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Hey everyone, welcome to another episode of Little Fish. This is the show where we put down our four favorite facts from the last seven days and we go through the podcast at 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 12 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 Domen Kolchek and it's on our favorite subject at the moment.

We're we're putting together a book, as you guys know, of things that you think are named for one reason. They're actually named for a different reason. Well that's my second favorite subjects, number one being people who paint things on the top of roofs. 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. Yeah.

They've been flooding into the inbox. We do some of them on Droppers Aline and we're gonna do I think probably keep doing some of them here. It's become a little fish in joke. Anyway, Domin right. The online poker boom that became huge in the early two thousands was caused by the moneymaker effect. Oh It was named after two thousand and three poker champion Christopher Moneymaker. Bye. Seriously.

Who was a an amateur who won the um Well, I think that's a good thing World series of poker in two thousand uh Uh Oh gosh, I don't know. Like two thousand and five. It was two thousand and three. Uh okay And uh the moneymaker effect was basically poker going mainstream. Rydyn ni'n yw'n yw'n yw'n yw'n yw'n yw'n yw'n yw'n yw'n yw'n yw'n yw'n yw'n. 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.

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? AHHHHH No I'm not, actually. He's he's who like uh owns the Daniel Schreiber without qualification on Wikipedia.

Daniel Shaw. So that's a different isn't that's not you. It's a different thing. 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. Yeah. Shouldn't have sat down with that guy. Um great. All right, James. Interesting. Yeah, sorry for walking all over your butt there. But yeah, I was really into poker back in the day. Yeah, was how I met my wife. Yes. She's called Daniel Shriver, isn't she?

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 Italy. Uh and that was the old name of a Ford Carr. 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. Bye-bye.

Now can you name a single What no no not a single bull fighting term, a single Lamborghini car. 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 is Lamborghini Diablo. Oh. And Diablo is a famous fighting bull, along with temerario, revuelto, islero, uracho, uraco, all these words that I never really heard of. Oh. Uh there's a 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 counter. Okay, Lamborghini Counter. And Lamborghini Count 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 amazing design for the first time and went, Holy shit. And then they went, We should call it that. And 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 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 card's name means plague. It means plague, but like really it means holy shit, it means wow. Right. Okay. Okay. Okay. That's so funny. Um Lamborghini is Italian, right? Yeah, they were Italian, weren't they? Bullfighting E. What's that all about? 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. Ha ha ha. Yeah. Um yeah, they were um they were Italian, but I wonder if perhaps it sounds foreign and exciting.

B yeah. Yeah. Usually these days bullfighting very much frowned upon. 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 podcast, 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 Yeah.

I've got a little bonus 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. Yeah. Oh,'cause 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. I'll show him. Yeah. Yeah, that'll show it.

Uh 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 If that if 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. Ha ha So he recently ended a record streak of consecutive games played where he scored ten plus points. And that's good. It's very good. Yeah.

It's better than losing ten points, I suppose. Yeah. Now what's phenomenal about this is that this record is longer than the career of every other currently active NBA player. So the amount of games added together was one thousand two hundred and ninety seven games. got at least 10 points in every one of those. ten in every single one of those. And he is the longest active basketball player, I think, in history. He's it he's played twenty-three seasons.

They're all long, aren't they? They're very tall, tall, tall fellows and gals. Yeah. Yeah. 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. Okay. Maybe just sit down for a sec. Yeah. Someone's got to speak for the non sporting listener. A lot of our listeners like being indoors with a nice cup of tea and a book. I speak for them. Yeah. I'm not sure how many of those enjoy your interjections either.

Yeah. Uh that's really interesting. Yeah. I think what it says to me is how easy it is to score points in basketball. Yeah. Like that's the problem, isn't it? Like the scores are always like ninety-seven eighty six or something above. There are You don't get a nice nil nil like you do if you Yeah, I I was satisfied. Yeah, I mean, but that's... That's amazing. It's a pretty astonishing run. Uh from Jan 5th, 2007 to December 4th, 2025, he always scored 10 points or more in a game.

