First broadcast 14th September 2015.
Lee Mack
Simon Foster
Emily Grossman
Maggie Aderin-Pocock
John Sergeant
Jimmy Carr
Jameela Jamil
Ricky Wilson
Elizabeth Milne
Alana James
Lee Mack
Simon Foster
Emily Grossman
Maggie Aderin-Pocock
John Sergeant
Jimmy Carr
Jameela Jamil
Ricky Wilson
Elizabeth Milne
Alana James
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00:00This is a show where we reveal some of the most bizarre and brilliant facts you've ever
00:24heard.
00:25Each of tonight's guests have brought along their own favourite fact which we will be
00:28putting to the test to decide who's his best.
00:30So before we hear the facts, let's see who's joining me tonight.
00:33A fact about my first guest is that he once came face to face in the water with a ten
00:37foot shark.
00:38It was the terrifyingly scary dead eyes and unnaturally bright white teeth that fortunately
00:43scared the shark off.
00:44Please welcome Jimmy Carr.
00:45Jimmy, you see what I did?
00:46I think I see what you did.
00:47You swapped it around.
00:48Incredible.
00:49A fact about my second guest is that, amongst others, she has interviewed Denzel Washington,
00:58Jennifer Aniston and Johnny Depp.
01:00Although considering she's only looking for someone to do eight hours clean in a week,
01:03I'd say she's aiming too high.
01:04Please welcome Jameela Jamil.
01:05An interesting fact about my final guest is his band is named after a South African football
01:15club.
01:16So please welcome lead singer of the Soweto Wednesday, Ricky Wilson.
01:20Alright.
01:21Okay, let's get on with the show.
01:25Okay, let's get on with the show.
01:27All of tonight's guests have brought in a fact that they really love, but who's his
01:30best?
01:31It's time for round one.
01:32Fact off.
01:36Jimmy, you're up first.
01:37What's your fact?
01:38Okay.
01:39Our brains are unlikely to realise if a person we are talking to suddenly changes into someone
01:44else.
01:45No.
01:46That can't be true.
01:47It is.
01:48It's based on misdirection.
01:49All magic's kind of based on this.
01:50It's a thing called change blindness.
01:51So what happens is the conscious mind focuses on one thing and you don't notice the other
01:55things going on in the background.
01:57So actually you could be asking for information from someone and they could change into someone
02:01else and you wouldn't notice.
02:03Not people you know, obviously.
02:04It has to be complete.
02:05Not people you know.
02:06It's got to be strangers.
02:07You know, a lot of the stuff that you see Derren Brown do on stage is based on this.
02:09So he's getting you to focus on three things over here so you don't notice what's happening
02:13on the other side.
02:14I did once have a ten minute conversation with Sadie Frost and at the end of it I thought,
02:18I've got to ask, why are you doing that Scottish accent?
02:20And she went, I'm Charlene Spiteri.
02:23So that was an embarrassing moment.
02:24That is bad.
02:25Even just saying it makes me shrink a little bit.
02:27I get the sort of the flip side thing where about like ten minutes into a conversation
02:31someone won't have said sort of hello sort of properly and they'll go, oh it's just really
02:35nice to meet you Alan.
02:38I mean I genuinely had a guy come up to me in the street recently and go, oh, it's like
02:41all excited.
02:42He went, oh, I didn't recognise you.
02:43I said, yeah, you did.
02:48When someone recognises me or they think they've recognised me, regardless, I don't chance
02:51it.
02:52I'll be like, hey!
02:53Back.
02:54And I'll be equally excited to see them.
02:55In case you know them on a personal level.
02:56Exactly.
02:57And I'll pretend that I know them.
02:58But then the moment that they realise that they don't actually know me, I now look mental.
03:04So just clarify your statement.
03:05So you're saying if...
03:06I'm saying our brains are unlikely, it's not for everyone, like some people would get it
03:09straight away.
03:10Our brains are unlikely to realise if a person we're talking to suddenly changes into someone
03:14else.
03:15Isn't this what they did with the sugar babes?
03:19They just slowly changed them without anyone noticing.
03:23I think it was like National Service.
03:24You were in the sugar babes for a while, weren't you?
03:26If you are called up for National Service for the sugar babes, do what I did.
03:28Say you're diabetic.
03:29You don't have to go.
03:32I once did one.
03:33My worst thing in not quite being recognised and thought I was, was I was talking to someone
03:37here and I heard somebody say, can I get a photograph?
03:40And without turning round, I turned round, I put my arm on their shoulder, carried on
03:44went to smile and it was at that point I realised that they were the one taking the photograph
03:48of somebody else and they'd not been to the show, they were Americans, they had no idea
03:52who I was.
03:53So basically said, hey, let's get a photograph, meaning them lot, in front of some statue
03:56and I just gone in, leaned in like that to the photographer and then I had to commit
04:00to it.
04:01I was too embarrassed.
04:02So I just sort of stayed there and went, come on, smile.
04:04And this woman's like, what the hell is this guy doing?
04:08Okay, you've heard what this lot think, but there's only one way to find out for sure.
04:12Let's see what happened when we put this to the test.
04:20If you've ever mistaken someone else's child for your own or started talking to a man thinking
04:26he's your wife, don't panic.
04:29You don't need glasses.
04:31It's something called change blindness.
04:34Here's our expert.
