Spiny anteaters and their unique anatomy

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Call eight hundred three three threety four K for details hostaf free event and seven six twenty six S deeala for warranty details Hello and welcome to another episode of Little Fish. My name iss Andrew Hunter Murray, and I'm here with my two close colleagues, Dan Shriiber and Annazinsky, and we're here to discuss the brilliant facts that you, the audience have been sending in to podcast at QIot comot We've got loads of facts Let's have some Come on. Who's got a f? I go in here from Tom Besois Tom Besois says the American actor John Cazal only appeared in five feature films. All of them were nominated for Academy Awards for Best Picture.. He did The Godfather, The Conversation, The Godfather Part two, Dog Day afternoon and the Deer Hunter. Amazing. Yeah, he did five of these in a seven year period, but tragically he got very ill. He had lung cancer. And so he died. and that's the only reason that he didn't star anyore. I've only seen two of them. I've seen the conversation and what was the first one you mentioned? The godfather. I haven't seen deeer hunter. No,'s a part two No. good. Dogday afternoon. Oh ye's been one of them. he doeses he play the same? because sometimes people play a special role in all films like they'll play a policeman who's just got a random one liner? orras it like that? where he does play? So he he had substantial roles and he was very much loved There's been documentaries about him. People really miss him. Al Pacino held him as one of the great actors of his day. He said I just would have been in movies for the rest of my career with him He was dating Meryl Streep when he passed away. He was part of a very big sort of unit of actors. I think I've heard of him. I think maybe he's he feels like a famous like edges of gangster films kind of lad. Yeah. It does feel like he's got a type. He hasn't done never been kissed, hasas he? you know, it's definitely down that hard pacucino esqu film. I've actually got a little bonus exciting element to this fact because that's often the fact that is told. He was in five movies all for Best Picture actually appeared in a sixth after his death because they used archiveed footage of him in Godfather Part three and that was nominated for an award as well, Best picture And he was in that technically, right sixs So good. You'd want to emoy him wouldn't you? you' made a cp film,'d like Should get him in and we'll get the Osc you've made piranhas five or something. That's what people do with Sigorni Weaver in sci fi films these days. Does it Doave they all won Oscars? No, but they are treated with more respect than maybe they would be of Sigorni Weaver,n't it? my opinion. If you're making a sci fi film, let's say Avatar three You might want to just get Get the Weave in and you, she brings a touch of Class. Yeah. Yeah. She sure does? That's what we do with podcasts though, isn't it? You know, if people wantan to make a great podcast, they try and get us in. I mean, it hasn't happened yet. I thought you meant one of us was brought in for the class. Wh whichich one of us has been drafted in just for the touch of Class? Do you think we'd get another shortal award if Sworney Weaver came on if guess I actually do. And you think that would be the proudest moment of her life P think of a higher one. Yeah. Yeah. Let's another fact. That's another fact. And this is from Oliver Fredrick and this is that in Sydney, if you speed thirty kilometers an hour over the speed limit, you'll be fined about six hundred fifty Australian dollars.. And in India, the fine for the same crime is two thousand rupees and so Oliver Fredrick has done a little bit of working out that James Harkin would love He said, in order to pay the same amount of fines in India, as you would have to in Australia. you'd need to Either break the speed limit over twenty times or You could and he's looked at all the fines in India for all these things, you could speed under the influence of drugs or alcohol without a valid license or wearing a seatbelt, driving recklessly into oncoming traffic, while texting, running a red light and not stopping at a stop sign or whilst blocking an ambulance from reaching an emergency. That would just about get you to six hundred seventy Australian dollars. So there you go. That's so cool. top tip And that's why they film all those chace scenes in India because it's just a lot cheaper for the movies. Yes. If you're the judge you'd be like, but I'm gonna to waive the fee for the effort because that was absolutely stunning. It's like shooting the moon when you're playing hs, isn't it? You electect all the bag cards actually you win Yeah. ye yeah. loveove it Alright, here's effect. and this one comes in from Simone F Phew. And it's a great fact It's it's that Catherine Parr Last wife of Henry the eighth was named after Catherine of Aragon The first wife of HenryI As in, Henry VI had so many wives over such a long period of time that the youngest one was a baby who was named after his first wife, who was her godmother That's incredible. Isn't that absolutely hideous? That's not hideous. Can I not slut shame Henry VI? Is that not even is that know? He never goes to tell his