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1:06last seven days. We pick up yours, all the facts that you've been sending in to podcast at qi.com. Andy has gone through the emails, he's curated the best of, and we've got him here. So I'm Dan Shriver sitting here with Anna Tyshinsky and James Harkin. Let's get into it. Who wants to open with a fact? Go for it, Anna. Oh, okay, okay I will this is a fact from Andy Walker and Ben Walker some relation Ben is 12 and is Andy's son and Andy says while on a walk in Canada my son asked about the relative ubiquity of Canada geese in the UK versus Canada and I don't know if the 12 year old phrased it like that but if he did well done anyway he's done some calcs yeah you're gonna like this james apparently there are 250 000 canada geese in the uk 8 million in canada

1:52and if you do do the calcs and divide that by the land area of each country the goose density in britain is higher that's really good so So Canada geese are really British geese. Well, actually, also, they're American geese, Canada geese. So I was trying to prove this for QI this year for our general ignorance, because I thought from some articles I read, there might be more Canada geese now in the United States of America than in Canada. But it's really hard to tell because those buggers migrate around. They do, yeah. But I think perhaps it might not be true it certainly wasn't clear-cut enough that i would run it for the tv show right great insight great background uh scenes on how qi gen x are written yeah desperately hunting the

2:39level to where it's not just writing a question and putting it out there. James is following migration routes. He was out there in a microlight. I just was reading all my feeds and there was an article saying that there were more breeding pairs of Canada geese in America than there used to be. And of course, the first thing I think is, is the more than in Canada. And Canadians, please don't write in and complain that we colloquially have used America to refer to the US. Because you're part of Europe now. Welcome. We swapped you for Greenland. We did. I actually learned that you say they migrate loads in North America. Canada geese, when they come to the UK, just sit still. I really didn't know that.

3:19I didn't really know the UK populations are just here permanently, stupidly, like an idiot. I thought they were migrating from Canada. But uk populations have been here since the 17th century and they don't migrate why i don't know maybe uk just got good climate all year round yeah i think that is true possibly of those american ones as well i think like usually they go from canada to somewhere in the united states like mexico yeah yeah but or me, which is also not part of the United States. Hard time of recording. Welcome to Europe, Mexico. But I think a lot of them are sort of hanging around going, actually, it's not that bad here. So what if we took, yeah, what if we took a migrating geese from Canada

3:55over to Britain? Would it feel the need to migrate in a migration period? Or would it be like, actually, hey, you guys got it good here. You don't think of migration as them going i quite like it here so i'm not going to leave you think of it as an inherent part of the psyche that they have to go there's nothing they can do about it yeah do you remember that guy who had some birds um migratory birds in a cage and then put like ink on their feet and showed that they were trying to go in the direction of their migration even though they couldn't escape yeah yeah yeah wow so there we go well well great question ben walker very good yeah nice okay here is one from igor santos and igor says true fact scotland has

4:37an area of just under half an acre sorry so it turns out that acrere, as it's written, A-C-R-E, is also the name of an area of Brazil, which is actually pronounced Acre. Okay. So this doesn't work at all when you read it out. But the area Acre, which used to be part of Bolivia and Peru and is now part of Brazil, is twice the size of Scotland. That's it that's good that's really nice very nice so if someone writes down how big their property is you've got to ask how they're pronouncing acre definitely just in case they mean maybe we should have a little message at the top of this show saying if you get the chance why not read this episode in the transcript option on apple uh lovely you'll get more out of it so i was looking at some different um

5:25types of area and have you guys ever heard of a colop colop colop no c-o-l-l-o-p it's an irish measure of land and it's the land sufficient to graze one cow ah it was actually quite useful because you could have loads of land but if it's all barren and there's no grass on it, then it's no use to you, especially if you're in a cow rearing area. Yeah. Oh, so the size changes depending on the sort of foliage. Exactly. So you might have 12 collops and your friend might have 12 collops as well. And you can each have 12 cows, but one of you might have more land. Right. She's in the summer desert and i'm just you know well you're both in ireland okay right yes there you go it sounds like the cow version of running

