Hello and welcome to another episode of No Such Thing as a Fish Presents International Factball

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My name's Andy and I'm here with three of the QI elves

They are in no particular order Anna James and Anne and today's match is a humding it's going to be Italy versus Switzerland

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There's the whistle interesting facts about Italy take it away

I love the fact that in Italy they have a word for the Act symbol which we kind of don't want it's commonly used and their word is

Chocuola which means snail because obviously it looks like a snail. Oh, that is very good

It's nice. Yeah, and paparazzi the word paparazzi you guys know what that means in Italian is it buzzing insect? Yeah, it's buzzing more skiters

Yeah, it's from La Dolcević. Yeah, it's named after the paparazzi character. Turumasoo means pick me up

Yes, Susie. Yeah, she lunch. She gets you through the up if you want to pick me up

Yeah, I read that confetti obviously it's in Italian sounding well

But it was also invented in Italy

But it was originally candid spices and Italian families would throw it from their balconies to the crowds below

Oh, that's good. Yeah, 10% of all food stolen in Italy is parmesan cheese

Wow, it is pretty pricey when Macdonalds first opened in Italy they opened in Roman eight

1986 and everyone was furious and the designer Valentino tried to close it down

It was too noisy and there was an unbearable smell of fried fruit fouling the air

That doesn't sound like McDonald's I know

Yeah, I read the the grand opening of their McDonalds people stood outside handing out pasta

Yes, it was a traditional Italian food and they said this is what you should be eating none of these burgers

Even now they don't want foreign food coming into Italy. There was a politician called I don't know what his first name was

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