No Such Thing As A Fish - Little Fish: Yum Yum, Plum Plum

Episode Date: November 9, 2025

Dan, James and Andy discuss YOUR facts, in episode two of our brand new weekly show.  This week's subjects include beds, wind, panhandles and Devo. We also meet our first four listeners who have bec...ome Fact Custodians.

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Starting point is 00:00:00 Hi everyone, welcome to the second ever episode of Little Fish. Little Fish is a show where we list your facts, things that you've sent in to the podcast at QI.com inbox. Andy has sifted through them and he has found the very sweetest plums, sent them over to the rest of us and we're going to go through them today and chat about them. Are they true? Are they not true? Do we know more about the subject? Have we never heard of any of these words before in our life. We will see as we move on. So who is going to do the first fight? It can't be me because I did the intro.
Starting point is 00:00:49 It has to be one of you two. Oh, go on. I'll throw a plum your way then. Jump in, let's do it. See how sweet you find it. Yum, yum, yum, plum, plum. My page. Sorry.
Starting point is 00:01:03 One of these days, one of these catchphrases will pay our handy, and everyone will be saying, yum, yum, plum, plum. It'll be the new six, seven. You'll see, James, when I'm opening nightclubs around the country shouting yum, yum, plum, plum. Right, this is from the unimprovably named Nathan Gallimore Strong. I think friend of this parish.
Starting point is 00:01:25 I think we may have heard from him before. Oh, yeah. But he says, the windiest place in the UK is the butt of Lewis. That's it. Thanks, Nathan. There you go. And it's basically, it's on the Isle of Lewis. Lewis and Harris. Harris and Lewis.
Starting point is 00:01:40 and the butt is on a very, very northern tip of Lewis. And during his trip, he also wrote his first finicular railway. So congratulations, Nathan. Oh, very good. It's a little bit contentious, this fact. I did do some follow-up. I always thought it was further north. So is it Cape Rath or something that's in the far north of Scotland?
Starting point is 00:01:59 I always thought that was the windiest place. Well, I think on average, Shetland is windier. Oh, yeah. So the butt of Lewis has been named by the Guinness Book of Records a few years ago. So they have their methodology. I still consider Shetland to be part of Denmark. Oh, because you, yeah, you have controversial political opinion. And if you're listening, Danes.
Starting point is 00:02:21 Is it Denmark or no way? There was one of them where we got it as maybe a dowry or something from some Scandinavian country. But the rules were that they were allowed to buy it back at any stage. Like when we first got it, but Shetland or Orkney. Right. They said, yeah, you can have it. As soon as we can get 12 marks together, we're going to buy it back. So, and I think it's still true that in theory they could buy it back if they want.
Starting point is 00:02:48 Really? To know that. Okay. Well, so if you're listening, Vikings, get the money together. How windy? How windy is this? It's pretty, it's really windy. The thing is, how do you measure how windy something is?
Starting point is 00:03:02 Yeah. Is it average speed over the year? Maybe, for me now, because I live by seaside, I could judge it. If I saw where Margate lives on a list, then I think I could then judge it by personal experience. Yeah, yeah, because it's quite windy where you are. Oh, it's wild. The wind in Margate is insane. And it comes out of nowhere.
Starting point is 00:03:20 Like, we have this amazing... You can't see it coming. We were sitting one time in Margate. There's these things which are called the steps that go onto the beach, and you often see it. Lots of beaches out there are done. It's things called the steps. If you've ever been to Rome, they have a Margate tribute, which is called... the Spanish steps. Do they?
Starting point is 00:03:40 Oh, well, there you go. See, yeah, it's coming up, Margate. So we were sitting on what felt like a normal day, and we were with our neighbors. These seagulls get coming and eating our fish and chips. And Chloe did this thing where she picked up the final few chips, and she threw them out to the ocean, and just at that moment, this giant gust of wind came, blew the chips to the left right onto a couple that were kissing on the steps, and about 12 seagulls just darted into them. She had to run after them. I'm so sorry.
Starting point is 00:04:11 I'm so sorry. They were literally being attacked by these gulls. Is that a true story? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, it's one of my favorite moments. In fact, I have a photo. Well, that might, Dan, that sounds very windy. Yeah, so that's how I'd be able to tell.