6:11a horse gallops and a cow collops it does sound like that yeah i've never i'm not sure have i ever seen a cow running they tend to walk towards you like zombies with dead eyes just trying to kill you i've seen them break into a canter towards me yeah definitely yeah yeah oh yeah i've had to leg it from some running cows have you colloping cows what's the circumstance why were you just sometimes if you're all going on a walk and you're walking through a field of cows i've had it multiple times steal milk often have a dog and yes i go and milk them underneath you're right and then i'll take a and sling it over my shoulder but other than than that... I'm not doing anything to it. Nothing. I've got an email here from Mark Perkins

6:49who says, Harry Corbett was famously so protective over his sooty puppet, so Harry Corbett created sooty, that he once set off on a family holiday but had to return back so that he could take the puppet on holiday with him as he wouldn't settle without it. Okay. Yeah, when his son Matthew took over the family business, he made sure that he didn't grow attached to the glove puppet in the same way that his father had done to the point that when the studio camera was off, he never referred to Sooty by name. Instead, he called Sooty the prop. Really? Yeah. That's heartless. I know. We should just say for foreign listeners yeah so he's like a little yellow bear hand puppet yeah i think but i'm very beloved by british children for

7:33big tv show i grew up with it in australia and hong kong i don't know if i was you know if that was the experience of most aussie kids but i certainly saw it there and um there was sweep who was a dog puppet. It was massive. And Sue. And Sue. Don't forget Sue. Anyway, he says, I heard this on an interview with someone who'd been a guest on the show, possibly Pat Sharp, but I can't be sure. He said that when he cut his hand by accident during filming, he said, it's going to be OK. But Matthew said to him, no, you better get a bandage on it. You might get blood on the prop. Hence, knowing that it's the prop and Pat Sharp for our listeners was the host of Funhouse in the 1980s and early 90s an amazing show yeah it's the greatest television show of British history is it

8:16really I never I never got to see that um I tried to look into this and see whether or not it was the case that he called it the prop um and this relationship that harry corbett had with sooty and i couldn't find anything but then i remembered that one of the editors during the pandemic of no such thing as a fish when we're having to do stuff over zoom was it matthew corbett it was ben corbett ben corbett who is the grandson of the creator of sooty and the son of who then took over. Yeah, he did all of our audio mixing. Yeah, he did the mixing and he's a great guy. And so I messaged him and I sent him this email saying, can you confirm or not? And he wrote back and he said, hey, Dan, true in spirit,

8:56but he didn't refer to the puppet as the prop, but the bear. So he still didn't say Sooty. Pat Sharp, the DJ, was never on the show but there was a pa called pat sharp so a personal assistant on the show was called pat sharp um you know you didn't need to know about funhouse it turns out but google it anyway because it's an amazing show but then he then added he said some bits that you might find useful and he gave me some extra facts oh brilliant yeah so this is from the grandson of the creator of sooty my granddad also used to put air holes in the box he carried the puppets in so that he could breathe so that's so he was covering he was taping up those air holes straight away wasn't he he did say my my dad was less sentimental and he saw it more as a job really

9:38so i think the suggestion is yeah the air holes were not there um when my dad took over the show because my granddad had had a massive heart attack, all was well for a while. But when my granddad got better, he wanted to start doing the shows again. But they had to agree to not overlap geographically so that Sooty would never be seen in two theatres at the same time. They did them simultaneously, as in they were working together. They were working in different theatres around the country. But wait, surely there was just one Sooty? I'm so sorry to tell you this. What? So the son, Matthew, continued to do the TV work and most of the country, but he left Dorset to the granddad who continued doing his one-man shows with his grandmother.

