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This is the show where we put down QI.com, email inbox, and cherry pick the best facts that you, the listener, have sent in. We get amazing facts every week, so if you do think of one, please send them in. And also if you want to be part of our club, Club Fish at the highest tier, you'll be getting something very special, as everyone does at the end of this episode, which is we hand out a fact for you to be the custodian of from the twelve years of our archive. So uh why don't we get into it? Why don't we get some facts? Who wants to go first? Here's one that's from Domin Kolchek and it's on our favorite subject at the moment. Oh, great. We're putting together a book, as you guys know, of things that you think are named for one reason. But they're actually named for a different reason. Well that's my second favourite subjects. Number one being people who paint things on the top of ruins. But yes, go on. You know what? Like genuinely when I'm doing my research for the main show now, I'm spinning myself looking for these people. I know. I know. They're so hard to find. Well we need a book. They've been flooding into the inbox. We do some of them on Droppers of Line and we're gonna do I think probably keep doing some of them here as become a little fish in joke. Anyway, Domin writes the online poker boom that became huge in the early two thousands was caused by the moneymaker effect. Oh , this moneymaker. Don't give away my punchline . It was named after two thousand and three poker champion Christopher Moneymaker who was a an amateur who won the um World Series of Poker. World Series of Poker in two thousand and Oh gosh, I don't know. Like two thousand and five? It was two thousand and three. And uh the moneymaker effect was basically poker going mainstream. And um obviously most of the people who got into it will have lost huge amounts of money by now. But how's he how's Chris Moneymaker doing? Well, he won the World Series of Poker, which I I think is that does set you up reasonably well. You would see him on like you know when in those days you would have like quite a lot of T V poker games and he'd he'd kind of rock up on those every now and then. But he is a good poker player, of course he was, he won the world um series of poker, but like the people who came after him were quite a lot better, I think. I think. Are you familiar with the poker player Daniel Schreiber ? No, I'm not, actually. He's he's who like uh owns the Daniel Schreiber without qualification on Wikipedia. Daniel Schriber. So that's a different isn't that's not you. It's I thought you were saying I play poker. Oh no, I played it once and I won and then I lost everything. I was sharped. I was I was absolutely decimated. Yeah. Was it at that Daniel Schreiber convention you went to? Um great. All right, James, you go Interesting. Yeah, sorry for walking all over your front there. No, don't be daffed. But yeah, I was really into poker back in the day. I remember. Yeah. Was how I met my wife. Yes. And you won a fair on square. Exactly. She's called Daniel Shriver, isn't she? It's very confusing, your work life and home life. Okay, this fact is from Kev Osman and Kev said that he was reading about the winter Olympics held in Cortina, or they were, they've just finished in northern Ital y. And that was the old name of a Ford car. So he decided to write a quiz on where cars get their name from. Okay. And when he was doing that, he found that all Lamborghini car models, except one are named for something related to bullfighting. Can you name a single Matador not no no not a single bullfighting term, a single Lamborghini car? Do you know what? The Lamborghinis are so rare and expensive that I just see oh it's a Lamborghini. Really? I would never say I would I would be able to say oh look there's a Skoda Enyak or whatever I must admit I only knew one it's Lamborghini Diablo. Oh and Diablo is a famous fighting bull, along with temerario, revuelto, islero, uracho, uraco, all these words I never really heard of. Uh there's uh one called the Lamborghini Jarama , which is the area of Spain where fighting bulls are bred, and a few other ones, and the only exception is the Countach. Okay, Lamborghini Countauch. And Lamborghini Countauch comes from a Piob Montese dialect exclamation of astonishment and it basically means holy shit and apparently the owner of Lamborghini saw this car's amaz ing design for the first time and went holy shit and then they went, We should call it that literally countach in uh Piedmont means plague. So you know in some countries like you use the name of an illness as like a swear word, like smallpox or Yeah. I'm always doing that. Sniffly nose. Or whatever. Like in some countries that's quite big and I didn't know that. Yeah. Sorry, the car's name means plague. It means plague, but like really it means holy shit, it means whack. Right, okay. Okay, okay. That's so funny. Um Lamborghini is Italian, right? Yeah, they were Italian, weren't they? Spanish bullfighting ye. What's that all about? What's going on there? Probably you can drive from Spain to Italy in one of their fantastically fast cars. Yes, and if they would like to send us some Yeah, they were um they were Italian, but I wonder if perhaps it sounds foreign and exciting. Maybe, yeah. Usually these days bullfighting very much frowned upon. Absolutely. Um you wouldn't want to turn up to