Starting point is 00:04:24 But the strongest gust ever recorded in the UK was at Kairngorm Summit in 1986, which is a mountain in the highlands. In Scotland, yeah. Which was 173 miles an hour. I think that's the strongest any gusts, any, individual gust has been recorded. But I think in general, it's normally Shetland that is the windiest on average, I believe. I know, I know.
Starting point is 00:04:49 You'd be lifted off into the air when you'd be lifted off in the air. Oh, yeah. Don't wear your big coat. Thank you, Nathan. Yeah, great facts. Okay, here's a fact from Josh Glendening, who says, a soldier who spent too long on the toilet because of an upset stomach caused the star. of World War II. So do we know about this incident? No. Okay, this was this was called the Marco
Starting point is 00:05:14 Polo Bridge incident. It was 1937, often considered to be the start of the second Sino-Japanese War, which then evolved into World War II. And so the story goes that in the 1930s, Japan had invaded and put it in a puppet government and named it Manchuria. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So in July 1937, there was a Japanese private, Shumara Kikojuro, who was stationed near the bridge, and he went missing. So a few soldiers accused the Chinese military of having taken him and were holding him hostage. And so they started climbing over the walls to find him. They started asking questions and getting a bit of an aggressive response. And it just kind of built up tensions. Meanwhile, this soldier comes back after a while saying, sorry, my stomach was gone. I had to dip into
Starting point is 00:06:03 the forest and just relieve myself. And in that time, enough of a fight started that it went to a full-blown war. I just feel like we've missed one or two steps here. Yeah, yeah. I mean, it's... Probably some political things happening. There were a few political things. Also, there's another theory that he was visiting a brothel that he hadn't gone to the toilet.
Starting point is 00:06:25 And a lot of historians, but this has been poo-poohed by a lot of historians. Poo-pooh-ed. Very good. Is the idea that this was staged, so he was told to go away so that they could pretend he was missing so that they could find an excuse to go in. But so, yeah. I've heard this story before and I think it rings relatively true. The basics are true, aren't they?
Starting point is 00:06:46 Really? I read a couple of years ago, I read Sir Anthony Beaver's history of the Second World War. Oh, did he mention it? He says this is the exclusive course. Does he? Oh, yeah, yeah. He says everything else would have been absolutely fine. It's 18 chapters on this guy's dodgy tummy.
Starting point is 00:07:04 That's right. Just a little bit. And then there was a skirmish. Does he go into the Sino-Japanese Or does he start 1939? Oh no, he goes into extraordinary detail About the whole global nature of it Yeah, yeah
Starting point is 00:07:17 It starts with the soldier actually, page one It's about the soldier who I think he was from Korea Or he gets drafted into the Japanese army When they invade And then Japan locks horns with China And then he's taken prisoner
Starting point is 00:07:30 After some fight by the Russians And then he ends up He ends up serving in three or four different armies Always being pressed into a different army over the course of the war. It's an absolute nightmare scenario for him. And he's used as an example of how this war affected absolutely everyone in the world. But his account is sort of grimly funny. And then he was taken prisoner by the Russians.
Starting point is 00:07:50 And it just goes on and on and on like that. Yeah. Like the forest gump of war. I suppose so. And this guy, your private den was taking a forest dump. That's why you get the big bucks, Andy. Yum, yum, plum, plum. Okay, my first fact comes from Ian Jones, and he says, I'm a pediatric surgeon.
Starting point is 00:08:14 That's not his fact. His fact is about the Fanonsteel incision. You gave me a load of German. You gave me some German ones last week as well. Nice. Yeah. And German is not my first, second, third, or indeed a hundred and ninety-third language. But this incision is one that this person did.
Starting point is 00:08:34 It's basically the most common way of doing a caesarea. But you use it for some other surgery down there, but it's in the shape of a panhandle, and it's on the bikini line. And it gives you good access to the pelvis and stuff like that. Now, the incision is called fan and steel, because fan and steel in German means panhandle. Okay. But the surgeon who first described it was called Herman Johannes Fanenstiel. So he invented it. It has the same name as him,
Starting point is 00:09:09 but according to him, it's named after the fact that it's the shape of a panhandle. Now, Ian Jones's personal theory, which I agree, is that he deliberately drew the incision in the shape of a panhandle so that he could name it after himself. People do do this sometimes, don't it?