10:22Sweet. Yeah. So anyway, there's more, but we should move on. That's so cool. Thank you, Ben, for a good old insight into Sooty. All right. Here's another good insight into something completely different. And it's from Stephen Eltreshen. His fact is in the 1938 film, The Adventures of Robin Hood, they shot the extras with real arrows. So the special effects department wasn't happy with any of their attempts at fake arrow strikes so they offered any extras willing to tempt fate 150 dollars to be shot by expert marksmen with blunted arrows that's amazing they dressed them in special padding that caught the arrows without doing too much damage to the performer okay blunted arrows is blunted is better.

11:06It's better, and I did look it up to check, and they did get to wear a block of balsa wood backed by a thin steel plate. Now, it doesn't protect your arse, your thighs, your head, of course. In order of importance, where did I get it? No, not the arse! I keep my brains in my buttocks isn't that incredible that is incredible and I looked it up and they actually used the man who was the world's greatest archer at the time Howard Hill I would insist that anyone but him I'll do it but I'd rather not the greatest archer living wait he's not going to try to be killing you Dan oh that's true but he might get into the story of it. I'm going to choose the greatest archer. I'm sorry. If only part of my body is covered by balsa wood.

11:52Yeah, yeah. And my buttocks are not. Then I want Harry Hill or whoever it was. Howard Hill. Harry Hilda. Dan's taking Harry Hill. I've got Harry Hill. He made a mistake. Wow. Anyway, amazing fact. Was it 150 quid per arrow? it was per time they got successfully shot that's in those days that's good money apparently it was three equivalent to three thousand pounds so do we know if anyone made good money because if this is the greatest archer i actually don't know if anyone i don't know the amounts i know that no deaths were reported. How much would you accept to be shot by, let's say, what's he called? Is he called Matt Stutzman? That guy who fires with his feet. That amazing archer. Who's actually won.

12:34He had a world record for archery, but he doesn't have any arms. Okay. But he's brilliant. And you're wearing the protection, so you just have to make sure that he hits you and not your head i'm gonna like if it's 3k i'll probably take it yeah i think so oh i'd go i'd pay him i think that's a cool that's a cool experience that's true when you go on would i lie to you yeah something i was shot in the chest by a man with no arms yeah exactly uh all right james yes okay here's one from jackson herbert uh and jackson says doing research for my latest book but then doesn't say what the book is so unless andy has deliberately deleted this from the email because he thinks it might take away sales from his own

13:18book yeah um look out for jackson's book but jack Jackson found that if you consider the Earth's surface is 510 million square kilometers, which it is approximately, 29% is land. Get rid of the uninhabitable bits. Get rid of the mountains, the deserts, the ice caps. And then take the current world population. We would each get 12,500 square meters per person. Oh, wow. And that is roughly the same size as the louvre pyramid plaza in paris uh the white house compound the roman coliseum the taj mahal and trafalgar square each of those is about the same okay not combined no it's about the same size as two football pitches okay that's a curious uh coincidence in its own right that these amazing landmarks are

14:06roughly the same size well i wonder if jackson's thinking that maybe this is just an inherent amount of land that people think is a good amount of land and maybe that's why the population has gotten that high and we do think it's going to reach a slightly higher and then it's going to start going down yeah we instinctively know now we've got a white house each everyone stopped having sex that's the only reason we were doing it um but yeah uh so i just wondered what you would do with your two football pitches worth of land i can build anything yeah why not just leave it as two football pitches actually yeah would you yeah yeah just play some football two games at the same time two games at the same time. Two games at the same time, yeah. I can say one other thing you could do with it.