a bullfight in a Lamborghini anyway. No. I feel like a determined bull could do some damage to your your wing mirrors. Not a red Lamborghini anyway. Yeah . Lovely. You know who um I saw an interview with friend of the pod cast, uh Johnny Knoxville recently, where he got really emotional about the fact that he's now at an age and uh and his body has gone through so much that he can no longer have pranks done with bulls with active life, but like probably got emotional, started crying like it was it was a real tragedy in his life. I can't be galled by a bull anymore. I've got a little bones to pick with Johnny actually. Do you? Yeah, because I read the other day that there's a new jackass coming out. Yeah. And I think they might have already filmed it. Yeah. But I have a contract that says I'm gonna be in that film. Yes. Oh, because when he was on uh so I was away for this episode, but he was on. He was on the show and we made a joke about I could be in the next jackass . And then the next day he sent me a contract saying I agree to be in the next jackass and I returned it to him. And I was expecting the call. I was expecting to be on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in a few years as the guy who got speared by a bull. Yeah. You should send him one of your balls in protest that you've accidentally lost in some hideous jackastyle prank . That'll show him . Yeah, that'll show him. Speaking of bulls, I've got a fact here, which was sent in by Robbie Brennan, uh, who says LeBron James recently ended. So LeBron James is a basketball player, Andy. Um that was for both of us. But I like the way you said that as if every listener knows who he is. Literally everyone. But there is one person who does need to know . So he recently ended a record streak of consecutive games played where he scored 10 plus points. And that's good. It's very good. Yeah. It's better than losing 10 points, I suppose. Yeah. Now, what's phenomenal about this is that this record is longer than the career of every other currently ac tive NBA player. So the amount of games added together was 1,2 97 games. And he's got at least 10 points in every one of those. And he is the longest active basketball player I think in history. He's he's played 23 seasons. They're all long aren't they they're very tall tall tall fellows. Yes and gals. Yes. But he's so he's been in for twenty three seasons. The street nearly six years . What? There are four seasons in a year. Jesus. Okay . Maybe just sit down for a sec. Um Someone's got to speak for the non-sporting listener. A lot of our listeners like being indoors with a nice cup of tea in a book. I speak for them. I'm not sure how many of those enjoy your interjections either. Uh that's really interesting. I think what it says to me is how easy it is to score points in basketball. Yeah. Like that's the problem is like the sc ores are always like ninety-seven eighty six or something. There are a lot. You don't get a nice nil-nil like you do if you have a satisfying nil-nil . But yeah, I mean but that 's amazing. It's a pretty astonishing run. Uh from Jan 5th, 2007 to December 4th, 2025, he always scored ten points or more in a game. Ironically, you're not allowed to run in basketball. Yes. Oh, with the ball. Yeah, yeah. I do know I do know that. I do know that. But that's a sort of example of an interjection that works really nicely. It kind of contributes. I would say I would say that I am in the middle of maybe a six hundred episode run of this show where I've made at least ten stupid introductions every single show . Anyway, ver very cool. That's a that's an astonishing um if if you know basketball, like I'm a big fan of basketball. That's a wild achievement. Is he beyond the age at which he can still safely be gored by a bull, LeBron James? He's younger than Johnny Knoxville. He'll be younger than Johnny. But he's he's younger than me, I would say. Yeah. He must be in his uh He's like Djokovic, you know? Sure. It should have ended already, but we've So is he substantially older than mo I presume much yeah, he's much older than most other players on the court. I would say so. What have but that's tricky though, isn't it what do you mean? Well it's just tough to find things to talk about with your teammates. Oh yeah. Oh yeah. They're all talking about tickety tucks and you're trying to talk about the you know, you don't get those good tartan slippers anymore, do you? He's forty one. Okay. So he was I'm older than him by like six months. I'm younger than him, but so we're saying there's still a chance for me. Oh yeah. As in, you know, we don't know if I'm incredible at basketball. Whereas he's probably past his prime of making tedious interjections. They're tedious now? No, they were always tedious. Okay, let's get to another fact. Let's do another fact. Here's one. Here's one from um Noah Gettel. We haven't had a really good weird animal for a little while, I'd say. Yeah. Okay. Noah writes. Well, Noah claims that we haven't. He says our biology games really dropped off recently. Does he have two of this one? Uh because he's called Noah. Amazing. Yep, good. I I don't want to drill it home, but that's a wonderful interjection once again . Well, Noah writes: there is a group of insects in the genus Stylops, stylop s, that parasitize bees, okay? And what's bizarre is the females live their entire lives inside the abdomens of the hosts. Males develop wings and they