Starting point is 00:09:28 Wasn't there an element of the periodic gallium? Gallium. And it was named after a guy who's So he said they named it after France Yes, Gaul But actually I think he was called Lecoq That's it Or something similar
Starting point is 00:09:42 Which is chicken And Gallus Gallus is the Latin for chicken That's it That's it So yeah Like people do do it And to be honest It's such a coincidence
Starting point is 00:09:54 I've never seen the word Fan and Steele before I mean What if actually the surgery Will be much better And easier to conduct If it was a completely different shape that doesn't look like a palm handle.
Starting point is 00:10:04 Yes. It could be that, you know, all these years, people who are having cesareans are having the wrong shape just because of his. Well, we should look into that. That's insane.
Starting point is 00:10:14 That's really good fact. That's very good. And great theory. I can give you more on surgeons. Yeah. Yeah, go on. There's a more. Jean Casimir Felix Guion
Starting point is 00:10:24 was born in Reunion. He came up with a new way of removing bladder stones through the peridium. but he's more famous for being the probable inspiration for this song Frerejaka No way wow My little one sings that non-stop at the moment Do they know that it's about removing
Starting point is 00:10:43 Bladestones through the Peronium? No but we never get to the third verse of the song so I'm sure what are the lines you get Ferreirajaka, Frerezaka Dormevous Dormevoo Sonele Matina Sonele Matina ding dang dong dong Deng dang dong So is that we've had a patient come in Complaining of severe
Starting point is 00:10:58 It's the sound of the bladder stones fall into the pan. It's the ding-dang-don. Good, good. Is the perineum the bit in between the anus and the genital? And the other genital opening.
Starting point is 00:11:16 What's the grundle? That might just be you, Dan. I thought that was another term for that. I've never come across that. Have you not? So the band that does our theme tune, Emperor Yes, Ash, who wrote our song and sings the song. He was originally in a...
Starting point is 00:11:31 band called Grundle. And I'm pretty sure it was to... Wow. Is this Aussie slang? No, no, no, no. All right, Mr. Schreiber, let's get you up on the chair and just have a quick look at the grundle, sir. Oh, you've got a bedcase of the parish? I can say it, mate. Dan, let's have another fact.
Starting point is 00:11:48 Okay, here's a, here's not so much a fact, but a great pub quiz question. All right, so this is from John Dunn. He says, my favorite pub... The metaphysical poet. He said, my favorite pub quiz question is, and here's a question now, and I'm going to ask it to you two. What are furthest north, south, east, and west states of the United States? Come on, mate. Yeah, you're, okay.
Starting point is 00:12:15 I think I was born yesterday. All right, so let's start, let's start with South. What's the, what's the Southest? Southest. Southest. I'm going to say, um, Dakota. North Dakota. North Dakota.
Starting point is 00:12:31 It's a trick question. Okay, well, for me it has to be North Carolina. Okay. No, it must be Hawaii. It is Hawaii. Oh, very good. Correct. What is the north-thest state?
Starting point is 00:12:48 I think that has to be South Dakota, doesn't it? Okay, playing seriously for a second. I'll say Alaska. Correct. It is Alaska. It is. That is correct. Okay.
Starting point is 00:13:01 One each. Westest. Westest. I would say Alaska, Alaska. Correct. It is Alaska. Oh. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:13:11 Interestingly, it's got North and West. Yeah. So, okay. That's two, one, but you probably might have said the same. I would. And also, I'm going to get the next one, right. Okay, so I'll give this one to Andy. Most eastest.