14:45If you had a cow and a calf, a cow and its calf, then it would be equal to about one colop. Ah. Okay. Because sometimes the colop would be not just the cow, the calf would count as well. I see, because they just go wherever the cow goes, so they don't need extra room. Nice. So, yeah, one colop per person. And you'll actually get more, because presumably you're going to be with your wife you'll be with yours and your children so that's i get four times as much if i'm in a family of four that's true oh that almost sounded like eight games of football almost sounded like a jet two ad you were doing you get four times a month with a family of four i did and you get a family discount if it was a

15:25jet two out then your kids would have a collop of land that was nowhere near your collop of land yeah unless you paid extra for it yes extra leg collop um the land has no windows uh okay i've got another fact here sent in by jesse hendrix my fact for you is up until the 1950s riders of coney island's iconic cyclone roller coaster got a final jolt after disembarking it's not interesting what do you mean by jolt so you'd think oh okay you're getting up do they just shove it a bit more you know as you're getting off and freak you out that's very dangerous yes and it's not the answer it's a much safer uh thing which is that the riders were then met by a little person, or as they were known in the day, a dwarf, who would zap them with an electrified paddle.

16:12Okay, that also sounds dangerous, to be honest. How electrified are we talking? It's enough to give you a nice little shock and make you laugh, I think, as opposed to cry. And it sounds like the feedback on it must be like, it was great, it's just missing one extra scare. And they thought, all right, we're gonna have, it was great, it's just missing one extra scare. And they thought, all right, we're going to have to hire some dude to come just literally zap them. Apparently as well, not only did you get zapped with an electric paddle, but then after that, you think it's done, you're then harassed by a bunch of clowns. And that finally had to stop after someone hit a clown. So yeah. A few more things on the Cyclone ride. On the 50th

16:48anniversary, a man named Richard Rodriguez set out to claim a world record. And he did so with 1,001 consecutive rides, which he did over four days straight. And this was a record for 30 years until someone broke it in 2006 called Frank Rosler uh but then rodriguez said okay well i've got to break it again so he then 30 years later reset the record uh which is just non-stop right that's like i reckon that's something like one every six minutes with no sleeping yeah sorry how long did it take him four days four only four days yeah you're right. Let's do 1,000. So he reset the record by, he rode the Pepsi Max Big One. In Blackpool? Yes. Cool. And he rode 405 hours and 40 minutes, so nine days and 12 hours in total.

17:36Presumably that is purely the operating hours only of the theme park. Yeah, yeah. Until they left him on at night and walked off. Just keep it going. They just, the big lever that sets them off, they just tie it with a shoelace and just say, like, you'll keep going. We'll see you in eight hours. We've left some food here. You can grab it on the way past. But the cyclone as well, apparently terrifying. Charles Lindbergh said that it was scarier and he got more of a thrill than when he was flying an airplane at top speed. And I guess back in the days roller coasters were a new experience yeah and also planes were really slow they probably even took off Lindbergh and we've said this on the show

18:15when he flew his plane on that iconic flight he didn't have front windows that should be the most terrifying thing ever you know he had to look out the window or something? If he wanted to see forward, he either had to turn the plane to the side and look out the side window, or he had a periscope installed that he looked through for when he was flying lower. Yeah, that is silly. But there's no other planes on that, you know. He's the only pilot in the entire world, so it's not like someone else is going to fly into him. That's true. It's not like Dan's favourite fact, the only two cars in Ohio crashing into each other. There were two planes in the air. Jimmy Conrad here, and I have something to put on your radar.

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21:27So I guess they're doing such important experiments. Why are the waves crashing on the M4? The waves are crashing in Swansea, and at the same time, the cars are driving on the M4, and it's causing vibrations, and it has to compensate for those. And he says, really cool, but the best bit was that my meeting was in the ken boardroom named for professor ken board how are you doing can board i'm talking about semiconductors all day of course i'm can board anyway here is one we mentioned before about the qi general ignorances and where we find them from i think this is a possible one so this came from chris from chelmsford and he is currently on holiday at the grand dick sense dam, mate, we've all been places.

