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1:13Hello, everybody. Welcome to another episode of Little Fish, the podcast. Yeah, I know, I'm changing the vowels. The podcast spin off show where we read out some of the best facts that you guys have sent us which are almost all fantastic my name is anna tuszynski and i'm here with my esteemed colleagues james harkin and andrew hunter murray hi guys hi hi anna i've got a fact here from danika edmondson who says the man who made the first drink for the first men on the moon was taught to make cocktails by the first woman to fly solo from england to australia A lot to unpack The man who made cocktails for the first men on the moon The first cocktails for the first men on the moon I didn't know the men on the moon had cocktails That feels like a luxury Well, it was when they came back It was the first thing when they came back apparently Was it?

2:08Is that what they want?

2:08Anna Ptaszynski:In the 60s you wouldn't put it past them to say Well we're going to need a functioning cocktail bar on a 4-11 You know, the guys need to relax They certainly need someone to smoke There's no point in having a disco ball If we're not going to have the cocktails as well um so this was made by a barman from the savoy called joe gilmore and he would make lots of cocktails for different people so he made the churchill cocktail for winston churchill for instance so he created the moonwalk which was gramarnier grapefruit juice a bit of rose water and champagne and then sent it to america and then when the guys landed it was the first thing they drank okay um so that's quite a cool connection but joe went to work uh in a bar in london before he got to the savoy and someone turned up and ordered a dry martini he didn't know what to do he did his best but didn't make a very good dry martini and so the lady who ordered it came around and taught him how to make a dry martini and he was so inspired by that day he decided to go on and become a great bartender one of the best in history wow and the woman who showed him what to do was amy johnson love it the famous aviatrix yes um and so yeah isn't that a great connection that danika's and danika said i've always found this story amazing but i might be a bit biased as he is my grandfather yes oh you've buried the lead bring it home Well, I couldn't put the lead at the top, could I?

3:34So this is a fact about someone's famous grandfather. Sounds nepotistic that way. That's a really good fact. And do we know if Amy was also inspired by that moment to become a famous aviatrix? Did she think? She already was. She was. This was in the 40s, I think. So she will have already, it'll been a while since she did her. She would have not had long to live.

3:52Anna Ptaszynski:Yeah. Because the other weekend cycled past her memorial. Did you? In Hearn Bay, I think. Oh, is it? Yeah. And what does it say Like here died Amy Johnson From choking on a martini That's right On an olive Yeah She flew her plane I think she crashed Into the sea Around there Just off there Yeah she did I sometimes mix her up With Amelia Earhart Who was maybe eaten by crabs But Amy Johnson Was not eaten by crabs No Nor was Amelia Earhart really But closer to being true I don't think we know Exactly what happened To Amelia Earhart do we I thought she was married To Elvis somewhere Oh yeah sorry They both moved to Panama Alright here's a fact This is from Dan Parry Dan writes I'm a filmmaker and I was recently Inspired by a super cut that came up In my feed of every time the Coronation Street cast said London In a shocked way You might have seen this it's a really good one I've not seen that but I can imagine it Ken's gone down to London for the weekend London Except they're not from the west country It's set up north isn't it London Where is Corey set?

4:57Manchester. Manchester.

4:58Anna Ptaszynski:Okay. And so there's this supercut of all the times. And it's really funny that they say it because it's like, yeah, exactly like that. It got me wondering what other phrases in media are used repeatedly. And of course, there's I have a bad feeling about this. Oh, yeah. So using a clip database of film, TV and adverts, I searched for the phrase from the first time that it said there's a Star Wars film where it pops up very famously. And it came back with a lot of results. assuming each clip is around three seconds and including paraphrasing a supercut of this would last two million seventy seven thousand four hundred and sixty four seconds or 24 days oh no i got that feeling about it are you gonna play it now i'm gonna i'm gonna play something else dan has sent in oh a different supercut uh dan says that supercut might be a tad more work that i'm prepared to do so instead treat yourself to a supercut i've made of every time andy says moss over the past five years oh good are you ready so ready

6:18there's nothing moss can't do so good i like how sometimes you can hear us groaning a little bit in the background yeah anyway thank you dan really good maybe spend your time differently next time um i've got one here from robert taylor and this is about someone called hippolyte mege muriers um ring any bells guys um no he invented margarine but oh i did i have heard of them you will have heard of them Yeah, in a competition. Yes, he won lots of awards. He won an award from Napoleon III. Well done. Not the most famous Napoleon, but still. But before he was famous. Second most famous, though. Second most famous, yeah.

