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This is when we can't be bothered to do any more research for ourselves, so instead we dip into our inbox and we have a look at all the great facts you've found for us, and we're hoping this eventually becomes a selingf-mak show and we don't need to do any more work ourselves. Um so thank you for providing some amazing facts this week in our inbox. And who's got a good one to kick us off? I've got a good one. Uh nice to see you all after a long week that we've had since the last one of these that we did. Yeah. Barely remember what you guys look like. Well, actually you it's cast your minds back all that time. Um we were talking about sumo wrestlers, and I have a fact here about sumo uh from Matthew Bright, and Matthew says that each year professional sumo tournaments in Japan consume about four thousand kilograms of salt. Is that because they throw don't they throw salt? They throw salt, yeah. So uh this is what Matthews worked out. So each uh tournament lasts fifteen days and they're held six times a year, and each tournament consumes about six hundred and fifty kilograms of salt, according to a journalist, which Matthew found, and then if you work that all out, it's four thousand kilograms. And the salt is like to purify the ring. Interesting. Um and for like you say ceremonial reasons. And yeah. Does it grit it as well? Is it give you good because a lot of it is about holding your stance. You're absolutely right. But the ring itself is like made it's got sand in it anyway, I think, which means it's quite well gritted. But it can't hurt . Yeah, especially on a cold day. When it's on ice. Sumo on ice. Sumo on ice. Why has that not been done? I mean that has to be a thing, doesn't it? We're getting a lot of sumo action in London at the moment. We are. There's a lot of exhibition matches that have been happening at places like the Royal Albert Hall. Have you ever been walking around London and just seen the sumo wrestlers? I saw a guy go past on a bike. Yeah. On a bike. Oh wow, that's cool. That's a cartoon. You sure that wasn't you saw? I'm pretty sure I saw him on a bike. It was just down the road. And yeah, they're all over. Well, certainly when they were in town, you would see them everywhere. Was he on a tiny like a child's bike? Tiny tiny. Yeah. Uh I've seen the I went to the final of the year of sumo in Tokyo when I was there, which was very cool, but it was the day we arrived and we were so jet-lagged we've both fell asleep in the middle of the town and then ouch. Yeah, smelling salt. Yeah. Chuck those out. Yeah. Do you guys throw salt over your shoulder for good luck when you're actually even though I know it's stupid and I'm not very superstitious generally. I just like I think it's cool. I have found myself in restaurants going, who's that cool guy? The salt thing. I wouldn't do it in a restaurant. It's when I'm cooking and I spill some. Ah, okay, right. Like it's when you spill it, not when you put it on your food, right? Yes. What do you mean when you spill it? Like that's the idea with the So you spill salt and that's very bad luck. And so you throw some over your shoulder into the devil's face. Oh we just did it whenever whenever you we salt anything. Salt it and then toss it over your shoulder. Well I'm not that cool. Well I've always been a few rungs above you haven't I but since being the person who cleansed the house rather than my mother when I was a kid when we all did it. I've realized it's an incredibly annoying habit. I wouldn't let anyone do that in my house. It's just salt on the floor the whole time. Yeah that's true. But at least you're not slipping over and it's also purified spiritually. There you go. That's why there's no ghosts in your house. Um do you know that sumo wrestlers, if you're a sumo wrestler, you are associated with a nine point eight year negative lifespan compared to a non-sumo wrestler. It does make a bit of sense, doesn't it? It does, but actually like most obviously most sports, if you do them you have a longer lifespan. Because you you know, if you're a gymnast you have a eight point two years higher life expectancy and there is one sport. Sorry, that's unbelievable. Eight point two year higher life expectancy. Is it too late? For you to be a gymnast, I'm afraid so, Ada. They're usually about fourteen, aren't they? Yeah. Max . What an amazing sudden entry into the British Former podcaster Alan Dzinski quit last year to become the Rolly Poly special ists . Um there is one sport according to this study that I read this in that has a higher improvement of life expectancy. And I can't find out why and it doesn't make any sense. But do you want to guess what it is? Yeah, okay. Curling. Curling, no. Skateboarding. Skateboarding, no. It is pole vaulting. Pole vaulters live on average eight point four years longer than the rest of us. Must be something to do with the clean air they're getting access to at the top bit. Definitely. About special relativity if you're in space, like time slows down or something. Oh yes, you don't age, of course. Time