22:26And this is the world's largest gravity dam. Okay, so there's a huge glacier. The glacier melts in the summer, but there's a huge concrete dam there which stops the water from going down, holds the water up, and then they can use it for drinking water, but they also use it for hydroelectric. And the water from this glacier drops down to power the turbines at a height of 1,883 meters, which is more than twice the height of the world's largest waterfall, Angel Falls. So Chris thinks, and I agree, that we can reasonably say that this is the world's largest waterfall, Angel Falls. Oh, okay. So Chris thinks, and I agree, that we can reasonably say that this is the world's largest waterfall. I reckon, yeah.

23:11Definitely, water's falling, isn't it? Absolutely. Now, there is a thing on QI, we said that there's a bigger waterfall that's underwater between Iceland and Greenland somewhere where there's like cold water falling down. Yeah, yeah, yeah. But I don't think we can count that anymore. I think this is our new record holder. I'm confused by the world's only, or one of the world's tallest gravity dams. I was under the impression that all dams were gravity dams, but there must be a specific definition of a gravity dam. No dam would be anywhere without gravity, would it? I guess you could flow out as opposed to drop down. Yeah, yeah. Well, Martin. You've reached the edge of my understanding of dams.

23:51I'm sorry to say. Tipped over the edge. I'll ring Tom Scott and ask him. This is the problem just for some inside baseball on this is that Andy sends us these facts relatively close to recording time, actually a bit longer this week. But we have then a very small amount of time to do a bit of research, check that they're true and then find some extra facts. But we don't necessarily have that long to completely understand all of the topics. No, exactly. But you can deal with a little bit of musing, right? A little bit of unanswered questions. I mean, usually I'm just waiting for who was named something similar to the thing not named as Anna just did with Ken Board. We're all always tense now. All right. Well, that's it for

24:31all of your facts. Thanks, everyone, for sending those in. But before we wrap up the show, we have something important to do that we do at the end of every episode. That is hand out custodianship to one of the facts from our 12 year long archive of headlines. So if you're a member of Clubfish and you sign up to the highest tier, you're going to be able to claim one of our headline facts. We're going to send you a digital certificate and we'll read it out here for you. Let's do some now. So who wants to go first? I'll go first. This one is now under the custodianship of Rebecca Forbes. And Rebecca, your fact is that brown falcons commit arson. So when they find a fire, they pick up a twig, they drop it in the forest, they make a new fire,

25:16and then they eat whatever runs away. And so this is deliberate, right? I suppose arson has to be deliberate. That's what arson is, eh? Wait, is arson deliberate? Or can you accidentally drop a cigarette? Does that count as arson? to be that's what arson is hey yeah wait is arson deliberate or can you accidentally drop a cigarette does that count as arson what a great question everyone again we've reached immediately the waterfall of our ignorance i feel like we need in the background behind the cameras we need a lawyer at least certainly some kind of you know infrastructure expert yeah and i could do with a masseuse actually just here i don't know if you would get done for that or just accidentally being an arsehole arsehole it's an arsehole not an arson

25:50yes if you've done that uh but falcons can't get arrested anyway so they can do it willy-nilly don't write in about the falcons that got arrested for god's sake okay well enjoy that rebecca and here is a fact for justin stapleton justin your fact is that in 1461 the mayor of yian in spain donated 10 000 eggs to his citizens so that they could have a huge food fight i remember this i loved this like weird sort of mad stuff done by weird villages in history often medieval i feel like they had a lot of extra time in late medieval era. And yeah, this was just a fun mare. And he was just like, it's Easter. Eggs are associated with Easter. Let's have a massive egg fight. Seems like a waste. I don't know about what it was like in 15th century Spain,

26:38but could they do away with that many eggs and not eat them? Frowned upon here, wouldn't it be? Yeah, that is very wasteful. And those chickens, how did the chickens feel feel knowing they've gone to all that trouble well as long as it was lots of chicken if it was one chicken they'd probably be quite annoying but if it was 10 000 chickens probably didn't really affect them that much no exactly yeah yeah but is this like um the tomato tomatina festival where they all throw tomatoes at each i think it was exactly like that yeah an early An early version of that. And I don't look down on those guys. Do you not? It does feel wasteful, doesn't it, when you say it in the context of a fact with that big number?