fly around looking for a bee that's carrying a female and a female has stuck her neck out between two sections of the bee and is releasing a pheromone into the air to draw in a male. Um females never leave home, they never really interact with the males who they're mating with. The male just arrives, I'm afraid does traumatic insemination. Just start stabbing where he can. Just sort of in it goes in the head. Yeah, there's very few niceties here. Um they have a sort of neck pocket and then they the the offspring hatch and they eat um the mother pretty much alive, they cannibalize the mum. Wow. And then they leave. I know about these guys. Do you? Uh yeah, and also they will make the bee turn into a queen, kind of, but fly off to where the queens go because all the other bees also fly there for mating, so you get a big bunch of bees together and then um because there's loads of bees together, that's how they can jump from one host to the next host. I'm really surprised by what the insect world does and doesn't notice in those kind of situations. Yeah. Like if one of us came in and just had a bit of a parasite sticking out our neck bag for for them. And no one says anything. That's that's it's just a fascinating thing, yeah. That that's just normal to the to the other bees and to the bee itself. 'Cause not only do you have a parasite sticking out of your bum or whatever, but you've also got another parasite sort of flying around stabbing it in the head, mating with it. Just feel like in a party that is gonna draw some attention. It's gonna be gossip is crampier style. Yeah. Did you see Brian last night? Yeah. So thank you, Donna. Yeah, amazing. Amazing, James. Um, here is another one about animals. Uh, not a weird animal, but an animal nonetheless. This is from Kellen Maguire, and it's about groundhogs. Kellen wrote about America's national oceanic and atmos pheric Association, who every year rank the accuracy of all the groundhog prognosticat ors who are gonna work out whether it's gonna be a sunny spring or a rainy spring. I thought it was just I thought it was just punks of Tawny Phil from the film Groundhog Day. He's the but he's the one who got all the plaudits because he was in the movie. But actually, there's loads of these guys sort of working away behind the scenes. Um there are thirteens live groundhog, three taxider mied groundhogs, one statue of a prairie dog, one tortoise, and one presumed groundhog, who has only been seen by a few people and they're not sure whether he actually exists or not. Crypto groundhog. Dang, get on it. Yes, that's so good. And it turns out that even though he's the famous one, Punk's Tony Phil is one of the least accurate one. Um so he's only managed to correctly predict February and March temperatures thirty five percent of the time. And the only one worse is Mahave Max, who's a tortoise in Nevada . That's correct twenty percent of the time. Oh, that''ss b bad. Thatad well, that's just fame going to Punkstony Phil's head, isn't it? The real talented ones never really get the good gigs. Whereas the people who keep making tedious introductions uh, you know, showered with praise by their v colleagues who value them. You know, yeah. Um can I tell you about another prognosticator that I learned about? Yeah. So this is Annie Charlototte, a Ttenham hotspur supporter, with a rare anatomical condition in that she has two vaginas. And in recent years, the um the tabloids in the UK always seem to ask her when there's a football match who's gonna win. I'm dreading I'm dreading to think what her method is. Can we work it out? What would you do? Well, you know what? I cannot tell . Like she doesn't give the real details. Oh, okay. I think it's a vibe. I don't really know how she does it, but she says she uses her anatomy to work out what's gonna happen. Right. And she said that uh in the recent Tottenham Arsenal game she predicted that Spurs were gonna beat Arsenal and that Arsenal would bottle the league and and fail to win the football league. We don't know what will happen in the league yet, uh but Spurs did not win that game. Right. Arsenal won. Yes. Up the Arsenal. Yeah. I'm so glad you stopped when you said you think it's a vibe because I thought you were going to extend a vibrator there. Yeah, it's not I think it's a feeling that she gets. It's it's really uncertain what she does, but she has become a bit of a meme in the in the tabloids in the last years. Is that a wet, wet, wet show? It is. Oh no ! It wasn't meant to be. Your life's already digital. From banking and shopping to streaming and learning. So why does sorting government stuff still feel like such hard work ? The government is introducing a new digital ID to make access to services quicker and more secure for everyone. But we need to hear from you. Your voice matters. Search Digital ID Consultation to have your say. Digital ID, making it work for you. In the race to scale with AI , you need data infrastructure that can match your pace. Everpeer's data storage platform brings all your data into one hub. No silos, no scrambling, just instant access to tame your data chaos. And with Everpeer's storage as a service subscription, your storage and security upgrade automatically with zero downtime. Your infrastructure stays current, so your business never slows down. Visit EverpeerData.com to learn more today. With Everpure, you're not just in the race, you're built to win it . This is