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Chapter 1: What interesting facts are shared in this episode?
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Hi everyone and welcome to this episode of Little Fish, the podcast from the makers of Big Nose's Thing as a Fish, where we throw away our facts and we look at the fantastic facts that you guys have been sending to podcastatqi.com. Andy has gone through the inbox and he's picked the very choicest of plums and thrown them in our faces and we will now regurgitate them for you. So...
This is horrible.
That's the problem with starting a sentence where you don't know where it's going to go. I hear you. Who's going to chuck a plum my way?
Can I vomit up a little something? Yes, please. Because it's related to actually last week's episode of Little Fish. It's about Shaggy. You might remember all that time ago we talked about the similarities between Shaggy and Poirot. So much has happened in those seven days.
Yeah.
I know, it seems like a year ago. Yeah. You're wearing the same clothes, though. Yes. I've actually changed my baseball cap so the people looking at video will think it's a different day. Oh, right. Sorry, I've just exploded the fiction. Well, this is from Don Wilson. And Don Wilson says, last night I was re-watching Scooby-Doo. Scooby-Doo on Zombie Island, in fact.
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Chapter 2: What is the debate about the TikTokker who doesn't exist?
You know, you need to heat it up and up and up. So you have a tube that goes near, a flame tube that goes near it.
And what are they called?
Flame tubes. Well, really, they're more flam tubes because they were invented by an engineer called Jean-Baptiste Flam.
Yeah, but they're not named after him. That's just a coincidence, right? Or are they?
Cameron doesn't relate.
What?
It's close enough, I thought. Is it? Well, Cameron thinks so, and I'm backing Cameron.
So Cameron thinks they're named after a flam, even though they're called Flame.
Yeah. Well, they might be flam tubes. The thing is, it's all translated. There's very little information on these tubes in English, which is annoying. But in Belgium, Cameron also, I believe, went to see a big hole in the ground, the Hooge Crater, which is named after the nearby village of Hooge. Is that good?
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Chapter 3: How did the discussion shift to the similarities between Shaggy and Poirot?
Okay, so he's doing it with his right hand, so that's better.
Yeah, maybe, yeah. That's what he said to the officer. I'm a right-handed officer.
It doesn't make any difference. So cool. Is it my turn?
Yeah.
That's my turn. This is from Stephen. Hi, everyone. Stephen here from Melbourne, Australia. We know where Melbourne is, Stephen. No, there is a Melbourne just near London, actually. There's probably one in Canada, probably loads in America. Yeah, the first shots fired by the British Empire in World War I were in the southern tip of eastern Australia. I didn't know about this.
As far away as you can get from Europe, he said. So it was a warning shot from, and he specifies the gun, a six-inch Mark VII gun at Fort Nepe in Victoria. And August 5th, 1914, and it was because Britain had just declared war on Germany. And at the time, I think there was a ship, the SS Pfalz, a German merchant steamer that was just hanging out.
nearby and as soon as Britain declared war they called the Australians like we've declared war have you got any Germans nearby that you need to shoot at and they were like actually yeah there's this steamer here should we shoot at him and they did and he surrendered straight away and there we go Australia won the war that was the end of the war they could have called an end to it there couldn't they just like who calls an end to it though that's the thing with wars you can't just shoot one thing and go okay that's it I'm retiring undefeated from this war
I've got a fact. This is another military one, in fact. It's from Jason Spiromilio, and it's that the USA didn't have an air force during the Second World War, which I find extremely funny as a fact. Sorry? The US Air Force was established in 1947.
What planes were they using before that then?
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Chapter 4: What are the surprising facts about Belgian inventors and steam locomotives?
But even so, well done for trying. It's amazing. So it doesn't look that much like it. It does look enough.
And the leaves all kind of look quite similar, don't they?
Oh, James. Leaf community, if you're listening, write in to podcast.qi.com.
Write to James personally, please. I'm not sifting through 53,000 angry emails from leaf peepers. No way. I think I find the leaves are very varied. Okay. Variegated, you mean.
We don't know how they do it.
But did you say different bits of the plant can look like different nearby other plants? Yes. Now that is cool.
Amazing.
If I could disguise my left arm as an elephant's trunk and my right arm as a tiger's nose or whatever. You'd be in an odd place. But you'd be blending in with everything around you.
Absolutely. I disagree. I think the tigers are going to say, who's that weird guy with an elephant trunk? And the elephants are going to say, who's that weird guy with a tiger's nose? Yeah.
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Chapter 5: What is the significance of flame tubes in steam engines?
And he couldn't leave the house for two days once because someone had taken his hat. Took his hat, yeah.
He left it at the window.
This is part of the paper is that appearing hatless was just unbelievably slovenly.
I just can't believe we came here today and you two aren't wearing hats. It was literally the first thing I thought of when the mics came on today. I was like, those two. Slavenly people.
Slavens. So there was a bloke called Thomas Elwood. He was a teenager in 1659. And like all rebellious teenagers, he wanted to go and join the Quakers. But his father wanted to stop him, right? And couldn't think of any way to stop him. Kept trying, kept banning him, kept forbidding it. And eventually had a brainwave and thought, I'll just confiscate all of his hats. That's amazing.
And Thomas Elwood, the young man, wrote, he couldn't go out unless I would have run about the country bareheaded like a madman. People would think you went seriously ill if you didn't have a hat on.
It's like stealing someone's trousers.
It pretty much is.
It pretty much is.
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Chapter 6: How do the hosts discuss the dangers of chlorine trifluoride?
Very record-like bit of English history. I don't think it's going to bring in the punters in the same way. No. We've recreated Jenkins' Ear. Who? Yeah.
yeah yeah doesn't voldemort not have ears i think he doesn't have a nose nose damn i always confuse those my dark lord's got no nose how does he smell terrible um sometimes it's just nice to give you something to put silence it's just you've already said that on this podcast and i can't remember who was the guest but they did not go for it i believe the phrase was what the fuck was that
Oh, yeah. Do you remember who it was? Was it Amy? I can't remember who it was.
No, Amy Gertel. She'd have loved that.
Yeah, maybe not Amy.
Sounds like it might have been Ella.
Oh, I know who it was. Was it not Ray? It was Ray O'Leary. It was.
I was like, what was that? Such a nice, polite man, but he had to know what had gone wrong there.
Maybe he didn't get it.
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