Starting point is 00:13:29 I feel like it's going to be a trick, but I'll say, West Virginia West Virginia No I'll say one of those ones Over on the far right hand sides I'll say Rhode Island Rhode Island incorrect James I'm going to say it's Alaska
Starting point is 00:13:45 again Correct Because the Aleutian Islands go over the international Dateline Oh for heaven's sake Yeah Is that amazing South is the only one Hawaii
Starting point is 00:13:53 that is not claimed by Alaska So north, east, west are all Alaska What? Yeah Okay here's one Kathy Oliver from Ontario, which is at least in the same hemisphere as most of Alaska, she said, my husband and I love your podcast, and it keeps us entertained on drives to my various treatments over the last two years,
Starting point is 00:14:16 which leads me to a fact idea for you. When you get a stem cell transplant, you will stink of creamed corn for a couple of days. Wow, okay. So the stem cells are frozen using a substance called dimethyl sulfoxide. DMSO and it stops them from getting damaged, but it has this peculiar odour that smells to most people like creamed corn. DMSO actually is very pungent, but to such an extent that you can taste it by touching it. So if I had a petri dish of DMSO now and you put your finger in it, you'd be able to taste it. Wow. And that's because it directly triggers the nerves that normally react
Starting point is 00:14:57 to taste. That's insane. Yeah. That's absolutely insane. How many different foods does that work with? This is not a food. Okay. This is a chemical. And I don't know of any food stuff. I guess garlic could do it like that, maybe? Because that seems to go through your skin, but that's just, I guess.
Starting point is 00:15:14 I mean, I thought. There's a theory about that. I remember you're walking around with an onion in your sock to see if you could taste it. As QI research years and years and years ago. I've got two pictures for you off the back of this. Oh, yeah. So number one, there should be a Google for smells. That should just be a Google for spells.
Starting point is 00:15:28 How do you, what do you search? As in what do you type? You're not typing. You're not typing with your nose. So what do you put in that you're trying to find? I haven't worked out all the details yet. Is it like Shazam? Instead of a phone, you hold a giant nose in the area where you are.
Starting point is 00:15:48 And it goes, hmm, baked crumpets. That's exactly what it is. Very nice idea. Okay, brilliant. That's good. Right. We've solved that one. I feel like I came up with that idea, really.
Starting point is 00:15:58 We were on the room, three-way split. really great great work everyone see for the first set of quarterly results okay so second idea off the back of that the touch restaurant right you don't eat anything but you just go in and you put your fingers through holes in the table into various
Starting point is 00:16:14 different foods that you can then taste yeah right okay but the only thing on the menu is DMSO so far so far maybe some garlic but you've got to wear it for a month but I think that will be good if we can find enough foods that you can taste through your finger
Starting point is 00:16:30 That would be awesome. I've got to say I'm in on the Shazam nose. Andy, I'll let you develop this a bit more before committing. I'm sharing it with you guys three ways no matter what, including the debts. Okay. I just want to say to everyone listening to this, I'm happy to share my Shazam nose with everyone who's listening to this. We can all have 0.0.01%. That's really generous.
Starting point is 00:16:55 But one of you listening will have to make it. Who's next? Do you want to do another one, Andy? Or Dan, do you want to jump him on? Yeah, I've got one here. So this is from Edward Malloy, who says this is their favorite fact. Norwich is the only city in history to be excommunicated. In 1274, after a riot in the cathedral, Pope Gregory the 10th excommunicated the entire city until they repented and repaired the damage done to church property.
Starting point is 00:17:29 Clearly, it has had a lasting effect as Norwich is now the least religious city in England per the 2011 census. Is that right? Kind of right. I looked into it. It's almost right. I didn't fully get an answer to the excommunication, but Norwich is very much not a religious city anymore. It's interesting because there's a saying about Norwich, which is that it has a church for every week of the year and a pub for every day.
Starting point is 00:17:56 So a lot of churches. That must be Norfolk, right? There's no way there's 32 churches in Norwich. Maybe there is. Maybe. Maybe. Yeah. Yeah, absolutely. I take that back. It's just a saying. I don't think there's exactly 365 pubs either. But it's the, it is. It's the LA of Norfolk. I would say, Norwich. Right. You know what I mean? It's the it's the mega city of Norfolk. Isn't it? Of Norfolk? Oh yeah. There's Kings Lynn, of course. Oh yeah. Of course. There's Kings Lynn. That's fair. That's
Starting point is 00:18:25 fair. There's Kings Lynn. Well, a census was done in 2021 and it showed that those who said that they don't have any religion, don't believe in any religion was 53.5% Wow. So it's 76,9773 people and that's a jump from a decade ago when it was 42.5 and that's 56,000 people. So it's the second least religious city in the UK. Oh, so there's town or city. Yeah. Isn't it somewhere called Satan, Satanford or something? That's the least religious. That's not a city though. No, it's the city. It's a, it's a, it's a, it's a, it's a
Starting point is 00:19:03 parish, isn't it? No, do you know what I mean? I think it's got an amusingly apt name, the least religious place in the UK, but I can't remember what the name is. I would have, without knowing that little clue, I would have said most likely it would be somewhere like Brighton or Bristol, like somewhere where lots of cool young people live. So, yeah, sort of strongly secular. Do you want to have another guess, Andy? James has it right, but do you want to have another guess? No, I'm going to stick with Satanford, I think. Okay. Brighton and Hove. Wow. Yeah. Had 55.2% of people declaring no religion. Gosh. Yeah. Alastair Crowley had his funeral there. In Brighton? Yeah, might have something to do with that.
