Little Fish: A Biscuit, A Railway Station, And A Mutt

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Hi everyone, welcome to this week's episode of Little Fish. We've been so happy to get messages from you guys to say that you've been enjoying this show and we certainly enjoy making it. It's a little bit more loose, a little bit more silly than the normal shows, but we really, really...

love getting your facts so please do keep sending those in the reason i've disturbed the start of your show today is because i want to tell you about a quiz that we're doing it is for patreon subscribers on the top tier and it will take place on the 20th 23rd of January at 7pm UK time so that'll be sometime in the afternoon if you're in North America and it'll be very early in the morning if you're in Australia or New Zealand but hopefully you will still be able to join us it's going to be

a whole load of fun we've got loads of amazing stuff planned for you and if you are not a member of patreon right now then you have to go to patreon.com slash no such thing as a fish and join our top tier you could probably just do it for a month

and then quit if you just want to do the quiz. But honestly, there's so much good stuff on our Patreon that I really think once you join, you will be hooked because we have extra content. We have merch. We have video content. There's all sorts of stuff on there. We hope we've made it value for money because people going on there help to support the podcast. So it is a real good mutual benefit thing. Anyway, enough of that. Really hope you enjoyed this episode of Little Fish.

Hey everyone, welcome to another episode of Little Fish. This is our bonus Monday episode where we put down our facts. And we go through the inbox and we find your best facts from the last seven days. And if you want to send in yours, by the way, and be part of this show, podcast at QI.com is the place to do it. But we have had so many entries this week, so let's get straight to it. Points of order.

At what stage does this stop being a bonus episode and just become part of our normal day-to-day, quotidien, mundane lives? How many weeks are we in now? Ten? This will be about our eighth or ninth or tenth, yep. So when does a relationship stop being new, you know? Oh, well, with my relationship, in case my wife's listening, I wake up every morning and think how much I'm in love with her. Still butterflies every day. Same thing for me. I wake up, I think, Polina, I really...

Just would do anything to be with you. I'm stuck in my situation. I can't see an out yet. Andy? Me three. And you the listener. Podcasts at QI.com. No, no, no. I think this is our, now we're settling into happy, a very happy life as this being the other episode. The other weekly episode we do. Yeah. Can we do it?

Let's do it. Let's get into it. Who's got a fact? Who wants to open it up? Well, I've got one from Peter Drake, who has sent us a raunchy math fact. Oh, great. Yes. And Peter says properties of mathematical graphs include girth and Wiener index.

The Wiener Index. Wiener Index. That's funny. And separately, Jess Weyer has written to us and said, my fact this week is that there is a mathematical function called the popcorn function. Other names include the raindrop function, the countable... cloud function and the stars over babylon so these are just some mathematicians making fun names for things did you have this when you because you studied math james yeah i was aware of well i know about the girth of um

Graph theory. These are not graphs like you would see a graph on a news article or something. This is a mathematical graph where you get lots of points and you draw lines in between them and it's the connections between different things. Right. Is it graphic?

If you're measuring your girth on the wiener. No, no, no. They're extremely boring. The girth is the shortest way you can go between two objects where only the first and the last ones are the same. Yeah, it does sound tricky. It's quite boring. And these popcorn functions and the stars over Babylon, so basically, it's like...

The kind of maths where it's like, if this, then that. You know, like how computers work. But it's basically you put in some number and it goes through this function and it comes out. It's either a zero or a one. And it kind of is like random if it's zero or one. So it pops around like popcorn. Oh, nice. But yeah, I do remember some fun names from when I did maths at university. The tits group.

Invented by French mathematician Jacques Titz. Lovely. And if you want to work out the Titz group, then you first have to find the Coxeter Complex, named after Harold Coxeter. Wow. His school days. I just think, good lord. No wonder he became a mathematician. Why? Just you'd spend more time with your books, wouldn't you? Working. Would you?

You're for vengeance. All those guys outside in the playground. I would, I would. I mean, just randomly, random, you know. His maths is so... oblique that it could never be used in real life it's not like he worked out the trajectory of a missile that he could fire at his enemies This is like some extremely random bit of group theory. That's brilliant. He's fled his own name into the realms of pure mathematics. Yeah. Nice. Love it.

Any more facts? Yeah. Well, do you know what? I have something in a similar vein. So why don't we jump to the one that I got sent in by David Reed. So David Reed, he's a observatory coordination support officer at Cicero.

