Little Fish: Right Over Our Heads

Dej, jag skulle ju köpa några nya palpställd i lagret. Det kanske blev lite mer grejer. De hade ju allt, man hade en skribord, jag köpte en sån här. Och kontorstolar, och så hade de en sitsnygg typcontainer. Vi har inredning för hela arbetsplatsen. Välkommen till AI-produktion. Välkommen till Vida där vi har vispat till Rycktigt brabjudande. Du får just nu vispädde 5 deciliter för bara 2490 och matriket smör och rapps för 3990 med Lidlus. ご視聴ありがとうございました

Hello and welcome to another episode of Little Fish. This is our audience fact show. You have been sending in brilliant facts to podcast at qi.com and we are here to tell you the best ones. And who are we, Andy? Oh yeah, I'm Andrew Hunter Murray and these are my friends Dan Shriver and James Harkin. Good to be here, Andy. James?

Oh yeah, I love it. Let's crack on. Who's got a fact? I've got one. Yeah. Uh this is from Mary Cooner. I think maybe from Colorado, because she said, here's a fact from Colorado. When Denver smells like manure, it's about to snow. Ooh. When Denver smells like what a great riddle. When Denver smells like manure, it's about Yeah.

can see the hills that means it's about to rain. And if you can't see the hills it is raining. That's what we say in Bolton. Yeah. Is it is it because uh the area's going very dry, uh, because it's getting so cold that the smell can travel To your nostrils, Quicker. Not quite. Not quite. What it is. Nice one, Professor. Are there no points for trying on this show? I thought it was a very good effort, Dan. I don't mind saying so.

Uh it's because Denver's in kind of a bowl and lots of cattle live there. Uh and you get this thing called the upslope effect where air pushes up against the mountains and goes up to the top of the mountains. And then when it gets to the top it condenses and you get rain or snow.

Uh so it is one of these things where actually people think it's they say, Oh, if it smells like manure it's gonna snow, but it actually is true. So the air gets sort of pulled off the land, the cowy manure land. Yes, that's the mountain then turns into snow. Precisely correct. Don't eat brown snow, that's what they say in Denver. There you go. Would you like one more fact about Denver? Yeah. Uh much of the tap water in Denver comes from a place called Gross Reservoir.

Uh it might be don't write in if you're from there,'cause it might be that it's pronounced gross. I'm not sure. Because it's named after uh former chief engineer of Denver Water, Dwight D. G R O S S Ah right, nice. Gross, gross. Yeah, it could be. Yeah. Yeah. Potato potato. What a great Denver nugget. Lovely. Um

And if you can smell those Denver Nuggets, it's about to snow. It's the name of their basketball team as well, the Denver Nuggets. Oh. Um is it? It is, yeah. Very good. That was a good one, yeah. It went right over my head. Is that a basketball joke? It went right over my head. Well that one also went over my head.

Three points. I don't understand basketball either. Let's do a fact. Let's do a fact. This one comes from Camille Jordan, um, sister of Michael Jordan, of course, from the Chicago Bulls. Uh no, Camille Jordan is from Alton in Switzerland, and this is a fantastic. Fantastic fact. Technically, Camille says, the first flag on the moon was the Swiss flag.

Yeah. So we all I'm not sure that is true. Well, let's let's let Camille show her workings. Can I just say I think we might have done this on QI where everyone thinks it's the American flag, but the Russians sent a probe up, it crashed and there was a Soviet flag on there. So we always thought it was Soviet, but what's the Swiss thing? Um you've absolutely kiboshed her reasoning here if that's the case. But so let's say when the Americans landed on the moon

before they put up the American flag, they sort of accidentally put up another flag. No. Physicists from the University of Bern designed an experiment to be performed during the first moon expedition, a solar sail to capture solar wind particles. For the best result, the sale needed to stay up as long as possible, which is why it was set up even before the US flag. The equipment had a little Swiss cross on it and

Which depending on your definition of a flag, makes the Swiss flag the first flag to be placed on the surface of the moon. Yeah, absolutely. Uh Camille says that there's a short documentary that everyone can watch on YouTube called Burn on the Moon, um which

