No Such Thing As A Fish - S2 Ep5: Little Fish: Now You Three Me

Episode Date: December 1, 2025

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

Hello and welcome to an episode of little fish, little fish is the show where you send in your best facts and we rip them to pieces or and hopefully most of this this week we tell you how great they are and we've done a little bit more research on each one of them so we can tell you a little bit more if we found some so let's have no further ado Andy give us a fact

all right Izzy Turner writes in with a fact about the St Anne's Church in Cork City Cork City beautiful city yeah it makes it sound like a factory town like welcome to Cork City son

we make all the cork but that's not it's not it Can't grow cork in Ireland. Ah. Wrong climate. So what's the... Right, it's not about the etymology of the name cork. No.

And it is he's fact, but there will be a cork city somewhere, right? Yeah, Portugal. Tunisia is a huge cork growing... My understanding is Portugal is the world's largest exporter of cork. Interesting. And the reason I think that is because I've been to cork city, as in a city that makes corks. And I bought a cork bow tie from that city. And if I ever have to wear a bow tie,

I still were the one that's made out of cork. I'm believing James. I don't know why. There's something about what he said. And you know what? With a cork bow tie, if you're ever on a boat and accidentally fall overboard, that stuff floats. Well, there you go. But it'll float so much that your neck will be out of the water.

But unfortunately, your head will be some... Yeah. It's just... I'm Googling cork production stats now. I'm so sure that Tunisia has a higher cork production than Portugal. Okay, I googled it and I don't want to talk about this anymore. Izzy's facts. is about St. Anne's Church in Cork City

and all four clocks on the faces of the clock tower display a different time to each other and the clock is known as the four-faced liar so none of them's right I think they're all roughly right but they're all different to each other Oh so it's not like a London Paris Tokyo No it's all like 315 319 324

It's like Question so I have two people I know, one of them's my wife and the other one's Anna Tashinsky, who regularly have their clocks set to the wrong time so that they're never late for things. Oh, I do that too, yeah. You do that? Do you do that, Andy? My Cassio naturally runs fast due to my body heat, but... What? I don't remember that as part of Einstein's. Because, you know, it's a quartz watch. It's got a wafer of quartz inside. A wafer. A wafer of quartz. If you run an electric current through it, it vibrates a certain number of times per second. And under,

warmer temperatures, it vibrates more. Does it? And that means that your watch runs slightly first. So on a hot day, your cassio will gain right ahead of it. I can't tell if you're telling the truth. I'm telling it. This is gospel. How much time, like, I'll set mine to maybe 10 minutes faster.

Yeah, you won't arrive. You're not suddenly going to be arriving 10 minutes early for things on a warmer day. You're running like microseconds ahead, aren't you? Yeah, but that's how I plan my time. I'm very busy, Dan. I have to do it to the microsecond. So, anyway. I looked up this clock, basically, the St. Anne's Church in Cork, Cooke City.

And there's a tourist website I found which claims that this was the first four-faced clock until Big Ben was built. I just can't believe it. I can't believe that we didn't have the technology of clocks with four sides on. I know, think back. You'll think about cathedral clocks and things, aren't you? But they're often on the front of a building. Thinking like, what's that tower in Warsaw? Has that got clocks on it?

Oh, yes, it has. But maybe only two. I don't know I just I think that's very interesting Anyway I have one related fact Can I crowbar in an extra audience first Matt Ireland wrote in

And actually we were talking recently About people with place name surnames Oh yeah Matt Ireland He writes him with In Beckles in Suffolk The Church Tower only has three clocks On its four sides

The reason was when it was built The people of Suffolk Didn't want the people of Norfolk To know the time of day That's so good Getting our time for free, those cheapskates. That's very good. It's funny, I think that Cork City is where they make Corks,

and Matt Island is the entire island where they make Welcome Mats. Would you know what Cork Island, I've just quickly looked it up on the sly, what they are big producers of for the world. Oh, the city of Cork. Yeah, the city. Last where? Well, County Cork, yeah, Ireland. No, I don't know.