C-I-S-I-R-O, Murchison Radio Astronomy Observatory. That's in Western Australia. So this comes from international land. And he says, I know you have covered the occasional clever acronym created by scientists that clunkily describe their experiments, but did you... know a radio telescope imaging program called pybdsf pronounced pybdsf was the python coded blob detector and source finder right but that's not what it does

It's actually a blob detector and source measurer, but they didn't want to call it Pi BDSM. I see, I see where we're going. It was given away at the end, the punchline there, wasn't it? Because I had no idea where we were going with any of that. As often...

The punchline does. I know you'll stand up, Dan. Sometimes you'll stick it at the front, won't you? Keep it fresh. Keep them guessing. So they decided they didn't want it to be called BDSM, so they changed the... the final word exactly yeah to make it something that is slightly a redundant acronym i saw someone's personalized number plate the other day which was i won't say exactly what it was because you don't want to say people's number plates but it was something like

P-I-I-I-H-L-P. So it was like, when you looked at it and glanced at it, it was obviously Philip. But when you actually spent any time looking at it, it was like, P-I-I-I-H-L-P. You do wonder sometimes the things that people will pay lots for. Unless that's Peele's name. Yes. Which it might be. I think it's fine to read out people's number plates. Do you think? I think it's absolutely fine. As long as you're not saying...

Well, I did Kia's car. Is that what I passed? Got it. Podcasts.Qi.com. Right it. So I found a few other acronym things I thought were quite fun. Oh, yeah. Have you heard of RAS syndrome? R-A-S syndrome? Nope. No. RAS syndrome is redundant acronym syndrome syndrome. Very nice. And this is to describe any time that people say PIN number or ATM machine because the N in PIN is number. That's really funny. Yeah, so that's one. I really like EGOT.

so we all know egot right which is emmy grammy oscar and tony the idea is you become the ultimate actor if you win an egot that was created by an actor called philip michael thomas he used to walk around with a golden medallion around his chest saying EGOT massively. Well, because he got one? No, it was his plan. He was like, I want to win all of these things. Yeah.

Anyway, he's now retired, and he was never even nominated for a single one of these things. But he was a good actor, he did a lot of stuff, so he had a great career. I always thought it was the Kigot, because you had all those that you said, and also the Chortle Award. is the real one that

Everyone goes for like obviously we've got one-fifth of a key got Yeah, and let's not say which fifth All right Andy, what have you got? Oh, I've got some really fun ones. Um, do you remember we had a bit of correspondence?

on Droppers Align, which is our audience feedback show, from the House of Lords. I do remember that, yeah. Well, I just thought I'd say, Lord Borwick also sent in a fact, as well as a bit of bonus info. So, same Lord, we haven't yet cracked more than one. Your Highness, thank you for writing in. Your Grace. Your Excellence. Right, here's a quiz question. Okay.

How many times does the letter X appear on the face of Big Ben? And for the purposes of this, Big Ben is the clock. I can't get into St. Stephen's Tower, the Elizabeth Tower, blah, blah, blah. Okay, 10, 11, 12, three. Oh, but there are four faces. 12. Ah, very nice. Okay, so you think 12? Dan? I think an aerial view of the Big Ben itself. We'll have an X right on top. It's how you signal the X-files. When I was a kid, I put an X on my window in my bedroom.

To lure Gillian Anderson? It was worth a try. Anderson spotted in Bolton once again. All I got was David B. Coffey every day. Are you sure? still not interested i'm like no i'm holding out for anderson oh you did the axe that's so cool

That's very cool. What was that? Is that what people do on the show? I don't know. I think it was in the show that you put an X there and it showed that you knew the truth was out there or something. That's cool. It was a thing. I can't remember the exact meaning of it, but that was a thing that you would do. Yeah. Aliens would know not to touch you. I've never seen an episode of it. Oh, mate.

Andy, honestly, I would go to the start and watch them all. Really? Yeah, you'll love them. I mean, they're brilliant. I assume that they haven't aged badly. No, they're great. I watched them all. Not all, but I watched series one quite recently. Did you? Yeah. in between viewings of now you see me now you see me great brilliant okay so what's the

Did we get the question? We did. Did we get the answer? You haven't submitted your guess yet. Well, I did. James is 12 plus, so 13. You're saying 13? Yeah. It's zero. What? Because the designer, Pugin... Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin. Yeah, yeah. He designed all of the parliament building, didn't he, Pugin? A lot of it, yeah. Crazy name, crazy guy. He did actually die of insanity. Anyway, might have been mercury poisoning, might have been syphilis. Anyway...

