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Hello and welcome to an episode of Little Fish, your new weekly... audience fact special of no such thing as a fifth. This is The Sibling Show. This is Big Brother's Little Brother. This is... Bake Off an Extra Slice. Bake Off an Extra Slice. Tracers Uncloaked. God, you know a lot of these. Well, I work in television. I have to know this stuff. Antiques Roadshow, the cheap shit.

So we've got some audience facts that have been sent in by a range of listeners. They're all brilliant. Let's get into it. Does anyone have a fact they'd like to kick off with? I can do one. Yeah, go on. All right. This comes in from Kyla Jemison. And the fact is that the P-Tank on the International Space Station has a Blue Sky account to update everyone on how full it is. So when you say a P-Tank? Yeah. Tank of Wii?

Yeah, so there's a toilet on the ISS. There's a few toilets on the ISS. One in particular. You don't want to be called short. Yeah.

And they have been. They have been. Have they? Oh, yeah. They've had some international problems as well. When stuff on the ground is going wrong, and let's say one toilet is clogged, maybe the Americans won't allow the Russians to use their toilet or vice versa. Really? There's a lot of problems. But they do have... they do have a tank that collects the urine yeah the urine then gets turned into drinkable water so it's reused and so on

And this is not an official account. It's very explicit that it's not affiliated with NASA, but there is an account on Blue Sky called the ISS Piss Tracker. And it's because the data of how full the tanks are are available to the public. And so, like, it updates all the time. Come on then, how full is the... I feel it's the P-Tank right now. Right now? Should we have a game? Yeah, okay. Is it percentage? Yeah, it's percentage. Okay, okay. I'm going to say 37%.

Okay, I'll go 38%. Just play the averages. That's absolute bullshit. I'm sorry. I'll change it. 37.1%. Unbelievable. Okay, you sure? All right. As of six minutes ago, the last update, it was 38% full. You're joking. No. I said 38. Yeah, you did. Then you pulled back to 37.1, so you're still ahead of Andy. Yeah, but you can only accept my first answer. And the thing is, it's like I knew I just I had a feeling it was 38.

And when Andy said 37, I thought, oh gosh, he's going to get really close. But I know it's 38, so I'm just going to go for 38. Because you thought I went for 38 because it's one more than 37. Absolutely. But no, I had an inkling. And when you said just play the averages, that was just...

That was just your code for I know it. I just know it. Are you serious? James got it bang on. He got it bang on. That's so annoying. If we'd done it 22 minutes ago, it was 36% full. And you would have got it. You would have got it. But yeah. We've got to start these shows on time. I'm sorry. I'm really annoyed

I was looking into just urine in space and how it works in the International Space Station and general shuttles and so on. And there was a mission in 1984 where something went wrong with the exit point of where the urine gets let out into space. It froze up at the end. There was a giant icicle and they were really worried because they thought that if it loosens up, it might crack the heat shields as we're going back down. They almost did a spacewalk to sort of chisel it off.

But in the end, they had a robot arm that came and knocked it off and knocked it away. It also meant that once they'd got rid of it, the toilet was now out of order. So for six days, they had to pee into plastic bags. And also in space, really hard to pee because of the microgravity, right? So you've got to be very careful. So how do you think you do it? You've got the bag. Bag for life? It's got to be.

Because the flimsy ones have small holes in the bottom, don't they? No use. I assume these are more like what you'd put your sandwich in rather than... Oh, don't put your sandwich in it. I don't think Sainsbury's bags made it to the ISS or Challenger. Do you get in the bag? Have the pee. How would that help? Because none of the pee escapes. Get in the bag. Someone holds it closed. You have your wee quickly, then you just get out of the bag. Covered in piss.