7:01Before he was famous for the invention of margarine, he was famous for creating a method to make 14 % more bread from the same amount of raw materials. That's clever. And Robert Taylor's... Yeah. That seems... I mean, there's a certain thing called the laws of thermodynamics that that seems to...

7:17Anna Ptaszynski:I'm going to come in with bubbles. Oh, yeah. Like if you're only measuring the outer bread volume. Or did he invent the bagel? You can't be only. What do you mean? So if I've scooped out all the inside of a loaf of bread, like I used to do on the way back from the shops as a kid, that's still the same amount of bread that I'm claiming. Okay, some questions, Your Honour. But I was a demented little child. I've got another question. Yeah. Did he invent the larger loaf of bread in order to sell more bartering?

7:49because that would make perfect sense that's so good a big graph of sales sales are down what can we do guys i've got an idea big bread literally um he invented a better milling process for grains apparently which does make sort of sense right so um i think robert taylor is slightly hazy on the details but um he said it's possible he basically invented whole grain bread but don't quote me on that. But next time you have toast and margarine, you can double toast to Hippolyte. I've got a fact here from Amanda from Arkansas. And Amanda tells us that North Dakota and South Dakota were established as states on the same day, which is November the 2nd, 1889.

8:33But because there was such a heated rivalry between the states, Benjamin Harrison shuffled the paperwork so that no one knew which he signed first. Therefore, there is no record of which was signed first and North Dakota and South Dakota are number 39 and 40 but it's not that one is 39 and one is 40 brilliant I didn't know the states were numbered they're quite often like we're the number one state we were the 49th state yeah they do care about that quite a lot how hilarious but in actual fact usually North Dakota is called the 39th state because of alphabetical order usually oh yeah you can't win you can't beat that but yeah i thought you know what to me it sounded like a big old myth that do you not think shuffling the papers sounds made up doesn't it but it does seem like there were um contemporary reports that they would definitely sign with no one knowing which was first but whether he shuffled them or whether someone else just gave them to him and he signed without looking at them we're not really sure but basically the north and south just didn't like each other it's weird to have a big rivalry before you even exist you're there your boy is ready to hate each other it was the dakota it was like the dakota territory right yeah it was one area but they decided to call it north and south dakota because the south thought that the north was just run by wild folks cattle ranchers fur traders um they just thought that these people are not good enough so we don't want to be in the same state as them wow should have made it one state and then they all would have had to be friends.

10:04That's how it works. That's how statehood works.

10:09Anna Ptaszynski:Do you want another? Yeah. This one comes in from Frederick Howard, and it's about a man, a Swedish man, called Peter Gunnarsson. Okay. Who emigrated from Gothenburg, where we've been. Yes. In the year 1639. We weren't there then. We weren't there then. And he went to the USA, and he named himself, he gave himself a new name after a hill in Gothenburg, where he's the old country, right? And the hill was called Rambergette. And this guy became Peter Gunnarsson Rambo, okay? He had also brought some apple seeds with him. This is the most Grandpa Simpson way I could tell this story. I'm so sorry. This guy, Peter Gunnarsson, he named the apple variant after himself Rambo.

10:52Anna Ptaszynski:So Rambo was an apple, right? Right. And then years and years later, what's three centuries later, the author David Morell was looking for a strong name for a protagonist for his novel, First Blood. And he was given a Rambo apple by his wife and he liked the sound of the name. Imagine if he got given a pink lady. That would have been a very different film. Or a Gerani Smith. Stallone could have carried it off. Yeah. That was amazing. I know. That's where Rambo comes from. It comes from this guy and it comes from this apple and it comes from this hill. It doesn't come from Arthur Rambo. The poet.

11:27The poet. Famously played by Leonardo DiCaprio in one of his early roles. Oh, okay. Get you. I actually know his entire oeuvre from when I was obsessed with him. Yeah, if you ever want to know any of it. It is very interesting, your pop culture references, which are sparse and few. Thank you. But they include Leonardo DiCaprio, Friends, and Mambo No. 5. That's pretty much it. I don't think you need anything else, do you, to keep up?

11:53Anna Ptaszynski:It's as if there was a year after which you just checked out of everything. I did. It was probably around the turn of the millennium. I don't know what happened that made you think, you know what, I'm out. It was a big party. I took some things I shouldn't have and my memory ends there. It's just playing your mind. That's so funny. That is incredible. What a great fact. Yeah. I loved this from Alan Morrison, which is that the woman who designed the modern kitchen had never cooked. Beautiful, eh? And this is because I loved learning about this woman who I'd never heard of, Marguerite Schutel-Hotzky.