Which shows this story and shows how it is. So if anyone's interested to look into that more, you can check that out there. Interestingly, there was another flag that was taken to the moon. Not just the American, not just the uh Swiss flag. Or the Soviets. Uh or the Soviets. And this was taken up by Buzz Aldrin, which was the Freemason flag. Oh god. Well, I he was part of a Freemason's Lodge. And the idea was that they wanted to open their own lodge.

on the moon. No. Well there was a c this is according to Bedfordshire Freemasons website. Um Bedfordshire. Yeah. They would know if anyone would know. Probably they won't tell it to any of the other Freemasons, but just the Bedfordshire brand. They're the ones who really know what's going on. Here's what they say on their website. They say so two American astronauts landed on the moon in the Sea of Tranquility. One of these brave men's was Brother Edwin.

Brother Edwin Eugene Aldrin Jr., a member of the Clear Lake Lodge number one four one seven in Texas. Um, Brother Buzz was authorized by the Grand Master of Texas to claim Masonic territorial jurisdiction for a Grand Lodge of Texas on the moon. No I've just written it.

Sorry, I'm just thinking back'cause you know the footage of them getting off. Oh yeah. Buzz has his trouser leg rolled up, doesn't he? He does, yeah. He does, and he's got that big wizard wand as well. It's not a wand to dad. It's just a piece of wood that you do spells with. Yeah.

So it got permission and the idea was'cause there was a lot of belief from the Masons. From the Masons, not from NASA. No. Well because he also he snuck on Catholic. He snuck on, yeah. So he was doing lots of stuff, wasn't he? Yeah, he did lots of time to do any science on the moon. It seems to be mostly like a tourist thing for buzz. Yeah.

The thought was because apparently people were projecting that by the year two thousand there would be permanent lunar bases on the moon that would allow you to get there as quickly from Earth to the Moon as you would fly a plane from San Francisco to Boston. And it would be a stopping point between your trip to Mars or the rings of Saturn. Therefore, it made sense for them to open a special lodge for them to have ready for them for that time. Right? Yeah. So there we go. Good.

Andy, give us a fact. All right. This is a fact from Alex Wilson and it's about regret. Okay. Okay. In two thousand and nine, Lily Allen was asked to do a gig. She was asked to do a gig online. Right? But not as herself. She was asked to do a a sort of streaming gig. Do you remember the video game Second Life? Yes. People had avatars and they had jobs inside Second Life there was a whole Second Life economy, like it was a

It was a really big thing for a long time. Comedians like Jimmy Carr were doing live gigs. He'll play anywhere. So Lily Allen was asked to do a gig in Second Life, right? Yeah. And She was offered a fee, not in pounds, right, but um in a new sort of like fake currency that was sort of doing around a bit. It was in Bitcoin she was offered.

She was offered hundreds of thousands of Bitcoin. Ooh. Which might I think I found a source that said it was equivalent to like six hundred dollars. Interestingly, she did regret it. She thought it was a Dogecoin. You get that? I thought it was a dojo? No. It's like that's one of her big songs from her album. Really? That's a really good joke that went super good joke right over our heads.

That's gonna be the name of this episode, isn't it? It's lovely when you hear it form in real time. No, didn't know that. That's a really good joke. Yeah, she finds a p it's Pussy Palace and she thought it was a dojo. Oh, yes. Yes, on her new album. Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Got it. Yeah.

Well do you want to hear how much she was offered? So she says hundreds of thousands of bitcoin, right? If it was two if it was literally two hundred thousand bitcoin Yeah, I mean which she turned down That would be worth about thirteen billion pounds today. Okay. I have found a source which said it was six hundred dollars and with the value of Bitcoin as it was then, that would have been about eight hundred and sixty thousand bitcoin, which at today's value would be fifty six billion dollars.

Fifty times the net worth of the king. Okay. About the twentieth richest person on the planet. Yeah. Wow. Anyway, she said no to the gig. And instead they brought this blues artist called Elon Musk who came in. All right, well instead it's a new act night. Um come on Elon. Can you imagine imagine that? I think you can't. I think you have to not imagine that. She's doing all right. She's doing great. But she's not as wealthy as the king. Yeah.