04:36Change blindness is a perceptual phenomenon that occurs when a change in a visual stimulus
04:41is introduced and an observer doesn't notice it.
04:44For example, an object that has moved or disappeared.
04:48This can even happen when the change in question is large, simply because we don't expect the
04:53change.
04:54Our attention is limited.
04:55We have to pick and choose what to focus on.
04:58We can't really focus on more than one thing at any given time.
05:02As a result, we often dismiss a large amount of information in the world around us, simply
05:07because we don't expect the change.
05:11Seeing is believing.
05:13Bring on the test.
05:16In order to test this astonishing theory, we asked an actor, Luke, to help.
05:22He went to a busy market square.
05:24We watched with hidden cameras.
05:27His job was to ask people for directions, and during each conversation, we will switch
05:33him for someone else and see if anyone notices.
05:40Our first change isn't too dramatic.
05:43Luke is replaced by a double no.
05:47How do they get on?
05:49Excuse me, sir, do you mind, um, I just need to get Liverpool Street.
06:00Well, I would get out of here, turn right, straight to the end of the road.
06:05Oh, right, because I was told to go that way, and then I got lost.
06:08Apologies.
06:09Well, it's the same thing.
06:10So, if you go straight up here, you get into the kind of square where the tent is.
06:15Amazingly, no one notices that Luke has been replaced by our look-alike.
06:21But to make the change more obvious, this time he's given a different coloured T-shirt.
06:28Yes, sorry.
06:31You go on the Bishop's Gate, then you go on the left.
06:34Brilliant, thank you very much.
06:35Cheers.
06:36Remarkably, only two people noticed that Luke has changed,
06:42giving us an 8 out of 10 success rate.
06:46To test the theory further, a more drastic change.
06:50Luke will be replaced by an older man, Roddy.
06:54Surely people will notice the difference now.
06:57And then left, back, right.
07:01So, to be clear, am I here or there?
07:05She doesn't blink an eye.
07:07Great, thanks very much.
07:09And remarkably, it works again.
07:11So, am I at this part of Spitalfields or this part?
07:14And again.
07:15What about if I go that way?
07:16In fact, 7 out of 10 people didn't notice the switch.
07:21This part of Spitalfields or this part?
07:23But we still weren't absolutely sure.
07:27To scientifically prove our theory, this time a change that surely everyone will notice.
07:35Could change blindness really make people oblivious to the obvious?
07:41Sorry, man.
07:42Thanks very much.
07:43Right, so what's the best way to Liverpool Street?
07:48What is this? What have you done?
07:49This time round, people aren't being fooled so easily.
07:53You're not the same person.
07:54You're a different dude.
07:56I can see that.
07:57Sorry.
08:00Right, so...
08:01It's just you.
08:02But then, amazingly...
08:05Sorry.
08:07Right, so do I go Street?
08:09The theory starts to work.
08:11Out of 10 encounters...
08:13Right, so is this where we are now?
08:15Astonishingly, 6 people didn't realise they were speaking to someone of a different colour.
08:22So this proves it.
08:23Sometimes people are blind to changes that happen right in front of their eyes.
08:32I mean, that's amazing.
08:34I mean, I can understand maybe a bit of air missing,
08:37but they're completely different faces.
08:39What's interesting is that woman sort of double-took and then sort of went,
08:42like she noticed something, but she didn't quite know what she noticed,
08:45but carried on with it anyway.
08:46I think people tend to, when you're talking to or listen to someone,
08:49you tend to do it primarily with your ears.
08:51And if that's not the case, then the voice doesn't work.
08:56Thankfully, every week we're joined by our resident experts
08:58who can tell us a little bit more about this fact.
09:00So please welcome Specialist in Cell Biology and Genetics,
09:02Dr Emily Grossman, Rocket Scientist, Dr Simon Foster,
09:05and Expert in Space and Mechanical Engineering,
09:07Dr Maggie Aderin-Pocock, otherwise known as The Verifiers.
09:15So, are there other ways that we're susceptible to change blindness,
09:18apart from sort of not recognising other people in front of us?
09:21Well, the key to this is that it's got to be something unexpected.
09:24So basically, our brain's not on the lookout for it.
09:26So we're not expecting someone to magically tell us
09:29or we're not expecting someone to magically morph into somebody else
09:31or someone to be wearing a different shirt or an object to appear.
09:34And that's why there are some examples of how this can happen.
09:36So, like, when you're at a restaurant,
09:38you ask the wrong waiter for the bill
09:40because you assume it's the same person,
09:42even though they might actually look quite different.
09:44Or if you've ever watched a movie where you see a stunt,
09:46like someone jumping off the back of a train,
09:48and you're like, oh, yeah, that's totally James Bond.
09:50And then if you actually freeze-frame it, they look totally different.
09:52But you don't expect them to because you don't expect
09:54one person to have morphed into somebody else
09:56or someone to have changed their shirt
09:58because you're talking to them.
10:00Right. But it has to be certain situations.
10:02We can't say, like, what were you doing in that hotel with her?
10:04Oh, sorry, love, I thought it was you.
10:06That would imply you weren't concentrating on her face.
10:12OK, so that was Jimmy's fact, but how good was it?
10:14That's down to our audience here tonight.
10:16So using your keypads on a scale of one to ten,
10:18how impressed were you?
10:20Vote now.
