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Little Fish: Bizarre Choreography, Schnapps, and Singing in Swedish

December 21, 2025·34 min·3 clips

A British polygamist invented jungle gyms in 1880s Japan to train kids to comprehend the fourth dimension.

This episode of Little Fish features hosts Dan Schreiber and Andy Murray sharing unusual listener-submitted facts. The hosts are comedians and researchers known for the podcast No Such Thing As A Fish and the TV show QI. Charles Howard Hinton, a British mathematician and polygamist, invented an early jungle gym in 1880s Japan to teach children fourth-dimensional geometry. Actor Richard Todd, a D-Day veteran, later portrayed his own commanding officer in the film *The Longest Day*. Listener Dario Persicino calculated it would take 1,418 years to consume a full Jesus via weekly communion wafers. Pope Pius XII received numerous hiccup cures from the public, now archived in the Vatican, and a listener claims a foolproof method involving choreography, schnapps, and Swedish singing. A radio tour guide alleged some breakfast shows use a voice filter to make hosts sound artificially happier. In Iceland, tourists mistakenly tag parking fee signs reading "Gjaldskulda" as a location. The Alabama state constitution, at roughly 373,000 words, is longer than *Anna Karenina*. A researcher on Marion Island studies wandering albatrosses, which can fly hundreds of miles without flapping by locking their wing joints. A biomechanist calculated elephants would need 10-meter-long legs to walk normally on the moon. The hosts reveal patrons now "custodian" facts from a past episode, including that Nazi-employed comedians Tran and Heller were fired. Other custodial facts note drunk zebrafish are followed by sober ones, the youngest woolly mammoths are older than the oldest pharaohs, and the Levi's CEO avoids washing his jeans. Napoleon's penis was inherited by a woman named Evan Latimer in 2007. The tone is lighthearted and conversational, filled with comedic banter and playful tangents. The style is educational but informal, focusing on obscure trivia and listener interactions. Fans of quirky history, oddball science, and humorous trivia will enjoy this collection of curious facts. Listeners preferring structured narratives or serious analysis might find the segment too fragmented.

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