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Hello, and welcome to another episode of No Such Thing as a Fish Presents the World Cup of Facts.

This is the only World Cup podcast out there that makes absolutely no mention of football whatsoever.

Brought to you by the QI Elves in association with VisitEngland.com.

My name is Dan Schreiber.

I'm sitting here with James Harkin, Anna Chaczynski, and Andy Murray.

And today's match is France versus Honduras.

France.

I found a nice number of silly-named places.

Oh, good.

France.

Always love a silly named place.

So So there were six places in France called silly, 13 called Billy,

and a place called Pratt, which is great.

There's also pissy, corny, punchy, misery, messy, and pussy.

That's the French seven dwarfs.

Yeah.

Potatoes were illegal in France between 1748 and 1772.

What happened?

You weren't allowed to grow them.

People thought that they were very bad for your health.

And then a great hero chemist called Antoine-Augustin Parmentier is the man who rehabilitated them and said, actually, they are okay.

He said, This is nonsense.

This is fine.

I think bits of them can be harmful, but if you eat the actual potato bit, you're generally alright.

Oh, so they thought they were actually harmful.

It wasn't just Pierre Atkins of the early 18th century saying.

No, they thought they made you very ill.

And in the 16th century, France, women were forbidden from eating artichokes because they were thought to be aphrodisiacs.

Wow, wow.

A lot of food banning going on.

Has a lot of good kings, France.

Charles the Mad, he was one of the best, wasn't he?

Charles VI,

who ruled in the 15th century.

He thought he was made of glass and was terrified he was going to shatter.

I think he had iron rods installed in all of his clothes to make sure that he didn't shatter.

And people weren't allowed to touch him.

Louis X of France is the first tennis player whose name is known from history.

Ah,

really?

Was he any good?

What was his forte?

Top spin?

I have no idea.

Louis XV installed, some people would say, the first example of a lift, as in a lift that carries humans.

And he installed a lift, his flying chair.

Is that what he called it?

The flying chair.

Why did we stop calling lifts flying chairs?

He installed down flying chairs.

Because we stopped sitting in them.

Yeah, he installed his flying chair so that he could transport his mistress, who was two floors above him in the palace at Versailles, up and down to visit him whenever she wanted to.

Surely it's much more obvious to install a massive lift than Never.

Oh, you're so subtle.

Thank God you came this way.

The servants will never know.

Apart from the servant who's doing the door in the lift.

Yeah.

And the bunch of people watching it going, what is this machine?

This is amazing.

He was great, though.

He also installed a flying table, his table volante, which descended from the...

So he'd be having a big dinner in his dining room.

And then after one course, a hole would appear in the floor and the table would sink down into the kitchens below.

And the servants would load it up with all the food for their next course.

And then it would rise up again

into his dining dining room.

That's proper showmanship.

I can see why he had a mistress now, because that's a pretty impressive move.

It is.

It was to stop the invasive, filthy servants being seen at the dinner table.

Oh.

Another Louis, Louis XVIII of France, supposedly could tell from smelling a rabbit stew which part of France the rabbit had been killed in.

Wow.

But I think that might be hype.

Because I just don't believe it.

In 1948, the French Olympic team sent their wine ahead a month in advance so that it had had time to settle.

Very cool.

Do you know where 85%

of French people like to go on holiday?

Oh, wait, is it nowhere?

They don't go anywhere.

Well, they go to France.

Yeah, yeah.

85% of French people go to France for their holidays.

They could come to England, which invented champagne.

Just thought I'd mention that.

Oh, yeah.

Yep.

It's an English invention.

In the 15th century, France, one in every four days was an official holiday of some sort.

And that still is the case today.

Yeah.

And they would, they created their own saints, such as Saint Coquette, the patron saint of talkative women, and Saint Jambon, patron saint of ham.

That one needs a patron saint of ham.

The guillotine was only made legal, was only outlawed in France in 1981, wasn't it?

So it was, and the last person to be guillotined in France was in 1977.

Wow.

And the last public one was in 1939, and Christopher Lee went.

The actor Christopher Lee from all the Hammer Horror films and the man with the gods.

gun.

He was there, he was 17 years old at the time, and he saw France's last public guillotining.

Wow.

Pretty crazy.

We have the French Revolution to thank for public zoos.

I think it was the French Revolution that caused the creation of the first public zoo because the National Assembly ruled that all privately owned exotic animals had to be donated to the Versailles state, and so they set up a zoo.

But I also really love the giraffe called Zarafa, which was a gift to the French King Charles X from the Ottoman viceroy.

And she became so popular, this giraffe, and so famous that people in Paris started dressing like giraffes and having these giraffe-esque hairstyles and like giraffe skin imitation coats being really fashionable, but yeah, giraffe hairstyles, they were in the 19th century.

Well, they also ate all the animals in the Paris Zoo in 1870 when there was a siege.

Yeah, someone else wait Manet's cat

really during that siege, I think.

Wow.

Well, they had the Great Cat Massacre, didn't they?

Is that in France?

That was in France in, hold on, I try try to remember.

In 1730s France, it was a form of workers' revolt, and basically printers' apprentices were annoyed that they were being treated worse off than their bosses' cats.

And so, and they were being fed rubbish cat food and everything.

So, at night, they imitated these howling cats that their bosses love so much, night after night, until the printer's bosses thought that the cats were, like,

were satanic and evil, and ordered that they all be killed.