side of the story. Oh my go. Oh my go. literally's literally a very successful West End musical which finally has told their stories.. Yeah, it's not his story, is it? We need the West end musical that tells his side of the story I love to try and pitch that. I producce we need to hear Henry's side of the story. It's a musical called One. It's about the one man at the center of these six, you know, winging women. Well, four by the end of it. Wow, that's very funny. very funny indeed. Yeah ye. I've got another fact. Should I do one?. Okay, this is from Sam Tomlin I'm a math teacher by trade and continually find fun and interesting ways to present material Before going through Pythagoras' theorem again, I discovered this At F of the podcast, President James Garfield created a proof of Pythagoras theorem And This makes him the first president to contribute something original to mathematics, as well as the first president to eat Ay Wow. I mean, just one of those things is, you know a reason to be proud you were alive. Yeah. both Yeah. That's so cool because I just It's just so interesting coming up with a new proof of something that is already ven I there are lots of different ways of getting to that truth of Pythagoras' theorem, But to come up with a new way mathematically of doing it, I just think it's very impressive. Yeah. All pointless. You know if we've proven it? I suppose. Okay, so there's a book that's called The Pythagorean Proposition And in it, Garfield's proof is two hundred and thirty one in a list of three hundred and seventy many too many. We don't need that many proof. I believed it when Pythagoras said. Good sour, Pythagoras. In a way, by going around the houses and doing something in a non traditional, like getting something demonstrated in a non traditional method, isn't James Garfield sort of foreshadowing his own eating everything through his bottom later in life Do you know what I mean? Yeah love Be there he had to circumvent the normal routote and go another way. Yeah, that's what they said to make him feel better about it. they rese up there. This is just like your Pythagoras' work actually. There' the president. Yeah That's great stuff Okay, what about this one from Peter Campbell, longtim listener, first time emailer He specifies to the show he' sent emails before it love it. He said I think we were talking about sports teams with You already know that's a hallmark of quality for a good e bail. Yeah, you know? I bet you didn't even read the rest Andy. I just made it in. I don't know what I'm excited to find out what it's about. It's actually very pro fascist the rest of it. No, I think we were talking about sporting teams with weird wordy coincidental names. and he said in the nineteen seventies, my team, Albion Rovers, had the spicy trio of Bill Curry, Sid Sage and Albert Rice You could make a whole meal out of them. I will say it a it's not a brilliant team, Alb and Robus. They are in the fifth tier of the Scottish football Lague. But he does then this chap does then go on to say it's just, okay, focus carefully on this with these couple of sentences It's just a pitter the team doesn't have the same caliber of player now. I still support them though whatever the result Vinda Lz. win all the year. Rise or fall have to look that up. Afl is a very hot kind of curry h kind of Bindeloo. There's none more supportive than ghee So he sort of descends mon insp of it to be honest. Well, thanks for writering your email in. Yeah, Yeah Here is a fact from David Carey My fact is, down under is a lake named Lake Wombat. Where do you think that might be Down U is a lake Just in Down U. You know were down under. ye, yeah. a l actually in Australia. It's in New Zealand. New Zealand And the reason is that it's named after I A nineteenth century gold prospector called Jake Wombat, Irwin.. But Lake Wombat is in New Zealand And they don't have one bats in G Zealand right? No, they don't have one bats in New Zealand. No. No mammals, right? No mammals. I mean there are loads of people in cheap things, but some bats, right No mammals. No mamals in New Zealand. They got of got a problem with a lot of non Yeah cats. You you have to cut off your memory glance. Yeah, it's a cattle lake I thought you might like to know that.'s this like one batch. What does that mean? It's nine thousand years old I did want to know that. Ive just realized I couldn't with a gun to my head to find a kettle lake for you. Look you really volunteered the information. you didn't need to. Well I really felt we needed to know. E geography teacher who listens is absolutely screaming. Okay, let's have another. Okay, here's a little pop culture one. This comes from Alex Wilson. I have a bit of a fun fact for you, John Bon Jjovy of the band Bon Jovi hisis first professionally released recording was Not an epic rock power ballad, like he does with his band, but a song called R two D two, We Wish you a Merry Christmas fromrom the Star Wars Christmas album. Christmas in the Stars And we covered this very slightly many, many years ago, probably a Christmas episode, or it might have popped up somewhere else. But yeah, he was working in his uncle's recording studio, you know, mopping floors and stuff like that, doing basic janitor or