Ironically, you're not allowed to run in basketball. Yeah. 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. Kind of contributes, I would say. Right. That I'm in the middle of maybe a six hundred episode run of this show where I've made at least ten stupid introductions. Yeah. Yeah.

Anyway, v 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. Yeah. But he's He's younger than me, I would say. Yeah. He must be in his early forties.

He's like Djokovic, you know? It should have ended already, but we 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. 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. They're all talking about tickety talks and You're trying to talk about the you know, w you don't get those good tartan slippers anymore, do you? Right. 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. Then you know, we don't know if I'm incredible at basketball. Whereas he's probably past his prime of making tedious interjections. That tedious now? No, they were always tedious. Okay. Let's get to another fact.

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'cause he's called Noah. Amazing. Yep, good. And I I don't wanna drill it home, but that's a wonderful interjection once again.

Well, Noah writes, there is a group of insects in the genus Stylops, stylops, that parasitize bees, okay? And what's bizarre is the females live their entire lives inside the abdomens of the host. Males develop wings and they fly around looking for a bee that's carrying a female, and the 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. Shouldn't just start stabbing where he Right. You know, in a couple of years. 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 cannibalise 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. 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. Yeah. Like if one of us came in and just had a bit of a parasite sticking out our neck, yeah. For for that. 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 and mating with it. Does it just feel like in a party that is gonna draw some attention? Cramp your style. Did you see Brian last night? Yeah. So thank you, Noah. Yeah.

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 Atmospheric Association, who every year rank the accuracy of all the groundhog prognosticators. 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 a tawny fill 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. And there are thirteen live groundhogs, three taxidermied 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. 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 Mojave Max. Who's a tortoise in Nevada? Who's going to twenty percent of the time. Oh, that's bad. That's bad Well, that's just fame going to Punk Sony Phil's head, isn't it?

Probably is. Like it's just it's so typical, isn't it? Like the real talented ones never really get the good gig. Whereas the people who keep making tedious introductions are, you know, showered with praise by their v colleagues who value them. Ha ha. And I, yeah. Um, can I tell you about another prognosticator that I learned about? Yeah.

So this is Annie Charlotte, a Tottenham 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 I'm dreading I'm dreading to think what her method is for Work it out, what would you do? Well you're not going to be able to do that. Yeah.

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 one.

Yes. At the Arsenal. I'm so glad you stopped when you said you think it's a vibe because I thought you were gonna 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 and all that. Yes. Ha ha ha ha. Is that a wet wet wet joke? It is. Oh my god. It wasn't meant to be. Ha ha ha ha. Stop the podcast.

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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. uh 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. That's nice. Bad and apparently reinstalled it back into the fan's 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. W you uh not all bands just become massive, right? They probably made tapes that they were selling at the end of gigs and so on. 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.

Marking a house. How are you doing that? You don't mug it. Yeah. Absolutely. You could no, you don't you don't mug a house. You burgle a house or you rob it. You make a person on the move. This is why we've never got around to doing it. It's the the language hasn't been agreed on. Right, Balaklavazov, what are we saying? What's our terminology here? No, come come back, Shaggy Two Dumb. 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 the the Insane Clown Posse was a band that has a lot of controversy about them throughout the years. Well if the if your main n members are called what was it, Violent Dave? Yeah. There's nothing inherently worse about Violent Dave than Violent J. I'm standing by it. Yeah.

Dave. 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. And simply adding violet like your surname was great. We were happy with that. Dave, naughty Tony of course. 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. 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

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. It's 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.

Can 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 promise if we see it we will not mug your house. Yeah, 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. 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. Mm-hmm. Yeah. Uh 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 a Marsh is a bit similar to a golf course, isn't it?

Absolutely not. Well uh um but it would be they're outdoors. It's outdoor they're both outdoors. Oh yeah, can't deny that. You do indoor golf sometimes, don't you? That's really 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? It's not no such thing as a fish. Yeah. 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. Hmm. 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. Oh, yes, that's right. 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 saying.