Starting point is 00:19:42 Was he from there? No, but I think he passed away in Hastings and I think his body ended up in Brighton for some reason. He was cremated there. It's not so far, is it? No, it's on the coast. Very windy. Is it? Do you want to release those ashes near a couple making out? Here's one from me. I already have a bone to pick. with Andrew Hunter Murray. It's episode two. And I already have a bone to pick because she sent us these facts. And listener, think back to audience facts one. When I said, here's one from Wayne Hoyt, or is it Holt, because it looks like it should be Holt. Well, this week I have one from Wayne Holt, H-O-L-T. I assume it's the same person and I assume one of them is a
Starting point is 00:20:27 Mispelling. I've got to check. Although I did have a eyesight check yesterday and I need reading glasses. So maybe you need to check. Can you check? Is that a Hoyt and a halt? Yeah, it's a hoit and a halt. Right. Yeah. Okay. Wayne does write in a few times. He writes in frequently. We have a few frequent flies in the fishing box. Does he change his surname every time he writes in? I've got to check. You've got to work on your pseudonyms, Wayne. What's the fact, James?
Starting point is 00:20:57 Well, actually, the fact is to do a spelling. Oh, no. The fact is that in concert, the band Devo sometimes performed as their own opening act pretending to be a Christian soft rock band called Dove, the band of love, which is an anagram of Devo. Very nice. That's really good.
Starting point is 00:21:21 I'm really sorry, James. They're both from Wayne Hoyt. Wayne Holt doesn't exist. That's not a real person. I've mistyped his name. There will be a Wayne Holt out there. If you're listening, Wayne, how's Wayne going to solve this situation?
Starting point is 00:21:34 Wayne's only going to confuse matters. Yeah, if you happen to be listening to Fish and you're called Wayne Holt, write in, let us know you exist. Yeah, simple. Shall I do one? Yeah. This is from Jessica Rhingyzen, from Texas,
Starting point is 00:21:49 and she writes that Napoleon and Lord Wellington are kind of related, and it's America's fault. Okay. This is admittedly quite tenuous, but the story is that Napoleon had a younger brother called Jerome, who visited the US when he was in his late teens, and he eloped with a lady called Elizabeth Patterson. Then Napoleon wanted Jerome to come back and marry a European princess, because it was part of his plan to consolidate power while he was conquesting territories, right? So he brought Jerome back. Elizabeth stays, but then Elizabeth hops on a boat, and Napoleon bans it from. landing. So she has no choice but to go and port in London. So that's where she lands. Jerome remarries and basically they never see each other again. Now the tenuous link that we've been given here from Jessica is that while she was in London she was living with a lady called Marianne. Marianne was her sister-in-law. Marianne's husband dies and she remarries Richard
Starting point is 00:22:49 Wellesley who's the elder brother of Arthur Wellesley who defeated Napoleon at Waterloo. Good Lord. Small world, isn't it? I'm starting to think it's a slightly bigger world than I was imagining. Okay, I mean, I was lost so long ago. Yeah, it's just about clung on until the end. I tell you what, though, I did recently visit the room where Wellington died. Did you?
Starting point is 00:23:13 Yeah. I went down to Walmer Castle in Kent. Oh, it's a good day out. It's really good. It's a proper castle. It's 400 years old. It's not one of these sort of plastic castles that you get these days. You know, sort of like fake castles.
Starting point is 00:23:25 just to state me home with a few turrets. That's Disneyland. You're talking about Disneyland. It's not Disneyland. It's proper. And there's a thing called being the warden of the sink ports. It looks like it sank French or five, but it's not. It's warden of the sink ports.