He decided he didn't want an X. He wanted an F. No. So it's F. It's so weird. If you look at it, it goes one F for nine. I've got nine. Yes. Then F, then F1, and then F1II for 12. It's just F. Why did they do that? I don't know. Is it because of the mercury poisoning, maybe? It's possible. It's very possible. He was a really interesting guy. Also had a link to Ramsgate, which we discussed on an episode that we have recorded, but has not yet been broadcast. So this is a cool...

forward to a really fun episode coming up. And what is it? What's the link? He left there. Oh. Fantastic. He lived there, but he dressed as a sailor and he would frequently take his boat out to rescue sailors in difficulties. Wow. I mean, a really peculiar guy. Imagine how excited the audience is now for the Ramsgate episode. Oh my gosh. Facts like that.

Shut up. And we didn't even put that in the show. Can I tell you one more fact I found about the Big Ben thing as a result of this? It's last year. A company won a special prize in Elevator World's Project of the Year awards for the lifts in the Big Bend Tower. Okay. Can you guess which company it was? Schindler. Schindler. It wasn't Schindler. They do do lifts. Otis.

No. What's another? They're the only two I know. I mean, in fairness, I think we did quite well to think of two names of lift manufacturers. Is it going to be something like Churchill? Like something that's very relevant? Wellington? What's a lift? No, it's not that. It's a lift company.

but it's not a traditional lift company. What's another kind of lift? It doesn't go up and down straight. It goes up the side. It's not a funicular. It's on your, if I say this, you'll get it. It's on your stairs. Stanner. Stanner. Good day. Stanner did the lifts in the Big Bend Tower. That's really good. And they won a special prize from Elevator World for it. House business, up and down. There we go.

Very nice. And that's the fact I found. That's a great fact. That is really good. Thank you. Anyway, look forward to that Ramsgate episode in about a month's time. This one has been sent in to us by Peter Munro. It says, a new species of pterosaur has been discovered... in a pile of fossilized vomit oh yeah it was pretty amazing so this is over a hundred million years ago you're saying someone threw up a whole dinosaur yeah i think someone someone i mean a big dinosaur

The suggestion is that it might have been a Spinosaurus. They don't know for sure. But you have to, I guess, scale up for size. Scale? Very good. And they vomited. Yeah. And when they vomited, they vomited up two pterosaurs. And somehow that vomit fossilized. And these geologists were looking through the fossil when they suddenly spotted the bones. And it's a new species altogether of a pterosaur.

So that's pretty exciting stuff. This is called, by the way, when you go through vomit, it's called a regurgitolite. That's what a... Oh, like a coprolite. A coprolite, but it's a regurgita light. That's good. Yeah. You guys had quite a heavy QI Christmas party this week. How do you know? Well, I wasn't there. I was invited, but couldn't make it. We left some fossils around. fossils to be. Here's hoping. Did you know a new type of canapé was discovered?

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So make holiday spending one less stress under the mistletoe. Visit MyFICO.com slash free or download the MyFICO app today. Hi, I'm Andy Staples from Andy and Ari on three and another five-star quarterback just entered the transfer portal. That's what college football is now a nonstop adventure and we cover it every day.

at Andy and Arianne3, whether it's the transfer portal, the college football playoff, the coaching carousel, you name it. And guess what? It doesn't stop even when the season ends. Join us every day, Monday through Friday. New episodes drop at 3 p.m. wherever you get your podcasts. I've got a fact. Oh, yeah. From Marcus Dalian or Dalian.

I hope I'm saying that right, Marcus. The modern Celsius scale of temperature is based on the melting and freezing point of water. That's not the fact. That's not the fact. That's not even good enough to get into our Ramsgate episode. But previous proposals included some of the following as fixed points. The melting point of butter. Oh. Like, that's boiling pot or whatever. Yeah. Water hottest to be endured by a handheld still.

Like, just what's the hottest water you can take in your hand? Yeah, I know this. And then, the temperature at the center of the Great Pyramid of Giza. What? And basically, the guy who proposed this... Great pyramid of Giza thing was this insane astronomer royal for Scotland called Charles Piazzi Smythe He was obsessed with the Great Pyramid basically and obsessed with the pyramid thought like these have to be what we measure everything based off so

He suggested the pyramid inch, pyramid pint, pyramid gallon. He said all of these come from the sacred pyramid. And they were all basically... Let's say a pyramid inch could be one one thousandth of the length of a pyramid. Basically, yeah. He claimed they were all core metrological qualities. I don't mind that, though. I think, like, as long as you choose something and stick with it.