Brilliant. All right. Well, um, here's another one. This is going out to Graham Binns. Your fact is that the actor, Charles Hawthry, 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. Oh yeah. Early victim of the moneymaker effect. Yes. Um Do we need to explain who what a what a Charles Hortree 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 Wartry 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 they're sort of 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 actually. Williams and Sid James. Hattie Jakes, uh Barbara Windsor, amazing British comedy actors who were just in these incredibly ropey films but that that were kind of loved. And Charles Autry 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 favorite movie was Apollo thirteen. Oh It like derailed the episode for quite some time. She just couldn't believe it. Your favorite film is Apollo 13. It's also carry on camping or something. I mean she was annoyed enough that it was the wrong Daniel Schreiber sitting at the table. Uh 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 Cheetahs Racing. 와우 Experiment they did where they raced cheetahs against each other and and they I think showed no interest in racing because 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, it's many dog tracks as you used to. I also think the problem was that the jockeys were too heavy. Very nice. Very nice. Yeah. Okay, okay. So um here is another fact. This one is now under the custodianship of Sam Kirk. Sam, your fact is that that in 2010, the US military built a supercomputer out of 1760 PlayStation 3s.

And what's exciting about this one is that just a couple of weeks ago, Levin Skyra mentioned this in a show and I kept it in the edit'cause I'd forgotten we'd done this twice already. Ha ha ha. But here it is. Here it is. It was a great fact. It's an amazing fact, yeah. And they'd be doing it'cause it was cheaper, wasn't it? 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. Uh 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 be. That's great. That'll have allowed them to save uh save a bob or two, 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. Henry Purt. It was Henry Peert. I've just looked in the archive. I was trying to remember without it wasn't Henry Perkey. I nearly said Henry Perkey. But Henry Perkey invented shredded weed.

Um shot himself with a bow and arrow. That's very impressive. Was it a straight up and straight down document? Yeah, straight up a straight up. How else was it going to work? Trick shot, trick shot off a few corners. You know what? I have shot myself with a bow and arrow. There we go. It was just a grace. Thank goodness.

Yes. 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 nose. Yeah. As it went through. That's a heck of a flick.

Yeah. It was no 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 Which is to uh put your nipples away. And point the arrow away from your nipples. 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.

Why hasn't the cannibal come out yet? I mean look, he shot himself with the baronaro 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, you're friend of the podcast. Friend of the podcast. Oh my god, that's it. Uh your fact is until the mid-2000s, 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 panthers in front of you. It's like one, two, three. It's like in the wild and you Exactly. See them all and then. Yeah, trying to do a census'cause it's very important to assess and th they had to just find poo and look for tooth marks on bits of undigested bamboo. And I'm sure nowadays it's all DNA these days, isn't it? It's all technology these days. The old we've lost so many of our traditions.

Okay, here's one more. This is now under the custodianship of Kevin Morell. And Kevin, your fact is, since 2007, Wikipedian Brian Henderson has made 50,000 edits changing comprised of to consists of. Mm. Couldn't uh could not agree more. Really? Wikipedia and Brian Henderson there. That's ha that's what you say.

Fair enough. There was I feel like this has a story to it that I now can't remember which is after the episode went out. I was saying it he's gonna be very annoyed because he can't change this one. I see. So there was a Wikipedia which had all of our facts in it. Yeah. Was there? That's it. And so that means that there would be a comprised of in the in that list, right? Exactly. Bingo. But does it exist anymore, that list of our facts? No, it got taken down. Why?

By by Brian Henderson by any chance? Good big. It's got to be. Yeah. You win. Put it back up, you scumbag. Right. All right, well listen, we gotta wrap up, but congratulations to Kevin, Luke, Chris, Sam, Ashley, Graham, Sean, and Rob. Robert. We hope you enjoy your facts. We hope you enjoy the digital certificate that you get along with it. And if you yourself want to be the custodian of one of our facts, you just have to go to patreon.com slash clubfish and join the highest tier.

friend of the podcast, and one of these could be yours. All right, everyone, thank you so much for sending in your facts. Please do send them in. We love doing this show. Podcast at QI.com. We'll pick out another batch for next Monday. And you've also got a big fish coming this Friday. So we'll see you again soon. Goodbye.