She's not doing great as the new album attests, but she's doing it. I'm sure she's in a better place now, hopefully. Um well she's the um Lord Byron of the twenty first century. You're right. Would it have made her happy? No. No y maybe. It it makes you happy up to a certain point, then it doesn't make you happy. But I think above a certain point, surely it's gotta make you happy a bit. Yeah. Well, I don't know. Do you remember we had Malcolm Gladwell on No Such Thing as a Fish, you should

Check out that episode if you haven't heard it'cause it's a great guest appearance. He asked us a question which was which would you take if you were offered yeah either what was it, ten million hundred thousand pounds, a million, ten million, a hundred million. Yeah.

Or a thousand million. Yeah. A billion. And he he said most people pick ten million. I think that's an imaginable number. And Dan swore blind he would take the billion. I just said a billion for the sake of uh playing the game and he went nuts on me. Oh, you a new one. Yeah, in a very funny way. It was great. But he just it the unhappiness that would bring to your life to take a billion versus

So what did you do with it at the end? Put it all in Bitcoin. Tragically the day before. Anyway, you have to still keep making the show forever now.

Uh okay, here is a fact from Peter Marsh. And Peter says, this is very good, at any one time there must be a Polish person who is northernmost on planet Earth. And so they would be the North Pole.

Yep. Okay. Not not a fact so far. Um but he says, but Peter says that it's usually very difficult to tell who it might be, but on twenty third of May nineteen ninety five we can be sure it was either Marek Kaminsky or Wojciech Moscow, because they were the first Poles to reach the geographic North Pole on that day. So they were the two North Poles at the North Pole. That's lovely. That's wonderful. That's lovely.

And I thought I'd have a look at the South Poles. And it turns out there is an Arktowski Polish Antarctic station. uh which is in the Antarctic and the South Pole, uh and pe basically Polish people live there. And do science there. And so there's always like a little community of South Poles. North Poles. That's very good. That does uh we can't do it now'cause we're putting it out, but that is a great quiz question. In nineteen ninety five, for one day, there were three North Poles. Yeah. Yeah.

And then there's magnetic. And then there's um Okay. Well, it's a complicated question, sure, for the quiz, but which quiz are you pitching it to? Maybe one of our quizzes that we do for Patreon. Yeah, that's good. Yeah, we could do it the next one. We're uh we're doing them quarterly and uh we're about to do our phone. Our first one tonight as we're recording this episode. So uh yeah, let's bring it to the next one. Right. Dan's poll quiz. Yep. Yeah. Oh no.

Uh shall I bring in another fact here? This is from Andrew Perez. Who writes, Joan of Arc once prayed at a chapel in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. No. Yes. Not true. True. Is that the dairy stage? Uh Wisconsin is, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Just showing my knowledge. Great. Carry on. What do you no she didn't. She lived she as far as I understood it, she lived uh and died in France. Yeah. And the the New World hadn't been discovered at that stage. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, you're both correct. But she was

Magic? Or there was another person called Joan of Art. Oh, that's it. It'll be played at quarterback for the Green Bay Packers. That's it. No, it's not. Um no, what this is is there is a church that was built in 1420, and um it's in a in a town that is southeast of Lyon and It was where Joan of Arc prayed. Yeah. Now there was a very rich American called Gertrude Hill Gavin, who was daughter of an American railroad magnate, and uh she was obsessed with Joan of Arc.

She learnt that this chapel was um up for sale. So she acquired it, she had it dismantled, and she had it shipped over to her property in Long Island. And um from there it's been an America ever since. So she's moving it's moved from Long Island to Wisconsin. Yeah, I guess so. Yeah. That's another journey. Yeah, exactly. What's interesting is this particular church was so beloved by one person in particular um who was a an architect that he basically mapped out every single brick.

