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Arts, Nature, History, Science, Improv, Comedy

4.8 • 17.9K Ratings

🗓️ 2 November 2025

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

Dan, James and Andy discuss YOUR facts, in a brand new weekly show. This week's subjects include hamburgers, space, staircases and Berlin.

We also meet our first four Fact Custodians (spoiler: you've met them a lot in the past).

Transcript

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0:00.0	Hey, everyone.
0:02.0	Hey everyone, welcome to the very first episode of Little Fish.
0:18.0	This is the show where instead of talking about our four favorite facts from the last
0:22.0	seven days, we have gone through the podcast at QI.com inbox and selected your best facts. We're
0:28.1	going to be doing this every Monday. So if you want to join and be part of this extra special
0:32.2	Monday bonus episode, just send in your best facts and we'll be reading them out each week.
0:37.9	So let's get into it.
0:39.0	I'm sat here with James Harkin and Andrew Hunter Murray.
0:41.2	Hello.
0:41.7	And in no particular order, here we go.
0:44.2	This is from Dav Lee.
0:45.3	It's about an executive leaving a job at McDonald's UK after 18 months in post.
0:50.1	Okay.
0:50.4	And the reason it's a great fact is because her name is Zoe Hamburger.
0:58.1	In fact, she was promoted within the McDonald's trucker.
1:01.8	She's gone off to run McDonald's Netherlands.
1:04.3	She said, Hamburger has been my name my entire life.
1:06.8	So as you can imagine, it has always made people do a bit of a double take.
1:10.4	I've never heard of anyone else with that surname.
1:13.0	There's a comedian called Neil Hamburger.
1:14.9	Is it his real name?
1:15.6	That feels like it's not.
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