It is Viagra. Oh, yes, the Viagra factory is down there. It's okay. Because I remember there's a story. that locals in the town were standing downwind of the Viagra Park. Because it's like Charlie in the chocolate factory, he walks past the factory and he smells the amazing smells of the chocolate every day and he walks slowly. And would you do that and slowly start bending over and you wouldn't get a golden ticket in your chocolate? I'm not sure what you would get.

Five golden Viagra pills. The lucky openers will receive a permanent erectile. Willie Wonka more like Oh my God Yeah, carry up Willie Wanker, yeah Okay, Jamie Thompson says Dear Fishmongers

It's giving us the name fishmongers there Nice Thought you might like this if you don't already know about it And he sent me a link to the Pentagon Pizza Theory Now I'm sure we all have heard of this before Yeah This is the idea that if something is going down on a mass scale with the government in America

and the Pentagon need to get involved they're going to have to put in long hours and so they're going to have to order in food and it's been noted that there are certain times when there are huge orders of pizza for the Pentagon for these late night sessions so the idea is that if orders are spiking at any kind of pizza place near the White House

or Pentagon it means something is about to happen something's going on and can you leverage that like can you sort of short stocks There are websites that will look at the different pizza parlors and see how busy there. Really? Yeah, the pizza meter. It happened quite recently. I can't remember what it was for.

Maybe is Israel? I thought there was this whole rumor that went around because suddenly Donald Trump disappeared for a weekend. Everyone was like, is he ill? When he died? When he died? Yeah, exactly. And so they were monitoring. They were finishing putting the final touches to the Robo Trump.

Yeah, yeah. Yes. But it kept on making sense when it spoke. so people knew. Come on, we don't want to have to make an apology or a one billion pound fine. If you were trying to persuade people, you weren't a supervillain, would you sue for one billion dollars? Yeah, very true.

That's a great theory. Yeah, wonderful. And it is a theory. It's not, it's why it has the word theory at the end. Oh, yeah, yeah. Yeah, I love it. Okay, I've got another one here from Matt Bromhead. Matt says my fact this week is that Patsy Klein, the first female artist to be inducted into

the country music hall of fame, used to give out her home phone number to fans in case they wanted to call her, which she did. We kind of spoke about this recently with Amy Gledhill about Laurel and Hardy, which is that Stan Laurel used to give out his phone number and people would call him and he would just answer at home. I think that got cut from the final Oh, okay, all right. Actually, but yeah, he did do that after Hardy died. Yeah. And so Patsy Klein is great.

Do you know her stuff? I don't really. She's buddy good. And she died very young. She was 30 years old. It was a plane crash. So she didn't have much time to carve out a full career. But I've got a couple of albums in my, in my music app.

A church, a courtroom, then goodbye is one of her songs. Sounds sad. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. But that's great. That's, yeah, that happens less and less these days. but what a oh phone number's being given out

Oh people dying and playing crashes Yeah yes that Okay Okay here's one from Tom Hayes Tom says former Lib Dem leader Ming Campbell once beat OJ Simpson In a 100 metre race Amazing

And it's true That's what I can say Min Campbell was an amazing runner Right In his time And so for international listeners The Lib Dems are a big deal Political Party in the UK

Yep, and for non-American listeners, O.J. Simpson is a murderer. Well, that lawsuit fell. It's dinging away. But was he a runner as well? OJ. Simpson, well, OJ. Simpson was a football player, an American football player. And he was also extremely fast, like a lot of them are. But Min Campbell was a runner who captained the Scottish men's team at the 1966 Commonwealth Games in Jamaica. He was known according to, Tom Hayes as the fastest white man

on the planet. Wow. And I think he probably was for some of the time. He was at the 1964 Olympics but lost in the second round and the British relay team came last in that Olympics. But he gave up athletics in

1968 just before the next Olympics at Mexico City and the year earlier he'd finished second to Tommy Smith in an indoor race in Sacramento. So do you know who Tommy Smith is? Yeah, but For anyone who doesn't... So in the 1960s, Dan wasn't paying attention

otherwise he would have jumped in. I don't know if Tommy Smith, there's no idea. In the 68 Olympics, he was the guy who stood on the podium and did the black power salute. Oh. Do you remember that? Yeah, yeah, yeah. And Ming Campbell should have been in that race by all accounts,

but he gave up his career the year earlier to become a politician and a lawyer. So in another reality, Campbell decides not to become a politician beats Tommy Smith in the final of the 1968 Mexico City Olympics and then Tommy Smith never able to do his historic salute. Wow, what a sliding doors moment. I would love to see the movie of this event. Is it still sliding doors though?

