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¶ Welcome and Japanese Blood Types
another episode of Little Fish. My name's Andrew Hunter Murray. I'm here with James Harkin. And Dan Treiber.
I don't know if that'd be picked up on their mics.
James James was just slapping his cheeks.
Is that what it was? I wasn't looking.
My face cheeks for those at home.
Yeah, absolutely. And and welcome to the show. You've had your fireworks right at the top. Now let's get into some facts.
If that becomes our theme tune, then I might have problems because it still it still hurts a lot.
We'll do it next time.
On my face.
Yeah yeah. Um so you've been sending in all your facts, you've been sending them to podcast at qi dot com. We've been sifting through them, winnowing, filtering, and we've got some absolute crackers. Uh for you. So let's get cracking. Who's got effect?
I got a fact here. This is from Stefan Grenz. My fact is: in Japan, baseball players get scouted based on blood type.
Oh yeah.
Yeah. So this is I'm reading Stefan's email here. This is based on blood type personality theory, which states that your blood type determines your personality traits.
It's like their version of horoscopes.
Exactly that. Yeah. And um it appears in so many different places. So Stefan says as a result, it is common to take blood type into account when hiring people, or indeed scouting athletes. and baseball is very popular in Japan. But you'll also notice it, and it's something I never did, but now that I look on the uh images that I've Googled, it's definitely in the English versions on things like Street Fighter.
So when you're picking your character, like Chun Li or M. Bison or whoever, they tell their blood type as well, so that you get an idea of what their personality type is.
Yeah.
Right.
Chun Lee is pretty cool as well.
It's like you're all speaking another language. I've no idea what's going on.
Yeah. Well she's blood type A, just uh for you to know. Um Yeah. And so this became massive in the.
Do we know what Blanco was? He was he he has green blood.
Yeah, he's yeah, I'm not sure. I didn't look him up. I know M bison, I think, is blood type A as well. Okay. Um
And it's not that the rarer the blood type, the better the baseball player will be.
Not sure. I mean there's a whole theory about it. It's it's like there were a series of books that were written in the seventies by a man called Masahiko Nomi, and he wrote this book called Blood Type Humanic. And it's such a big thing in Japan that not only does it determine things like on dates, you would talk about your blood type to see if you're compatible.
But also there's a phrase in Japan which is Burahara, which is blood harassment and you can get bullied at work for your blood type and so that's what it gets called. I'm getting burahasud.
Yeah.
O negative. Yes. Brilliant. Is if I just say it after a joke, I think I can carry the room with me.
I think in other jobs actually as well. Like I remember reading that you go for a job interview and you have to put your blood type on. And I think like like all these things, I'm always a little bit wary because I'm not from Japan and I I don't know how prevalent these things are and obviously there's only so many blood groups and it can't be that if you're really good at baseball but you have the wrong blood type they won't
Get you up to see.
That doesn't make sense.
And also I think there's a real out from Nomi who wrote these books, which is that he says that your blood type only accounts for a quarter of your human personality. Oh well. The rest comes from nurture. Um and so it's yeah, that's a nice out. To sort of say, Well of course it's not gonna be right, you know.
You're you're a B negative, but you can hit baseballs very far.
Yeah.
So we'll have you on the team because it's like seventy five percent good.
¶ Cow Pat Records and Music Facts
Um, here is another sporting one, kind of. This is from Matt Burke, and it's a brilliant fact. It is that the world record for the longest darts bullseye, eight meters, is about a tenth as long as the longest throw of a cow pat, which is eighty one point one meters.
Who can throw a cowper?
Eighty one point one meters, yeah.
That's incredible.
Eve Erner, no less.
Steve Erner. Calpats. Well they're not sure.
Absolutely hit the nail on the absolute head of the importance of shape in cowpath throwing.
'Cause you can frisbee it, right?
Brilliant. So good.
That's the most excited I've ever seen James do about anything.
I got scared.
When he started, I was like, Oh no, we've done something wrong, we're in trouble.
I think he did something to his head when he did that slappy thing at the beginning.
This um eighty one point one is under the non sphericalisation and one hundred percent organic rule, which was established in nineteen seventy. Um so you have two different records, one of which is where the um pat is molded into a spherical shape and one where it's done as a flat chip.
Okay. So wait, the the one that was thrown this far was molded into a
Uh no, it was flat like a frisbee. Like a frisbee. Like a disgusting.
Oh, okay. Oh sorry, spherical. I was thinking around meant spherical. No, got it. Presumably if you fashioned your cowpat into a javelin, uh, in much the same way that that guy made his own poo knife, you could throw it even further.