10:22Right, so let's find out
10:24what the average rating from our audience was.
10:26Pretty confident.
10:28Ooh, Jimmy with an eight.
10:30That's big on this show, that's big.
10:32Huge.
10:34Well done, Jimmy.
10:36Lee, I can't really take credit for that, though,
10:38cos they may well think I'm someone else.
10:40Certainly might. We've got a sold-out crowd.
10:42Not everyone was impressed, though.
10:44What?
10:46Danielle Carruthers, which is a great name.
10:48Danielle Carruthers, where are you?
10:50Did you hear that?
10:52Look, that is a defeatist. Oh, I knew it.
10:54I got it wrong.
10:56What do you mean, you got it wrong?
10:58You have to press one to ten.
11:00There's not a lot to deal with without Danielle.
11:02I was thinking about it, and then I went to press the zero,
11:04I was going to go for ten, and it stopped.
11:06Don't backtrack, cos Jimmy Carr's looking at you.
11:08This is the excuse he used
11:10when he fielded his tax return.
11:20OK, we've heard Jimmy's favourite fact,
11:22but join us after the break
11:24when Ricky will try to win us over with his.
11:36Welcome back to Duck, Quack, Stone, Echo,
11:38the show that puts extraordinary facts to the test.
11:40Still with me are Jimmy Carr,
11:42Ricky Wilson and Jamila Jamil.
11:46Before the break, we saw Jimmy win eight points
11:48for his fact that our brains are unlikely
11:50to realise if a person we are talking to
11:52suddenly changes into someone else.
11:54Ricky, you're next. What fact have you gone for?
11:56So, you can make fire
11:58dance with music.
12:00That kind of statement
12:02where I'm from could get you drowned
12:04as a witch.
12:06It sounds like you're writing lyrics for a 70s song.
12:08It sounds Duran Duran-y, doesn't it?
12:10What do you mean, you can make fire dance
12:12with music? It's very technical.
12:14I don't want to get too involved in the technical
12:16side of it, because obviously...
12:18He doesn't know it.
12:20What you do is
12:22you get a tube.
12:24You drill a load of holes in it.
12:26It has a technical name, but I won't tell you what it is.
12:28I think it might be a flute.
12:30It's a Rubens tube.
12:32It's not a flute, Jimmy. It's definitely not a flute.
12:34It's a Rubens tube.
12:36Oh, I could never do those things.
12:38Down one end,
12:40you fire gas
12:42and then you light it.
12:44It's spectacular.
12:46Down the other end, you fire music.
12:48And then when the beat
12:50goes on, you see
12:52the musical waves
12:54going up and down, and it looks
12:56spectacular.
12:58This is like a graphic equaliser from the 80s,
13:00but in fire.
13:02And I know about this, because I really thought
13:04this would be a great front-of-stage gimmick.
13:06Because you've got to have a gimmick.
13:08No, that's you.
13:10To have the front of the crowd
13:12to see our front row.
13:18You've got to have a gimmick.
13:20You've got your three-piece suit, which is nice.
13:22Unadvised, being in a hot studio,
13:24you must be sweltering under there.
13:26You've got a handkerchief. Unadvised, you haven't got a cold.
13:34So I thought that would be a great idea,
13:36but it's quite costly to achieve it
13:38and take it around the country.
13:40It was dangerous and awful. I caught fire at a gig.
13:42Did you?
13:44What do you mean you caught fire?
13:46My sleeve caught fire at a gig, because
13:48I think it was Tiny Temper had loads of pyrotechnics
13:50going on on stage.
13:52And my arm caught fire
13:54in one of the big flames.
13:56What happened?
13:58I'm quite tall, and it was a flammable jacket,
14:00because I wear cheap clothes.
14:02Are you all right?
14:04I'm fine.
14:06I mean, you could sue.
14:08Someone has blamed as a claim.
14:10Exactly.
14:12Tiny Temper set fire to you at work.
14:14Maybe Snoop Dogg has hit you with a hammer.
14:18Oh, that would be MC Hammer.
14:20OK.
14:22Ricky, you obviously believe this fact is true,
14:24so you'll be able to prove it when we test it out.
14:26But before we do, let's see the science behind it.
14:28Harnessing fire is one of our greatest achievements.
14:30In order to start one,
14:32you need oxygen from the air.
14:34Air is also needed
14:37for you to hear sound,
14:39because sound waves
14:41need to pass through something.
14:43Incredibly, by passing sound
14:45through a fire,
14:47you can actually see the sound waves.
14:49To demonstrate this,
14:51we'll use a loudspeaker,
14:53a long tube,
14:55and, of course, some fire.
15:03OK.
15:05To demonstrate this,
15:07Ricky is going to play a couple of notes on the keyboard
15:09to show how the fire reacts differently to notes.
15:11But seriously, before we do,
15:13can everyone in the audience just turn around and face the other way?
15:15It's not health and safety.
15:17I just want to see how he likes it.
15:19So, Ricky, give me a chord.
15:21I can't actually play an instrument.
15:23It's all right. We've got all your albums.
15:25It's just the voice.
15:27All right, go on.
15:29OK.
15:31Just play a chord.
15:33Yes.
15:35Maybe play a bit louder.
15:41In fact, if you play it louder,
15:43we'll chuck some sausages on.
15:45Do you want to go?