And just said if this was ever dismantled, this is how it would come back together. So the blueprint for how to put it back together was already written for her by the subsessive. So did he like label e

brick and say this one has to go here, this one has to go here. Basically, yeah. Interesting. Basically. Um so yeah, so she she even renamed the chapel so that had Joan's name in the chapel. And in nineteen thirty three Pope Pius the Eleventh gave her written permission to have mass in that building. So it's officially sanctioned by the the Vatican as well. Um I think we did a fact ages ago about Rosa Parks had a house.

that was going to be dismantled and just completely destroyed in America and people wanted to save it. So someone bought it and shipped it over to Berlin in Germany, where it was for years. So you could go and visit Rosa Parks's house. which was it's not one of her main houses, but somewhere she spent a lot of time. I think her brother lived in it.

And owned it. She tended she rented it out as an Airbnb for the summer, didn't she? You make it sound like she was more of a property lady than anything else rose apart. But that's why she was getting the bus to and from, of course. It was just to check on the property portfolio.

But she so it it was been in Berlin for ages and then America requested that it be sent back for an exhibition. So it went back to America, was shown there, then brought back over to Europe. It's very dicey all this moving stuff around. I'm not sure how I feel about it. That's like they're about to move the bio tapestry over here. Are they? Yeah, we're gonna get it back. That's good. Briefly. I feel like tapestries are easier to move around than houses.

You would think so. They are having the t the devil of a time. Oh they're'cause obviously it's so old and they're terribly worried that any movement of more than two millimeters and it'll just fall apart. Mm-hmm. And it'll be incredibly embarrassing if they open it up at the other end and it's been damaged in transit. So they're making a dummy

nine hundred year old tapestry, rolling it up and doing the journey with that in this ultra buffered thing because because of potholes and things. Right. And vibrations in the road. Oh, it's gonna be it's gonna be a nightmare. I wouldn't Would it be easier just to move everyone who wants to see it to France? One hundred percent. Absolutely. I can move up and down two millimetres. I'm fine. Have you guys ever seen it? Yeah. Me neither. No, I haven't actually.

Oh, Dan's wondering. Was it shown in the British Library uh a while ago? It was not. It's been in bio for eight hundred years. I'm gonna I'm I think I'm gonna say no then. I'm gonna say no on account of the fact I'm not hundred percent certain where bio is. Dej, jag skulle ju köpa några nya palpställd för lagret. Det kanske blev lite mer grejer. De hade ju allt, hade en skribord, jag köpte en sån här, och kontorstolar, och så hade de en skit snygg typcontainer.

Vi har inredning för hela arbetsplatsen. Välkommen till avnitt. Skid attribut, vi jobbar med assets inom ekonomi och lön har vi fått ökad kontroll och jag känner in. Säker på att vi gör rätt. Det gör att jag tryggt kan fokusera på affärsverksamheten istället assets. Redovisning, revision och lön för dig som tänker nytt.

Um, here's another fact. Yeah. From Morton Feyring. What a great name. Yeah. I suspect it might be Norwegian. Morton? Like Morton Hackett from Aha. Is Morton Hackett Norwegian? Yes. There we go. Hmm. Well Morton Wright. The most famous traitor in Norwegian history was named Famous Traitor. Is that not is it Quisling? So is is a guy called Vidkan Quisling? who was the head of the puppet government in Norway in the Second World War after the Nazis invaded.

And basically for a very long time I didn't know what the buppet government meant. And I took it to mean the other version of what that is. What's that, Sutti? Wanna take over Greenland? Oh, wow. Yeah. That's really funny. Yeah. Well he was the head of that. Um and he was a you know, big old collaborator. Anyway, quisling has become

A byword for being a traitor. In English. In English and in yeah, in Nor Norwegian and basically um Vidkun, which is his first name, is a Norse name which means widely known. So he so Vidken Quisling literally means famous traitor. Oh And he is a famous traitor. That's good. He's a yeah. He was the first Norwegian executed by the state in seventy five years. They didn't do it, but they they did bring that out of retirement for him.

Yes. Yeah, after after the war. So bad news, we're gonna execute you. Good news. You're gonna be a very interesting fact. Yeah, yeah. He tried also. I did a bit more reading up on him. He tried to do the world's first ever radio coup d'etat. Interesting. So you go in and you just to do a radio broadcast saying, We control everything now. Well, quite often you would see a coup d'etat in let's say in Africa or something. Yeah.