traveling. Wow. They must have got better since I last watched the pole vault if they're getting that high. It's really fun these days. They go up and they come down th ree years younger. It's pretty cool. Uh but yeah, I don't know why that is. I my guess is that probably compared to these other sports is quite a small sample size. Yeah. Right. Great mystery to solve. Uh shall I do one? All right. This is from Duncan Pierce. There are ten thousand accordions under a parking lot in a Swedish town called Alvdelen. Dude, I feel like Andy gives you the hard ones to pronounce. I think so as well. And also s often when we're doing the names of the custodians, every difficult one seems to land on you somehow. It's so weird. Um when you walk through this parking lot, does it go Wait, is that your accordion impression? Well, my accordion's very old. No, see got a few holes in it. Clearly. I can play the accordion. Can you? Yeah, yeah, I have an accordion. I think have I ever I didn't bring it on any shows or anything. I feel like we did something where I've heard you play it in context of a potential live show piece. Yeah, maybe when we did like a a pre show or something. Yeah. I can't remember.. Yeah, yeah, yeah I do have an accordion and it doesn't sound anything like that. Even when I play it who's not that good at it. Why did we not let you play it also ? Um I should give you a bit more on this. Yeah, this is Duncan sends in saying he watched a documentary called The Accordian Graveyard in Alvdalen and the hosts try to uncover the prominent myth in the Swedish accordion community that ten thousand accordions are buried there. And they're trying to get to the bottom of this major myth about But why what's behind the myth? Why would they be buried there? Yeah. Who's come up with the Accordion to whom? Brilliant. Lovely. Thank you. Uh so there's there's a leading thing theory that the society has. It's that they are old Eastern European accordions which were bought by Hagstrom in the 1930s. They were planning on renovating, but by the nineteen sixties, the accordion market took a big dip. Oh yeah. They weren't selling as well and they had outsourced a lot of the industry to Asia. So they buried their inventory. The exact number of accordions isn't no, but the myth says that there is ten thousand . And so they did this documentary and they found, yeah, there's a lot of things what did they do? They dug it up like Time Team and they found them? Yeah, yeah. They found they found rem remnants of a lot of them. I don't think they found 10,000and um there well some of them would have decomposed wouldn't they the less well made ones that's hold on so there were actually I thought this was a bullshit myth made up by this mad community of accordion aficionados. And it's actually true there are 10,000 accordions buried under a parking lot. I feel like you would need that ending for the documentary to work. Oh yeah. Do you reckon the doc omakers went in the middle of the night and dug some holes and put some accordions in there? Very true. Very true. You'd hear them though in the night putting them in wouldn't you? Where's the mute button on this bastard? Uh if you ever in ten thousand years if someone digs up that parking lot, they'll probably think like the king of tedious annoying instruments was buried there. You're so right. Do you think all kind of Egyptian pyramids were actually like people had too many to what do you get? Just put them in a pale. No, not that pale. It's a slightly neater pale. Stuff inside them. But yeah . Alright, moving on. Let's have a fact. Let's have a fact from Haley Wilson. And she's titled this Aussie bystanders spooked by boobs means women less likely to receive CPR than men. And basically it's yes when you sort of think it back in your head it does make sense. And her fact is that CPR training dummies with boobs on them are now being used at surf life saving clubs in New South Wales um because women are less likely to receive CPR. They're ten percent less likely to receive it and fifty percent less likely to receive defibrillation from bystanders in an emergency because reasons cited were uh people a bit a bit scared of the boobs. I think ironically these have been made for like slightly prudish people but probably gonna be utilized by perverts . Yeah that's why I bought mine. Yeah, they've almost seriously disappeared it does say, so yeah. We don't use tongues for the kiss of life, Dan . There's a good punchline. The the initiative is called C P her . C P her. C P R or C P her. H E R. H-E-R. It should be called C P Bra . That's a better one. Good. You should have been on the um PR team. Then they don't let me know the dolls anymore. Okay, here is another one about body parts questionable. Uh it's by Aurri Fulger and Aurri says that eye drops made from pig semen deliver cancer treatment to mice. So many things in that fact. Bit of a headline, really. Yeah. This is an interesting thing, I think, because I read this article a week or two ago and immediately put it in my file of possible headlines for fish. Okay. But now it's