real jobs and they needed a singer. And so he had a good voice and they brought him in and he sang on this song. How many times Has the janitor stepped up and done a brilliant job You like, this Joh Bond Dvy was the janitor, basically Like Gwill hunting. Like Goodwill hunting, That's. But there's definitely two. One that's really the one that's not so. Yeah. I'll be honest I'm not pitching this. to the publishers yet. And it's a very low bar to get a Andy pitch. So I would say penguin, fabour, put your phones down. Yeah, stop that bidding wall. Call it off. The book for genius. Real and fake Chapter one, chapter two Oh dear. In that gu. Okaykay, here's one from Dane's String Fellllow don't know. Any relationship. Doesn't mention. But he did say, I recently learned from my friends dad that in the UK you must have a license to scare corants. And then he says, and upon said scaring, you have to fill out a form listing the method of scaring and the number of cormorants leaving and or returning. Beautiful. Which is nice, but Dane, I will say I'm just gonna let this be a lesson to you when you hear facts from your friends dad Checkem Check them out. I checked it out. You don't need a license to scare Kormorins. You need a license to use lethal methods to scare Cormorins, I is shooting at them, which does feel more like killing Kormorants than scaring them, but I suppose it would be scared as well. So you do need a license to take a gun out with you, whichich maybe it is surprising if you're from America Dane, but that's not just how we do it here this is so like this is just a warning to the listener. We get sent a lot of facts and it's our choice, which facts we bring to this show Yeah And Anna decides to shame the incorrect facts. I'm sure you had enough accurate ones. Yeah. makes it just makes the UK sound like a place with some ridiculous laws and actually, you know this one is just saying, you know what? giveive the Corants a chance first Did Dane say he was writing from America No he didn't, but he said you've just interpreted that as. Well, look, he said in the UK, you have a license sca Corants. He might' have just meant you have to have a license. No, you're right. I might have mist tyyped it, you know? No, you're right. I don' type them out I do copy and paste. You don't know how to do that. You know there's a shortcut for it as well. What? Yeah. Oh, that's gonna save me time. I'll talk to you afterwards. All right. No I was actually still fascinated to learn it. becausecause you always go down rabbitole don't you? Th then I end up in lots of like fisheries based legal stuff was excellent and I'll do a spinoff podcast on that. Yeah. So thank you, Dane. I did really enjoy that Here's one that came in from Ian Clark Okay Um I just wanted to say how much I'm enjoying the podcast. It's become a regular companion on my drives. This is relevant Um This morning I was sitting in the car, listening as usual, just about to head into the stables to see the ponies So that's I guess Ian has ponies when a van pulled up from a company called Southern Equine Sheath Cleaning. That immediately caught my attention For context, as I'm sure you'll appreciate, I didn't know this. in the Equine world, a sheath refers to a horse's penis. So there's this company which just only does horse Venis cleaning Wow. That's quite something, isn't it? It's extradinary. I like it's stning. And I was looking this up, I was on a train next to a child while I was doing this research and I had to quite carefully tilt up my screen because I didn't want you knowbody could see it.. I didn't want to sort of blow any young minds or anything like this. But anyway, the owner of this company is a woman called Cat seemen. They're not cats? No, they're not cats, so it doesn't work at all. So it's completely irrelevant But yeah, basically And it's recommended It's recommended you do it twice a year Some horses never need it Some horses they say I mean, obviously they're trying to sell you sheath cleaning services. So they will like much like o you really should launder your pillows every four days. comeome on here, ye But there are some friendly bacteria under there that you don't want to disturb. so don't do it all the time And some horses go their whole life without needing a sheath clean. but's a really cocky horses as it were. I bet everys prancing around. Por old Barry's been sent to the sheath clean for the ninth time this year abbsolutely would think it's a prank Mrs. Seeman called up to say he I' penis cleaning comppany. look, thank you, No, goodbye. Don't hang up, don't, must start every conversation. Don't hang up. Third Love makes bras that actually fit, so they know this. If your bra feels uncomfortable, the problem isn't your body, it's your bra. Third Love designs for comfort first, soft fabrics, support that doesn't dig, pinch, or slip, bras that feel good and look good under everything you wear Third Love and explore over sixty sizes, including AA through H, and half cup sizes you won't find anywhere else. 