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I'm joined by Dan Sreiber and Anna Tojinsky, and we are here with some of your best facts from the last seven days That's the whole entry. I like it. This is my first time and I'm wed Thank to know. Andy's very good at intros. And that was a prime example. Well, the intros are where I shine. but anyway, let's get on. Does anyone have an audience fact they'd like to bring to the table? Yeah, I got one here. This is from Cara Eatton And God, this is my first little fish fact, so it has to be really good, Kara And it's the fact that up until nineteen ninety nine, the state of Montana didn't have speed limit signs along their highways, the signs simply said Drive what is reasonable and prudent I like that Treat treat the public like grown upps and I'm sure they won't take the p What kind of debate do you have with the cult that's pulled you over when they don't think that you have been driving? I think that's an interesting conversation, isn't it? It was raining, but my dars are very good. I'm in a hurry I've only had. I've only had one drink, my wife is giving birth. So celebrating early But every police car is followed by a philosopher car. That's the nice thing. Yeah we' talk about what is prudence. I wonder what the most An unbelievable amount of excuses were in one single car that was speeding. A wife in labour. There were bees in the back. The brick fell on the accelerator.. Well you don't need excuses. There is no limit. I would question, Cara, the wording drive, what is reasonable and prudent It's very cockney. It's reasonable. Yeah. So I'm not sure that's exactly what they read, but anyway it's true. I've checked it and it was actually because there was a famous fifty five mile an hour speed limit in America. what a snooze between the seventies and the nineties because of the oil crisis. Oh really? Yeah. So Nixon imposed I know it could come again. lookook forward to that. Yes. coming back. all electric car drivers will be allowed to go at three hundred miles an hour. But then it was revoked in nineteen ninety five and Montana said, Okay,'ll just we've forgotten how to do speed limits proper speed limits so we'll just say drivever fast you like Yeah, that's almost like if it was to do with the gas, it's drive at a patriotic speed, one that will not disrupt the system around you. Nice. Ver nice greatara. Yeah. Let's have another. Yeah. okay, well, this one is from Mary Campbell, who says movie actor Robert Redford, who was born in nineteen thirty six, was a pallbearer for Liver Eating Johnson A man who died in the year nineteen hundred. Can we guess what he died of? A I got to go. I'm going to have a pnt at Raw Liver. Incorrect. Oh yeah. You've missed the bigger headline here, which is that how was a man born in nineteen thirty six burying a man who died in nineteen hundred? Oh yeah, completely f me by. I've got a guess. Yes? long delayed funeral It was a nightmare to organize. Yeah. absolutely. guests have to come from a long way away, Tally. And then before you know, forty five years have passed. Yeah. Yeah. M Canipes. Do you have liver? Is that? No, what it was is that this was quite a famous American. This was a guy called John Liver Eating Johnston, or Johnson But he was really Garrison. So he was born Garrison, he changed his name to Johnston, but then the newspapers misprinted his name as Johnson. So he's sort of got three names. I feel like we're focusing on the wrong element of his name. It already drilled out into. Well, it's just a very confusing story because this is one of those characters who's sort of stuck in myth, you know He became famous because his obituary came out and everyone found out about him But he didn't die for another twenty years after his obituary came out. What? Yesorry I quickly talk about delivering thing. I know this is elephant in the room. Okay, Dan, this is the most confusing way we could possibly introduce. It's really easy. Okay, A man born in nineteen thirty six burriied a man who died in nineteen hundred, whose name was either Garrison Johnson or Johnston. and he became famous in America twenty years before he died because his obituary was released.. What do you not get him nothing? Why was he famous There' no further question. Okay. So his obituary was accidentally released twenty years before he died. and yes, you wouldn't write an obituary for someone unless they were already famous. No That's not true. Because there are a lots of people when you read the Times obituaries who you go, wow, how did I never hear about this person? They may have been famous in their own field. It's never for someone who's just done nothing. You never have the obituary, big full page in the Times empty space. Absolutely. L liiv died. So had he done anything? Yeah, I think John Liver eating Johnston had done something Ada. Yeah, he ate livers. So this was Because James edits this show and he's not on. It's just incredible to see you laying this massive bear trap for him. So early on as well. He was an American frontiersman and he became famous because these myths went around about him that he was killing a lot of Native Americans of one particular tribe And it was in revenge of the fact that they had murdered his wife And the idea was that he would kill them and he would remove their liver. And supposedly it