It doesn't make sense. Put the bag on the penis. This is for men. A couple of crocodile clips. Hold it in place. Very nice idea. Now we're thinking like astronauts. Now we are. astronauts that did not make the cut. No, what you would do is you would put socks in and you would put underwear in so that the liquid would instantly soak into something.

so they were losing their socks they were losing all of the clothing for six days while they're up there but they made it back safe so all good great here's one from lauren kramer

In spite of being completely landlocked and because of its man-made lakes and reservoirs, Oklahoma has more shoreline than the east and west coast of the contiguous states combined. It also has an international port because the river connects to the Mississippi. Wait. Oklahoma has more shoreline than the east and west coasts of America. That's what they're saying. But isn't Oklahoma part of the contiguous east and west? Yeah, but they don't have a...

Pacific or Atlantic coastline. So it's saying that the shoreline in Oklahoma is more than the Pacific and the Atlantic combined. What? Wow. How can that be? Have you run the math? Well, I've looked into it and I think probably it's not true, unfortunately, because if you just take Alaska, the shoreline of Alaska is 33,904 miles. And according to the official bureau...

Oklahoma has 55,646 miles of shoreline on its lakes. So... if alaska is like 60 of the total probably once you add the eastern seaboard and western seaboard yeah then you're gonna go above it so i think it's probably not true but it was difficult for me to find the exact figures

Wait, did you say Oklahoma on its lakes? On its lakes. So basically Oklahoma has a ton of lakes. And so they count a shoreline, all the shores of the lakes. And it's like this thing that, you know, if you're a sooner state person, like you would just... know that as a fact you're told as a kid. But I think probably it's not quite true. Lauren also said that at high school she learned that Oklahoma has the world's largest salt flats, alabaster deposit and parakeet farm.

The largest salt flat is in Bolivia. The largest gypsum deposits are in Spain. And the parakeet farm closed in the 1950s after a fire. So I'm sorry, Lauren. Oh, Lauren, you've experienced a rite of passage for anyone involved in QI or no such thing as a fish, which is called a thorough hearkening.

And it's like, it's never a nice experience, but you do come out of it a wiser person. Yeah, I'm sorry, it's not Lauren's fault. She was told this at school. James, that is, I know, but that is a thorough, that's a thorough job. Because now, Lauren, you get to watch... When James dishes out a harkening to the next person and you can be like, yeah, it's a club. It is a club. Every other human being is in that club. Who's farming parakeets? It was one person. It was one guy in Warica.

Now, I might have mispronounced that. So Lauren might write in and say I've mispronounced it. But they brought in just a few parakeets from abroad. And then parakeets have like four or five babies every year. And so by the 1950s, they had about 15...

100 breeding pairs. Wow. But then there was a fire and they never quite reached their former glory. And now if you go on the internet and you Google Oklahoma parakeets, you see Oklahoma was once the parakeet capsule of the world and no one knows why. Well, that's why. Now we know. I've got one, which I think is true, from Tracy Thiexton. A common British job used to be operating a Shake Willy machine.

That's in the ISS once you've finished. Take off the crocodile clips. Shake your willy. Get out of that bag. This is so good. So you know the word shoddy. Dodgy. Shoddy is dodgy. Yeah, low quality. It was like a kind of old cloth or something shoddy, wasn't it? That's what it's about. So I don't know if it's a word that's travelled outside the UK. I don't know if in America or Australia you'd say that's a bit of a shoddy job, isn't it?

No, yeah, yeah, you say shoddy. Oh, do you? Okay, okay. Well, there was this cloth, and it was a mix of ground-up rags and virgin wool, and it was then woven into new cloth. And some of the makers started upping the amount of recycled material. and that led to like low quality cloth

Because the new stuff was getting more expensive. So the word gained the meaning shoddy, low quality. Shoddy just used to mean, oh, this is shoddy. You know, just, oh, what a nice piece of shoddy cloth. Great. Anyway, one of the steps of making the shoddy cloths was to do the willying.

Shake Willy machine. What it meant was roughly cleaning the material to fluff it up and to remove any dirt. Can you stop doing that with your hands while you tell us about it? And there are these census records of williers, willy girls, willy men. Do we know why it was called Willy? Is it because they got woolly? Two theories. One is that there were willow baskets involved, and one is that it's a derivation of winnowing, where you're winnowing out the...