Is the film still sliding doors? So it's Gwyneth Paltrow and the politician from the Lib Dems. Is it Gwet Paltrow playing Min Campbell? Yes. Great. Yeah. Good. Who else is in that movie?

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

That was really good. And I went into the newspaper archives and looked at the stories for when Min Cumble was around doing these races. And yeah, he was basically all the Scottish newspapers were saying that he's the, next fastest man in the world and their sassanaks need to believe it because like will he get into the British team or not because maybe they'll English will just put all the

English runners in and stuff. It's really interesting when you look back. Yeah, because it would have been a weird headline and like, oh, great sprinter decides to go into politics. He'll never go anywhere. Actually, he's going to be the leader of the Lib Dems one day when he's extremely old. Yeah, still running.

Still running. Brilliant. Okay, here's one from Jake Clements, who writes, My wife Katie, has been taking a course in landscape gardening and came across a particular type of bramble and hasn't stopped giggling at the Latin name. It's called a Cockburnianus. Now, I would pronounce that Coburnianus. Yep. Because it's named after the Coburn family.

But Coburn is spelled Cockburn. And, yeah. I tried to find out more about it There was a blog that said I've been trying to find out who among the Coburn family was being honoured by William Botting Hemsley when he'd named this newly discovered species

but without success But I think I've worked out who it probably was I think it was probably Henry Coburn Who served in China for 25 years As British Consul General Because this is a It's a bramble that's found in China Well that's great

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

Do you? Yeah, yeah. Do you grow, are the blackberry brambles? They have, I think it's blackberries, yeah, some kind of berries on there. Do you know what? I don't know what a bramble is. I've just realized. My whole life, I've been casually referring to brambles.

I don't know what they are. What is it bramble? Well, to me, it was always just a spiky bush, but I guess there's some kind of other. Yeah, a tanical. Don't write in. Don't write in. And apologies to my wife for last year's anniversary flowers. I see now that that was not romantic.

What year is the Brabble anniversary? It's the last year, always. It's the cook. The Cockbirdianus years is an amazing name for an American sitcom from the 1980s, isn't it? That's the final Adrian Mole book. My turn, this is from Drew Ferguson. According to the International Union for Conservation of Nature, they have a conservation list. The Least Weasel is currently considered to be of least concern.

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

Oh, dang. Oh, sorry. Maybe it just came to me in the moment, and I forgot the idea marked it. I think you might have said that someone sent it in. Oh, there we go. Who sent it in? Drew Ferguson. Well, thank you, Drew.

Double mention for you. Well, actually, I don't think you mentioned his name the first time. Single mention of you, Drew, but your fact has been on twice. Really good. Here's one from Soam Mojiji. Brackets, NB, email is so old. The fact may have changed. I think that's some commentary from you, Andy.

Yep. So this person said, after staying up late on Wednesday to watch, I don't know which Wednesday it was, could have been any Wednesday in the last five years, to watch United, and he's talking about Man United, Manchester United, lose away to Grimsby Town, 12-11 on penalties. Going to work the next morning was probably the worst thing that's ever happened to me.

Anywho, it turns out that after this result, Grimsby Town, currently in the fourth division of English football, are now unbeaten against Manchester United for nearly 100 years last losing in 1946. Wow. In that time they have only played three matches with Grimsby winning two and drawing one.

So nice facts if you like football. If you don't like football, imagine what the headlines might have been for Grimsby beating Man United. So Grimsby is a very famous area for making fish. Yes. or fishing. What might they have gone for?