And the first thing you really see is the army either side of the former president saying, We're in charge now. Completely. So you can kind of see where they're coming from. Broadcast is absolutely essential. You've got to seize the means of communication. I suppose the problem with radio is people can't see. whether or not you're holding the president at gunpoint at that stage. Yes. You have to do very good foley

To make them believe what's happening. Stamp, stamp, stamp, stamp, stamp. We're in charge. Um Yeah. You couldn't do that these days, of course, because there are too many podcasts. It's very hard to seize all the podcasts at the same time. Interesting. You could buy an inserted ad. And if you use the offer code FISH, you can also take over our nearby islands. Um here's one from Kate Boyle. Uh Kate says botulism cures anal fishes. Bad

In large doses it's very bad. Even in quite small doses it's very bad. It's the most poisonous thing, basically. Is it related to Botox? It's so related that they're exactly the same thing. I understand. But you put minute amounts of botulism into your wrinkles and it paralyses your skin and it removes the wrinkles.

But yeah, botulism is is the most poisonous thing you can get. And because it stops muscle from spasming, it's used to help anal fissures as well as migraines, excessive sweating, overactive bladders. And cerebral palsy. Gosh. Okay. That's pretty good. Useful stuff. Um 2023 study that I had in my files. um, looked at the brain scans of people who had Botox and said that they have different brain activity than the rest of us when they look at happy and angry faces.

And that's because when you see someone happy, you kind of mimic their face and it makes you feel more happy. But they can't mimic the faces because they don't they have so much Botox in their heads. That's so So it makes you less happy or it makes you less sad for them. Yeah. Do poker players secretly get Botox? I would be surprised if they didn't. It m because you're always looking for the tiniest little thing.

um help in poker. Yeah, could you Botox away your tell if it's say like a little twitch in your eye or Absolutely How much of you are allowed to are you allowed because you're they wear shades, don't they? Or sometimes many of them do, yeah. Are you allowed to wear a like a mask?

Um you'd allow to wear are you allowed to sit in a bin? Like it's with a little eye hole cut out. You can play online. That's sitting in a bin. That's you see my home setup, I see. Um Cool. Yeah, yeah. That's wonderful. Yeah. Okay, I'll go on here. Uh it's from Mark Vent. Um, who I know. I know Mark Vance, he's a friend. Yeah. Um, so he has written and saying in Oxford

There's a building where the weather forecast could honestly read between minus two hundred and sixty nine degrees and plus a hundred and fifty million degrees. This is Cullum's fusion reactor, which produces plasma hotter than the sun. And it's right next to a machine that is colder than deep space. So yeah. Why is they is that useful for them to be next to each other?

No, but it's uh probably a building that's dealing in could be. In Oh, do you mean d do they need to be each other to pull the heat out of one space and that probably helps you get up towards your hundred and fifty million degrees in the other space? Could very well be. Possibly could work that way. It's like how it's hot sometimes next to the fridge.

Behind your fridge. It's warm behind your fridge, exactly. So that's probably what this is. That's what they probably didn't even mean to create the fusion reaction because it was so bloody warm next to this bit, we should use this. This is just an unusable fridge that just went too far in its coldness again. Is there a position between those two places where it's just right? Oh.

There must be a bit where you stand there and it's perfect. But you've got to keep rotating. Yes. Like a rotisserie jacket. Anyway, very cool. Very cool. And very hot. Lovely.

All right, those are your facts. But now let's have some of our facts because what we're going to do now is everyone who has joined Clubfish, our members club, at the friend of the podcast here, gets one of our headline facts. given to them uh in perpetuity to to love and care for with a certificate. Uh it's great fun. If you want to check it out, go to patreon.com slash no such thing as a fish. You can see all the stuff we've got there. Add free episodes, lots of bonus content and

Friends of the podcast certificates. So let's dish out some facts now. Who wants to go first? I can do that. Yeah. Uh this is a fact that now belongs to Dave Cronister. Dave, this is a fact from episode twenty-five. Rats wearing polyester pants can't get erections. Very nice. Not if you're a rat. Yeah, bad. Bad. Is it polyester is it the polyester or is it the like as opposed to linen? I think this was Yeah. Little linen trousers would be very sexy. It's silk.