The low-quality stuff. So you had to feed the wool into the shake willy, and that fluffed it up, and that got rid of the nips, which is the dust and the dirt. The second willying machine is called the teaser, which is teasing it apart. So as far as I can tell... You do the fluffing and the shake willy, you get rid of the nips, put it through the teaser, and then finally add the lubricant. It's the process. Did Kenneth Williams invent this job?

Imagine what's your profession. I'm a willy man. That's good. We were doing this recently with the Rachel Paris episode where we talked about extinct jobs. Yeah, I must admit I had willying on my list. Oh, did you? But we never got around to it. That's surely extinct. There's nobody willying these days. No willies now, no. There is a brilliant Yorkshire company called Inuyo.

What? Was that your Yorkshire accent? It's what it's called. Which is an abbreviation of it is not over until it is over. It's almost all vowels. Sorry, what's that to do with Willy Ink? They're a recycling firm. It's about recycling cloth. I got it. And Shoddy was pioneered in Batley in Yorkshire by Benjamin Law, who founded a company called Shoddy Manufacturing.

lovely yeah right who's next i've got one uh this was sent in to us by jackie gemmel she writes the reason airplanes have round windows is because old planes used to have square ones, which created weak points, which caused metal fatigue. And metal fatigue failure would be where the window was weakened further by air pressure at high altitude.

And supposedly a few crashes were off the back of this. And so they now, as we all know, have circular windows. And that is to distribute the pressure evenly. Yeah, it's a strong, very strong shape, isn't it? A circle. Yeah. I think now the materials are strong enough that you could get any shape of window. Could you have a plane that was all window? Yeah, now you can. Wow. But people just wouldn't go for it. I think I wouldn't either.

I think I would not go for that. I would like a plane where you can see into the hold. So you look down, you're like, oh, there's my bag. Yeah. I think that'd be really great. Do you think? I reckon you don't want to know what goes on in there. I always imagine some weird shit goes on in those holds. Yeah, lots of willy shaking down there. Or like snakes on a plane kind of thing. Yeah. Yeah, I don't want to see snakes down there. But a novelty glass bottom plane is a very interesting concept.

Yeah. Like that, that is quite interesting to, I'm a terrified flyer, but even I think I might do that. No. Yeah. Have you ever been in a glass bottom boat? I have. They're great fun. Thank you. You didn't invent them. And well done. And we should say Dan invented the glass hall. And now he's going to do it again with the plane, apparently. What about an aeroplane? You know those rides at theme parks where...

You're not in a carriage. You're sort of suspended by your shoulders. Oh, the danglers. You're a dangler. What about a Ryanair where it's a dangle all the way to Malaga? Oh, my goodness. So the plane has a top but no bottom. Yeah. That's a good idea. I'm thinking... you know, saves a bit of money on fuselage. It's going to make serving the drinks very tricky. I'll say that. I guess the stewards are hanging upside down.

I suppose they could winch themselves along. Damn, because there's no bottom on the plane. Why are they hanging upside down? Why are they not just attached the right way up like you are? They're all vampires. Okay, okay. I'm going to row back on that. They can be the right way out. Now we're talking.

Remember to not let Andy pitch our weird rollercoaster plane ride. It will be stressful when you're coming into Lamp, though, because it'll feel like you have to run very, very fast at a certain point to slow the plane down. It's a Flintstones plane. It's a Flintstones plane. Mark Logie writes, in the 1760s, Simon Harcourt, the first Earl Harcourt, demolished the village of Noonan Courtney.

as well as Noonan House, in order to make room for his garden, and he rebuilt the entire village one mile to the northeast. Wow. To make room for his garden? Yeah. It feels to me like it's easier to move a garden than it is to... Yeah, but the thing is about rich people, they're not really bothered about what's easiest. They're more bothered about what's more convenient for them. And what's affordable, like if that's just within your budget.