Starting point is 00:23:37 But it does mean five, right? There were five parts. It does mean five. And it's spelled like the French of five. But it is, I swear to God, they pronounce it warden of the sink ports. I swear. Like, I went in and I said to the lady, nice to be visiting the sank ports.
Starting point is 00:23:49 She said, sync ports. Anyway, she probably said that 100 times a day for 20 years. You don't want to be calling your port. sink anyway. You're absolutely right. It's a crazy choice. But there is this honorary position called Warden of the Sink ports
Starting point is 00:24:02 and Wellington was that. So was the Queen Mum. The old Queen Mum. And actually when I visited they had a Queen Mum lookalike there for the day. Did they? Really?
Starting point is 00:24:11 Along with a kind of... That kind of work must be drying up a bit. Well, I made a sort of casual joke about gin and she looked so disapproving. Because you know, the Queen Mum. She liked her gin. She liked to drink. My God, Andy, this was a tough
Starting point is 00:24:25 day for you. First of all, you walk in and mispronounced sink pots and then you make a perfectly harmless joke about gin so the Queen Mother look alike. And then I find out Wellington's dead. It was awful. It was terrible, but no, it's a really
Starting point is 00:24:41 evocative room because they've got this tiny bed, it's this camp bed, it's a military camp bed that is still there from the day he died and he must have died in about, what, 1850. But he took this bed with him wherever he went. When he went up to London to be the Prime Minister, that military camp bed went with him. How interesting. He slept on, you know, he slept in that bed in Downing
Starting point is 00:24:59 Street and then when he became warden of the sinkports, he brought the bed back to Warmer Castle. You know what? I went to the place when Napoleon surrendered, which is in France, is it, Ildre or somewhere? I can't remember. Or I'll de France, Ilderay, something like that. And I might be misremembering this, but I seem to remember that he had quite a non-ornate bed as well. Yeah, I remember being there and thinking, oh, wow, for a, you know, someone who's so important in history, what a shit bed. These military dies.
Starting point is 00:25:30 I think it's the military like they're used to the campaigning lifestyle. You know, I saw the bed that Abraham Lincoln died in. Really? Yeah, it's when we were in D.C. We had a bit of time off. Because he was shot in the Ford Theater, but then he was taken to a house not too far away.
Starting point is 00:25:46 I just need a little nap. That's all right. Just but to scratch. No, they brought up to a house. And so he died in a bed that was, his legs were hanging off the edge, basically. He was tall, he was super tall and the bed was quite small. And you can visit his bed. You can visit this, yeah.
Starting point is 00:26:05 Okay, hear me out. Okay. Bed company. And we sell replica beds of the great beds of history. Oh. We're going to clean up on the finance bros who want to think that they're living like Napoleon or Wellington or Lincoln. I mean, those are three perfect examples of like beds of the greats, right?
Starting point is 00:26:22 Yes. Like you too can conquer Europe with our 9,000 pound bed. Yeah. Yeah. And we'll just sell them a military camp bed. What do you think? I love it. Okay.
Starting point is 00:26:33 All right. Well, if you're listening to this, you can have 0.0.0.1%. Okay. So I think that's enough facts for the day that we've been sent in. But we still have one more thing to do. And that is to name some custodians of the archive. So anyone who is in our top tier on Patreon, becomes a custodian of a fact from no such things of fish.
Starting point is 00:26:57 It's very exciting. I'm a custodian myself, if you remember listening back to episode one of this little fish. But there will be more custodians named today. We will tell you your name, which you might already know, and then we'll tell you the fact that you're the custodian of. So, Andrew, who is going to be our first non-fish member who is a custodian of a fish fact? I just want to say that was incredibly slick, James. And the concept of the shoutout is clearly very well embedded in your head.
Starting point is 00:27:27 First up today for a shoutout is Rachel not. And her fact is the first ever sandwich that we know about contained wine. Congratulations, Rachel. That is now your fact forever. Bilal the elder. Is that who it was? Hillel, Bilal, yeah, something. And it was more of a rap.