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

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

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

The answer is battered. Oh. Anyway, I did some Googling about other football teams who've got good records against Man United. M.K. Don's have never lost against Manchester United in the entire history, which admittedly is very short because they're a franchise who kind of took over another football team. But they've had one win 4-0. And Southend United have never lost against Man United. They've had one win of 1-0. If you beat them once, you're just like, well, we're never playing Man United again. Yeah. That was like when I used to play chess and my brother

got better than me. I beat him once. I said, right, that's it. That is so child. I was a child. Four nils is a battering. Very good. Unfortunately, that was M.K. Duns who did that, and Milton Keynes is not a very famous fishing carrier. Milton Keynes, they really set them roundabout to the houses. Very good. Lovely. Yeah, yeah. Okay, I'll do one here. This is from Phil Pee. Phil P. says, 1918 in the UK, there was a Chinese magician who became quite famous named Chung Ling Su. He was quite old, spoke no English. On stage, though, he got shot trying to perform the bullet catch trick.

shocking as it was his dying words shocked the audience even more when he said lower the curtain something went wrong and so he had been playing this character it's a very famous character within the world of magic William Ellsworth Robinson and yeah he basically that was his real name that was his real name and he basically created a character that was an old Chinese magician yeah who would do amazing tricks on stage but if anyone has seen the movie the prestige It's used as an example of how a magician's act extends beyond. Yeah, I know, Andy just...

Sorry, the listener doesn't see this, but Andy just rolled his eyes in such a way. It's a ridiculous film. He's got a big old Nolan issue. I once asked my wife to read me out the plot of the prestige during a long car journey so that I could be annoyed about it. We were stuck in traffic and I was driving. Oh, you weren't annoyed enough by the traffic.

I needed an edge. You know what I unironically love? is the Now You See Me movies. You've watched like 10 times in the last month. Okay, that's a trick that they've pulled on you. I actually really, really love them.

I think because it's magicians who do a con. Yeah, usually. They're four magicians who are brought together and they don't know why, but there's a big magic idea for them to pull off this ultimate thing, but they don't know who they're working for, and they slowly have to complete this

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

But instead it was called Now You See Me Too. Yeah. That's a bad title. Yeah. And then the third one is called Now You Don't, when that should have been the second. It makes no sense. Now you see me, then now you don't, then now you three me. I think we'll think of something for the fourth film. Yeah. Unless this is a cleverly planned misdirection, the second title, the third title, it's all going to make sense in the fourth.

That'll be it. I can't believe you've watched them so much over the last fortnight. That's mad. They were just good to have in the background while I needed to do other stuff, you know. It's a good background, maybe. What are you else? And he's just got something about them. Okay. Well, on that note, I think we've come to the end of your facts. So we're going to go to some of our old facts, and we're going to dish them out to people who are members of the friend of the podcast here on Patreon. So drum roll, please, everyone.

Well, that was okay, Andy, but I might add it in post. Let's hear the first person who is a friend of the podcast. Yeah. Okay. Here is a fact. Luke La Joy, Luke La Joy, it's a brilliant name. I'm sorry if I'm saying it wrong. But anyway, Luke is your fact, and it's that a computer game has been invented that takes more than a lifetime to complete. This was a James Harkin. Yeah, and the idea was that you could play the game,

and then you could pass your high score onto your descendants. You could then continue the game. And it was the idea, I mean, quite a long time ago we did this fact. it was the idea of like digital currency and how that will go when you die. Because we know what happens to your money when you die, but what happens to your digital stuff.

We could have invented crypto. Bro. We could have done. Because this would be 2014. Where was crypto? Probably Bitcoin had been invented, but. Imagine if during that show we'd researched it and found out there's a thing called Bitcoin

and told all of our listeners about it and everyone bought one Bitcoin. all of our listeners we could be selling a friend of the podcast for 50 grand you've just did we ever mention this guy

who's someone who bought in something like 2010 I think Bitcoin had been a venture a while ago he he bought a couple of pizzas for something like

10,000 Bitcoin he would have been a billionaire several times over today if he just not done that. And now Papa John's is who they are. Anyway, Luke, that's your fact now to safeguard and shepherd and keep forever. Maybe you can play the, in fact, why not play the game? Yeah, you'll have to go

back to episode number seven to find out what it was. Dan, can you give us another one? Yep, this one is for Jacob. And the fact is that 2013 was the first year since 1933 that there hasn't been a sighting of the Loch Ness Monster. Oh, do you know what's happened since then? There's been plenty of sightings. Well, interestingly, it was the very nature of releasing a headline like that, which this was in the papers at the time, that spurred people on to claim and send in photos and say that they've seen it.