Yeah. So you'd have to freeze it.
Oh, you'd have to freeze it.
Is that on the rules?
Well, you've hit the nail right on the head yet again. No, it's not in the rules. No one's thought of freezing the cow pats yet, I don't know.
That's a Falsebury flop moment waiting to happen.
Yeah. Yeah.
Yeah. Here's a fact from Dave Shaw. The only UK number one that doesn't contain its own title in
in the lyrics. Must be loud.
Dave says not.
I think there have been some without any lyrics at all.
There have there have been some which haven't got any lyrics at all.
Can we try and guess it if you give us the name of the band? Or is it
If I give you the name of the band, you'll absolutely get it.
Is it living in a box by living in the box?
It's not a good thing.
You say live the bucks quite often in that sucks. Was it no no no no no no limits by two unlimited? I do say that.
It's like...
Yeah, yeah. Is it dupe by dupe? Oh no, they do say that in there as well. And an era.
Seventies.
I think Bohemian Rhapsody.
All right. Yeah, that's it. Oh that's it, is it? Huh? Wow. That was like someone throwing a cow patch. Hitting a bullseye eighty meters away. Um yeah, the so okay, so Dave says the only this is the this is what makes the fact amazing. There's a plot twist halfway through this fact, which I love. The only UK number one that doesn't contain its own title in the lyrics is Queen's Bohemian Rhapsody. It does, however, include the title of the song that succeeded it.
Oh yeah, it does. Which is? Mamma Biaba. Mamma Mia. Mamma Mia Bayaba.
How weird is
that. Yeah. There's a theory that it's the only one that does that, but actually there's loads and I found loads of them, but I can't remember any of them.
It contains the following.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. What? But then most of they're all like songs with like one word in the title, like yes or Bye.
Yeah.
Yeah, exactly.
Oh okay, D Dave, you've been hearkened, I'm afraid.
I wish I could remember all of them.
Yeah. It was worth it to get there though. Yes.
Yeah.
It's a good fact. It's a classic fact that one I would say.
That's a devastating Dave. That's a you don't I've been in meetings before where James has said, Ah yes, this is a classic. And you know, oh no, that's not that's actually not what we're going for on QI. All right, let's have another thing.
¶ Jack Black, R.L. Stein's Work
This was sent in by Python Boy Boy as in BOI, and it is in the movie adaptation of the Goosebumps series. Jack Black plays the author, while the author plays Jack Black. This is very subtle. I would argue that it's not entirely true.
You're gonna get a stripering.
Arguably okay. At the near end of the movie, uh I don't want to give away too much, but if you don't want
Spoiler the goosebumps.
Exactly.
Which I have seen thirteen or fourteen times.
Have you seen it since your kids were born?
No, actually, they're not into it. Um, real bummer in my house. Uh so Jack Black is playing R.L. Stein and he's walking in a school hall and RL Stein comes into shot and
The real RL D.
Real R. L. Stein.
I remember that.
And he's acknowledged as Mr. Black. Now okay, he's got the surname. We hear Mr. We don't hear the name Jack but also Jack Black is Jack Black. He's a he's in tenacious D, he's an actor. Yeah. So yes, it's a lovely little swapping of surnames, but
But Arel Stein's character is not necessarily the Jack Black that we know and
Exactly.
Exactly. So he's not playing him. But yeah, it's a nice little nod. And it just reminded me how much I love R. L. Stein. So I was quite excited to see this fact. Um he's sold more than Stephen King in terms of books. So he's sold over four hundred million books. Worldwide.
Amount. That's like one for every chest set that you can
Ha ha ha.
Well I'll send I'll send this to the boffins at fun dot com and see if they agree with this number. Um
Yeah.
We'll have to wait on that.
Interesting. I mean they are great books.
They're good.
Um other short. So yeah, I can imagine there'd be more than that.
Yeah, yeah.
Not much goes into Stephen King's ones in fairness. So
Yeah.
Just trying to sell some beef.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
But this is quite a cool little fact. I believe we have mentioned this in the past, but Before he was writing Goosebumps, he was a writer generally and he had to take on paid gigs. And one of the books that he wrote was The Novelization of Space Balls. So the movie with Melbrooke.
Which was the Star Wars parody. Now, one of the conditions of Star Wars and George Lucas was that you can do the movie as a parody, but you can't do any merch. And this was the only thing that was let through as merch. And so he wrote it under the name Jovial Bob Stein. And we can get copies online for on eBay and so on, as I have.
