Hey guys, James here. So we have an announcement to make before we start today's show and that is that we have been offered our own TV show on the BBC on BBC 2.

It's going to be on at the end of May and we are absolutely delighted.

Slash terrified. Very terrified. So what's going to happen is we're going to do a pilot very soon and you can get tickets to come and see that.

If you go to qi.com slash fish events and the podcast you're about to hear is actually another kind of pilot that we did so you'll kind of see that the facts are a little bit new to you but actually we get into the podcast pretty quickly so you might not even notice.

Okay on with the show.

Hello and welcome to my such thing as a fish. My name is Dan Schreiber. I'm sitting here with Anna Chazinski, James Harkin and Andy Murray and once again we have gathered around to discuss the most interesting facts we found from last week and in no particular order. Here we go.

Starting with you, James Harkin.

Okay my fact this week is that this week the queen will celebrate her 669th birthday.

Because she's a lizard. They're all lizards.

Lizards those famous animals that live for 600 years. She's a sponge. She's a very ancient sponge.

So why why the why the okay so what this is basically is we all know the queen has her actual birthday which is this week and she also has an official birthday which when all their parties are and stuff like that.

But she also has official birthdays in all the different Commonwealth countries and so I went through all of them and found out where the dates were.

And some of them kind of coincide with each other so it's something quite sometimes to work out and I worked out that she has had 668 birthdays and their 669th will be this week.

And actually there are some countries that used to be in the Commonwealth which aren't any more. There's quite a lot of them and I couldn't really be bothered working them out.

But I kind of assume the queen isn't really celebrating those anyway so I'm going for 669th.

You think she could be even older?

No no. She could be a thousand.

No no no. She's still the age we think she is. She's just celebrating a lot of birthdays.

I worked out that if she is that age 669 years old she was born.

Well she isn't by the way.

But it means that if she is then while all of us are here in 2016 she's actually living in the year 2592.

And that's very exciting.

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