Is it not the fact that basically they had lots of sightings while cameras were really shit for about 50 years? And suddenly, everyone had a phone and cameras got really good. and then they stopped being sightings and then Photoshop was invented and suddenly there were loads of sightings again. It's been tough. There is a theory

when you can't pass off a leaf floating on the water. There is a theory that what if it's not that those photos were always blurry but what if say the Loch Ness Monster and Bigfoot themselves are blurry? So that's one of the counter arguments

to that. And it's a devastating counter argument. What if they're all former members of the IRA and they have to be blurred every time they're on screen. And their voices have to be done by out-of-work actors. Yes. Yeah.

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

Oh, a bit of a macabre. one there for Mark. Mark, Marcarbara, more like. Very good. I want you guys to know that I would do that for you. You would make models of our... It wasn't for the people whose heads had been decapitated heads.

It was for their enemies. I just want you to know that I would make models of your decapitated heads. Would you? If I was forced to buy the government. Right. I just want you guys to know that I would do that for you. I'm sorry. I've thought you'd react better to it. I'm wondering in what genre of model.

Like a puppet head, like a waxwork. We've already got puppets at the four of us. The job's done, mate. The job's done. Do you want that to be your model in perpetuity, though? Yeah. Do you? I mean, you can't.

I'm fairness. It looks more like Dan than Dan looks like Dan. Why don't we just get Don music from Sesame Street? Look it up. No, but I would do that for you guys. Thank you. I do appreciate that. But I feel like you don't have the requisite training on modeling heads and possibly

the heads that you make of me, Dan and Anna, might not be exactly true to life. Yeah. That's a fair point. Why are you doing it? In what situation you're imagining? The government is forcing me. I don't know.

I think, so was it, why was she being forced to make models of her friends? Was it that they wanted to commemorate the friends? No, not commemorate because they've been decapitated. They were enemies of the revolution. Oh, so it was like, look, here are the enemies of the revolution. And here's what they suffered. But Madame Toussor was friends with those people.

but instead she wasn't killed because she hadn't done anything really bad but they forced her to make the heads which was it wasn't like du Pierre your next door neighbor it was prominent people yeah well you guys are prominent people you're prominent in the podcast world Andy before you dig yourself any deeper into this mad unto sword shaped hole

why do you tell us about the next custodian of a fact okay hello Todd Norbury you are getting a fact which I would say is one of my faves of all time During the Normandy landings, the Allied forces deployed dogs by parachute. Do you remember the days when we used to have parachuting animals in every episode? It was a happy time in my life. I love this fact so much.

In fact, it might have been the first feat to touch the ground in the Normandy landings were dog feet. Really? Wow. Because they were German shepherds and they were maybe... Is that to trick the Germans into thinking that they were on their side? Well, because they could speak German. they can say surrender in the German language

I was about to say in the local language but of course the local language was French which was the whole problem in many ways you know what I'm saying Are we saying that the whole problem of the Second World War was that French people were living in France No

I'm saying Because that's Sean it sounded like I'm saying The presence of the German army in France was one of the problems of the Second World War Oh that was a problem for sure That was a problem. That was a big problem. That was.

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

It's so nice when you get a second bite at the cherry 11 years later. Dan, give us another one. Okay, I got one here. This is an interesting one. This is an interesting fact to be a custodian of because it's been 11 years and sometimes facts that we've said have been looked into more and we discover that are not strictly as true as we thought they were when we first set them. So this is a fact that is going to ARJG and the fact is that the music track on the anti-piracy advert used on all DVDs was itself pirated. Lovely fact. Great fact.

You know that it would be sort of, you wouldn't steal a handbag. You wouldn't steal a car. It was this big ad. And the story was at the time that this had been itself pirated. I believe I got it from an Australian scientist who's been on no such thing as a fish. Carl. Dr. Carl got it from one of his books. I think it was a, there are slightly disputed versions of events.