And was the heat measured by, because it was deep in the center, by the Atlantean crystals that had been left there? Yeah, yeah. Interesting. I'm preaching to the choir here. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Okay, because actually that's good to know. I didn't know how old those were. It's an ancient computer system that they left buried there for us. Yeah, great. I genuinely gave a speech about that at school when I was about 16 years old. Did you really?

The child is father to the man. Yeah, yeah. Amazing. And I got good marks. It was a star in your school. Oh, yeah.

Okay. James, you got another? This one is from Robbie. No surname here, but Robbie writes about German chocolate cake. And regular listeners to Little Fish will know that I mentioned this on a previous episode, but Robbie sent this email before he'd heard that. Or she, actually. Robbie could be a girl. It's got to be Robbie Williams. Sorry.

It's not spelt. Robbie Williams is IE, isn't it? Or is it? Robbie is IE? Yeah, this is Robbie with a Y. Oh, he's trying to mask it. Yeah, it's Robbie Williams. Okay. Well, I must say, I didn't really care much for your performance at the World Cup draw. But I do like your fact, and it is, as well as German chocolate cake not being German, being named after someone called German.

It's made out of Baker's chocolate and Baker's chocolate was named after the company founder, Dr. James Baker, who was a physician. Brilliant. Isn't that amazing? How far did this go? That's so good. And yeah, I decided to look into this a little bit more. So German chocolate cake, it was quite early that this mistake was made that they thought it was German. So it was invented in 1957.

And in 1963, Lyndon B. Johnson served it to the German Chancellor, Ludwig Erhard, thinking that it was a German dessert, even though it was named after an American called German. That's really good. So, yeah. Imagine that. That's really good. Well, can I jump on this with Ben Wright has written in. So this is another correspondent of ours with a great fact. So Ben has said, this is rather thin stuff. But it's so nice when someone acknowledges.

He knows our standards. Absolutely. He made it to the show, Ben. But Italian nationalist Garibaldi, of biscuit fame, was born in Nice. which is nice biscuits yes as well or nice biscuits nice in france nice in france so of biscuit fame interesting and he defeated the bourbons of biscuit fame of biscuit fame as well that's very good i

thought he was Italian, Garibaldi. Her nieces in France, but I guess the borders were a little bit different in those days. He's the hero of Italian unification, for sure. But he was born in France. That's weird, no? That is weird. That is weird. That feels like it needs a Google. I think Nice Biscuits are named after Nice the town. Some royal had been there or something. Yeah. Maybe Queen Victoria or something had been there.

it was very fashionable it became very fashionable so they named the biscuits after them because everyone thinks they're nice biscuits well they are nice biscuits do you think so i think they're quite boring Well, speaking of biscuits boring people, I was given an amusingly shaped biscuit today. Were you? Yeah.

Oh, my God. What was it? No, no, no, guys. Like, there's some bits of going behind the curtain of fish that people are really going to like and going to find really interesting. But this unbelievably tedious conversation that you two had before the mics came on. I think should stay there. Okay, let's preserve the magic, the mystique of this show. All we can say is it revolves around a biscuit, a railway station, and a mutt.

yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah um i actually i decided i would see if i could build on uh this great discovery by ben about garibaldi to see if there are any other biscuit connections to garibaldi so He was known for leading military campaigns. What did he bring with them? Wagons. How do they roll? Wagon wheels. Wagon wheels. Really good. Surrounded by wagon wheels. Would you use a wagon in 18...

50s Europe? Maybe. It's more of a car. The tank hadn't been invented yet. Tank? No, that's true. All right. I googled it. Brilliant. I double checked. He definitely had some wagons. Okay. He died in 1882. Oh, yeah. Guys, 1882. What's that? That was the year that A.F. Brockhoff & Co. Biscuits were established in Australia. Oh, sorry, God. 1882. 18... Sorry. Oh, sorry. Oh, my God. Brockhoff & Co. Biscuits, yeah. It is confusing. Uh, yeah. Um, this is a- Brockhofen, just for the-

international listener who's not from Australia. Well, they don't really exist anymore, I don't think. But they did merge with Arnott's Biscuits down the line, which is Australia's... digestives you know it's a massive over there so uh any aussie listening will know arnott's um uh so that's a lot and oh and then one more uh which is that no the first two were so strong can you really cap those no this is the head

later i think sorry yeah well i discovered that he was a redhead he would have been running around with a pair of ginger nuts Wow. Ben, Ben Wright. Thank you for that email, which sparked this. Ben is now wishing he hadn't even turned on his laptop that day.