a fact sent in by Warwick Poole, who says, I believe you once mentioned Insane Clown Posse. But here's a fact for you. Before they were a huge success, Violent J and Shaggy2 Dope from Insane Clown Posse used to steal car stereo systems to support themselves. Once they stole a car radio, which actually had one of their own insane clown posse tapes loaded into it. They felt bad and apparently reinstalled it back into the fans' car. Yeah. And there's an interview where you can see them talking about it. Um but yeah. So they were still stealing castereos even after they had music released. Right. So yeah, they just happen to have stumbled across a fan of their stuff. Quite a cool thing to see when you're robbing it. You know, it'd be like us mugging a house and seeing a fish poster on the wall. Mugging a house . How are you doing that ? What do you say? Robbing a house. You don't mug it. Burglar burglarizing in America? Absolutely. You could no, you don't you don't mug a house. You burgle a house or you rob it. You bug a person. You mug a person on the move. This is why we've never got around to doing it. It's the language hasn't been agreed on. Right, Balaklav was off. What are we saying? What's our terminology here? No, come come back, Shaggy Two Dope. What are you in for? Mugging a house No, you were robbing Oh man, that's um that's very exciting. I've got another insane clown posse uh fact which is that 'cause uh the insane clown posse was a band that has a lot of controversy about them throughout the years. Well the th if your main m members are called what was it, Violent Dave? Violent J There's nothing inherently worse about Violent Dave than Violent J. I'm standing by it. Yeah. Dave, you think you see the thing is like we did want you to change your name, but it was the Dave part that was the problem. Simply adding viol like your surname was great. We were happy with that. Rude Paul. Rude Paul. There's a great fact, which is that they were once um on a Disney owned record label and so they released an album called The Great Melenko. And on the day of release, Disney kind of realized, hang on a second, we can't release this. It's full of graphic-natured lyrics and so on. So they recalled the hundred thousand shipped units of CDs and it didn't come out through Disney in the end. Wow. Yeah. Wow. Yeah. Controversial. Gosh. Anyway, hey, listen, let's put down these facts and why don't we get to the business of handing out custodianship to the members of Club Fish? So, as I said at the top, if you would like your own fact, you just need to join Friend of the podcast which is the highest tier of clubfish go to patreon.com slash clubfish and we will assign you a fact we'll send you a digital certificate very beautiful and you can put it on your wall but on top of that, we're also gonna give you a shout out now and let you and the wider public know which fact you are custodian of. So I sorry, just before we do this, can I just add that if you do get your custodianship certificate and you do put it on your wall we. We promise if see it, we will not mug your house. Yep. There we go. See, benefits. That's a further benefit of being part of this club. So why don't we get to our first one? Who's gonna go? I'll go. This one goes out to uh violent Dave and it's No, this one goes out to Robert Marsh. Robert, your fact is that the Ministry of Defence owns fifteen golf courses? Very good. Yep. Just in case a war breaks out on a golf course. Nobody who likes golf could possibly be a warmonger. That's all I would say. Yeah. It's just for President Trump to come and play and butter him up. Yeah, yeah. Um so but that's good that his name is Robert Marsh, the new custodian of this fact, because Marsh is a bit similar to a golf Well uh um but it would be outdoors. It's outdoor they're both outdoors. Oh yeah, can't deny that. Well you do indoor golf sometimes, don't you? But that's already indoor marshes, probably not. Anyway, Robert, I hope you like the fact. Um Okay, here is another one. This one is now under the custodianship of Sean Battersby . Sean, your fact this week and forever, in fact, is that the rise in the use of female contraceptive pills is making fish too effeminate. Now that's not the podcast. Isn't it's not no such thing as a fish. This is the animal group. Uh and it is that people were taking the pill and uh weing out some oestrogen and the estrogen was finding its way into the rivers and into the fish indeed and making them more feminine. Yes, and I r there was something about fish that they just start producing eggs. They stop producing sperm and start producing eggs. Yeah, I think so. Shift that over. It does do that. Um and also I remember I don't know if we mentioned this in this episode, but there's quite a lot of fish um that have got a lot of cocaine in the system in the Thames as well. Yes , yeah. So basically don't flush it down the loo. If you've got drugs and the police are coming Hoover 'em up, that's what we're say ing . Brilliant. All right, well um here's another one. This is going out to Graham Binns. Your fact is that the actor Charles Hawtree hoarded bedsteads in his house, thinking that one day he would make his fortune from them. Amazing. Now, this is from uh poker player Victoria Corin Mitchell. Early victim of the moneymaker effect. Yes. Yes. Um do we need to explain who what had what a Charles Hartree is? I think there's a few things in this sentence