was three hundred of them that he'd done this with.. And this became a big myth about him that kind of got spread around America. Was he liked or it doesn't sound like a good. No. but also it's kind of it's a weird myth because Inviewers and biographers have looked into it and they say, actually it was all myth. and actually he was friends with that tribe and they shared liver with him from other animals. know, so he was a good friend of theirs. But he became particularly famous because Robert Redford starred in a movie about his life, telling this story And at the time that that was happening, there was a school, a middle school in America, and the teacher was telling the story of this guy who had died penniless and he died in an area of San Diego where he was basically buried under a freeway But he'd said he'd love to be buried in the Rockies. So there was a big push to have him reburied. and as a result, Robert Redford was a pallbearer because he'd played him in the film. Yeah, exactly And he had to carry the coffin from his original burial place to the Rockies. It it was the roockies Long distance. Yeah. So what I said at the start, like long delayed funeral. could it have said yes to that and No you can't just leave it at that can you? I mean, it was general enough that no fair enough. Stunning Yeah I still don't feel like we got to the bottom of it. Really? interestnteresting No I do. Here's one from John Laich and John writes, I was talking with a friend who works in the pool and technology industry. She sells pool related technology, okay like swimming pool or water pools. She says one of their biggest clients is Kurberg Nuclear powerower Station here in the western Cape of South Africa My fact is that Kerberg nuclear power Station uses Kamikaze's sccuba Rombas clean the water that's been used in the reactor So these are Vacuum cleaners. Yeah water vacuum cle wet vacuum cleaners because you get wet or dry ones, don't you? Yeah and the filter units they have are unable to filter out really small radioactive particles. So these Scuba diving underwater vacuum cleaners, robots are sent in just filter the water and they're doomed because obviously It's radioactive, they will break. And apparently this is a really common solution for nuclear reactor maintenance. And also they just clean as much as they possibly can before they eventually expire. And then they're radioactive and then they have to be buried with the radioactive waste And Robert Redford always is the pool beare. Al That's cool. Yeah. Sellerfield has a load of they found an old radioactive vacuum cleaner that buried at Sellerfield after an accident. Yeah, it's qu it's just a common thing. It's like kitchen roll isn't it? Yeah. Once you use the kitchen roll, you have to throw away the kitchen roll. No, I put it back on the prearation. That's so horrible.'s so horrible. You sell the tape every. Yeah, hang it out to dry. Oh good to see that there's an underwater vacuum cleaner now You' gonna invest? Well, I should be dead for what I did about two years ago I had a broken washing machine and I managed to get the door open. but there was a pool of water underneath and I don't know what I was thinking, but I thought I'll vacuum it out. And Fanella saw me and quickly I explained that a wife shouting, You suck from the doorway. You can get wet slash dry vacuum cleaners. I and they can do both. Yeah amibious. Yes, nice. That was the big revelation for me researching this fact.. I can't work out why I'd that for my bath if the bath is dirty, but there's someone in it at the time so I can't emty it I mean maybe that ye. That's really passive aggressive cleaning, isn't it Oh No we love having you over. No, please. feel at home. I just invited you for lunch and now you're in my bath dan, so Okay, don't know the facts. In fact for you from Paul Bernard In fact for you, he says, related to an older segment you did about Haiku poetry, so old that I remember that The Northern California town of Uukaya hosts an annual Haiku festival. Can you guys guess why? It's a big Japanese population No ka a nanagram. Well, it's anagram.anagram.. Yeah, festival.u Haiku of Haiku. Yes. But that's not why it's called that. It's named after a village, Native American village o people called Yokaya, but I guess they thought, you know what? we're almost a ananagram of Haiku. So, let's do it they have aik festal. It a palrome It's pao. Yeah. nice. hold on, no, it's not Palado. No. What do you mean? It's Hiku backwards But I didn't even if there's a word for what this is. a reverse It's wrong way round wrong way round word. Because anmagram is just you scramble the words a big deal. Isn't that butchers speak in Australia when they speak a word the wrong way round? Yes. We did the some fish a long time ago. we had Suusie Denton talking about it where they speak Let speak back. That's difficult to confuse customers. Okay. shouldould lure them into buying well low quality meats. I just thought wouldn't tellpt me at all. I think he'd gone mad This meer is wriggling with tom mags. Should we have another letter? This is from Alex from Manchester, who says on top of Cock Tobbeay, which is one of the highest points of the city center of Almaty in Kazakhstan, stands a monument to Beetles That's very nice Do they play Kazakhstan? They never played Kazakhstan. and this is an