I think for Simon Harcourt, the first Earl Harcourt, everything was within budget. All right, there you go. And just rebuilt it correctly? Yeah, so if you drive through... that area now. So it's like basically from the M4 to the M40 up there. You can go through Newnham Courtney and basically all the buildings look almost identical because he had to build them all at the same time.

for the people who he moved from that village wow well it's good look it's good that he rebuilt it i'll say that you know yeah yeah i would be a bit annoyed if someone said i'm gonna move your house from my garden but if it's If you're putting it back... What difference does it make if he moves everyone's, right? Yeah, no difference.

I guess you're going to have a bit of time where the renovation is going on that's going to be quite inconvenient. Yeah, those jobs do stretch on, don't they? Especially if the builders will be quite busy because they've got to rebuild everyone's house. What would have been great is if one family happened to have gone away on like a really long trip and...

everyone decided not to tell them what had happened. And they just go on as normal. I swear to God we were closer to that. Am I going nuts? Something else about Newnham Courtney. I was looking into famous residents. Mavis Lever, she was the person who broke the Italian Enigma code. which allowed the Royal Navy to ambush the Italian fleet at the Battle of Matapan, which was quite decisive. And she also broke the Abwehr.

enigma which was one of the german enigmas they had a few different codes that they used right and that one she solved it with her colleague margaret rock uh which led to the great saying give me a lever and rock and i can move the universe bloody Brilliant. That's what one of her bosses said. That's really good.

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This is maybe the most stoner fact in the inbox over the last, you know what I mean? Like the sort of, whoa, like the sort of cosmically mind-blowing fact. Let's hear it. The T-Rex is closer to us in time than it is to the Stegosaurus. Now, I really like this. I love dinosaur timing facts. Yeah. And this is that the T-Rex went extinct when they all did, about 65.

6 million years ago, right? But the T-Rex was actually quite new. It only properly arrived in its final form at about 72 million years ago. And I got really sad reading that, and I thought, no, they had six million. That's a long time. That's such a long time. I don't know. I got a bit misty-eyed thinking, God, they were in their prime. They had so much to give. They could have built their own HS2 in that time. Exactly, exactly.

But when that happened, when T-Rex arrived 72 million years ago in the late Cretaceous, Stegosaurus had already been extinct for over 70 million years. So the Stegosaurus and the T-Rex are further apart. than the t-rex is from us do you know that sergeant peppers the album yep is closer to the modern day than it is to when cleopatra was alive No way. And that's a stone effect.

Sounds like an impressive fact until you actually listen to it, doesn't it? That was the thing with the name Jurassic Park that often gets said is that half the dinosaurs in the movie are not.

But it implies that the dinosaurs in the park would have been incredibly freaked out by each other. The T-Rex would have been looking at the Stegosaurus thinking, what is that? Whereas the humans, they would have been relatively calm about because we're closer in time to them. So they'd be like, oh yeah, it's normal.

You know what I mean? Yeah, it's an interesting point. I don't think so. Not an interesting point? No. I retract mine as well. That was a shit point, mate. You can't retract your point just to go along with James. If you look now at an animal that was extinct... 55 million years ago. And then you see an animal which hasn't been invented yet and will come in 20 million years, even though it's closer to you, which is going to be more surprising. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. Yeah. All right. I retract.

We're all agreeing my point was not interesting or good. You've been hearkened. Oh, it's tough. It's tough. But the T-Rex used to be the size of a Dalmatian. When it started. Ages ago. Yeah, yeah. Right. I think that's cool. Three meters long and 30 kilos. Was that a T-Rex or like another Tyrannosaur? Like a related Tyrannosaur? It was an ancestor. It was what eventually turned into the T-Rex. Because I wonder if a baby T-Rex, when it's born...

is already bigger than that size. I don't know. Three metres is a big egg, isn't it? Yeah. Oh, that's true. Anyway, there you go. Here's one. This is from Ron Layback. And Ron says that...

