Little Fish: Now You Three Me

1 Dec 2025 · 34 min

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Podcast Episode Summary: No Such Thing As A Fish - Little Fish: Now You Three Me

Overview In Episode 5 of "Little Fish," the hosts Dan Schreiber, James Harkin, and Andrew Hunter Murray engage in a lively discussion about fascinating facts submitted by listeners. This episode features facts on a variety of topics including cork, clocks, famous musicians, and more. The hosts also introduce new "Custodians of Fish Facts" who take ownership of interesting trivia.

Key Discussions

  1. Fact About St Anne’s Church, Cork
  2. Fact: The four clocks on the tower of St Anne's Church in Cork City display different times, leading to it being referred to as the "Four-Faced Liar."
  3. Discussion Points:
  4. Importance of clocks and their reliability.
  5. Comparison with other towns' clock towers.
  1. Patsy Cline’s Generosity
  2. Fact: Patsy Cline, the first female inductee into the Country Music Hall of Fame, used to give her home number to fans.
  3. Discussion Points:
  4. The personal touch of artists with fans in the past.
  5. Comparisons with other famous figures who did similar things.
  1. Ming Campbell's Race Against O.J. Simpson
  2. Fact: Former Lib Dem leader Ming Campbell once beat O.J. Simpson in a 100-meter race.
  3. Discussion Points:
  4. Campbell's history as an athlete versus Simpson's fame in sports.
  5. Discussion on the cultural significance of this fact.
  1. Pentagon Pizza Theory
  2. Fact: A theory suggesting that spikes in pizza orders near the Pentagon indicate significant government activity.
  3. Discussion Points:
  4. The humorous implications of food orders as indicators of national events.
  5. Potential for monitoring pizza sales as a stock market indicator.
  1. Humorous Botany Fact
  2. Fact: A rare bramble called Cockburnianus, named after a historical figure, causes laughter due to its name.
  3. Discussion Points:
  4. The role of botanical names in humor and their impact on popularity.
  5. Audience engagement with quirky plant names.
  1. Football Trivia
  2. Fact: Grimsby Town has been unbeaten against Manchester United for nearly 100 years.
  3. Discussion Points:
  4. Historical anecdotes about football rivalries.
  5. The significance of local teams in major league sports.
  1. Historical Entertainment Fact
  2. Fact: In 1918, a magician named Cheng Ling Su was shot during a performance.
  3. Discussion Points:
  4. The dangers faced by performers in the history of magic.
  5. Cultural reflections on stage performances of that era.

Key Takeaways

  • The blend of humor and fact-sharing engages the audience and emphasizes the importance of trivia in everyday life.
  • Each fact serves as a springboard for deeper discussions, showcasing the dynamic interactions of the hosts.
  • Many facts explore intersections of history, culture, and sports, highlighting the variety of human experiences.

Closing Remarks The episode concludes with the hosts encouraging listeners to share more facts and keep the fun of trivia alive. They emphasize the importance of community interaction through "Custodians of Fish Facts," who help preserve interesting tidbits shared by the audience.

Next Episode: Stay tuned for more quirky facts and lively discussions in the upcoming episodes of "No Such Thing As A Fish."

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0:13Hello and welcome to an episode, episode number 5 in fact, 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 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've found some So, let's have no further ado Andy, give us a fact Alright, 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 Can't grow cork in Ireland Wrong climate So what's the Right, it's not about the etymology of the name cork And it is fact But there will be a cork city somewhere Yeah, Portugal Tunisia is a huge cork 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 wear the one that's made out of cork I'm believing James.

1:29I 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 submerged. I'm googling cork production stats now. I'm so sure that Tunisia has a higher cork production than Portugal. Okay, I've googled it and I don't want to talk about this anymore. Izzy's fact 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 Amazing 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?

2:37Do you do that, Andy? My Casio 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 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 fast. So on a hot day, your Casio will gain... I can't tell if you're telling the truth. I'm telling it to you. This is gospel. How much time... Like, I'll set mine to maybe 10 minutes faster.

3:11Yeah, 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. And I have to do it to the microsecond So anyway I looked up this clock basically The St Anne's Church in Cork City And there's a tourist website I found Which claims that this was the first four-faced clock Until Big Ben was built Rubbish 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're thinking about cathedral clocks and things, aren't you?

3:46But they're often on the front of a building Thinking like, what's that tower in Warsaw? Has that got clocks on it? I know Oh yes it has That's old But maybe only two Oh I don't know I don't know I just I think that's very interesting Anyway Amazing I have one related fact Can I crowbar in an extra audience fact? Matt Ireland wrote in And actually we were talking recently About people with place names surnames Oh yeah Matt Ireland He writes in 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.