Starting point is 00:27:47 It was more of a rap. It had like currants in or something, right? It sounds delicious. I think we said this at the time 11 years ago when we covered it on the show Anyway yeah Rachel That's your fact
Starting point is 00:27:58 And we went into sandwiches The Earl of Sandwich Who we just covered again A week or two ago In recording Yes we did Of course Well we're on a big wheel
Starting point is 00:28:06 Aren't we We are Dan have you got one Yeah This is a fact That is now going to belong To Silas Gil
Starting point is 00:28:13 And that is In 2003 three people in Mexico Died of acne Oh If you put a gun to my head and said, you've got a thousand guesses as to the Christian name of the second ever
Starting point is 00:28:26 person to become a friend of the podcast. Silas would have not been one of my thousand guesses. No. It's just a terrific name. Because I think are these in order of the people who signed up? So literally, I think Rachel and Silas had to have had their hand hovering over the Patreon button as the time struck midnight.
Starting point is 00:28:45 Yeah. Wow. And we should say Silas is an especially fish-friendly name. Silas Manor. by friend of the podcast. Samuel Taylor Coleridge. George Elliott. That's right.
Starting point is 00:28:57 Okay, so the third custodian this week. This is a Dan Schreiber fact. And the fact is that amongst the other scientists called Einstein, there are M.E. Einstein, who came up with a formula for predicting the composition of a pork carcass. And Rosemary Einstein, who co-investigated the use of cannabis, alcohol and tobacco. on 300 young persons at her university. Could have done with an edit, Dan? We're going to need a bigger certificate.
Starting point is 00:29:28 But drum roll, that fact now is under the custodianship of Helen Cosgrove Davis. Congratulations, Helen. Nice. That was a great episode. That was a fact I took from a Mark Abrams book of the Ig Nobel Prizes, who James and I are going to be seeing tomorrow. He's in London. We're on a big wheel. Along with Case Molica, who did the paper about the first case of homosexual
Starting point is 00:29:49 necrophilia in the mallard duck. Yep. And who raised awareness for pubic lice because they might be going extinct. It's going to be a spicy lunch tomorrow. Oh. As long as he's not cooking, I don't really mind. Oh, congratulations, Helen.
Starting point is 00:30:03 That's the longest fact that's become custodianed so far. Until the next done fact. Shall I round us off with one more? Yeah, go on there. All right. This is a fact that is now under the stewardship of Darcy. Mr Darcy
Starting point is 00:30:19 We can only assume Fitzwilliam if you're listening Congratulations And it's one of my facts Is that the first contact lenses Cost as much as a car Yes you went to the museum Didn't you to see
Starting point is 00:30:31 Yeah The British Optical Association Museum Those were the days When we used to do proper research Episode two Quickly ended that Yeah Although we're on a big wheel
Starting point is 00:30:42 I went back there recently No For a party Yeah For a party Yeah They were finishing Their refurbishment
Starting point is 00:30:47 of the museum. It's really good. It's in the basement of the headquarters of the British Optical Association. And they invited some celebs along and they also know so they invited me. Who were the other big celebs who are at the party? I can't name names. I'm sorry it's very much an eyes wide shut situation.
Starting point is 00:31:05 Everyone was in masks. Ironically considering their optometrists. Brilliant. Does everyone wear masks and eyes wide shut? They do. Okay, good. In certain scenes not the whole way through it. That was very much a of a reference for me, you know, when you try and do a reference to something. You mean like when you say Samuel Taylor Coleridge wrote... Silas Marna?
Starting point is 00:31:24 Silas Marna. Yep, exactly, exactly. Because the thing is normally in a podcast, I would say that and then I'd cut it out because I knew I got it wrong because I'd check it later. But I've referenced it twice now, so it's going to have to stay in. You've really shot yourself in the foot. Okay, well, they are the next four custodians of facts in the No Such Things of Fish Archive. Read the names again, Andy?
Starting point is 00:31:45 It's Rachel Knott. It's Silas Gil. Gill, Helen Colesgrove Davis and Darcy. Four absolute legends, the first four people to sign up for our friend of the podcast tier on Patreon, and you too can get your name mentioned on this show if you sign up to that tier. But for now, it is time for us to
Starting point is 00:32:01 say goodbye, so bye, Dan. It's goodbye from me. And it's goodbye from him. Bye. Bye.

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