Case Western Reserve University, which is home of the famous physics study, the Mickelson-Morley experiment, which disproved that the ether existed. Love looking at me like you know what that means. The theory was that... the earth was going through some kind of air or some kind of field but actually it turned out that it's going through space and these guys proved it anyway

This university, they test whether or not Galileo's theorem of gravity is true every Halloween by dropping two jumbo-sized pumpkins from the top of the auditorium building. And the idea is they could be different weights, but they should land at the same time. Right. And spoiler alert, gravity works, and they are correct. Good to check every year, though. You never know. You never know. It might change. Yeah.

I think that is fun. Scientists have to check these things. And it brought me onto pumpkins. I've done a bit of my own research on pumpkins. There's an old QI fact that 95% of pumpkins in the UK are not eaten because we basically buy them. turn them into jack-o'-lanterns and then throw them away. But actually, that is not true anymore. That fact is really, really old. But there was a 2024 survey that found about 37% of pumpkins are eaten.

Which is just under the amount of urine currently sitting inside the ISSP tank. That's food for thought. But it's... But it's still not enough. And there is a campaign run by Hubbub, which is a charity for the environment, and someone called Emily Gussin, who wrote something called Don't Waste Your Pumpkin, to try and get people to eat pumpkins.

And they have like pumpkin recipes and just raise awareness of not wasting food. And they claimed that they've almost halved pumpkin waste in the last year. Wow. So that's really good work for them. If you're listening to this, it's three weeks after.

Halloween already. But don't despair. If you've still got a few pumpkins there, just scrape off the mold. They might still be good. Nice. Can I just do one more thing? Yeah, go on. Because I have an extra one that we never got to. And I did lots of extra research for it. So Federico Sanna wrote that if Tom and Jerry was made in ancient Rome, Tom, instead of being a cat, would have been a weasel. And that's because, according to Federico, the Romans...

had pet weasels instead of pet cats to get rid of mice and stuff. I found a website called foundingantiquity.com. And they have a really, really long explanation of this. And they don't think it's true. They think that weasels were not used as pets. They were in the houses, but they were kind of a pest themselves. But... The reason I wanted to say it is because they found on this website that this theory was first theorised in 1718 by Magnus Rydelius and Andreas E. Weasel.

And they reckon that maybe he came up with this theory that they had pet weasels because his name was Mr. Weasel. Amazing. Amazing. Oh, Federico, you've been hearkened. That's good, though. That's very interesting. Yeah, I think the jury's still slightly out, but...

Because they're in the house. I mean, that's a big animal to have in your house as a pest. Yeah, but a lot of the sources when they talk about these weasels, they talk about them in the same as you would say there is a fly in the house. Or there's a mouse in the house or a rat in the house. It's like an annoying thing. Right.

Are they basically like ferrets? Well, they are smaller than ferrets. The other thing is ferrets actually are quite easy to tame. And like I have a friend, Sid, who I don't know if he still has a pet ferret, but he definitely used to. I think John Mitchinson from QI used to have a pet ferret.

That's right. Yes. But I think a weasel, they're just a little bit angry and I think they don't make good pets. Do we get them in the UK? I can't actually. Oh, yeah. Weasels. Yeah, we get weasels. Good facts. Old QI facts, most weasels in the UK are least weasels. Because there's a species called the least weasel, which is the most common one in the UK. That's lovely. I think we had a fact in the inbox. Someone's saying...

Sorry, I don't remember the correspondent now, but the least weasel is currently rated as least concerned, which is nice because their population's kind of doing all right. My old neighbor used to take a ferret for a walk on a lead as a pet, which is a cool thing to do.