15:47See if you recognise this theme music.
15:49LAUGHTER
16:01CHEERING
16:07I don't know how you couldn't be impressed by that.
16:11LAUGHTER
16:13LAUGHTER
16:17Sorry, carry on.
16:19So, let's find out what happens...
16:23That was me just remembering that I've left my car keys at home.
16:25LAUGHTER
16:27Let's play some music.
16:31LAUGHTER
16:37LAUGHTER
16:43So, there we have it.
16:45You really can make fire dancing music.
16:47Thank you, Ricky.
16:49Come and join me back at the desk.
16:51APPLAUSE
16:55CHEERING
17:01What do you think?
17:03Dancing.
17:05Impressive.
17:07I really thought, just for a minute,
17:09I thought, I was in a band.
17:11Yeah.
17:13I think it's a genius idea to have it in a gas fire in the house.
17:15You keep moving away from the idea
17:17of, like, having it at a show as a musician.
17:19Is that just because you're being cheap?
17:21Very cheap.
17:23Well, it's hard to fit it into every venue,
17:25because venue sizes differ, especially for...
17:27How small are the venues that you couldn't fit that into your venue?
17:29LAUGHTER
17:31I think the Kaiser Chiefs are doing all right.
17:33Come on.
17:35We do a lot of wine bars.
17:37OK, so we've tested Ricky's fat,
17:39but let's find out how impressive our audience thought it was.
17:41Time for you to all give it a mark out of ten.
17:43Please vote now.
17:45MUSIC
17:49So let's find out what the average rating for your fat is
17:51and where that puts you on the leaderboard.
17:53Ricky's got a nine.
17:55Oh, really?
17:57That is a high score on the show.
17:59You would have got possibly a ten
18:01if people hadn't marked you down to a one,
18:03like Vicky Woosh.
18:05How do you pronounce it?
18:07Wooshay!
18:09LAUGHTER
18:11Just, I mean, come on,
18:13check yourself before you wreck yourself.
18:15LAUGHTER
18:17So why did you only give that a one, Vicky Wooshay?
18:19LAUGHTER
18:21I was really disappointed that Ricky couldn't play the scales
18:23and that you were a much better musician,
18:25so I would have given you a ten.
18:27It's not much better, it's Mooshay.
18:29LAUGHTER
18:31APPLAUSE
18:33Come on, that's pretty good.
18:35APPLAUSE
18:37Hey, I'm listening, go on.
18:39Well, I was going to give you a ten
18:41and now I'm going to give you a one as well.
18:43You're going to give me one, are you?
18:45LAUGHTER
18:47Vicky, why did you not like that fact?
18:49I thought it was just disappointing.
18:51I was expecting more.
18:53Did you want a whole, like, dance routine,
18:55like YMCA, Macarena?
18:57Yes.
18:59You wanted the flames to come out and go like that?
19:01Yes.
19:03Hey, I mean, I let the flames down
19:05cos you should have got Cullum or Holland
19:07or someone like that on to make it dance
19:09cos they could have really given it some boogie.
19:11We tried, you were our third choice.
19:13Now, last but not least, Jamila,
19:15it's your turn, tell us your fact.
19:17People perceive odd numbers
19:19as masculine and even numbers
19:21as feminine.
19:23You mean the number looks masculine or we just think...
19:25There's just something about the number that you'll associate
19:27with something more masculine.
19:29What do you consider an odd number?
19:31LAUGHTER
19:33Sorry, is odd masculine, did you say?
19:35Yes. I need a system, I know.
19:37One willie, two boobs, that's how I remember it.
19:39LAUGHTER
19:41There are lots of these kind of feminine, masculine things
19:43cos obviously all cats are girls and all dogs are boys.
19:45Whoa, whoa, whoa, what do you mean all cats are girls?
19:47It's obvious. How do they breed?
19:49Cats are just girl dogs, right?
19:51LAUGHTER
19:53I actually had a cat for three months
19:55until it urinated on my fifth iPhone
19:57and then I had to get rid of it.
19:59Was your screensaver a load of gravel?
20:01LAUGHTER
20:03But the kitten,
20:05we assumed was a girl, we called her Evie
20:07but just had such a small penis
20:09that we missed it.
20:11That can happen.
20:13He was called Jeanette for the first seven years.
20:15We had to rename the cat Stevie.
20:17Cat Stevie?
20:19LAUGHTER
20:21Surely Stevens would have been better.
20:23LAUGHTER
20:25OK, you've heard what we think but join us after the break
20:28for the Duck Quacks Don't Echo test.
20:30APPLAUSE
20:40Welcome back to Duck Quacks Don't Echo,
20:42the show that brings you brilliant and bizarre facts
20:44that you've probably never heard of.
20:46Before the break, Jamila told us that people perceive
20:48odd numbers as masculine and even numbers as feminine.
20:50We need to know for sure, so we put it to the test.
20:52BELL
20:54People give things
20:56genders, male or female,
20:58all the time.
21:00But do we really think odd numbers are male
21:02and even numbers female?
21:04People can perceive gender
21:06in a lot of inanimate objects,
21:08such as cars.
21:10This led researchers to think it would be
21:12interesting to investigate whether
21:14people do the same with numbers.
21:16There is research which suggests that they do
21:18and that this can influence
21:20some of the judgements that they make.