Really good. Well, listen, those are your facts, everyone. But now it's time for us to do something very exciting, which we love to do at the end of each Little Fish episode, which is to allocate some custodians to one of the facts, one of the headlines from our 600... plus episodes that we have done.

that will belong to you forever. And you get this by being part of our friend of the podcast here on Clubfish, which is, you'll find it on Patreon if you want to check it out. So let's dish out a batch of new headlines. So James? Yeah, this... fact, is now under the custodianship of Spoonie. I don't know if that's Spoonie, the Radio 1 DJ from the early 2000s, or a different Spoonie.

But Spoonie, you now own this fact. It is that the Aztecs wore necklaces made of popcorn, worn as an offering to the gods. Lovely. Now... I hope you two were listening before because my question to you is, how would you describe the mathematical popcorn function? It's literally just 10 minutes ago. Just going up and down, up and down in a...

And Andy, you do that in the next bit. It's random whether it's a zero or a one. So it goes all over the place. The results are a bit haywire. Okay, disappointingly, you both more or less nailed that. So well done, you two. Do you remember anything about the Aztecs? Great girth. Another mathematical. No, no, I'm just asking about the time that we mentioned them in episode 15 of the podcast. I just remember that the Aztecs were more recent than we think they were.

Oxford University overlaps with the Aztecs. Do you know what I mean? Well, yeah, the Aztecs were there when Columbus went over in 1492. So, yeah, they were around in the 15th century, for sure. Probably the 16th as well. That's all I remember. Yeah, I can't. Have you got a good Aztec fact outside of this brilliant headline? Sweet or salty? I know that Montezuma supposedly drank 50 cups of hot chocolate at a single meal.

Wow, nice. But that account was written by a noted conquistador liar called Diaz. And when you look at everything else he wrote, it's like, yeah, this probably didn't happen. So was that trying to slag off Montezuma? No, it wasn't really, because I think the Spanish were quite impressed by him. But it was basically he had so many lovers that he needed the hot chocolate to keep him going. But I think usually a hot chocolate goes before bedtime.

Not sexy times, but sleepy times. And that would be a hell of a regurgita light waiting to happen, isn't it? There's probably fossilised hot chocolate out there. Shall we do some more facts? Yeah, here's one. This goes out to Lizzie Utting. Congratulations to you. This is the fact that in 2011, China tried to pass off a scene from Top Gun as footage of its... own air force. Right.

They just, I think there was some national security display or something and they were saying, look at our amazing jets. And they cut to like Tom Cruise in a play. Was it the scene of Top Gun where they're all in a bar singing, take my breath away? It was some hot, hot, hot beach volleyball. Look at our super stud airman. Yeah, yeah. So that's what they did. I doubt they would need to do that these days. I think that's a function of 2011 versus 2025. Oh, yeah, probably.

The US Air Force is using footage from Najjar too. Yeah, I love that fact. That's very cool. That's an Anna Tashinsky that you've got there, Lizzie. So well done to that. Okay, let's do another one. This is going out to Steph.

Steph, this is the fact that in 2003, someone lost the keys to the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. And the replacement locks cost over one million pounds. Oh, an awful moment. I don't remember that one, I have to say. Imagine saying, I'll buy the new keys. It's fine. I'll get the new lock. Imagine the guy who made those keys would not have to make another pair of shoe soles or trophy ever again, would they? It's a million for the keys and it's 50p for the key ring.

That was my fact, by the way. So congrats to Steph. Okay, so the next fact comes from us, but it now is under the custodianship of Helen. And Helen, your fact is... Probably the most feminist fact to date, and it was from Andy in episode 15, and it was that Ken is officially an accessory to Barbie. Right on, sister. There you go. We've all felt like that. Barbie has given us so much over the years, hasn't it? When you think about how many times it has come up. She.

