Hello and welcome to another episode of No Such Thing as a Fish, a weekly podcast this

week coming to you live from Rammuth!

My name is Dan Schreiber, I am sitting here with Aniches Zinsky and Drew Hunter Murray and James

Harkin and once again we have gathered around the microphones with our four favorite facts

from the last seven days and in no particular order here we go.

Starting with fact number one and that's my fact this week, my fact is after the author

George Elliott died, her family spent 50 years publicly denying that she had a massive

right hand. Where to start with the questions?

Did she? Well basically before she was famous this was in the 1840s she was talking to

a neighbour, she was in her mid-20s pre-fame and she stretched out her right hand and with

some pride demonstrated how massive it was. So I look how big this is and it was big she

said because in her teenage years she was making butter and cheese on her family's

farm so she was doing all the churning that she needed to do and as a result she built

up this massive hand. So it wasn't even by birth like she built it herself and she said

that it was so big her hand, comparative to the left hand that she had that it left her

kind of lopsided because the weight of it. She did say that.

She did to this in this anecdote so this is the problem it was an anecdote that was said

before she was famous and when she died 28 months after she died a biography was released

where someone had gone to the local town and so on and it interviewed neighbours and the

neighbours said yeah she was this person with a massive hand that she told me about.

It sounds like something that was made up by the neighbour doesn't it?

Well this is why the family was very furiously denying it. They were saying it was not, she

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