For a few hundred pounds.
Only a few hundred. Um
Yeah.
Which is really good deal actually, Panella. Um and uh yeah, so yeah, that's uh that's the fact.
Right.
Okay, here's another pop culture one. Yep. Um this is from Brenton Innes from Perth, Western Australia.
¶ Grammy Winners and Guitar Styles
Uh and Brenton says that while many people named Tony have won a Tony, only one person named Oscar has won an Oscar. And Actually, I can't remember who that is. Is it Oscar Hammerstein? Maybe, I think. Uh but I forgot to write that down. But anyway, that's not the important part of this fact. The important part is that in twenty twenty two a granny won a Grammy.
A Grammy wanna Grammy.
Granny. A granny. Like grandmother. Yeah. Grammy. Yeah. Uh the age of ninety five when singer Angela Alvarez became the oldest winner of a Latin Grammy Award.
Amazing.
Beautiful. She sounds like she might be a Latin Grammy as well. Yes, she does.
Uh but I actually found another grid on me. one of Grammy. Have you ever heard of the um guitar style called cotton picking? Yeah, it's like I guess it's kind of American.
Blue Cross?
Yeah, kinda well not quite the one that I'm talking about because this is named after someone called Elizabeth Cotton. Beautiful.
Oh dear.
I didn't see that coming. From a clear from a clear blue sky.
That was an assassin shot.
Yeah.
Wow. I feel like that could be a new thing for these things that are named after people or whatever. Yeah. Is that we try and slip them in without each other noticing.
Absolutely. That's really good.
Elizabeth Cotton, she won for her album Elizabeth Cotton Live. At the age of ninety in nineteen eighty four. Mm. Uh and actually in nineteen sixty seven she released a record created with her grandchildren and with one great grandchild as well who was in that album. Uh and she was a self-taught left-handed guitarist who played a guitar upside down. Okay. So and that was her style was really unusual because she played it upside down and that was why it was known as cotton picking.
Brilliant. Cool. Great Grammy.
Yeah, I wonder if um an Emmy has ever won an Emmy.
Very good question.
I'm just gonna name my next kid BAFTA. Fingers crossed.
Yeah.
I'm gonna change my name to Charter a while.
¶ Flat Pack Furniture Advice
Here's another fact. This one comes from Alex Thorpe. Thank you, Alex. And it's that you should hire Novak Djokovic. to build your flat pack furniture and Rafael Nadal to disassemble it. Okay. There is a reason for this.
Uh
I I I can have a guess. Well we should say something funny then. We both know the answer.
Uh I'm it's just a guess.
Köszönöm szépen!
We say at the same time. Yeah. Start with um is left handed.
Okay, screw you guys. You're not allowed to get you're not allowed to go into my notes before we do the show and gazump me like that. Um so Nadal is left handed.
Djokovic is Serbian.
So when you're tightening a screw you're you guys are right handed, aren't you? Yes. When you tighten a screw with a screwdriver in your right hand, you're using a muscle called the supinator. Cool. Which is which is v much stronger than the pronator which is used to unscrew. Now, if you're using your left hand and a screwdriver, it's the opposite way round.
It feels like someone else is making the wardrobe.
That's right. If you're left handed and you're tightening a screw, then you're using your pronator and you're not quite as good as it and if you're using your but if you're using your left hand and you're unscrewing then you're using the other muscle.
So that's why it works out. So I'm left handed. This is why I don't enjoy putting together flat pack furniture, but I do love taking it apart. I l I I like unscrewing things more. It feels like a more natural action to me than screwing things up with my left hand. It's weird. And I'd never considered that before.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Never heard that. That's wonderful.
Super NATO.
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Uh okay. Um
I'm not hosting. I'm DJ.
Dan do what James says.
¶ Qantas's PR Plane Repair
Okay, well this is from Joe Bartlett, who says that Quantis once spent a hundred million dollars to repair a crashed plane purely for PR reasons.
Interestingly, I thought that they'd never had a crash Qantas. They did not advertise that.
There we go.
Hello! You've hit the nail on the head! This is because in September 1999, Qantas Flight
One, it's really frightening when anyone does it, I just gotta say.
Uh Boeing seven four seven flying from London to Sydney via Bangkok overran the runway into a bog and it crashed into a radio antenna as it went. There were no serious injuries or fatalities, but the plane was a ride off. At least it would have been for most other, or indeed any other airline. Qantas, however, has an excellent safety record with zero hull loss. So they've had accidents but they've never lost a hull and they decided they wanted to make sure that that record still
You know what? Like just to say, in my head, they've never had a crash. I didn't realise they had a little asterisk there saying, Oh yeah, we have, but just not the hull.