coming from a audience member. I think that could be a problem in future. If our audience gets better and better at finding facts, we're gonna have none left for ourselves. We might become what Anna said at the top of the show, just entirely an audience fact show. Yeah. Lovely. Maybe. Uh so what this is, is that um there's a a type of cancer called a retinoblastoma. It's very hard to get the um medicine to it, and what they've managed to do is take advantage of the fact that sperm can penetrate eggs, but instead of penetrating the eggs, they penetrate the eye. Amazing. And it's basically a part of the sperm called exosomes, which are tiny little bubbles of fats which can send the proteins into the egg. They've not tried this in humans yet, but they think that it s seems to work in mice, and so why not try it in humans? I don't think it's you actually get a pig sperm. I think it's like you extract these proteins from it and then you attach those onto some ag ar jelly or something. I don't know and then send it through that way. Yeah. And whose job is it to masturbate the pig? Call Rebecca Loose That's an old call back. When we first did this podcast twelve years ago, that would have been on the cutting edge of satire. I feel like that's so recent still. Maybe it's because it's the only pop culture news I've known about for the last twenty years. Yeah, well any time he has a big moment, uh like a documentary came out about his life. S'hes back in the Hood.. David Beckham Yeah. Yeah. So it's David Beckham's ex-mistress who was on a reality show and um excited a porsign fellow contestant. Yes. Alleged ex-trix ex-mistress. Yes. She's not allowed in any showings of pepper pig. Her and David Cameron go to the same help group, don't they? Right next up . Yes, please. I got a little etymology one here. So thank God. As you know, this will be butchered by me. Uh but Chris Perry writes in here's a submission for Little Fish. If a Welsh rugby team was made up of Joneses , Jenkins's, Davis's, and Evans's, they would be the least Welsh rugby team ever. What? The most common Welsh names, aren't they? Yeah, but not in the old Welsh alphabet, because the letters V, J, and K do not appear in the Old Welsh alphabet. And I've got a little chart here that you guys can see of how the uh the Welsh language works. You got A B C and then Cha D ouble D E F D F G N G H I L go straight to L. So we've we've got no Sounds like brass sizes, doesn't it? Double D, I think, is pronounced like an F, isn't it? Yeah. Like c card FNs in double D in Welsh. Yes. I think. Not very good on Welsh. Um but yeah, the thing is with Welsh surnames is that they were they didn't traditionally have surnames in Wales, but the British forced the surnames onto them. And so they all just chose like Evans, son of Evan, or Jones, son of John. Like that's why they've got so few surnames and they're all quite similar. William's son son of William. They were just yeah. But they could still say those as in they still had the sounds in their language of those things. They just look like different letters. Yeah, exactly. I think I think Chris was just enjoying the quirk of the letters that we'd recognise them today are so prominent in modern Welsh names. Alright Chris, just want to clarify that they could still say those sounds. Yeah, we don't want the Welsh writing then. Yeah that he has, I should, for his defence, say naturally this is an interesting insight into a Welsh language and I would never suggest a Welsh rugby player called Jones is not truly Welsh at least not to his or her face absolutely hi it's Joe and Zoe here from Dig It and we're currently sponsored by QVC. Joe, what I absolutely love about having people round in summer is that the garden suddenly becomes the place everyone gravitates towards after all my hard work. I know there is nothing nicer than being able to entertain outside and probably show off all that stuff you've been doing over the cold dark months and suddenly the garden is there. Ta-da! Ta-da! Exactly. And sometimes it's the little finishing touches that can really make the space come alive. QVC has recently launched their Studio 70 collection, which is full of gorgeous lanterns, a little bit like this beautiful one here. That's from the Amanda Holden collection. 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My stupid little fact is that the Australian island state of Tasmania technically shares an 85 meter land border with Victoria. Oh. I actually love stuff. I love cartography cook-ups. Well, you've been to Tazi quite a lot of times, right? Yeah, kept trying to find the land border, got very wet. Yeah. Is that on is there a night? It's like Kangaroo Island belongs to both of them or something. There is an island which wasn't supposed to be on the land border. It's called uh Boundary Islet, so they should have known based on the name. Um no it didn't it didn't used to be on the boundary. So in eighteen oh one a guy called Captain John Black made a mapping error and he determined that this place, which is now called Boundary Islet, was slightly further north