that might go over the head of some younger listeners. Or international ones. Charles Hartree was an amazing, brilliant comedy actor. He was in a series of British films called the Carry-on films , which are much loved. I grew up watching them. Haven't seen them for a while. I'm not convinced they would stand up to modern scrutiny. I think maybe they might haven't aged terrifically. Um there was very, very naughty, raunchy, uh rude British, like seaside postcard rudeness style comedy films. And there was carry on Cleopatra and there was carry on cowboy and carry on up the kyber. That one was especially bad acting thing about it now. Sid James . Charles , Hattie Jakes, uh Barbara Windsor. Yes. Amazing British comedy actors who were just in these incredibly ropey films, but that that were kind of loved. And Charles Hautry was one of them, but apparently felt the need to collect bedsteads. And a bedstead? Yeah, no. Great, great fact. Um that was so Victoria Corin Mitchell came on that episode, and I still remember the absolute fury she had when I said that my favourite movie was Apollo 13. Oh. It like derailed the episode for quite some time. She just couldn't believe it. Your favourite film is Apollo 13. I mean she was annoyed enough that it was the wrong Daniel Schreiber sitting at the table. Okay, uh Andy. Okay, this one goes out to Ashley. Ashley, your fact is that in nineteen thirty seven you could visit Romford Dog Track and watch Cheetah Racing. Wow. This was an experiment they did where they raced cheaters against each other and and they I think showed no interest in racing 'cause they just they saw this little mechanical rabbit. They're like cats, aren't they? Cats. They're very, very fast when they're very hungry and they need to prey on something, but they just I think they saw through it fairly quickly. Yeah. And uh yeah, you don't get so you don't get so many dog tracks as you used to. No, I also think the problem was that the jockeys were too heavy. Very nice. Very nice . Thank you, Andy. Okay, okay. So um here is another fact. This one is now under the custodianship of Sam Kirk. Sam, your fact is that in 2010, the US military built a supercomputer out of 1 7 60 PlayStation 3 s. And what's exciting about this one is that just a couple of weeks ago, Lee Ven Skyra mentioned this in a show and I kept it in the edit because I'd forgotten we'd done this already. But here it is. Here it is. It was a great fact. It's an amazing fact, yeah. And they'd be doing it because it was cheaper, wasn't it? It was cheaper. And what I didn't keep in the edit and what Levin did explain is that um when you make a PlayStation, you sell it for cheaper than you make it, more or less, really, or cheaper than it should be. And that's because you want people to buy the console because then they'll buy all the games and stuff. So it's almost like a loss leader. And so actually the US military is getting a really good deal by buying these PlayStations and getting all the parts out of it because they're cheaper than they should really Right. Great. That'll have allowed them to save uh save a bobble too, and I'm sure they'll have put it to a good use. Alright, I'm gonna read another one here. This is for Chris Daly. And your fact is now that in fifteen fifty two a man in England managed to shoot himself with a bow and arrow. That's that's pretty amazing. I think his name was Henry Pert. Henry Pert it was Henry Pert. I've just looked in the archive. I was trying to remember with that. It wasn't Henry Perkey. I nearly said Henry Perke, but Henry Perke invented shredded wheat. Um shot himself with a bow and arrow. That's very impressive. Was it a straight up and straight down? How else is it gonna be? Trick shot trick shot off a few corners. You know what? I have shot myself with a bow and arrow. Here we go. It was just a graze. Thank goodness. Um but when I learned how to do archery, there's lots of things you have to do and lots of things you have to remember. And one of the things I messed up, I can't remember what it was exactly, but it meant that when I let go of the arrow, it skimmed past my nipple and really, really hurt my nipples. Yeah. As it went through. That's a heck of a flick. Yeah. It was not it was painful. And I was like, does this happen to everyone? And they were like, well, not really. You should have done what we told you. Yeah. So like uh I d I'd missed one of their instructions. Um but yeah, apparently it's relatively common than that. Which is to uh put your nipples away . And point the arrow away from your nipples. Absolutely. Use the paste he's provided, sir. I've just had a look. Henry Pert did not fire. He was trying to fire an arrow straight up in the air, but apparently the bow lodged at its fullest extent. So I think it might have been one of those things where you're looking over the mouth of the cannon. Oh. I mean look, he shot himself with the baronarrow to death. I mean it's there's no good way of doing it. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Um here's another one that goes out to Luke Frendo. Luke, your friend of the podcast. Friendo of the podcast. Oh my god. That's it. Uh your fact is until the mid two thousands, the best method for counting pandas was to sift through their poo. Um and now this isn't if you're in the zoo and there's like three pantas in front of you. It's like one, two, three. It's like in the wild and you can't see them all.