interesting point I guess that Alex is trying to make. that QI, or no such thing as a fish, once covered that the furthest point on Eth from the ocean is in Urumki on the Kazakhstan Chinese border, otherwise known as the Eurasian poole of inaccessibility. and this is a mere few hundred kilometers from Cocktobeay in Almeti I' going claim that Kocktobeay is the Beatles in accessibility being the furthest point that a Beatles monument exists from a performance by any beatle. Lovely. Yeah, and theyve said I'm open to being corrected and I had a quick look Paul McCartney did play the Red Square. he did play Russia. So okay. it's it's still a great distance, but I don't know whether or not there's anywhere closeer. they go down under the Beatles Just as really obvious. Absolutely. they did. Okay okay. But without Ringo So If you're missing a beadle, does that count? Did he not go? What the hell? The three of them wentin. Yeah and they had another drummer come in who was not Pete bestest. it was a different one. Yeah. Did anyone notice? Yeah, yeah. they were pretty famous at the time. I just not a slam on Ringus. Yeah But this was, do you know what this was? This was largely Kazakhstan trying to say that Beetles have had an extraordinary influence on Kazakhstan generally. People would have started learning English because they were listening to Beatles records And so this was done I think in about two thousand seven that this monument was put up and it was also put up because they were trying to fix the reputation of Kazakhstan from the damage that Borat had done. and the perception. I've got to say, a Beatles monument thousands of miles from anywhere ever but it does sound like the sort of thing you would set up down much the same way that your where was it Laurel and Hardy themed ice cream parlour in Kosovo. Kosovo. Yeah You missed this Anah Oh that'll do it. but we'll tell you later time. Yeah need. Here's a great one from Cash Howard The fact is, the Toko Tuken's beak can comprise up to half the total surface area of its body Imagine the surface area of a Tuken. Yeah. Toko Tuken You' got me on the sun species there I' not. It's the one with the really, really big beak. Oh yeah yeah It could be just like a really tend, but it could be that this twocan has a really spiky beat. It's not that it's wrinkled. bird bes tend end not to be It's hard. It's going to be hard in the beak. Yeah, yeah. Please write in if you know a bird with an amazingly wrinkled beak. But basically what they use it for it's so cool. It's partartly for heat transfer. So it gets obviously very hot in the tropical environments where they live and it uses it to pump heat out into the surrounding area. So it's got this network of blood vessels under the surface and it just radiates heat out away from it. Kind of like elephants do with their ears or that kind of thing. It's basically a a massive radiator. they can pump out four hundred percent of the heat that they are generating if they are overheating. So if you touch their beak, it would be noticeably hot if it was a very A hot day. I guess it would. Yeah. Yeah. You could use them as radiators. You could hang your socks on the beak of a to gown. You could. They don't like that though. It's very disrespectful. It is. Points available for whoever can guess the newspaper headline that I read when this scientific study was done and discovered To can play? Yeah, that's what I was going for. It's not bad. Noope, it's not good though. Bird with a big air conditioning bill I think I would have got there ever Well It's your first show. Yeah, I'm rusty This summer, Shop the styles Americaas waited two hundred and fifty years for at Bob's Discount furniture, From genuine leather reclining sofas to trendy bedrooms with over seven hundred five star reviews and feature pack sleeper sofas. 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So I read it, went to the trouble of reading it. and he did say I'm biased towards his fact because I help run Guilford Baseball Club. And it's nice to think with the home of baseball globally. but still I'd say the backup for baseball fans. I mean I've been to Gilford and I know that's why I It's in the UK. It's worth saying for a lot of overseas people, we're saying it's not Aica it's not far We played Gilford. haveave we We sure have years ago. it wass lovely Guildford actually. It's nice. N nice bookshop. Yeah. Yeahah. Oh yes. I do remember Guilford now. And home of baseball, of course That's why we played there. Yeah. And it's in a diary entry from the thirty first of march seventeen fifty five. It's on Easter Monday and Mr. Bray says played base ball ace between Basin Ball, with a group of people having visited Stoke Church in the morning, drank tea, stayed till late, weather cloudy So life has sort of not changed in England. Cloudy weather. Gilford anyway, ye Yes. I will say actually, it's not the first instance of baseball in this country because another one was found in twenty nineteen in Walton on Thameson, Surrey, again in the UK. and that was from seventeen forty nine. Wow But instead of a bat at the time, you used the palm of your hand the ball. Oh, those are hard balls to hit a Yeah, I think the balls were a bit softer then. still, I don't think's going as far as it. And largely the same rules. a diamond specified. They were mostly commenting