I think this was research that we got from Mary Roach. I think she wrote in a book of hers she might well have done. Was it Bonk? I think it was Bonk and I think she went and she visited Yeah, it's a wonderful book. I mean she's she's one of our favourite. She visited the rat the rat tailor, didn't she? Yeah. Yeah. That's a great fact. Okay, here's another one. Um this is now under the custodianship of Tom Watsham.

And Tom, this is your fact. During the First World War, entertainments for the troops included pillow fights, wheelbarrow races, and wrestling on the backs of mules. It does make it sound fun. It does. Andrew Hunter Murray, you were the one who said this the first time, right? Was I? Yeah. Well, I can remember every word uh of the fact itself because we've got a list of them in front of us. I don't remember the Pillowphies. I have just finished today reading Journey's End.

Which is an absolutely classic play set in the First World War by someone who'd been through the First World War. Uhhuh. And there is not a pillow fire to be seen. I'll tell you that, he very much edited that out of his mise en scène. Uh I'll dish one out. This one goes to Matthew Acorn. Uh it's that the atmosphere in Venus. That if you took a pizza out of the freezer there, it would cook in three seconds.

Take it out of the special minus two hundred and sixty nine degree freezer. Yeah. Frisbee it across by the time it lands. Perfect. Perfect. Lovely. Yeah, that was my fact. I don't remember much about it. Um, apart from I don't think I worked it out myself. I think it was something I read elsewhere. Oh, that was before you went on your ten year binge of creating music.

But I think the idea was it would cook it, um, but it would be very crispy on the outside and perhaps not exactly unfrozen on the inside. Yeah. Like if I do a barbecue for instance. You really want to give it five seconds, don't you? Um let's have another one. Okay.

This is going to Melanie Young. Melanie, this was one of my facts from episode 25. In Iceland, there is a phone app which tells you whether you're related to the person you're hitting on. That's an interesting one because there have been debugs of that. Yeah. Uh but I think that it did exist. But I don't think it was like something you could buy in the app store or anything like that. Basically Iceland got all of this data and put it made it available online so that anyone could use it.

Uh and some people as a project came up with this idea and they did actually make the app, but it wasn't commercially available. Oh, well there we go. Well it had a motto that went along with it, which was bump phones before you bump in bed. Um, and quite a nice idea because it is a small ish population over there. Yeah. Um You'd probably know if someone's your cousin though. Would you? Of course. You guys don't know your cousin?

It's sorry, not your cousins. You guys don't know that your cousins Oh god. And I saw you kissing. Oh no Oh no. Um No I know what you mean. As in like you'll know your immediate family and anyone who's a f more than a few cousins away I think is is Fair games. And sometimes people still do and it's like it's you know, it's nobody's it's nobody's business.

Yeah, but I think there are more people who are second or third cousins that they don't necessarily know about in Iceland than there might be in another country because of the small population. And because no one really goes in and out very much As it were. The problem is the going in and out, is there? But yeah, like the people who have lived there for many generations.

Right. Okay. Okay. Okay, here is a fact, and this was a fact given to us by Simon Ritch. The author. Simon Ridge, yeah. So he's a he was a h a writer for SNL. I think he was possibly the youngest writer that they ever had, and he's a brilliant short fiction writer. Uh he writes a lot for the New Yorker from America. Very funny. Very good. And the custodian of this fact is also writer, Galen.

Presumably the ancient Greek physician. That's what it seems like. I don't know. Um it is that we've been told that this person is called Galen. Whether that's a non deplume or whether that's your actual name, I don't know. But it doesn't matter because your facts. Forever in your possession now is that Coco, the gorilla who knows sign language, has owned and cared for three cats. Over her life. Did she look after them well?

I think she did. Did she eat the cats? Did she eat the cats is what I'm trying to say? I'm not sure she did I no I think she looked after them. Coco, if you were looking after Coco and you gave her a cat and she ate it, you might not give her another one. No, you think she's full up, that's fine. No this is the perfect time to give her a cat when she's just finished. Even if she's sign language and saying, Please can I have another cat You probably would sign language now?