I think it's cool. Yes. Yes, you do. Okay. Okay. Okay. Let's end it there. Let's go to inaugurating the latest members of the Friend of the Podcast Hall of Fame. Exciting. anyone who has signed up to clubfish at the friend of the podcast tier gets one of our headline facts in perpetuity you are then the sponsor patron whatever you like of that fact and you get a little shout out on this show that's what we're trying to say here

So we should do some shout-outs. Guys, we've had a bit of a rush on membership of Friend of the Podcast, so we are going to... up the pace of the number of shout outs we give per show and get through a few more so we're sorry we may not get to some of you for a little while but your names are in the system and we're

We're going to try really hard to get through them. There's been a swell. You know those companies when you ring them and they say, sorry, we're having an unexpected large number of calls, but they say it absolutely every single day. Yeah. We're going to have that. I'm afraid we've experienced unprecedented...

and we're going to be dealing with it in a precedented way. So your fact will be dealt with in around seven months. It'll be before then, we hope. It'll be before then, we hope. Right, let's do some. Today, shout out number one goes to Orion Slater. Brilliant. What a terrific name. Orion. Three stars. Lovely. Lovely. He... Orion must be absolutely sick of that joke. Belt up. There we go. Anyway, Orion, your fact is that the earliest known dentistry is 9,000 years old.

Yes. Now, the exciting thing about this fact is it's not one of our facts or even one of Anna's. That's right. It's Greg Jenner's. Historian Greg Jenner. And this was our third... episode and greg jenner and comedian alex edelman were sitting there with me and james for this episode so where was i

i think you i think you didn't really care about the show at that point you're sort of a bit loosey-goosey and i've maintained that in those days yeah we did two in one day actually do you remember and we got greg and alex to come in

in and do a show and then as soon as we finished as soon as the mics went off they came back on again and we did a show with the four of us that's right they basically came in to have a cup of tea james and i said why don't we just make an episode instead while they're here so yeah well done to orion

Slater. Great fact. Ancient dentistry. Let's have another. Okay, well this one is going to Christine and Tom Asbridge, and the fact is that according to Dr. Hans Ulrich, the Middle Ages never happened. This is a wild theory called phantom time hypothesis.

Largely put into the show because we knew that Greg would be horrified he was sitting on a show that was discussing this particular thing. It was just to upset him, really, wasn't it? Yeah, in a friendly way. We did like him. But that was the idea, yeah. And the exciting thing about that one is that this is a special medieval fact requested by Christine for Tom, who is a medieval historian and writer.

So we're not going to say you can request your facts if you're a friend of the podcast, but you can put a little note in, you know, like where you put... I'm allergic to nuts or something. But as the guy who does the emails, I'd like to specify that as the chef in this restaurant, I may put nuts in anyway. That's absolutely... While Andy's replied to your emails, he may be touching nuts.

So let's go to the next one, which was the fact is the most medically indispensable sea creature in the United States is the horseshoe crab. And that was originally a fact from. Alex Edelman. Lovely. A good friend. It's like he's in the room. But now it is under the custodianship of Anna, also known as... Anna MC, Anna Mack. She's a regular contributor to various emails and stuff like that. Yeah. Congratulations, Anna. Yeah. And I do like the fact the most medically indispensable sea creature.

In the United States. It's Qualifier City, isn't it? Yeah. I think Alex had just read a documentary or watched a documentary about the horseshoe crab and just wanted to talk about that.

I love the idea of reading a documentary. It feels like the kind of thing you would do, James, where you print out the transcript of the documentary and then you read it because you'll do it faster and there won't be irritating pictures in the way. Yeah. I have a friend who reads all of our podcasts. Doesn't listen to them. Reads them. Wow. Yeah. I mean, you read famously, you read... Scripts of Toy Story. All four of them. Never seen the films. Did you cry at the right bits? Yes.

Just dripped on the printout. Couldn't read the next bit. Oh, dear. Right, let's have another fact. This one is going to Double O Dynames. Dynames? It's a terrific name. And it's that Queen Elizabeth slept in a bedroom with 28 women. So congratulations, double O. She's the bonnie blue of her time. That's rude. Is it?

I'm going to pretend I don't know who that is. Me too. Oh, me too. I think that was the vibe we were going for to try and do a bit of innuendo. But actually, this was the fact that she had lots of... handmaids and stuff who used to sit and sleep in her bedroom. Yeah, they'd watch her give birth as well. Queen Elizabeth I. Wow. You have changed history, Dan. That's huge.