than it actually was. Um and so if it was further north enough, it would just be Victorian. Um and then they remeasured everything and they realised the islet was actually uh a bit further south and it's bisected by the border. So they share it as well. Do they have like really hilarious things that happen to the people who live near the border or you know, you can buy fireworks on one side and pornography on the other side or Or is it just an island where no one lives apart from a few sheep? I'm afraid it's really an island where literally nothing whatsoever happens, it's of no consequence whatsoever. But maybe they'll find a huge oil well beneath it at some point. Does it have any like natural lie of the land that might be good for a podcast to play in? Like a little raised area where a podcast can do their show and then a little area where some audience can sit? Yeah, he didn't specify, but I'm sure we could have something erected. Um I think now we probably can't sell out the Sydney Opera House anymore that we've been insulting Australians quite a lot over the last few months. So we might have to play this island one where no lives. Is that so you can say we've sold out venues in Victoria and Tasmania? Two shows in one, yeah. That's great. We did go to New Zealand and the three of us did an episode in a toilet. Oh we did, yeah. Or just next to the toilet. So we are us three. And he wasn't he wasn't so currently we are playing in mean doses is the uh the bar it's called. We're in their toilet with an exclusive episode. Because Buttons was there like this week, right? That's right. Yeah, so Leon who was on an episode of one of our live tour shows in New Zealand when Andy was away, he randomly was there and he sent us a video and it's still playing in the in the toilet. Because this is this is one that we found a listener sent us a thing in years ago saying that it can't constantly played no such thing as a fish in the toilets, and so we recorded an episode there. But they don't play that episode in the toilets, do they? They still play our old episodes. No, they played that toilet. Wait, do they just literally play that one over and over again? If you're listening to this show and you think you've listened to every single episode of No Such Thing as a Fish, unless you've been in that toilet, you are wrong. Yeah, that's true. Yeah. They were playing it exclusively, but now they've put it on rotation with a few other episodes. I think maybe they got some complaints about the repetition. You know, this is the ninth poo I've had in here where I'm listening to the same episode. They're like, no, no, that's a different episode. It's just Andy is still talking about his book. Can I say something this is so tangential about toilets that I wonder every single day. Yeah and I just want to know if a listener has an answer. So um I often work in a cafe, local cafe, and lots of people work in cafes. And I always think, do they have special drainage sewage systems? Because obviously what people do in cafes, they drink coffee. There's no way that every single person in that cafe isn't going to the toilet at some point and doing a huge turd, right? And then I always think if that this many people are doing that, they must have amazing toilets to not be blocked. And I just want to know if cafes, if that's a thing, if you run a cafe or if you own a cafe, if you have to invest in really heavy duty sewage systems. Interesting You don't hear this on the rest of politics, do you? I would love to have Rory Stewart's take on shitting in cafes . Anyway, any m any more for any more? I think that's enough. Well we'll finish on that. Good. Let us know. Um that was lovely, lovely spending time with all of you here today. And it is now time to give you a little gift, some of you a little gift. So at the end of our little fish episodes, we hand over a fact to very special members of our top tier of the secret club fish. And so we're going to give some facts to people to be custodians of for the rest of eternity, aren't we? And um James, who are you going to give a fact to? Okay, um I can offer custodianship of this fact to Timothy Sit . Timothy Sit! Which well is quite appropriate to your name, uh, because your fact is that the trailer for the longest movie ever made is seventy-two minutes long. Wow. And I imagine you would have to sit through it, Timothy. You wouldn't want to be standing. No. Um all right., here's another one This goes out to Eric Olofson. And your fact is in the Middle Ages lots of churches had statues of Jesus which had moving arms so he could be taken down from the cross and carried around. What's really cool about that is Eric Olofsson. Sounds like he's from the Middle Ages. Doesn't he? We're already very much on the line taking the piss out of Welsh surnames. I don't think we should go up to Scandinavia now. I'm sure Olaf's son is a perfectly normal name. It just sounds pre-Norman. Um this was one of my favourite facts we've ever done, actually. This was your fact, I think, Dan, wasn't it? That's right, it was Andy's. Um I'd never been able to