12:21And what she designed is the built-in kitchen. She lived to be 103. Wow. So she invented the kitchen in 1926. She didn't die till the year 2000, the year that my pop culture knowledge ends. Coincidence. On her 100th birthday, she was interviewed and this is when she revealed that she'd never cooked. She said that her mother always cooked at home and then she said that when she left home, she just went to the restaurant or the pub to eat. Wow. So she said, I designed the kitchen as an architect, not as a housewife. Right, so she was an architect

12:51Anna Ptaszynski:and she got the gig of designing. She just decided to? Well, she can't have been commissioned by anyone to say we need to sort out this kitchen thing. Sorry she went to the pub every night for dinner I mean I know your point was very important Andy Let's do yours That's utterly mad So she says Did she live next to her Wetherspoons or something I think she must have Because I'm not sure she was particularly loaded It was a different time There was a thing of fewer people having kitchens wasn't there And even today there are big bits of the world Where just everyone goes out to eat Because places like Hong Kong Have a much bigger dining out culture Just because homes are small and you naturally, you might not have a kitchen.

13:29There's like food carts as well where you just, everyone goes. Yeah, you get street food, cheaper food. She named one specific pub actually, but I can't remember what it was called. So she was obviously a regular there. She must have got very bored of the menu. Yeah. I hope it was extensive. But yeah, she designed it. No, I'll have the full English again. And two pints of Ruddles. Extraordinary that she lived to 100 with her diet, to be honest.

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14:35To check that you've got them? You've got to check them. You've got to check them. You do have to check them, Anna. You've got to check them. You might have a lump, you might have something turning up. it's exactly that and it's that they thought that maybe kiwi men would be a bit embarrassed to go and see their doctor and you know whop them out onto the table and so instead there's a little booth and you would go in and you know like you're like if you go to the seaside and you put your it was like one of those but upside down so that you would just put your fantastic and your mom takes a photo the image is like a bowl of kiwi fruits but then you put your testicles but yeah it's a really good idea i think like nice yeah i mean anything to get people to check themselves is gonna is useful right i would feel more embarrassed clearly going to the

15:28Anna Ptaszynski:big center of town anonymous testicle checking booth because everyone can see you going in there They probably don't put the sign up outside in big neon writing. Well, they should do. They probably put like, you know, local library or something. So you go in. Just go into the library. You go to the library a lot. You've been to four or five times this week. What's going on? Why are you not wearing any trousers? I know you're reading Winnie the Pooh and enjoying it, but... Why would you go four or five times a week to the testicle, Jekka? It's sometimes nice. I think you've misunderstood. It's nice.

16:01You just chucked it one more time.

16:06Anna Ptaszynski:it's to me you know for a bit of company no sure some human contacts okay whatever you need to get you through the day andy oh dear that's a good that's a good fact no well it's it's a very good thing for people to do absolutely absolutely i'm sure we've only made kiwi people feel more comfortable about doing it with this conversation was that you said when you put them through there's a picture of a bowl of kiwi fruits on the other side is that because it was in kiwi it was a new zealand thing well it was also that testicles might look like kiwi fruits so it worked on two levels i was trying to think of other pictures they would work in okay go on i think there's a bowl of potatoes or something on the table at the last supper oh yeah probably a bit sacrilegious i was thinking of one of those is he called archambolo he's like um an artist that does like faces but they're all vegetables and stuff oh that's good but you'd have to paint them for that yeah it'd be very You'd need to camouflage them somehow.

17:02Anna Ptaszynski:Purple, I suppose. Plums. Anyway. Assorted. Here's one from Andrew Wilmot. Came across this today and was surprised to discover this unexpected eponym in the bagging area. So I'm telling you up front. This is a name related thing. Great. Why is gas called gas? Come on. It's just a very old word for wind or something. So petrol, gasoline. Why is it called gasoline? After Cassell or something There was a guy called John Cassell Who invented casoline And it got degraded to gasoline Now I went on a bit of a Rabbit hole on this Because if you read the surface level Dictionaries do not support this etymology Says Wikipedia And then you go to the OED The gold standard And it says it seems possible That it was from casoline Which he sold in 1862 And then by 1864 a rival merchant had changed it to gasoline.