Never had a hull loss is a much less enticing offer. In fact it makes me think about all the other things that are not the hull on a plane. Yeah.
Yeah. Um I'll have a ticket in the hull, please. That'll be an extra one hundred and twenty nine dollars.
So they decided they were gonna repair it no matter what the cost. And in the end the total repairs were estimated at a hundred million. Uh the exact figure was never disclosed. However That is more than the value of the aircraft at the time, but it was worth it for the reputational value of maintaining the flawless safety record.
I feel like that's a handyman arriving at the runway with knowledge that he's got the whip handle over these people. Mm. Saying I can charge these people whatever I like. Yes. You know how when a handyman comes over sometimes they'll they'll look at you, size you up and thus add a at a at a zero? They'll be like, This guy's left handed, he cannot make flat back furniture. I can charge what I like.
Okay, have we got time for one more? Yeah.
Yeah, why not?
¶ Golf Gloves and Player Habits
Okay, this one is from Seth from Limerick. And Seth said the once was a man called
Ha ha ha.
No, he didn't. That's silly. Seth said all golfers wear one glove. Why? No idea. However, Lucas Glover, winner of the two thousand and nine US Open, does not wear a glove. Crazy. Really? Yeah. I knew this, in fact, as a golf fan. He doesn't wear a glove, yeah.
Does he not get very sore hands?
Well
What are they wearing?
There's a few different reasons. One, it definitely can help you not get blisters for sure. Okay. But if you if you're used to it then your hand will get enough calluses or whatever that you're not gonna get blisters. Yep. So it should be fine for everyone. And also the early gloves would develop because the gloves would have like quite rough leather grips. And also if it rains you couldn't really get a grip on them. But these days they're made of synthetic materials, very grippy.
they're not gonna do you any harm. So actually it's no real big deal for Lucas Glover not to wear gloves. Mm-hmm.
If you fashioned your cowpat into a hundred golf balls, I reckon you could get them to go even further.
Then eighty one yards.
Are they frozen?
Yeah, they're frozen.
Mm. They'd shatter as they got hit, I imagine. Who cares?
The people measuring?
Hitting. Sorry. Okay. Yeah, that's
Well, which of the fragments am I gonna measure?
Who cares?
Your problem. Not mine.
I mean we're at the cowpad Olympics here. Like No one's getting out of the CowPad Olympics and going up to the Real Olympics, okay? You're stuck here. You're not impressing anyone with your all wish fragment, should I measure? Malaki.
Um yes, so um there is a player, Aaron Rye, who wears two gloves. Aaron Ray.
Yeah.
Uh he wears one on each hand. And the reason is he's English and he played in English conditions as a child, which means you need to keep your hands warm. Uh-huh. And so he would always wear two gloves and he's kind of kept it going.
But I've always wondered about the glove thing.
Normally just one. It started with a guy called Sam Sneed in the nineteen when was that? Probably in the nineteen thirties. And he did it and he was one of the best or was the best of his era and then everyone started doing it. And now I think because I play golf a lot and I always have done and I've always worn a glove. If you don't wear one, it just feels weird.
Mm. What I thought you were gripping the shaft with both hands, as it were. Come on. Grow up. You are
I'm gonna show you on this ruler how I hold it. I hold it like that. Right. My palm is holding the left palm is holding it and the right is more just
It's guiding. I see.
Anyway. Tune in next week for our second lesson of how to play golf with James and Andrew.
It's going bloody slowly. Oh magnificent. All right. Well, that is enough of your facts. Thank you so much for them. If you'd like to send them in and see them get a hearkening or a shribering, maybe there'll be a murrying out there one day, it's possible. Just email them in to podcast at qi.com.
¶ Friend of the Podcast Facts
We love getting them. I read every single one. They're always so much fun to get. Please do send them in. But now it's time for some fact custodianships. Because if you join Club Fish. uh and you join at the highest tier of friend of the podcast, then we will dedicate one of our facts to you and what's more, we'll give you a shout out on an episode of Little Fish. So it's time to do some of that now. Who has got a fact that they'd like to dish out?
I have one. Uh this was ours, and it is now under the custodianship of Mark. Mark, your fact now is that in a very particular time and place in history. you could avoid castration by shouting Soho What an interesting one.
Free card.