27:12I know what you mean, but I think given it's people who are doing it right now and it's part of their culture, I don't want to say that they're wrong to do it. Oh, I see. Because I didn't look down on them until you mentioned the waste thing, but now I find I am looking down on these specific Spanish people. Well, well i did have an opinion but the lawyer is shaking his head in the corner and uh i'm gonna back out thanks mike okay let's do another one this one is for raiden reborn you are now the custodian of the fact that in 1951 australia's football team played against england and lost 17 nil Their goalkeeper was called Norman Conquest. That's absolutely brilliant. That's amazing. Shall we, because we've got the Bayeux Tapestry here right now,

27:54shall we sew that one extra panel onto the end of the Bayeux Tapestry? That's true because the Bayeux Tapestry is incomplete, isn't it? We think that there's another panel which disappeared sometime in history. You're so right. So how do we know that it wasn't this football match the final norman conquest yes some soothsayer was like guys the ending is coming but in 1951 okay here is another one this one is now under the custodianship of ricky wellstead and ricky your fact is that grumpy from the seven dwarfs is not nearly grumpy enough such a harking fact i guess i don't remember what this was actually it was i had a check it was that um he's a minor with an e not a child and minors are they happy and cheerful and singing all the

28:40time i think the idea is that none of the dwarves were grumpy enough. Even Grumpy, who was quite grumpy, he still sings along, I think. He does. I think the idea might have been that miners are miserable. Oh, okay. Okay. And there was a study that backed it up. It wasn't just you thinking miners have a bad time. Was I making a political point about the closing of the mines under Margaret Thatcher? It was a very anti-Thatcher episode, actually. We had to have it removed. I went through that little phase, didn't I? Your Burnham phase, we called it. Brilliant. All right, Anna? Yep, I've got a fact here for Sarah Fridge. Very cool name, if that's your real name. And your fact, Sarah Fridge, Ms. Fridge,

29:21is that the ancient Romans had party bags. Those ancient Roman parties are amazing, where they all lay down, didn't they, on their lying sofas. Yeah. So were these party bags for adults as opposed to kids? Yes, they were. No kids allowed unless they were the small boys for the men to fornicate with. And they didn't get party bags. Oh, my goodness the party bags were just for the ad it was a different time it was part of their culture, Mike can we say this yeah is that cool I wish Mike was real right now the 10,000 egg fight in 1461 is looking a lot more appealing, isn't it? The party bags were just for the adults, because only adults attended the parties mostly. They also had doggy bags, if you remember, in this episode,

30:17where you had to bring your own doggy bag, and then you would get some food to take home. Okay. Okay. Very cool. Because they used to have yo-yos remember in ancient greece that was a headline fact that we did yeah um that's that's great yes yeah i still don't buy that really but it's on the side of yeah but it looks to me like a crack and a ball like it's hard to tell what a yo-yo is from just an image do you know yeah absolutely i can't believe you think is it cracking a ball wow that's great it's like we've got images of people supposedly wrestling right from like cave paintings and stuff but you don't know whether they're wrestling or hugging or yeah you know or whatever. It's really hard with a

31:05single image to tell. Yeah, that's the problem with the fact that they didn't invent video sooner is all of these pictures. Yeah, they could have just been frozen in that position for ages. I believe it though, Dan. They are quite low tech yo-yos. You can see them. Well, I quite like the idea that it's a total misinterpretation of history because of crack that's incredible um speaking of cracks this one's for jack craketta your fact is ernest hemingway once stole a urinal from a bar saying he had pissed away so much of his money into it that he now owned it that's cool classic earnest it's a good line i've seen that i've seen that urinal oh you've been to his place i went to his house in key west and it's still there.