And then they made the apprentices go out and massacre them all, and then they got hanged.

How do you hang at the cats?

So they killed them all, they then put them on trial post-mortem and then they hanged them so they found guilty of witchcraft they have to do it nine times for each cat

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And there are three questions today.

James, the first question.

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And Anna, what's yours?

My question is: which road in England has been used as a road since before Britain was an island?

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And 66% of the whole country's imports were bananas in 1913.

Speaking of fruit companies, you know, Nixon after the moon landings gave a moon bit of moonrock to every country in the world, and Honduras was one of those countries.

And the bit of moonrock mysteriously disappeared very soon after it had been given to the country.

And it was found in possession of, it was bought by a fruit seller in 1993, I think, for quite a lot of money.

Wow, wow, a fruit seller.

A fruit seller, yeah.

Presumably a rich, big business fruit seller, not a guy with a stall.

Yeah, not a guy who's just selling apples for 10 cents a piece.

Like apple, 10 cents, banana, 15 cents, moonrock, $200,000.

I just came out for an apple, but actually.

I like this.

This is something I read about these guys: is that they have a lot of fish falling out of the sky in Honduras.

A lot of fish.

Falling out of the sky.

So much so that they have an annual festival now called the Honduran Festival of the Reign of the Fishes, where they celebrate the kind of anticipation that it's going to happen again.

It happens so regularly now.

They don't know.

They don't know where the fish come from, but thousands of fish just fall out of the sky.

At the same time every year.

At the same time.

Not at the same time every year.

But it's happened enough times.

Such a common occurrence that, and it's a thing that happens worldwide where you know things fall.

I think it is every year in Honduras, isn't it?

I think it's every

is the claim, although it was gone to be, it went to be verified by National Geographic in the 70s, and they said there were fish all over the streets, but they still couldn't get any evidence of it falling from them falling from the sky.

One of the most famous things about Honduras, I know we're not supposed to mention football, was the football war.

Oh, okay.

Of course.

Honduras versus El Salvador, they met in a soccer match in 1970.

It It was a very tense match and then some fighting broke out on their stands and eventually it turned into a war.

It lasted six days and as usual there was no side that could declare themselves the winner.

We were talking about bananas before and fruit.

There was there's still a lot of bananas grown in Honduras but obviously as we all know bananas are in a bit of trouble with viruses and stuff and they might be dying out.

But there's some Honduran scientists who are trying to help with that and they sieved 400 tons of bananas to find just 15 seeds for breeding a new type of banana.

Wow.

That is pretty good work isn't it?

Yeah, that's very exciting.

I've never sieved bananas.

Need a big sieve.

Yeah.

Imagine.

Well, I think that was just a metaphor.

I see.

Sorry.

I was thinking a colander at least.

I like the idea of new bananas.

Yeah.

A new species of bananas.

I'm sure there are loads of species of bananas, but it's just that we only eat one of them.

Oh.

Why are there so many then?

Are the others all going edible?

Plantains are a type of banana, but there are other kinds of plantains that are more woody and with lots of seeds, which are pretty inedible.

Okay.

Okay.

Honduras was also the first spot of land where Columbus landed.

Columbus comes up in almost every one of these podcasts.

He was a busy boy.

He did a lot of stuff.

Yeah, it was Trujillo in Honduras.

That was the first bit of mainland America he landed on.

Oh, wow.

Yeah.

They should be called Columbia.

Yeah.

I think that would be quite confusing, though, because there already is a Columbia.

I think I would have heard of a place called Columbia.

That's a good point.

The Honduran flag, this is just a tiny little nugget, but the Honduran flag, you know, it has its three stripes and the two outer stripes are blue, and that's to represent the ocean on either side of it.

So it's the Caribbean Sea on one side and the Pacific Ocean on the other.

Which is nice.

That's cool.

Okay, there it is as the final whistle.

But before we find out who's won today's match, we are going to quickly reveal the answers to that visit England quiz that we did as our halftime show.

And the answer to the first question, James.

How many oaks in seven oaks?

Yep.

Is it seven?

It's six.

It's eight.

Oh, we should have known.

They had seven.

Six of them blew down and then they planted another seven.

Okay, Andy, what your question?

Mine was about the classic dad pastime, which has an entire Merseyside Museum, and that is mowing the lawn.

There is a lawnmower museum there.

Okay, and question number three was yours, Anna.

Yeah, so I asked which road in England has been used as a road since before Britain was an island, and it is the Ridgeway, which I'm sure many of you know runs through a lot of these southern counties.

Okay, fantastic.

All right.

Well, those are the answers.

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Possibly a signed QI book from Anna Trasinski, which would be very exciting.

Now it's time to decide who has won today's match, and we are going to go to Anna to make that decision, France or Honduras?

Well, I always like to send wine ahead of me wherever I go to make sure it arrives on time and is sufficiently cool.

And so I'm going to go with France because they do it too.

Okay.

Okay, so that's it from us.

We're going to be back again tomorrow with another match, and that will be James.

That is Germany against Portugal.

Germany versus Portugal.

Great.

If you want to ask us questions about this match, though, you can get us on our Twitter handles.

I'm on at Schreiberland, James.

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Andy.

At Andrew Hunter M.

Adada.

At Wikipedia.

Which is the QI Twitter feed, not mine, but I'll reply.

Okay, we'll see you guys again tomorrow.

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