on the tea and the cake and stuff S have one more? Yeah, sure. I got one here from Melissa Whitcomb who says I've got a fact about sniffing feet. According to Guest World Records, Madeeline Ulbrecht from the USA has sniffed around five thousand six hundred feet and plenty of armpits in her career of fifteen years working at a foot care and footwear firm in Cincinnati, USA And I looked I went into it, and it's true. This is a Guinness World Record. It's a very loosey goosey Guinness World reccord. They kind of observed that They can of And also it says she sniffed approximately five thousand six hundred feet and an indeterminate number of armpits which doesn't feel like something not scientific. No, but what it does sound like to me is something beatable. And Anna, you and I are former Guinness World Record holders. I'm okay. You sure? I think there must be something else out there. sniffing flowers mayaybe We'll still do it team, but you can just be the witness to me doing the sniff. I'd absolutely love to do that. Who's going to provide the armpits? You're a ready supplly. Yourre patient zero.. I guess. swimming pools and saunas and gyms, there'll be a few bare feet around. Yeah. Go sniffing around there. Yeah ye. with your clicker. I live by the beach. I just need to go for walks Oh Cruels. I got to get. You got to get up. Oh well, that's lovely. Yeah. than you Melissa. Yeah, it's an appete you want to end on Okay, that is all of your facts. and now it's time for our facts to be issued to you. If you have joined Clubfish, our exclusive members Club at the friend of the podcast here, then you get one of our headline facts allocated to you in perpetuity And so we're going to dish out a few of those now. Let's kick off with one going out to Gramaren And the fact is Before trains had corridors, guards had to climb along the outside of the carriage to check your ticket. Yeah. This is one of mine I think. Very memorable fact This was from a book, I think it was called The Railways by Simon Bradley and it's an absolute stunner of a book. It's so good. And it's about the insane history of early it's about railways.. But these early trains you had the guard would just have to clamber the outside of the train.o When you were locked you were locked in your carriage sometimes as well They were low speeds, I guess. It wasn't like being on a bullet train, moving spectric busast Tom Cruise is having a fight on the roof. It wasn't like that, I think. But yeah, it was pretty scary, Ick. It would be any speed is scary if you're grabbing the outside of a train. Yeah. Yeah. This one's for Hannah Marie Christensen, and this is that in the nineteen nineties Honga's official finance minister was also its official court jester. Oh, I remember this this was so long ago. This was vintage. All of these are gonna to be vintage. Just heads up. Well, it'll be interesting to see when I stop saying that was so long ago, won't it? Wasn't he quite a questionable character, it turned out. He committed to some fraud. Yeah. he certainly did a lot of dubious investing and then fled the country But we make it sound in our headline fact like it's just a really fun light thing and not a big criminal, which is what we do. That's what we do trivialize crime. Yeah ye. That's I see myself Shall we have another? Yeah, Archie Craig. this one goes out to you. and the fact is that Kaiser Wilhelm once lost a valuable arms contract for Germany because he slapped the king of Bulgaria on the bottom. Yes. This is yours An. This is one of mine. Yeah. Yeah, he was just a bit of a lad, a bit of a Jack the lad Um I can't I think he's I don't think they were having an argument were they? I think it was just inappropriate Exactly. I think he was just incredibly Um inappropriate with everyone around him and he didn't know how to behave. Yeah. ye. and we've all met people like that. Yeah No, no name's being mentioned. O, but she was looking at Andy. Yeah Yeah, we did a whole thing about Klisa Wilhelm, who was Eetceter. Yes, he was amazing, wasn't he? Yeah Um Also commander in chief of the Royal Dragons at the start of the First World War. wasas he? Yeah, and was quickly demoted from their job. There's a conflict of interest there, obviously And that he would have been fighting on our side if he turned up Oh yes. Why was he commander in chief of the World Ragoine?use they were cousins weren't they? They were all cousins. you give your cousins something, you don't expect to go to war with him a year later, kind of thing. It the K king, the Kaiser and the Tsar, I think might have all been cousins. Yeah,. It incredibly awkward anyway. Yes. Here's another one. This one goes out to Tom Tom Tom Tom, your fact is Signs saying Beware of pickpockets attract pickpockets. I love this one. And it's because people see the sign, they pat the pockets, they go, ah, there's my fabuchet a Yeah. And then the pig pocket sees that and could just have it I need did you mention Fabet because of that story recently? No. But I do not see that woman who for her job, for some reason she had to be custodian of for Fabuet egg for twenty four hours or something took it home in her handbag, left her handbag on the floor in a pub or something, and then a pickbcket just wanged it away. but must have got home, opened the handbag and thought What's this piece of tat Oh no, I