Some people say the music was used without permission. That has been a bit disputed because there was a different anti-pirate. There was a different anti-piracy ad, which definitely did use stolen music. So that did happen. And also, there were questions about whether they'd licensed the typeface. Yes. I mean, it was a kind of a nightmare. All we know for sure is they caused an absolute massive upsurge in people stealing handbags.

Okay, here is another fact. This one is under the custodianship of Louisa Biviano and Louisa, Your fact is, oh, it's one from Alex Bell. It's his first ever fact on the podcast. And it is that one of the last things that NASA had to do before launching space shuttles was remove their inflatable owls. Nice. So that was Alex Bell's fact. It is now under your custodian ship, Louisa.

Congratulations. And if they used these inflatable owls to scare away other smaller birds, didn't they? Yeah, I think it was like hawks as well. I think it was, yeah, it was flying. animals and it worked and I guess mice possibly I mean I don't know how big burglars who are afraid of owls it's also when you get downstairs to the space shuttle in the morning and it's gone and you feel like such an idiot and you realize it's been burgled and you spend a while looking like oh maybe I parked it in the next space along and it's just not I've had that

situation yeah it's a kicker um okay we're going to have two more I think so andy why don't you give us one now I'll do one this one goes out to Craig take Congratulations, Craig. Your fact is this Zinger, is that according to the government of the Czech Republic, there are three symbols of Easter. Easter eggs, the Easter lamb, and whipping.

Being whipped. Yeah. And that was because whipping was like a tradition, wasn't it? Yes. That they did. Like young boys would go around whipping young girls or something.

It was a different time. It was a different time. But yeah, I mean, that was one of those facts where I didn't know for sure, because I'm not Czech and I didn't have anyone in the Czech Republic to check with

so to speak but that's why you said according to the government because it was on the government website yeah that's right so yeah I mean was the country still the Czech Republic then or had it become Czechier

I do believe that the government has recently said if you don't really want to call it Czechia we don't mind that's a botched rebrand isn't it that's embarrassing yes I just I think that's

really interesting that we've now been going so long that that's changed. Wasn't there another country? Was it in it? One of those two inside South Africa? Swaziland. Yeah.

Oh, Eswatini. Eswatini. Yeah, which used to be Swaziland is now Eswetini. It's because of e-sports, isn't it? Yes, exactly. Yeah, yeah. They're like getting in that branding. But Turkey has changed its name to Turkey, but spelled differently.

Has it? Yeah. I didn't know that. I didn't know. Oh, you'd not be spelling it the old-fashioned. way, have you? How embarrassing. Oh, no. Oh, dear. Oh, no. What is it, is it sort of turkey? Yes. It's turkia, yeah. Oh, no, and I've been going around spelling it turkey. Yep. Oh, no. Oh, God, we've been eating turkey at Christmas. Oh, you're still allowed to spell that the old way.

Oh, no. We've been eating turkey, yeah, at Christmas. Okay, one last fact before we wrap up for today, Daniel Schreiber. Yeah, this comes from Anna Tosinski and Matt GS. This now belongs to you at Earl's Court Tube Station in 1911 a one-legged man was employed to ride the escalator. His name was Bumper Harris. That was also a classic at the time.

A classic, a classic fact. Yeah. Bumper Harris. And he was hired... He was hired, wasn't he, to show that it was safe? Even if you were one-legged, it was not a scary thing to... Because there must have been someone who was the first ever person to go on an escalator.

Yeah. They weren't to... They couldn't know. wouldn't eat them. And there are descriptions of people. In fact, I think I said this at the time on the podcast at Stratford International Mall. I was constantly, as I was going down the escalators, there would be people on there who clearly, and they're like in their 70s, were going on for the very first time, and not knowing and almost falling on you and stopping at the bottom, not knowing to move. It was wild. I got to watch what the bumper Harris world was experienced. So for hours on end, you used to sit there. You're laughing at those old people. Get a few tins of beer

Sit in your camp chair I reckon there'll still be A couple of billion people Who've not had a chance to go on an escalator yet On Earth alive today, I would say Absolutely I mean so many people lack electricity You know

Which is one of the very few Like diesel-powered escalators I'm guessing Yeah no sorry There are no nuclear ones that I know of Well if you are a maker A distributor of nuclear powered escalators then do write in to podcast at QI.com.

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