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A small mountain town in North Carolina called Marion. population under eight thousand has officially designated Bigfoot as their town animal Lovely. They celebrate this with a bigfoot festival that draws over forty thousand people, which means the festival population is roughly five times the town's population itself There are expert panels, Bigfoot themed food, and my personal favorite, a Bigfoot calling contest. The festival slogan is Come a sceptic, Lave a believer I have not attended. I am not yet ready. But the second is Ohio is in the process of legislating a state cryptid, specifically the Loand frogman. Now we spoke about how every state has a state animal. It's looking like The Loand frogm is going to be Ohio's. Oicially described by Ohio legislators as a frog like bipedal creature standing approximately four feet tall So it was spotted twice in March of nineteen seventy two But you'd think that's okay, that's too far away. But then again in twenty sixteen by two Pokemon G players. Oh yeah, who are looking at their screen and seeing all sorts of mad, weird animals all day long. There is so funny that it might be a large iguana that they spotted, but no one has said. So yeah, so this cryptid might become the officialable Unbelievable that Ohio legislators have to get involved in this. Like just leave it to that mad bloke in the pub just say make it what you like, hu Just going go back to housing here But this is this is that thing like this town called Marion That's a thing that is gonna to really help its economy every year, right? It's just such a if you can land a weird animal or an idea in your town or a UFO, you really are just gonna help the local economy. It just seems to be the case that it all Don't encourage even more. Don't encourage fun Is that what you're against Yes, it is Yeah John Maynard Kynes wrote a brilliant economics book about Nessie and how yeah yeah ye The macroeconomic implications of Nessie is a really interesting one Isn' a lot of money. It would bring it clut everywhere. everyvery shop you go. They're all wearing the Scottish hat. Yeah. Right That's enough of your facts, I think, especially yours dan. As the Airques around that one. Let's have some of our facts being dished out now to friends of the podcast because if you join Clubfish Our seecret members Club, publicly available at patreon dot com slash clubfish, if you join at the Friend of the podcast Layer, you can get a headline fact from the podcast dedicated to you in perpetuity. and we're going to dish out a few of those headline facts to brand new friendriends of the podcast now. So who wants to go first I'll go. this one goes to Alyssa Alyssa, your fact is that there is a skyscraper in New York which keeps itself stable with a four hundred ton weight in the top Magic Magic. Oh my goodness. So cool. Oh and it sort of hangs like a pendulum and it's the building and goes that way it's just sort of central weight It seems that it right? I can't remember and the fact actually came from Alex Bell, so get in touch with him if you wanted explaining. But yes, I do remember that. skyscrapers are surprisingly hard to build. That does. Do that not give you a fear of buildings in the way you might not have had it before? That it's all reliant on Like in this case, a giant weight that's just swaying at the top. I think it's okay. But I choose not to think about it I think that's key. If you start thinking about anything for too long, you'll go completely mad Oh, I'd never think Um okay, how about other one? fourour. Amy G, one of Canada's leading crime writers, Howard Engel lost the ability to read without losing the ability to write My gosh, I remember this guy so well. I found it one of the most amazing things I've ever learned. He had a stroke, didn't he? And literally his hand was still connected to the words. so whatever bit of his brain controlled his hand could still write. but when he's seeing it, he can't read it his eyes don't know what to do. Yeah crazy. Absolutely crazy. wasas it a condition that was a disease that led to his death? I'm just thinking Terry Pratchetz had a very similar thing. He couldn't got to the point where he couldn't read the words because they were all scrambled, but he still could obviously Right he was thinking I guess the extraordinary thing is that the hand is connected to such a different part of the brain to the eyes.. So the eyes cannot understand something that the hand can. It's like when some people have certain types of epilepsy or have their brains cutting on to treat it and you knowll you'll ask them a question and they'll know the answer. But if you write it down for them, they'll be able to read the question but not know the answer. It's all that. The brain is insane D Wonderful fact. Here's one. This goes out to Blue Limpet. And I hope you hope you stick to this fact like blue Blue limpet Hm it's that. Steve wasn't theak co founder of Apple and inventor of the personersal compomuter met his wife on a dial a joke call Dan Im going to hand over to you to explain Dial a joke. Well, I think back in the day in America, there used to be people who would put out numbers and you would call in an answer machine just play down to you. so Every day, Steve Wzniak would load up new jokes onto his answer phone and people would call up and they would just learn a new joke to tell their friends. I believe from memory that that's what it was. Yeah I'm