What is it all about? What is it all about? I know that the word soho was used as a hunting cry.
This was your fact, J.
No, it was.
Ha ha.
I'm trying to go through the roller decks of my brain to work out exactly what it was.
This is Ashanti law.
Oh okay. Africa? In Africa, yeah.
I think modern day Ghana? I don't know. And it's if you saw a member of the King's Harem naked, you would be castrated. So you had to shout so ho before going into a room and that would give everyone time to get dressed. So it's a preventative. If you've already seen them naked, that's it. You're getting castrated, I'm afraid. But if you shout so ho before you go in, you're alright. That
That's really interesting. I I suppose you could kind of shout anything like, I'm coming in.
Yeah, yeah.
Yeah. But there must be a rule for this. I honestly have literally no memory of this.
It's wild. Yeah. Whereas I do remember the next fact that's about to be dished out if you're doing it Dan.
Yeah, sure. This is now under the custodianship of Andrew Shakespeare, which is Matthew Ricard, the man labelled as the happiest man in the world, is unhappy that people call him that. Yeah. He won the award, I think it was sort of pressed onto him by scientists who studied him and he's not in the game for that kind of thing. So I think it led to a lot of interview requests and he thought there were more important things to talk about.
And he's written some books and he's a name that still pops up occasionally in the newspaper.
News. Still happy?
Still happy.
That was pretty good.
Yeah. I don't think he's defending the title.
I think that's a good thing.
You probably also don't graduate from the Cowpath Olympics to the happy Olympics.
No, that's no way. No way. Um here's another one. This goes out to Spool Tea.
¶ Ultramarathon, Metric, Animals
Spool tea, maybe a pseudonym, your fact, now and forever, is that the route for the Hong Kong Ultramarathon is to run up and down the same stretch of road twenty five times.
Mm. Yes. I reckon that's Soho Theatre Show maybe that one. Might be wrong.
Yeah.
This was a really fun fact. It's just uh it's basically about the shape of Hong Kong, isn't it? And the land of that they've got available to uh to do marathons on. Dan, you're from Hong Kong.
Yeah, what road was it? Do you do you happen to know?
I think it was the main Yeah, yeah, yeah. Right. Is there a seafront bed?
There is.
Yeah.
It might be up and down the front.
It's an island, Hong Kong Island.
Could be all the way around.
Could be all the way around 25 times. It's up and down. It's up and down specifically.
feeling it was like a promenade or something.
It is, yeah.
Yeah. How interesting.
How interesting as you said, Ames, but what a boring race to run.
Okay, the next fact is now under the custodianship of Lisa Gobel. Lisa, your fact is that the meter is wrong.
All right.
That's an artifact. She's just being contrary, I think. She said that the man who first made it, called Mishan, later realized it was naught one six millimeters inaccurate. But everyone said they finished it and couldn't change it now. And um this is the original piece of metal I think that they used to standardize the meter. And if memory serves, it was one forty thousandth of the circumference of the earth or something.
So close it was one ten millionth of the distance from the equator to the north pole.
Oh. Okay. I was nowhere near.
Well, but you were you were on the right that it was one fraction of a set distance. Yeah.
Yeah, thinking about it, I was going off kilometers, not meters anyway. So I was I was totally miles off.
No, but you got the principle. Yeah. Yeah. But it was wrong anyway. So that's why we're going back to yards on this podcast. Yards and feet, which have never let us down.
But I think now they don't even use the physical meter anymore. Do they not use like the vibrations of some atom or other or like the the plank length or
Clepperdick method like that, you know? Yeah. Rare for us to be anti boffin, but I don't mind it. Um let's have another one.
This is for Jamina, and your fact is St. Andrew's aquarium has three mere cats called Churchill, Admiral, and Sheila's Wheels.
Jamina, I hope you're listening somewhere that this cultural reference makes any sense to you.'Cause th you may well be overseas and Churchill Admiral and Sheila's wheels might not be a thing where you are.
You know what? I is this my fact? I think it is, isn't it? Yeah. Um I got this fact when I went to Saint Andrew's aquarium and last week I went again. No.
No.
Did you go to the mere cat enclosure?
I didn't even remember seeing it. I was with friends. I was only there for not very long. Uh but yeah, I went there and and found that out.
Imagine the mere cats are going, Oh my god, he's here. Yeah, he's back. He doesn't remember us. Yeah, they also had Aviva and Direct Line, um, but they both died, it's a T
How long do Mecats live? I think maybe all of these Mechats might no longer be with us.
Yeah, I imagine probably like an insurance payout though when they die.