The brand. The brand. Okay, well, we feminize brands in this podcast. Like ships and countries. But it has, hasn't it? Absolutely. In fact, it was mentioned just recently. On a Little Fish or Jewel? No, it was in the episode that doesn't go out until the middle of January with Tom Allen. So let's hold it in. The timelines have gone bananas on this. Yeah. Yeah, really good.

All right, let's do another fact now. This is from episode 16. This is a James Harkin fact. This is a classic fact, and it's going to Oliver Castles, which is the world record for most kicks to one's own head. is 127 in a minute yeah That was, we mentioned, I believe it was on the last episode, that we did our first ever photo shoot where we each put a fact down on a placard and we held it for the camera and that was yours in that one. Andy's was its sausage to me. That's right. That's right.

Yeah. And if you are so inclined, go onto the internet and search for kicking own head world record. And it is remarkable. Is it both feed? Yep. I guess it's even more impressive either way. It's like doing the can-can, but you go too far. Bloody hell. Is he sitting down? Or she? It's a he, and I think he is sitting down. Because you'd have to get your head right near your feet. I couldn't do it once. I'm not flexible enough. No.

And this is 11 years ago. Has no one beat the record? They have, but they've forgotten. Well, you have to do it an even number of times. Fancy putting me on the spot like that, Dan. As if I know every world record and when it gets changed. Okay, well done, Oliver. That is now your fact. Let's get another one, Andy. Yes, here's a little one. Quick brackets. We had an email from Arge Geese.

Just saying that last time, Arj was absolutely blown away to get a fact, which was one of Dr. Carl's facts on the show. Slight correction, says Arj. Dan mispronounced my name. You've read it as a series of letters. A-R-J-G. And it's actually Arjgeese. Just wanted to correct that. But by the way, if in future Dan mispronounced...

pronounces your name. Do write in, but we may not be able to fit in all of Dan's mispronunciations. It's just that's a hard, that's a high bar to clear. Just hold it as a badge of respect. Absolutely. Yeah. Exactly. I mean, to be fair, the G was connected to the ARJ in our document, therefore I thought it was an internet nickname. Dan, it's not your fault. We've all got cool names online. Like your cool guy 123.

Don't give away my secret super cool online identity, James. So here's a fact, going out to Tori, and this is T-O-R-E-Y, Tori. And the fact is, there's a bear in the Pyrenees called Pyrrhos who is facing castration because he's fathered almost all other bears. Yes. So basically this is an anti-incest bear castration move.

Because Piros was clearly getting too frisky with, you know, with his own... children bears it's not a nice factory i'm gonna i'm gonna level with you it's a it's a market but look this is what you have to do it's nature it's nature this by the way um

is an Ann Miller fact. Ann's been on the show recently. If you're a listener of the main show, I assume you are. You haven't just come for the bonus. Ann has been with us for many, many years. One of the QILs. Been on the show probably as much as... as any other person, guest we've ever had. This is her debut onto the show. Yeah. That's a cool fact to have. It was written up at the time with one headline saying, Bear might have necessities removed.

It's a very good headline. Very strong. That's nice. uh james let's go to you okay um this is another one from that same episode and it's from dan schreiber and actually you don't need me to tell you that because it will become very obvious when i read it poland's only official ghost hunter thinks ghosts have given up haunting humans because we're too skeptical. And now, Finley Tyson Carter, that is your fact. Yes. And I use the word fact very loosely. Now, you know who told me this fact?

James Harkin. Did I? You did, yeah. In that case, it's a great fact. I begged you to let me do it. And I got in contact with the Polish ghost hunter. We had a few emails together. Yeah. And as the emails went on, he kept changing my name to something just more familiar. It was like Daniel first. And then he was like, hi, Danny. And then I was like, hey, Didi.

Okay. Have we got time for one more? Yeah, go on. So this is going out to Beverly Hart. Fallout from the Cold War has been used to solve murders. Ooh. Interesting. And we don't, any of us, remember how. Yeah, I wonder how. It was because there was nuclear testing in the Cold War. And that caused a big spike in carbon-14. Yeah. So I think everyone had it in them.

And then eventually they banned weapons testing. And then it declined again to the amount of carbon-14 around the place. So it's basically carbon dating. Right. Okay. It's basically to tell when this murder happened. Yeah. There we go. That's it. Okay. Pretty good. All right. Well, there we go. Hope you are happy with your facts. Once again, Spoonie, Lizzie, Steph, Helen, Oliver, Tori, Finley, Beverly.

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