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Chapter 1: What interesting facts do Dan, James, and Andy share in this episode?
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Hey everyone, welcome to another episode of Little Fish. This is the show where we put down our four favorite facts from the last seven days, and we go through the podcast at qi.com, email inbox, and cherry pick the best facts that you, the listener, have sent in. We get amazing facts every week, so if you do think of one, please send them in.
And also, if you want to be part of our club, Club Fish, at the highest tier, you'll be getting something very special, as everyone does at the end of this episode, which is we hand out a fact for you to be the custodian of from the 12 years of our archive. So why don't we get into it? Why don't we get some facts? Who wants to go first?
Here's one that's from Domen Kolchek, and it's on our favorite subject at the moment. Oh, great. We're putting together a book, as you guys know, of things that you think are named for one reason, but they're actually named for a different reason.
That's my second favorite subject, number one being people who paint things on the top of roofs. But yes, go on.
You know what?
like genuinely when i'm doing my research for the main show now i'm spying myself looking for these people i know i know they're so hard to find well we need a book they've been flooding into the inbox we do some of them on drop as a line and we're going to do i think probably keep doing some of them here it's become a little fish in joke anyway domen writes the online poker boom that became huge in the early 2000s was caused by the moneymaker effect
Oh, Chris Moneymaker.
Don't give away my punchline.
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Chapter 2: What is the story behind the 'Moneymaker Effect' in poker?
Do you know what? Lamborghinis are so rare and expensive that I just see, oh, it's a Lamborghini. Really? I would be able to say, oh, look, there's a Skoda Enyaq or whatever.
I must admit, I only knew one. It's Lamborghini Diablo. Oh. And Diablo is a famous fighting bull.
Is it?
Along with Temerario, Revuelto, Islero, Uracho, Uraco, all these words I never really heard of. Wow. There's one called the Lamborghini Jarama, which is the area of Spain where fighting bulls are bred, and a few other ones. And the only exception is the Countach. Okay, Lamborghini Countach. And Lamborghini Countach comes from a Piedmontese dialect exclamation of astonishment.
And it basically means, holy shit. And apparently the owner of Lamborghini saw this car's amazing design for the first time and went, holy shit. And then they went, we should call it that. And literally Count Hatch in Piedmont means plague. So, you know, in some countries, like you use the name of an illness as like a swear word, like smallpox or...
yep well i'm always doing that sniffly nose or whatever like in some countries that's quite big and i didn't know that yeah sorry the car's name means plague it means plague but like really it means holy shit it means right okay okay okay that's so funny um lamborghini is italian right yeah they were italian weren't they why are they all fighting you what's that all about what's going on there
Probably you can drive from Spain to Italy in one of their fantastically fast cars.
Yes, and if they would like to send us some. Yeah, they were Italian, but I wonder if perhaps it sounds foreign and exciting. Maybe, yeah. Obviously these days bullfighting very much frowned upon.
Absolutely. You wouldn't want to turn up to a bullfight in a Lamborghini anyway. No. I feel like a determined bull could do some damage to your wing mirrors.
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Chapter 3: How do Lamborghini car models relate to bullfighting?
And she said that in the recent Tottenham Arsenal game, she predicted that Spurs were going to beat Arsenal and that Arsenal would bottle the league and fail to win the football league. We don't know what will happen in the league yet, but Spurs did not win that game.
Right.
Arsenal won. Yes. Up the Arsenal. Yep.
I'm so glad you stopped when you said you think it's a vibe because I thought you were going to extend to vibrator there.
Yeah, it's not. I think it's a feeling that she gets. It's really uncertain what she does, but she has become a bit of a meme in the tabloids. I feel it in my fingers. Is that a wet, wet, wet joke?
It is. Oh, no. It wasn't meant to be.
This is a fact sent in by Warwick Pool, who says, I believe you once mentioned Insane Clown Posse. But here's a fact for you. Before they were a huge success, Violent J and Shaggy 2 Dope from Insane Clown Posse used to steal car stereo systems to support themselves. Once they stole a car radio, which actually had one of their own Insane Clown Posse tapes loaded into it.
They felt bad and apparently reinstalled it back into the fan's car. And there's an interview where you can see them talking about it. But yeah. So they were still stealing car stereos even after they had music released. Not all bands just become massive, right? They probably made tapes that they were selling at the end of gigs and so on. So yeah, they just happened to have...
stumbled across a fan of their stuff. Quite a cool thing to see when you're robbing it. You know, it'd be like us mugging a house and seeing a fish poster on the wall. Mugging a house. How are you doing that? What do you say? Robbing a house. You don't mug it.
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Chapter 4: What emotional moment does Johnny Knoxville share about his career?
and a bedstead yeah no great great fact um that was so victoria corinne mitchell came on that episode and i still remember the absolute fury she had when i said that my favorite movie was apollo 13 oh it like derailed the episode for quite some time she just couldn't believe it your favorite film is apollo 13 carry on camping or something yeah yeah
I mean, she was annoyed enough that it was the wrong Daniel Schreiber sitting at the table. Okay, Andy?
Okay, this one goes out to Ashley. Ashley, your fact is that in 1937, you could visit Romford Dog Track and watch cheetahs racing. Wow. This was an experiment they did where they raced cheetahs against each other and they, I think, showed no interest in racing because they saw this little mechanical rabbit and
They're like cats, aren't they? They're just cats.
They're very, very fast when they're very hungry and they need to prey on something. But I think they saw through it fairly quickly. Yeah.
Yeah, you don't get as many dog tracks as you used to. I also think the problem was that the jockeys were too heavy. Very nice. Very nice. Thank you, Andy. Okay, okay. So here is another fact. This one is now under the custodianship of Sam Kirk. Sam, your fact is that in 2010, the US military built a supercomputer out of 1,760 PlayStation 3s.
And what's exciting about this one is that just a couple of weeks ago, Leven Skyra mentioned this in a show and I kept it in the edit because I'd forgotten we'd done this already. And here it is. Here it is. It was a great fact. It's an amazing fact. Yeah.
And they'll be doing it because it was cheaper.
It was cheaper. And what I didn't keep in the edit and what Leven did explain is that when you make a PlayStation, you sell it for cheaper than you make it, more or less, really, or cheaper than it should be. And that's because you want people to buy the console because then they'll buy all the games and stuff. So it's almost like a loss leader.
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Chapter 5: What record did LeBron James recently achieve in basketball?
How else is it going to work?
Trick shot.
Trick shot off a few corners. You know what? I have shot myself with a bow and arrow.
Here we go.
It was just a graze.
Thank goodness.
But when I learned how to do archery, there's lots of things you have to do and lots of things you have to remember. And one of the things I messed up, I can't remember what it was exactly, but it meant that when I let go of the arrow, it skimmed past my nipple. Right. And really, really hurt my nipple as it went through.
That's a heck of a flick. Yeah.
It was painful. And I was like, does this happen to everyone? And they were like, well, not really. You should have done what we told you. So I missed one of their instructions. But yeah, apparently it's relatively common.
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