thought I've overshot here.. I'm now going to be the subject of an international manhunt. I just wanted someone's b. Yeah. Yes that was an incredible story. Draorddinary, I want to hear the conversation with her boss the following day. I thought someone had swallowed one Wh no, I haven't seen that story. seen Fs today. Both becausecause they're big, aren't they In my head we the police were waiting for him to lay it, you know, there was a I think you' create you see this in a cart. Dream this? No, you're thinking of was you thinking of And someone was fed bananas in India so that they would shit out a bunch of Somet that Eeralds or rubies or something. Yeah ye. ye, but that was many years ago. I think that different like valiant effort to try and get Dan off the hook doesn't work. Weirdly, I saw a separate fabigt egg story recently. Yeah Yeah, which was I read the book about Prince Andrew. and Big f I just I just love the guy and I just want to get some life tips. No, he he was touring Russia And I think accounts of the visit were just that he was shown around You know, this was when relations were better and there wasn't a war on and all of this. and he was just not that would stop him. Anyway, he was just visiting and he was being shown around somewhere like the Hermmitage or one of the, you know the royal palaces with the collection of stuff. And apparently he was just heavily, heavily hinting that he'd love to be given a faboueter egg. He'd love to own a fabager egg one day and was just trying to get a free fabret egg rageous. Try a lotuck. The more I hear about this guy. Yeah. Right, let's have another one. This one goes out to Ryan Jackson. Ryan Jackson, your fact is now that no one is quite sure how to say Louis Armstrong. or Louis Armstrong. Are we not? No, this and we did it on the show. So Basically this was one of my facts and I was reading the fact that no one, including his wife was quite sure which version of it was. It changed all the time. If he was announced on a show, it was one version. There's multiple versions, I believe, of him saying it in different ways. So there just wasn't one agreed version. Oh, that's great. I love that Yeah Here's another one. This one goes out to Grumbert The man with the Guinness World record for the lowest voice can hit notes so low only elephants. can hear him Okay. Y. I'm gonna go sniff those feet over. You create a distraction. Who's got the lowest twoice out of the four of us I think you or me, but the question is who can go low give me lowest lowest. That's pretty low Yeah. You can't just put a silly accent on and make it lower. Weirdly you're acting like the silly accent is going to help you get those depths. Well, it does because it helps bend your mouth into places. Oh there we go, Anna. Do it This is a fact for Steph DLoreie, The first thing was a parliament And it was the old thing in Iceland. It's been going since the tenth century. This is of James, wasn't it? It was James's. The word thing That's where we get the word thing, right? It's from that Parliament And it's become meaningless enough to just mean thing now Is that one of the many claims to have been the first parliamentary democracy I think it was, wasn't it? Yeah. I think it must have been. And we did a load of stuff about Icelandic horses. Do you remember this? Yeah. ' are they the ones that have the special trots as well? Icelandic horses, I think, have a special way of trotting where they trot with their feet the other way round to normal horses Something like that. That sounds plausible, yes. I think's dude. And it's got a special name, like Turting or something like that. What we find and you'll find as we do more littleittle fishes, Anna, is that it's amazing what you do and don't remember. Yeah It's amazing.ike Dan's story of the guy who swallowed a ha egg and the police were waiting for him to lay it You'll find that your mind is foggier than you thought. When we're dealing with something we researched for like one day ten years ago, it can go anyway. Yeah. the difference is is that I immediately got picked up on it. until you told that story about how we've got missed memories. We basically accepted Anna's premise that their horses have backward legs. they do. Like they trot on one side of their body then the other. they werere always falling over Yeah Something like that. Anyway, have that fact. Lovely. Let's have one more. Yeah, here's the final fact. This goes to Bronwyn One of the largest majorities in a Brazilian election was won in nineteen fifty eight by a Rhino called Kakareco. Cakareco. I remember Kakareco. Yeah? Yeah. Still serving. It's been a while since we did this bag. Yeah, you'd think it was just a protest vote, but no, he just had a very strong campaign Worers' rights sorting out immigration. Yeah, was they everyone hated the current leaders, didn't they? Why don't do more of that here putting animals up for election? That would be fun, wouldn't it? I think that would' have made the latest council elections in Britain more entertaining. Yeah ye. Would you have voted for a rhino if there'd been one on your ballot paper U regardless of party. I don't think I would. Okay. oy But I'm just trying to remember the details of this fact. I think Co It means rubbish? Yeah, it does. but I don't think I don't think that was part of the electoral pitch. I don't