21:22Our tendency to see gender in everything,
21:24including numbers,
21:26is a reminder of how fundamental
21:28gender is to how we perceive the world.
21:30There is some evidence
21:32that people tend to like even numbers
21:34more than odd numbers in general,
21:36which may be due to it being easier
21:38to do mathematical problems.
21:40Therefore, even numbers
21:42might be seen as more likeable
21:44and odd numbers as colder.
21:46And this difference is broadly in line
21:48with stereotypical ideas
21:50about gender traits.
21:52We took two separate groups of five
21:54to see if the addition of odd and even numbers
21:56affected the way they decided
21:58whether something was male or female.
22:00To make it fair,
22:02we didn't tell the volunteers
22:04what they were being tested for.
22:08First, we showed group A
22:10a numbered list of five
22:12Bulgarian names,
22:14chosen at random to make sure
22:16there wasn't a gender bias.
22:18We asked them to choose
22:20whether they thought each name was male or female.
22:22We repeated the test
22:24with group B,
22:26but we changed the numbers next to the names
22:28from even to odd and vice versa.
22:30Then the group made their predictions.
22:38Now for the results.
22:40The theory says it's the number,
22:42not the name, that matters.
22:44This is exactly how group A voted
22:46by making 80% of the names
22:48listed with odd numbers male
22:50and 73% of the names
22:52listed with even numbers female.
22:54Group B took the test
22:56with the numbers switched
22:58and they made 87%
23:00of the names with odd numbers male
23:02and 67%
23:04of the names with even numbers
23:06female.
23:08Our volunteer predictions on the gender
23:10of the names had clearly been influenced
23:12by the number they were listed with.
23:20For our final test we took two very cute
23:22babies, put them in neutral
23:24baby grows to hide their gender
23:26and clearly marked them with an odd
23:28and an even number.
23:30First group A were invited
23:32to guess whether they thought each baby
23:34was either male or female.
23:36Our volunteers didn't
23:38know whether the babies were
23:40two boys, two girls or one of each.
23:42For group B
23:44we swapped the numbers on the babies
23:46and then asked them to guess their gender.
23:50Both groups guessed the sex
23:52of the baby entirely differently.
23:5480% of group
23:56A thought the baby wearing
23:58number 1 was male
24:00and 80% thought the baby wearing number
24:022 was female.
24:04Then with the numbers swapped
24:06100% of group B
24:08thought the baby now wearing number 1
24:10was male and 80%
24:12thought the baby now wearing number
24:142 was female.
24:16Once again, inspired by
24:18the numbers, each group predicted
24:20the opposite sex
24:22for the same baby.
24:24So there you have it, odd numbers
24:26are male and even numbers
24:28are female.
24:30Amazing isn't it?
24:32That is amazing.
24:34It's interesting because I used to work in a bingo
24:36hall and I'm starting to think maybe
24:38there's some truth in this because you've got
24:40Man Alive, number 5, that's odd. Two Fat Ladies,
24:4288, even. Danny LaRue, 52.
24:46So very fast, does this work with words
24:48as well as numbers? Yes it does
24:50but it also actually goes as far as working with
24:52letters and we see this in advertising
24:54if you're trying to sort of push a male product
24:56you might put XXX on the end of it
24:58because it sort of promotes sort of...
25:00There's a lot of male products aimed at Jimmy that have XXX in the title
25:02I don't know.
25:04But there is a condition called synesthesia
25:06Try saying that. Wasn't she the Eurovision winner in 1987?
25:08I think she's
25:10not a man or a woman, she's from Israel, I remember the one.
25:12Oh yeah.
25:14And this is a very interesting condition
25:16where different
25:18parts of your brain, let's say the part
25:20associated with taste, the part associated
25:22with audio function, they get cross-linked
25:24so that means you can sort of taste
25:26sounds or smell colours
25:28about 80% of the people who suffer from
25:30synesthesia are actually women
25:32and you're also more likely to get it if you're left-handed
25:34When you said left-handed
25:36women, witches, yes?
25:40Wasn't there a thing like, it was only a couple of hundred years ago
25:42a left-handed woman they would have just gone, yes obviously
25:44a witch. Sinistra, the word for
25:46left in Latin, sinistra means
25:48sinister. That's where it comes from, the word sinister.
25:50And like in Panto, in Panto
25:52someone told me once
25:54the trapdoor for the baddie is
25:56always on the left and the goodie is always on the right
25:58So even like historically, everything to do with the left
26:00was always kind of bad stuff
26:02You should write that down Lee, it won't be long now
26:06Thank you Jimmy
26:08I'll be in it with you, don't panic
26:10So that was Jamila's fact, now our audience is
26:12going to score it, so using your keypads on a scale of
26:141-10, how amazing do you think that fact is?
26:16Please vote now
26:23Okay Jamila, let's find out what the average
26:25rating was from our audience for your fact
26:28Ooh
26:30Poor little seven
26:32Okay, Ronnie O'Sullivan
26:34Sorry, Ryan
26:36Ryan O'Sullivan, where are you?
26:38Ryan, you gave it a miserable 1
26:40I just, I don't see genders
26:42You don't see them? No. Are you blind?
26:44How do you mean you don't see genders?
26:46He's Canadian. Equality
26:48Australian. Do you mean you don't see
26:50gender when you look at numbers?