tell the difference between you two . I will take the next fact, shall I? So here's a fact for Holly Miller. Okay. Holly Miller, guard this fact . Twice in its history, America has been run by a shepherd. Nice. That's nice. Yeah, with their flock of sheep. Who would that have been? Oh, there was which which was the president who kept a sheep on his lawn? That was maybe Teddy Roosevelt, someone around the turn of the twentieth century, but that doesn't necessarily mean he was a shepherd. Feels like it would be one of the early ones who was a shepherd. Yeah. But I bet it wasn't Madison 'cause we'd done him on the main show recently and we would remember that. Yeah, it wasn't Madison, not a shepherd. But his wife was called Dolly, who was a sheep. That's a good point. Very good. This is blowing wide open. Yeah, yeah. Um I think Ty Henry it's uh Tyler. Is it Henry Tyler? No, John Tyler. John Tyler. Well I think it was Henry Tyler. Um this was a very fun episode because we had Rufus Hound on. We did. And this was Rufus's fact. And do you remember in uh the old QI office where we recorded, just below us was a barber shop, and it just so happened that is where Rufus used to get his mustache and beard and hair done. And he said, Oh, I've booked um a haircut half and I need to go halfway through the recording of the episode. Yeah, so weird. It's wild. And so we paused it and he went away and he took a very long time. And we think, and I want to ask Rufus this. We think he went for an enormous poo and there was a problem with the sewage system 'cause I like we're not a cafe. Go do your booze in Nero, Rufus. Jesus Yeah, we've got a theory. We've got a theory that he um he didn't do as much research as he hoped he could have done and he was feeling it during the episode. And so when he went down, he just did a lot more research because when he came back, he was packed with facts. As Rufus is about everything, but he and his hair still looks shit, so he's a very presentable man for Rufus hair. Yeah. Do you know how he came on the show as well? As in so the reason he came on is I bumped into him on the street a couple of weeks before while I was walking down Maiden Lane, which is the road we used to record on, and I was walking and I heard a man yell from very far down the road, Yellow Shoe Wanker . And at that point I was wearing these yellow sports shoes that were like luminous. They were and he'd spotted me from like a hundred yards away. The whole street turned. But did you know him in that street? I did. Yeah, yeah. And he used to do all the warm ups at QI back in the day before the recordings. Yeah. And there were a couple of pilots that QI tried to do back in the day and Rufus was either a host or the um panelists. I mean, of course he knew you. Like he wouldn't have known necessarily you always wear yellow shoes, but he knows you're a wanker. Yeah, that's the bit that wasn't the contested bit . Right, time for another fact. Yes, this one goes out to Vanessa Sterling. Vanessa, your fact is that there is a village in Russia where every single person knows how to tightrope walk. Yeah. Yeah. I feel like some facts really stick out as a classic fish fact, and for me that was one that I've remembered and thought about many times. Do you know why I think when we wrote our book, the book of the year, we considered writing another book. Do you remember we discussed that and we were gonna call it the book of now? Yeah. And the idea is that right now, somewhere in the world, this thing is happening. And there are loads of things happening. And one of them was in this village in Russia right now, everyone knows how to tight root walk. Yeah. Yeah. I still love the idea of that book. It's that image you wake up in the morning. Right now when you wake up, someone is typerope walking here. There's yellow shoe wanker going down Maiden Lane. Yeah. Great idea. Yeah, I really better not put it in the edit then. Um because someone will steal it. If it's that good. Well that Well that's okay because we have evidence that we thought of it first. Oh let someone else do the work again. All publishers have turned off this podcast since Andy started working on his books. I think literally everyone in the publishing industry in London has just gone, oh you know what, we're gonna listen to off menu now. Yeah. We really haven't considered the actual career damage that man has done to us with his buddy cop TV shows. Okay, next fact. Alright, uh this one's going out to Max. Max, uh you know who you are. Your fact is when making model railways, people make coal out of larger bits of co al . Who's that could that have been ? Okay, hear me out hear me out guys. Small coal cop But actually I think this fact people have written into us on Droppers A Line referencing this fact, haven't they? And I think wasn't it true that someone had a wedding and the favours that they gave to all the guests was um fake bits of coal, like actually made out of chocolate cake or whatever. Chocolate coal. Oh really? The reason was because they f partly themed the wedding on fish and this was like uh