trying to remember the connection of how his wife eventually She called the dial joke. I've got it in the archive here and he said, I bet I can hang up faster than you and hung up Bld move. And that seduced her. Yeah, apparently so she must have phone back. Yeah, yeah. playaying hard to get. it works. I once saw him talk live in Edinburgh. He did a sort of just sitting on stage being interviewed and Afterwards, everyone was lining up Meet him and get his signature and he was just signing laptops and iPhonees. Reant back of them. Yeahah, That's his method of assigning as you would. Hand your phone over and he signs it for you. The back of them makes sense. I was imagining the screen and thinking, how annoying would that be? And it' just come off after a day. Yeah. All right, let's do another. This one is for Farhan Abrel and your fact, I love this one. Babies practice, their first words Before saying them out loud. V good. It's amazing. How much practice do they put in though? Becauseuse often it's just kind of blah All right. mama. Well, they better. How much practice are they putting in? They need to put more in, apparently. Yeah Be that's yeah, it's not good enough. It's very sweet. It's like baby birds do this as well, don't they? Yeah do they? They sub vocalize their songs. They say them they sort of murmur them to themselves before singing It's so good. Yeah. I would love see if someone could film the practice You know, I just would love to see the footage. if you can see their lips moving at all, if they give it even like a little whisper, like they walking up and down in front of the mirror line Do you guys know what your first words were? I don't know what mine was Yeah What was your first word ull Re good. whichich is weird because my mum hates fruit never has it in the house. But she loves Steve Ozniak. who's the co founder of Apple. Hge fan ye. She got together with him actually by calling up like. I can't rem mind, you know yours? Marvevelous No I said simply marvellous no, I don't know mind. Let's have another. Yes, H's one for Lydia Grant. Lydia, take this, look after it. Gard it with your life. The first pair of Nike or Nike trainers was made in a waffle iron Is right? Yes, it was sort of jumped into a waffle, I can't remember wasas it the base that patterned on the base of the shoes or something? I mean, that seems like the obvious, but, doesn't it? That's a bit that's like got waffle like resemblance. Yeah Let's see. Well I've checked the archive and then all we've got after that is down saying that Nike is pronounced Nike like Nikey. So Okay, let's have another one and this goes out to John Alexander Smith And it's that. rats dream of places that they want to visit I saw her r today I saw a rat today. You're kidding. wasas it the same? Was it so it had a quite a long tail R? Yes, yes, yes, the rat. Yes. Maybe let'. Where did we see? My hel? Where did you see yours? Nar a cafe Mine was outside A Costa. That's so interesting. London, are we both talking abouts guys honestly, we can narrow this stage so quickly. Mine was not London. Mine was London and it wasn't Aosta Doc but Costa will be really appreciating this brand messaging we're getting out for them M. retty much outside and it was a cute one. you know, some rats look gross. It It was queueing, it was ordering a eentil latte. Yeah, great. whatever is good for business. Yeah He had little gloves on, greatreat. Well lovely love. Anyway, what was the fact again? Rats dream of places they want to visit. S. Okay, this one now goes out to Georgia Badgery And her fact is that spiny and Eaters only use half their penis during sex Yeah, right. I'm not even trying, they're saying to their other halves. This could be twice as good for you actually. That wasn't that they use the left half or the right half? How do you do that? They've got very strangely shaped penises from a human perspective Yeah. So then we probably do Very good You know We don't want to have the antte the community writing in. wokest thing I've heard Edie say sorry. Yes, its they can use the left or right heads at any time a double head They've got four actually. and they only use two at a time I told you it was weird from R Western point of view. Is it in the East L a middle class like London elite bubble M. Yeah yeah So that's nice. spiny an eaters, sppiny ant eaters. I don't think the penis is spiny. You see, you'd resent that name because you'd always have to explain it's not the penis that's spiny Yeahue The only person you're explaining it to is the same species. so I think they'd probably know, right? They don' need to. They don't need to say on my vaginas. that's piney either It's aay. Great. Okay, why didn't they tell us that when we're younger? I should be taught that at anntier school. Okay, let's have one last one Here's one for Mike Spur. Spur, takeake care of this one. The world record for horse long jump is shorter than the world record for human long jump something people tend to be proud of. Yes, this was one of mine. I remember discovering this. Yeah. Oh, I love this one. Yeah.. Be you'd think the horses would be better, wouldn't you? Yes. That's why we said yes to me using this. That's why we were okay with it as a factight. It' great. Where's running?