4:24That'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. I swear. Well, County Cork, yeah, Ireland. No, I don't know. It is Viagra. oh yes the viagra factory is down there because i remember there's a story that locals in the town were standing downwind of the viagra factory because it's like charlie and the chocolate factory he walks past the factory and he smells the amazing smells of the chocolate every day and he walks slowly and i think would you do that and slowly start bending over and you wouldn't get a golden ticket and your chocolate but i'm not sure what you would get Five golden Viagra pills The lucky openers will receive A permanent erection

5:30Willy Wonka more like Oh my god Yeah carry on Willy Wonka Okay Jamie Thompson Says Dear fishmongers 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. 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.

6:08So 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 they are. Really? Yeah, the pizza meter. It happened quite recently. I can't remember what it was for. Maybe it's Israel. I thought there was this whole rumor that went around because suddenly Donald Trump disappeared for a weekend. Everyone's like, is he ill? When he died And so they were monitoring They were finishing Putting the final touches to the robo-trump 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£1 billion fine If you were trying to persuade people You weren't a supervillain Would you sue for$1 billion?

7:08yeah very true yeah that's a great that's a great theory yeah wonderful and it is a theory it's it's not that's why it has the word theory at the end yeah yeah i love it okay um i 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 uh 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 if someone called.

7:45I think that got cut from the final edit. Okay, all right. Actually, but yeah, he did do that after Hardy died. Yeah. And so Patsy Cline... Patsy Cline is great. Do you know her stuff? I don't really. She's bloody 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 that's great that's yeah that's that happens less and less these days but uh what oh phone phone numbers being given out oh people dying and playing crashes yeah yes that okay okay here's one from tom hayes uh tom says former lib dem leader ming campbell once beat oj simpson in a 100 meter race.

8:32Amazing. And it's true. That's what I can say. Mick Campbell was an amazing runner in his time. And for international listeners, the Lib Dems are a big deal political party in the UK. Yep. And for non-American listeners, OJ Simpson is a murderer. Well, that lawsuit bell is dinging away. But was he a runner as well? OJ Simpson was 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.

9:17Wow. 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 who Tommy Smith is no idea in the 68 Olympics he was the guy who stood on the podium and did the Black Power salute.

9:57Do you remember that? And Min 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's 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? It's Gwyneth Paltrow and the politician from the Lib Dems. Is it Gwyneth Paltrow playing Min Campbell?

10:39Yes. 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 need to have 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 Campbell 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 the Sassanacs need to believe it Because, like, will he get into the British team or not?

11:21Because maybe English will just put all the English runners in and stuff. How funny. It's really interesting when you look back. Yeah, because it would have been a weird headline. 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.

11:44okay here's one from jake clements uh 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 yeah because it's named after the Coburn family but Coburn is spelled Cockburn uh and yeah I tried to find out more about it um there was a blog that said I've been trying to find out who among the Coburn family was being honored by William Botting Hemsley when he 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 okay because this is a it's a bramble that's found in China.

12:40Well, 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 they 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 realised My whole life I've been casually referring to brambles I don't know what they are What is a bramble?

13:20Well, to me It was always just a spiky bush But I guess there's some kind of other Botanical 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 Bramble anniversary? It's the last year, always. It's the Cockburnianus Years. The Cockburnianus 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.

14:06What about the most weasel? So just hanging on in there. I haven't 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 I earmarked 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 Mohaji 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, 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.

15:00Going 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 um what might they have gone for i saw this in a tweet by martin samuel the journalist um so can you guess what the headlines were when grimsby beat man united in this amazing game and they're a big fishing town so that's feels like I feel like that's a clue.

15:57It 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. Act of cod 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. MK Dons have never lost against Manchester United in their entire history, which admittedly is very short because they're a franchise who kind of took over another football team.

16:45But 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 and I said, right, that's it. That is so childish. I was a child. Four nils is a battering. Very good. Unfortunately, that was MK Duns who did that. And Milton Keynes is not a very famous fishing carrier. Milton Keynes, they really sent them round about the houses. Very good. Lovely. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yes.

17:19Okay, I'll do one here. This is from Phil P. Phil P says, 1918 in the UK, there was a Chinese magician who became quite famous named Cheng 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 who would do amazing tricks on stage.

18:01But 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 when I was driving You weren't annoyed enough by the traffic I needed an edge You know what I ironically love is the Now You See Me movies I've watched them like 10 times in the last month Okay, that's a trick that they've pulled on you I actually really, really love them Because it's magicians who do a con?

18:50Yeah, usually. There are 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 there two of them, these films? Well, a 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 Yeah, it should have just been called now you don't the second one.