31:45Are you allowed to use it? No, it's in the garden. It's not plumbed. I was going to say they wouldn't stop you, but I think they would stop you because it's a museum. I reckon they would, yeah. Yeah, I mean, often if you get your willy out in a museum, generally they stop you, let alone you start pissing on one of the exhibits. Like considering how many of those statues have got the willies out, why am I the one being there? Joining in. when in Rome? Like it's happened again. That is the place where, didn't he breed a type of cat that had... Yeah, I saw them. They have six toes on each paw. And they're still there, are they? They're still there, yeah. That's amazing. And he also had the swimming pool that his wife put in when he was fornicating away during the Spanish Civil War.

32:29And she basically took all of his money and made a swimming pool. Oh, wow. Really? Yeah. Oh, she took all of his money and then built them a swimming pool with it. She built the swimming pool saying, well, if you're going to go and have fun in Spain, then I'm going to have fun here. Good on you, love. Yeah. So here is my last one for today. And this is now under the custodianship of T. Amos. And T, your fact is that the official medical diagnosis code for being struck by a chicken is different to that of being pecked by a chicken. Wow. These are fun. Yeah. We went through a lot of medical codes, didn't we? Yeah. And this is like if something happens to you and they need to say what's happened to you for surveying reasons they have to give you a code

33:09yeah and there's a code for almost anything you can think of the most specific things it feels like every new thing has a new code doesn't it and it's proper who classification system so we know how many people were struck by chickens compared to how many people were pecked by chickens yeah exactly imagine if you conflated those two completely flawed stats yeah and then So we know how many people were struck by chickens compared to how many people were pecked by chickens. Yeah. Exactly. Imagine if you conflated those two. Completely flawed stats. Yeah. And then you started removing all the chickens' beaks because you think all these people have been pecked, but they've actually been struck.

33:34Yeah. Really good point. I wonder how you get struck by a chicken. Do we think with the claw? Flying. Flying. Oh, because they can fly, despite what they're told chicken run. It's scared. It's turned around, flown into your face. Lovely, yeah. And there you go. Maybe the chicken was just upset that you made it lay 10,000 eggs and then threw it at a load of Spanish people. Justified. Yep. Sorry about that, Daisy. This is our last fact. What a weird name for a chicken. Daisy for a chicken. No wonder cows are running after you. You're giving away all your names to the chickens. Listen, I've got a fact. I've got to give it away. It's weighing me down and it's for Larissa. And this is the fact that the frog,

34:18whose Latin name means blue frog, is actually green. This is one of yours, Dan. It was, yeah. The thing that basically it probably was turquoise and no one can agree what colour it is. I think it's green. I think it's blue. And then they tossed a coin. It actually wasn't, even though they are similar colours, I think. I think I remember what it was. It was a specimen that was collected, put into a jar, and then it was transported somewhere. And by the time it arrived, it had discolored as a result of... Yeah, like the chemicals, the preservation chemicals. Is that right? Yeah, yeah. Well remembered. So they called it Blue Frog. Don't name things until you've seen a live version. That's my hot tip.

35:01So, Anna, what was the name of this dinosaur? Nope, no idea. Don't know. This one doesn't have a name. No, this one doesn't have a name no this one doesn't have a name either nope so you've seen the live one we're not giving them names they're all called Daisy I'm showing a real one okay well listen congratulations Larissa, T. Amos Jack, Sarah, Ricky Raiden Reborn, Justin and Rebecca you are now the custodians of those facts. And again, if you want to be one of the custodians, join Club Fish at our highest tier. It's called Friend of the Podcast, and you will get one of these with an awesome looking certificate. Otherwise, got a great fact, just send it into us, podcast at QI.com, and we will hopefully bring it

35:42to a next episode of Little Fish. But for now, that's all from me, Anna and James, and we'll see you on Friday with another big fish. And until then, goodbye.