Episode 333: No Such Thing As Fingerprints On The Avocados

**No Such Thing As Fingerprints On The Avocados** is the 333rd episode of No Such Thing As A Fish, the 21st episode of the seventh year, and the 33rd episode of 2020. It consists of clips removed from previous episodes of the podcast.

It features regular presenters James Harkin, Andrew Hunter Murray, Anna Ptaszynski, and Dan Schreiber. Clips of QI Elf Anne Miller and special guest Greg Jenner can also be heard.

## Description

>  A show of outtakes from the last four months. Dan, James, Anna and Andy discuss Fingerprints, silly walks, figs, dunes and much much more.
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## Facts

* There's a theory that we only have hands because of figs. (Murray)
* When a particle accelerator at the National Accelerator Lab kept failing, they had to send in a ferret to clear up the broken magnets. (Murray)
* John Major's father made his money producing garden gnomes. (Schreiber)
* During the 16th century a church in Cornwall was buried so deep in sand that the priest had to be lowered in through a skylight. (Schreiber)
* According to Public Health England, Kit Kats and Penguin bars are biscuits not chocolate bars. (Ptaszynski)
* The Golden Mole Award for accidental yet brilliant discoveries only ran for one year. One of the winners discovered that lizard germs could give crickets an incredibly high libido. (Schreiber)
* In 2005 Alaska Zoo had to have a special treadmill built for an overweight elephant. (Murray)
* Officially the Mars 96 Russian space mission broke apart carrying plutonium fuel and landed in the ocean, but it's since been admitted that it probably landed somewhere on the Bolivia-Chile border. (Ptaszynski)
* The wrestler Balls Mahoney's fans would chant "Balls! Balls! Balls!" while he punched his opponents. (Murray)
* Both Jekyll and Hyde and Doctor Dolittle are based on one man. (Ptaszynski)
* In 1889 someone invented a loofah sock puppet. (Ptaszynski)
* In the 1920s you would ride along on the back of your motorised baby carriage. (Schreiber)
* Mozart's first visit to London was a total disaster because nobody believed a child could be so talented. (Jenner)
* The burrowing owl farms dung beetles to eat them. (Murray)
* During World War II the BBC banned Perry Como's *Deep in the Heart of Texas* during working hours. (Harkin)
* Before Dom Pérignon popularised champagne, people mostly drank perry. (Harkin)
* Before "coals to Newcastle" people used to say "owls to Athens". (Murray)
* P. T. Barnum's strongwoman Katie Sandwina once beat the father of modern bodybuilding in a weightlifting contest. (Ptaszynski)
* Skates lay their eggs near, but not too near, to hydrothermal vents so that they will develop properly. (Harkin)
* Stinking Bishop cheese is named after the Stinking Bishop pear, which is named after a man called Mr Bishop. (Harkin)
* There is a known case of someone swallowing one of his Apple Airpods and it still working after excretion. (Schreiber)
* Submarine tours of the Titanic cost exactly as much as a first-class ticket on the Titanic would have. (Ptaszynski)
* *Where's Wally?* is based on a German type of book for helping children develop their imaginations. (Harkin)
* The Saharan silver ant is the fastest ant in the world. (Harkin)
* The phrase "it's all gone pear-shaped" is only four years older than "it's all gone Pete Tong". (Harkin)
* In 19th century France the biggest political meme was to draw the King as a pear. (Ptaszynski)

## Trivia

* This is the twentieth Working From Home episode due to the Coronavirus pandemic.
* It is the seventh compilation episode after No Such Thing As Unbroadcastable Material, Extra Bits, No Such Thing As Wasted Material 2017, Episode 249: No Such Thing As A Pint of Wine, Episode 302: No Such Thing As A Hedgehog Circus, and No Such Thing As The iSausage.
	+ It was the second compilation episode, after iSausage, to be released at a time other than New Year.
* Ferrets being used to go down tunnels was part of a fact in Episode 94: No Such Thing As Sexy Mucus Pajamas.
* Harkin initially suggests that the Cornish church might be one of Dan's Facts but it is actually very well-documented.
	+ Murray suggests the priest was preaching to the death worms.
* The Tate & Lyle logo and bugonia were both mentioned in TBA, Episode 268, Episode 289, and Episode 303.
* The fact that it is easier to jump multiple times your body length, or lift multiple times your weight, the smaller you are was previously mentioned in TBA and Episode 289: No Such Thing As A Horse Called Brian.
* Murray gives his twitter name as @BallsBallsBalls.