26:52I'm going to be honest, I didn't know what odd and even numbers were, okay?
26:54You're acting like a bloody hoon mate
26:57A bloody larrigan
26:59He started off by going, everybody's
27:01basically equal and we've just destroyed the Australian
27:03Okay
27:05Ricky's in the lead but there's still plenty of
27:07time for Jimmy and Jamila to catch up. In the next round
27:09it's time for Fact Finder
27:13Not only do we ask our guests to
27:15bring the fact to the show, we also ask our audience
27:17Jamila, Jimmy and Ricky have each picked out the audience
27:19fact that they think is best. Ricky
27:21you're first, whose fact have you picked?
27:23Debbie Griffiths. Debbie Griffiths, where are you?
27:25Hi Debbie, how are you doing?
27:27I'm alright, thank you. What's your fact?
27:29My fact is
27:31running backwards is better
27:33for you than running forwards
27:35Not if the building's on fire
27:39That's true, I've seen it in action
27:41I've seen men in the states
27:43and women, I don't see gender
27:47Running backwards around parks
27:49and to stay fit
27:51and healthy. Really? It's good for your knees
27:53Is that the reason?
27:55It builds your muscles up apparently
27:57Tell me what else is good for that
27:59Running forwards
28:01If you think about it
28:03it must be difficult because a lot of people go running with their dog, don't they?
28:05So if you were running backwards
28:07it would just look like
28:09your dog's chasing you
28:11I go running
28:13but one of the great pleasures for me is
28:15high-fiving fellow runners
28:17I've high-fived a major celebrity this morning in the park
28:19Which park?
28:21I thought one might be Hampstead
28:23and that wasn't a high-five
28:27So that's Ricky's chosen audience fact
28:29Now we can't test it because we've only just heard it
28:31so it's over to our verifiers
28:33So, what do we think about Ricky's chosen fact?
28:35It's actually pretty much true
28:37and as you said
28:39partly it's to do with exercising different groups of muscles
28:41because when we run forwards
28:43we primarily exercise our hamstrings
28:45when we run backwards
28:47there are many more antagonistic muscle groups
28:49so it's a more balanced building up of muscle tone
28:51it's also really good for our stamina
28:53for our cardiovascular system
28:55it's good for posture and for balance
28:57Sorry, just one for the list
28:59Dignity
29:01Right, yeah
29:03and also
29:05they do think it burns more calories as well
29:07so between 30 and 60% more calories
29:09for running for the same amount of time
29:11If I lived in a flat or something
29:13looking at a very quiet park
29:15and there was one person running backwards
29:17there was a car reversing
29:19I would think I was having some sort of seizure
29:21It would be awful, wouldn't it?
29:23Yeah
29:25OK, we'll score it at the end once we've heard everyone's fact
29:27Your next Jimmy, whose fact have you gone for?
29:29Oh, I've gone for Aaron Holder
29:31so someone holding someone called Aaron
29:33Aaron, where are you?
29:35Hiya
29:37So Aaron, what's your amazing fact?
29:39That lions mate over 50 times a day
29:41Sorry, you're calling me a lion?
29:43Lions mate over 50 times a day
29:45Yeah
29:47Well, what's your record, Aaron?
29:51In any given 24-hour period, what's your record?
29:53Er, eight
29:55Eight?
29:57Wow
29:59That's incredible
30:01Did you just point at your girlfriend?
30:03Sorry?
30:05Did you just point at your girlfriend?
30:07That's my mum
30:09Oh no
30:11Oh no
30:19Awkward
30:21That is awkward
30:23Wow, give that a moment
30:25That is awkward
30:27And you two, you're presumably from this country, are you?
30:2950 times a day?
30:31I live quite near the zoo
30:33You live near the zoo?
30:35Yeah, and my neighbour told me
30:37that noise you're hearing in the night is the lions having sex
30:39Can I tell you that?
30:41Your neighbour is an animal
30:43Can you do the noise?
30:45Oh, Dennis
30:57Okay, time for our verifiers to give us their verdict
30:59This is actually true
31:0150 times
31:03People have seen lions in zoos
31:05and copulates three times in seven minutes
31:07You say copulate again, you've got a way of saying it that is fantastic
31:09Because you even said an er
31:11before it as if you were slightly embarrassed by having to say it
31:13You need a run-up for copulate
31:15You know, copulate
31:17Are you saying you need a run-up to copulate?
31:19I was hoping that slipped by
31:21If it slipped by, you've run in the wrong direction, love
31:25Anyway
31:27Average copulation lasts about 10 seconds
31:29So it is more
31:31quantity rather than quantity
31:33Now, to explain
31:35the noises you've been hearing, Rikki
31:37The male lion actually has a barbed penis
31:39So when the male withdraws
31:41the rest, yes, quite
31:43That hurts
31:45But it's meant to actually stimulate ovulation
31:47Are you still trying to get the image out of your head?
31:49Foxes make a horrible sound when they're making love
31:51Are you surprised?
31:53Those foxes, they can't separate once they're in
31:55Is that true?
31:57It's so awkward, and you've got to really push it off
32:01Okay, finally
32:03Who's fact have you picked?
32:05I have picked Mandy Bartington's
32:07Mandy Bartington's, where are you?
32:09Hi Mandy, how are you doing?
32:11I'm fine, thank you
32:13And what's your amazing fact, Mandy?