You know what pester power is like. I mean people you know and once you've got one cat, you often get another one, don't you?'Cause they're very Moorish. Yeah. Well, congratulations, Galen. Um this one goes out to Irene Villatora. Irene, congratulations, because your fact forever is now.

See if you can guess who said this one, Irene. Here it is. It's easier to escape a female Yeti than a male Yeti, because females have such long dangling boobs they have to throw them over their shoulder before chasing in case they trip. You know what, Dan? I don't remember in the early days you having such wacky facts literally every week. Yeah. I I thought that you mostly had straight ones. I think we were enjoying

the playground of these in the early days. Yeah, no one was listening. It didn't matter. Yeah. And then the feedback started coming in and uh we moved on. No, this is um this is almost a sort of classic fact of the show in that it's been brought up in live shows and kind of occasionally makes a return. I made an interesting discovery recently, a sort of update on this. Which is that it is um and I should say this is this is

This is a fact with air quotes going around it. It is believed by it is a fact within the world of people who believe in Yetis. Yeti people. So it's it's like it's an interesting thing for them, that's a reality. It's a fact in their world. Um, so this is when you are being chased downhill. It's easier to escape a female Yeti. What I discovered recently is that according to these same experts, it's easier to escape a male Yeti when they're running uphill.

Because they have such long dangling testicles that they will bang on the rocks as they're running up and fall over. Like that dog of your friend. Like Dave the Dave. Did that ever make it to a show? Oh it did. Yes. Like Dave the sausage dog, who was the uh dog of the producer of the new Lily Allen album. Oh wow, bringing it back to Lily. Yeah. She probably could have afforded a different producer if she'd have told that Bitcoin money. She could have bought that dog a golden posing pouch.

Okay, are we gonna do a couple more of these? I think let's do only a couple though. Okay, so this one If I wasn't sure whether Galen was the real name of the last person, I suspect even more that this might be a Nom de Plume. But the next fact goes to someone called Smokey Big Spliff. Oh, fantastic. Smokey, your fact is that the Kama Sutra suggests sixty four arts to practice alongside sex.

including solving word puzzles, teaching birds how to talk, tattooing, making beds, and playing musical glasses filled with water. That's very nice. So good. Some of those might be nice if you've also just smokied a big spliff. I presume? I don't know about word puzzles. That feels like hi slightly high effort for for that.

But playing musical glasses filled with water, you could probably spend hours doing that. I feel like I've never been to one of those parties, but I imagine that's what they're doing. I love that fact. That's a great fact. The Kama Sutra, that was one of yours, James. Yeah. Well you were working your way through at the time, weren't you? I was, yeah. Um still up to the third one. Skip one and two. A bit too physical for me.

Oh, that's very nice. Do we have one last one? Yeah. It's this one. It goes out to Courtney V. Congratulations, Courtney. Your fact is now that at any given moment there are more than fifteen trillion tons of water above the earth. Fantastic. Clouds. Very nice. Clouds. Clouds. It's clouds. It's clouds. The fact is clouds exist. Yeah. And so it's more about the fact that someone added up all the clouds, isn't it? Like that's pretty cool. It doesn't fully make sense to me.

I think there are different ways of counting. Yeah. Like it's I think you can extrapolate in these situations. I think you'd have to in this case. Yeah. Because the thing is they do move. Yeah. Oh yeah. And they do empty. And they refill. They've not got a list of like the one that looks like a giraffe. The one that looks like Mother Teresa.

So congratulations Courtney. Congratulations to everyone who's just been awarded a fact. I'm saying Courtney V, Smoky Big Spliff, Irene Villatora, Galen, Melanie Young, Matthew, Tom. And Dave, congratulations to all of you. Uh I hope you enjoy those facts. If you would like to get your own fact dedicated to you, just go to patreon.com slash no such thing as a fish uh and join at the friend of the podcast tier or join at one of the other tiers where you can still get ad-free episodes.

Lots of bonus content and much, much more. That's it for this little fish. We'll see you again in a few days for another big fish.