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

coming to you from the QI offices in Covern Garden.

My name is Dan Shriver.

I'm sitting here with Ann Miller, James Harkin and Anichezinski 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 you, James Harkin.

Okay, my fact this week is that the very hungry caterpillar was originally called a

week with Willie the worm.

It's quite a different book that sounds like.

Yeah, how similar was it to this story about a caterpillar?

Oh, well, it was a different ending, but it was a similar one.

Didn't worm didn't turn into a butterfly?

No, the worm didn't turn into a butterfly.

The book was written by a guy called Eric Karl and he was inspired by a whole punch.

He noticed that the hole was going through some paper and he thought, what if I turn this

into a book?

And so he thought, well, I could do a bookworm that goes through the holes.

And so that's why it was called Willie the bookworm.

And then I think it was his publisher came up to him and said, well, why don't you change

it instead of a worm into a caterpillar?

And he thought, aha, caterpillars turn into butterflies, spoiler alert.

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