32:15Things smell better through your right nostril
32:17than your left
32:19Shut the front door
32:21What?
32:23Smell my finger
32:27Let's do this
32:30How do you know this?
32:32Have you tried this out?
32:34Yes
32:36With what?
32:38My husband
32:40Your husband's what?
32:42You've tried smelling your husband through different nostrils
32:44No, I stuck something up his nostril
32:46What did you stick up his nostril?
32:48I was cutting some onions, and he was annoying me
32:50So I stuck my finger up his nose
32:52Oh, stop there
32:54I mean, I'm not a relate counsellor
32:56But I would say that's not the way to solve a problem
32:58So you stuck your finger up his nose
33:00Yes, his right nostril, and he said it didn't smell too bad
33:02Right, so you stuck it up the other one, and then what did he say?
33:04It didn't smell as good
33:06So the right nostril smells better
33:08Let's have a little go with our
33:10What can we smell?
33:12I've got perfume on
33:14I've got quite a lot of perfume
33:16That's a jacket
33:18I've got aftershave on
33:20Yeah, no, all smell awful
33:22All of it
33:24Okay, verifiers, is there any truth in this?
33:26It is actually true
33:28So a lot of studies have been done on this
33:30And obviously when you breathe in
33:32You stimulate sensors in your nose
33:34Called olfactory receptor nerves
33:36Old factory
33:38And that's part of the olfactory system
33:40And it sends signals up to your olfactory bulb
33:42Are you saying old factory?
33:44No, ol, O-L
33:46I thought you were trying to explain it to me
33:48And going, I'll keep it north
33:50Your right hand nostril is connected to the right hand side of your brain
33:52And your left hand nostril
33:54Is it your left hand side of your brain?
33:56It is, well done
33:58The different hemispheres of your brain do different things
34:00Your left hand side is language and maths
34:02And your right hand side is more arty
34:04And kind of facial recognition
34:06When the signal goes to your right hand side
34:08It stimulates this kind of more artistic
34:10And kind of emotional side
34:12So you smell more pleasant
34:14And the flip side is true actually
34:16If you smell something through your left hand nostril
34:18The name comes to you quicker
34:20Because that part of your brain is stimulated
34:22If you go
34:24You know
34:26So we've heard the facts
34:28But how many points will our verifiers give them?
34:30Find out after the break
34:42So before the break, each of our guests chose their favourite fact from the audience
34:44We found out whether each fact is true
34:46But who will get the most points from our verifiers?
34:48Let's find out
34:50The wonderful Debbie Griffiths said that
34:52Running backwards is better for you than running forwards
34:54What are we giving this verifiers?
34:56Well it is better for you in several different ways
34:58The exact amount how better for you it is isn't clear
35:00But it certainly has variety
35:02And it's kind of fun as long as you don't fall over
35:04So we'll give it 8
35:06It's a good score
35:08Jimmy
35:10Remind us of the fact that you backed
35:12I had, Aaron Holder had my fact
35:14And it was lion's mate over 50 times a day
35:16What are we giving this verifiers?
35:18Lion's mate over 50 times a day
35:20I've got to give it an 8
35:24And finally Jamila
35:26Which fact did you go for?
35:28Mandy Bartington said that
35:30Things smell better out of your right nostril than your left
35:32Verifiers
35:34So we all found this very interesting
35:36So we'll go and give this a 9
35:38A 9, well done
35:40Finally
35:42Ok so let's put that all up on to the leaderboard
35:44And see how it's affected the scores
35:46First book, Ricky's in the lead with 17
35:48Well done Ricky
35:50There's still time for the rest of you to catch up
35:52We've all heard the guest facts and the audience have brought theirs
35:54So now it's my turn
35:56It's time for Max Facts
36:00I've got some facts, all you have to do is guess what they are
36:02From a series of clues
36:04And you'll get points for each one you get right
36:06Here's the first one
36:08We have
36:10These
36:12And these
36:14Any good fact relies on the fact that
36:16It's somehow unbelievable
36:18That is very true, I agree with that
36:20Because there's no point in having a fact
36:22That something like dogs are hairy or something
36:24That's because we know that
36:26See that's to be fairly remarkable
36:28So what's remarkable about spaghetti and hands?
36:30Well look, what would happen if I started doing that
36:32What's going to happen?
36:34It's going to snap
36:36We didn't get any goggles
36:38Ok so I'm breaking the spaghetti there
36:40What is it so specific about breaking the spaghetti
36:42Should I tell you what it is?
36:44Is it wear in the spaghetti?