19:24Absolutely, but instead it was called now you see me too Yeah, that's a bad title. Yeah, yeah, and then the third one is called now you don't when that should have been the second It makes no sense. It should have been now you see me then now you don't then now you three me 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 It's a good background movie What are you asking?

20:00He'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 uh here is a fact and luke ladroi luke ladroi 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 you know digital self we could have invented crypto bro could have invented we could have because this would be 2014 was that 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 yeah all of our listeners we could be selling friend of the podcast for 50 grand you've just did we ever mention this guy who someone who bought in something like 2010 i think bitcoin had been invented a while ago he he bought um a couple of pizzas for something like 10 000 bitcoin he would have been a billionaire several times over today if he'd just not done that and now papa johns is who they are anyway luke that's your fact now to to safeguard and shepherd and keep forever maybe you can play in fact why not play the game yeah you'll have to go back to episode number seven to find out what it was uh dan can you give us another one yep this one is for jacob and uh the fact is that 2013 was the first year since 1933 that there hasn't been a sighting of the Loch Ness monster.

22:30Oh, do you know what's happened since then? There's been plenty of sightings. Has there? 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 there 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 uh so that's 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 uh yakub uh congratulations um 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.

23:54Oh, a bit of a macabre one there for Mark. Oh, yeah. Macabre, more like. Very good. I want you guys to know that I would do that for you. You would make models of our decapitated heads? It wasn't for the people whose heads had been decapitated. 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 by the government. Right. I just want you guys to know that I would do that for you. I'm sorry. I thought you'd react better to it. No, I'm wondering in what genre of model, like a puppet head, like a waxwork. We've already got puppets of the four of us.

24:30The 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. In 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 modelling 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 are you imagining? The government is forcing me.

25:06I don't know. So why was she being forced to make models of her friend's heads? 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 Tussaud was friends with those people But she wasn't killed Because she hadn't done anything really bad But they forced her to make the heads It wasn't like Dupier your next door neighbour 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 Madame Tussaud shaped hole Why don't you tell us about the next custodian of effect okay hello todd norbury you are getting effect which i would say is one of my faves of all time during the normandy landings the allied forces deployed dogs by parachute oh 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 is that in fact it might have been the first feet to touch the ground in the Normandy landings were dog feet.

26:12Really? Wow. Because they were German shepherds and they were... Is that to trick the Germans into thinking that they were on their side? Or because they could speak German? They could 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? Yeah. 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 sure what it sounded like. I'm saying the presence of the German army in France was one of the problems of the Second World War.

26:50Oh, that was a problem for sure. That was a big problem. That was. We're not one of those podcasts. You can find them elsewhere on the podcast tour, right? There are plenty now. Anyway, these were German shepherds and they were parachuted in to help with the Normandy landings and be the kind of first dogs on the ground. I can't remember 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 they're not strictly as true as we thought they were when we first said them.

27:32So 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. Dr. Carl got it from one of his books. I think it was 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-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 kind of a nightmare All we know for sure is that it caused An absolute massive upsurge in people stealing handbags okay here is another fact this one is under the custodianship of luisa viviano and luisa 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 Fantastic fact And they used these inflatable owls to scare away other smaller birds, didn't they?

29:11Yeah, 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 And burglars who are afraid of owls

29:26It's awful when you get downstairs to the space shuttle in the morning and it's gone and you feel like such an idiot and you realise 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. It's a kicker. 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 Taylor. 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.

29:59Being 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 Czechia? 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?

30:38That's embarrassing 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? One of those two Inside South Africa Swaziland Oh, Iswatini eSwatini yeah yeah which used to be Swaziland is now eSwatini it's because because of eSports isn't it yes yeah yeah they're like getting in that branding but Turkey has changed its name to Turkey but spelt 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 christmas okay one last fact before we wrap up for today daniel schreiber yeah this comes from anna tuschinsky 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.

31:51His name was Bumper Harris. That was also a classic at the time. 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 couldn't know it 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.

32:34It was wild. I got to watch what the Bumper Harris world was experiencing. For hours on end, you used to sit there 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 So many people lack electricity Which is one of the very few diesel powered escalators I'm guessing Sorry There are no nuclear ones that I know of Well if you are a maker And distributor of nuclear powered escalators Then do write in to podcast at qi.com and indeed if you want to write in with anything do write into podcast at qi.com if you want to speak to the rest of us individually you don't want dan or andy to hear what you have to say to me then i can be found on instagram at no such thing as james harkin dan yeah i'm on at tribal land and i'm on at andrew hunter m i didn't even need to ask you and my name's andy and more can be found about the podcast at no such thing as a fish dot com we will see you for another little fish next week other stuff in the meantime goodbye

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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.

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