Yes. Very nice. Uh'cause these are insurance firms for international listeners. Anyway, lovely facts.
Sheila's Wheels was um I won't it doesn't exist anymore, does it? I just I don't know. I've not seen that bird's fruit.
I was with Sheeta's Wheels until quite recently. Yes, that's why I was kicked out. There was a very very unpleasant and upsetting meeting. I don't want to talk about it. Who was it really?
It was. That was literally the whole point. And there's a big argument about it because it's like the reason it was cheaper because women crushed their cars less.
Alright.
Right. And so like if any man got an insurance with them probably that'd be a fraudulent insurance.
Yeah, I'm finding out now, I've committed to show control, I shall say.
Ha ha ha.
Yeah.
Okay. Let's have another just before I turn myself in, can we have a few more facts? Um this next one goes out to Holzer. And it's that it's a damn fact, it's that the only ancient Egyptian socks that we know of belonged to Tutankhamun. The only ancient Egyptian socks.
socks which means I think I added on the night he was a socks and sandals guy.
Of course.
And I remember I re so that was Soho Theatre that we did this show. Yeah, I remember that now specifically.
Um yeah, interesting. So maybe some of the oldest songs.
There were so many weird things in his tomb that seem out of place uh to what your idea of ancient Egypt was. I feel like there was trumpets and yo-yos and all that kind of stuff. Probably not yo-yos, but Okay.
What was he using the socks for? This sock is it's a little bit stiff. Oh, that's probably'cause it's so old.
That's because I don't know.
let's have a couple more
¶ Meatballs and Royal Jaguars
Okay, here's one. This fact is now under the custodianship of Stefan Locamp. And Stefan, your fact is Oh, I feel like I should let Dan do this one.
Finish budget meat balls had so little meat in them that they had to be renamed balls.
So the reason I wanted you to do that is because you used to do that in our live show, right?
It's one of my favourite facts. I remember when you told it to me, Andy, I just it just made the world a better place to live in.
Not if you lived in Finland.
No, because you're eating balls. That became a kind of behind the scenes catchphrase. Patch phrase, yeah.
Very funny it was too. Cheered me up every time I heard it. Funny.
I remember when you met the queen that time, they're like Dan do your catch- balls with an amount?
I bet w and President Banana was the other one on stage. There used to be when we were explaining the kind of facts that the audience were in for if they didn't know who we were, that was one of the ones that I always used.
Yeah.
Congratulations to Stefan Galocamer.
If it's still the case that you get you go to s so you go to supermarket and it's just a can of bulls that you buy.
Go to your supermarket if you're in Finland. Yes, please. Take a photo of your balls and send them to podcast at qi dot com.
I'll need something to look through while I'm on remand for car insurance fraud. That's one more fact. James, you've generously gave that one over to Dan you did the last one.
Okay, so this is under the custodianship of Graham Wallace, and it is the fact that a friend of Queen Victoria's once had to apologize to her after her pet Jaguar killed three of the Queen's pet deer.
Wonderful.
Amazing fact. Yeah. Do we know who it was, Andy?
Yes, this was Lady Florence Dixie.
Oh.
Who was a nineteenth century adventuress? This is one of Anna's facts. Mm. And it's about uh Lady Florence and uh d and she owned a Jaguar and uh apparently was pretty lax with it on the leash.
Gosh. I know. You don't get many jaguars in the UK normally. They're from Americas.
Yes. They sound dangerous. Like I know in the wild I imagine they absolutely are, but can you tame one if you're putting a muzzle over that? What's happening?
You know what I read like just literally yesterday or the day before, I read an article about a dentist of a jaguar who um managed to give them an aesthetic. But it was a voluntary anesthetic. So rather than blowing a dart at the at the Jaguar, the cat sort of came up to them and said, Okay, can I have my anesthetic please? And they could put a normal syringe into them.
Crazy.
And so that's'cause they could train them. And it's like this is the first time it's ever been done. Wow. It's really unusual.'Cause you would think like a cat can't be tamed really. Yeah. Like my cat can't be tamed. But
Maybe the bigger the cat, the more tameable.
Maybe.
Well try.
Like,
It's got the biggest of the wildcats.
Yeah, like tigers I suppose are really easily
Like in He Man, that was a a very tamed beast.
Not familiar with that. Hm, okay.
That's just for the two other people who remember that show.
Battle Cat.
Battle cat.
Oh that's just made sense of an old improv show I used to know called Battle Act. Oh, no, hang on. Yeah, yeah.
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