Sorry. I was thinking about the chambermaids who would stay and births in those periods were often viewed by huge parties. So for Queen Elizabeth I, nicknamed the Virgin Queen, I think probably that wouldn't have been a big part of the job spec. not the nickname of bonnie blue okay well i don't know who that is right carry on so the next one i'll do this one it's that 30 million chinese people live in caves And that fact is now under the custodianship of Nathan Morgan. Congratulations, Nathan.

Feels like a fact that we'll have undergone some depreciation. Yeah, I think it was a fact of its time. It could have been an appreciation because the population's gone up a long way in the last 11 years. Yeah. What of China? Oh, yeah. I suppose it has. Yeah, definitely.

I feel like the housing boom in China might have... there's lots of rural bits of china that there are but increasingly more people live in these mega cities don't they yeah yeah yeah yeah it's interesting that we can now say we've been going so long that we can talk about our old facts and say wow that was a different time yeah and it's us we're talking about well it's weird

if you listen back to that episode you'd probably hear yourself saying stuff where you're going what am i how i don't know that When did I say that? Oh, I mean, that happens with every episode bar the last three. Who's this guy? He sounds handsome. Are you one of those people who always gets me and you mixed up? I am. Every time I look in the mirror, I'm shocked. Not have your face. Shall I do one? Yeah. All right. Hello, Alex Tiefsky.

you have just become the custodian of this fact from james harkin there is a banker in latvia who will lend you money using your immortal soul as security that's great is he still going I'm not sure. I'll tell you why I did this fact. Because I think our first ever listener was Gattis, who was the advertising partner of my wife. And I sent him the episode to see what he thought about it.

And that was before it went online or anything. And he is from Latvia. So I thought we'd do a little Latvian fact quite early on. That's so cool. Our first listener. That's great. I think he is. Well, that's a great fact. Congratulations, Alex. I'll do another one. This is... Another Anna. Anna, your fact, forever, is that for a hundred years, almost all maps of Africa contained a fictional mountain range called the Mountains of Kong. So, to...

To clarify, that was a fact that was said by Anna. Yes. But it's now under the custodianship of... Another Anna. Whose surname we don't know. She's just Anna. Exactly. Unless Anna... Our Anna has signed up to be a friend of the podcast. Not a chance. No, she doesn't. She doesn't listen to the main show, let alone whatever we're doing now. She doesn't know this exists.

I spoke to her last weekend and she says she has been listening to the episodes and really enjoying them. Oh! Okay, so Anna's been replaced. Motherhood has done a really weird thing to her second time around. She did look very tired.

That's a great fact. I think that's a really fun fact, the Mountains of Kong. There's just this huge mountain range. Everyone said, well, you can't go that way. What about the Mountains of Kong? And they just weren't there. That one feels weirdly like an OG classic of fish. Absolutely.

Here is one more for this week. So male Pennsylvania grass spiders are much likelier to approach a female who has already killed and eaten a male. That feels like an artifact, doesn't it? But actually, it was one of yours, Andy. but now it is under the custodianship of Alva Clausen. Well done, Alva. It's a good fact. Male Pennsylvania grass spiders are much likely to approach a female who has already killed and eaten a male. Which is crazy, right? Because she's got form.

But she's full. You see what I mean? Yes. The killer wouldn't possibly want to kill again. No, that's what they say about serial killers, isn't it? Once you've killed once, it's not at all more-ish. you bump into oh god no no no don't worry don't worry i already did one tonight i am whoo just want to hang

Yeah, great. Well, there you go. That is this week's batch of fact custodians. Thank you so much to all of you who've signed up at, frankly, any tier of Clubfish. It's a joy to have you on board. We will be back again in another week's time. with another Little Fish. We'll be back in less time than that with another main episode of the show. And for members of Clubfish, we'll be back in an indeterminate amount of time with a drop as a line, our audience feedback show. Clear? Clear. Great. Bye!