeah. All right.

Hello, Alex Tevsky. You have just become the custodian of this fact from James Harkin. There is a banker in Latvia who will lend you money using your immortal soul as security. That's great. Is he still going? I'm not sure. I'll tell you why I did this fact because I think our first ever listener was Gattis, who was the advertising partner of my wife.

And I sent him the episode to see what he thought about it. and that was before it went online or anything and he is from Latvia so I thought we'd do a little Latvian fact quite early on That's so cool Our first listener That's great I think he is

Well that's a great fact Congratulations Alex I'll do another one This is another Anna Anna your fact Forever is that for a hundred years Almost all maps of Africa contained a fictional mountain range

called the Mountains of Kong So to To clarify That was a fact that was said by Anna yes but it's now under the custodianship of another Anna whose surname we don't know she's just Anna exactly unless Anna Tishinsky our Anna has signed up to be a friend of the podcast not a chance

no she doesn't listen to the main show let alone whatever we're doing now she doesn't know this exists I spoke to her last weekend and she says she has been listening to the episodes and really enjoying them oh okay so Anna's been replaced motherhood has done a really weird thing to her second time round She did look very tired. That's a great fact.

I think that's a really fun fact, the mountains of Kong. There's just this huge mountain range. Everyone said, well, you can't go that way. What about the mountains of Kong? And they just weren't there. That one feels weirdly like an OG classic of fish. Absolutely. Here is one more for this week.

So male Pennsylvania grass spiders are much likelier to approach a female who has already killed and eaten a male. That feels like a nanofacts, doesn't it? Actually, it was one of yours, Andy, but now it is under the custodian ship of Alva Klausen. Well done, Alva. It's a good fact. Male Pennsylvania grass spiders are much likely to approach a female who has already killed and eaten a male. Which is crazy, right? Because she's got form. But she's full. You said to mean?

Yes. The killer wouldn't possibly want to kill again. No, that's what they say about serial killers, isn't it? Once you've killed once. It's not at all Moorish. you bump into oh god no no no don't worry don't worry it already did one tonight i am just want to hang yeah great well there you go that is this week's batch of uh of fact custodians thank you so much to all of you who've signed up at frankly any tier of clubfish it's a joy to have you on board we will be back again uh in another week's time with another little fish

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