36:46Is it you can't break spaghetti
36:48Like you can't break it in two
36:50It will shatter
36:52That is the correct answer Jimmy Carr
36:54My fact is if you break a piece of spaghetti quickly
36:56It won't break into just two pieces
36:58You might have to watch Kirby
37:00See it's flying off
37:02You want to have a go don't you
37:04Have a little go with this
37:06Hold it
37:08You've got to break it quickly
37:10Can I just say by the way
37:12I've just thought of a brilliant idea
37:14If you ever go to a wedding
37:16And you've forgotten the confetti
37:18Congratulations
37:20Can you explain why this happens
37:22Well you can see when you bend the spaghetti a little bit
37:24It will actually bend and return to normal
37:26And there's some like elasticity in it
37:28And if you put too much pressure too quickly
37:30It'll snap and it's a bit like a rubber band
37:32If you stretch it too much
37:34Eventually it'll snap and release all that energy
37:36When you snap the spaghetti
37:38When it's breaking in two
37:40It gets released back down as shockwaves
37:42And it will set off multiple fractures
37:44And it'll go flying everywhere
37:46Which is a great fact
37:48But if you get a piece of spaghetti
37:50You put your hand around it really fast
37:52Build up the static
37:54And then you keep going
37:56But don't touch the spaghetti
37:58That's important
38:00Put your finger there
38:02And then drag it away slowly
38:04No mine didn't come off
38:06I cannot believe how easily
38:08How easily you fell for that
38:10I wonder how he does it
38:12Did you not see how I did it
38:14He's blowing it you pillock
38:18I liked it
38:20I really liked it
38:22I really believed in you
38:24It's one of them
38:26Yeah
38:28Right come on let's move along
38:30Ricky can you magically make it all disappear
38:33Okay next one
38:35Here we go
38:37We have
38:39We have these little babies
38:41Okay butterfly
38:43Some tissues
38:45And that
38:47What
38:49Is this a crocodile or an alligator
38:51This represents the crocodile
38:53Crocodile tears
38:55Crocodile tears that's a thing
38:57Crocodile tears I like it
38:59Well done you're on the right track
39:01What is the food of the butterfly
39:03You are bang on the money Jimmy Carr
39:05No I'm not
39:07The answer is butterflies drink crocodile tears
39:13So if they're thirsty does a butterfly have to make a crocodile cry
39:17So a butterfly has to sort of swoop down and go
39:19Your mum's passed away
39:21She's now a handbag
39:25Verifyers can you explain
39:27Yes tear feeding or lacrophagy
39:29In Latin which means tears
39:31It's been well documented but it's not very well understood
39:33And basically butterflies and moths
39:35And bees have been seen to drink the tears
39:37Of lots of mammals and even sometimes humans
39:39But it hadn't been seen very much
39:41On reptiles but then there was
39:43A caiman type of crocodile
39:45In Puerto Rico
39:47And some tourists spotted a bee
39:49And a butterfly sitting on the caiman's eyes
39:51While the caiman was lying
39:53Basking in the sun for 15 minutes
39:55While they sat on the caiman's eyes
39:57The caiman's little water tears
39:59By their eyes
40:01Why was the crocodile crying what was it upset about
40:03I don't think it was actually sad
40:05I think it was just eyes were watering
40:07Maybe it's wife has put an onion finger up it's nose
40:11Tell you what I've never understood
40:13You know moths
40:15If you get a moth in the evening and it loves like a light
40:17And then you come out at night
40:19And you think oh you should get up during the day
40:21It's amazing
40:23What did one moth say to another moth
40:25Do you know what I'm going to be honest
40:27I prefer the magic
40:29Okay let's get rid of these
40:31And we have this
40:37We have this
40:41And we have this
40:43Look at that
40:45Cold air
40:47I think cold air is something
40:49That is something cold air
40:51If you freeze air you can make a cloud
40:53Well do you know what that's it
40:55That's all you need to know
40:57My fact is if you cool the air in a room quick enough
40:59It will form clouds
41:01Verifiers please explain whilst we prepare to demonstrate
41:03Now the clouds we see sort of floating beautifully
41:05Up in the sky
41:07Are actually small particles of water
41:09Now what happens is
41:11The temperature up high in the atmosphere
41:13Is very cold
41:15And so the clouds sort of coalesce
41:17They condense to form these particles
41:19Which make up the clouds
41:21And we do this
41:23By actually trying to make
41:25A very cold cloud of nitrogen
41:27So what we're going to do in a few minutes
41:29Is we're going to pour some very hot water
41:31On some liquid nitrogen
41:33And make a very cold cloud of nitrogen
41:35Which is invisible
41:37Then we are surrounded by water
41:39We're surrounded by water vapor
41:41That will actually sort of coalesce
41:43In this cloud of nitrogen
41:45And then we'll actually get a cloud
41:47Formed within the studio
41:49This is liquid nitrogen expert Fran
41:51And our assistant Dr Nate
41:53Who are here to help conduct this experiment
41:55So what is in this big vat please Fran
41:57Well this is liquid nitrogen
41:59And it's ridiculously cold
42:01It's at minus 196 degrees celsius
42:03I'm frightened
42:05Which is why we're on these blocks just for our safety
42:07Keeping us out of the splash zone
42:09Now this stuff usually is used in medicine
42:11You can use it to free cells
42:13And things like sperm as well
42:15You can use it for sperm?
42:17No not instead of
42:19Now so if the science is correct
42:21When Fran pours the water into the liquid nitrogen
42:23We should get massive instant cloud
42:25How exciting is that
42:27Right here we go, are you ready Fran
42:29We are ready
42:31Ok it's over to you
42:333, 2, 1
42:35Wow
42:37I have never felt more like Kate Bush
42:39In my life
42:41How exciting is that
42:43So there you have it
42:45Let's see the final scores
42:47Congratulations Jimmy's the winner
42:49That's it for tonight's show
42:51A huge thank you to our verifiers
42:53And our special guests Jamila Jamil
42:55Ricky Wilson and Jimmy Carr
42:57I'll see you next time, goodnight
42:59That was amazing
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