18:00Anna Ptaszynski:And I just think that clearly, surely that's gasoline to gasoline. I mean, I think we might have touched on this on QI and I think we fell on the angle of it being true, I think. I think it seems likely. That's so good because it's always been so confusing. And you did mispronounce it at the start, which is why we were confused, of course. It's why it's gas called gas. Gas. There's gas. I thought you were talking about gas as in the state of matter. Our gas. British gas. Sorry, British gas. Not British gas. Not British gas, no. That is sold as a liquid, the stuff here, yeah. English gas. I mean, it is confusing, because when you say you burn gas, like in a boiler or whatever, that is a liquid.

18:36Mm-hmm. Gas boiler, I suppose, yeah. It's all badly named, yeah, yeah, yeah. It is, it's confusing. Petrol is gas, which is a liquid.

18:42Anna Ptaszynski:That doesn't, oh. We should go back to calling it cas. Cas. Cas. Casoline. Casoline. Yeah, okay, I'm down. Great. So let's start it. Let's make it happen. When you drive into the petrol station next time and you shout at the guy in the booth, I'd like some casaline please come out and look lively what do you mean you're not allowed to leave the booth I've got a crisp half crown here for you young man it's a testicle guy again just don't serve him he'll go away okay that's probably enough for this week isn't it everyone had enough well great facts one and all and I think it's time now to bestow some facts so we have some facts that we've mentioned on the podcast before we're going to give them to some very special fact custodians to look after for the rest of their lives has anyone got one to kick us off all right here's one and this one goes to amir sokolovsky and amir your fact is napoleon loved roast chicken so much that his household chefs were constantly cooking some in case he wanted any constantly cooking some roast chicken those battles must have smelled delicious yeah maybe that's why we kept the wall going for that delicious smell.

19:51So wasteful. How much chicken was chucked away.

19:54Anna Ptaszynski:Yes, there is a story about Sarah Ferguson, the Duchess of York, doing exactly this sort of thing, I'm afraid, in the new book about her and Prince Andrew. Really? Basically, it sounds like there's a whole roast pig on the sideboard every night and they will have some crisps and then leave the roast pig on the sideboard. It's not good. Isn't it? There's a story that King Prince Charles used to get 10 boiled eggs every morning and then choose which one was cooked the best. I have heard that I think that might not be true it feels like it can't be true it feels too good to be true how can you tell which one to cook the best before you've opened it well you have to open them all up he opens them up you have a little guillotine well no that's probably a sore subject

20:33with Napoleon did he have someone who was carving it all the time as well or did he just pull the bone apart himself strong

20:40Anna Ptaszynski:didn't see it coming didn't see it coming knew something was coming you see the look in his eyes you think there's danger ahead lovely James you got one? yes I do this one now is under the custodianship of Paul Sanders and it is the fact that IMDB was originally just a list of actresses with beautiful eyes aww that was creepy I think that's creepy I mean everyone's got beautiful eyes haven't they? have they? what? you think everyone's got beautiful eyes? well I think it's a nice thing you can say to someone you've got beautiful eyes but that just means that half the time you're lying No, I think it's very hard to get What am I trying to say?

21:21Anna Ptaszynski:Hang on No, I like it that you think everyone's got beautiful eyes So that means that when you told me yesterday That I had beautiful eyes That doesn't mean anything Because you think everyone's got beautiful eyes I was only saying that That's how you'd feel my testicles in the booth I'm sorry

21:37I think he wasn't creepy I remember this guy And also it's not like beautiful breasts, is it? You know, it's kind of innocent Compared to what happened to the internet afterwards and it was on a little intranet, wasn't it?

21:47Anna Ptaszynski:Yes. Didn't you find, aren't you on Feet.com or something? I certainly haven't put myself on WikiFeet. Why do you know it's called WikiFeet? Because it's a meme. It comes up all the time and jokes and stuff. Suspicious. What? You put them up there. Put them up where?

22:09We're getting out of control. Andy, how do you keep it under control?

22:13Anna Ptaszynski:It's very difficult, isn't it? Yeah. Okay, another one. This is for Alan McCormack. And this is that the word fascinate literally means the embodiment of the divine phallus. This is always one of my favorites because fascinate felt like such a QI fish word. We do stuff that's fascinating. And it's just all about penises. And this is because it comes from fasconum in Latin, doesn't it? A phallic shaped holy amulet. I didn't remember that. Very nice. Should we have another? Yes. Let's have another. This goes out to Shiv Taylor, and it's that the 2015 French Scrabble champion, Nigel Richards, doesn't speak a word of French.