Random facts from No Such Thing as a Fish

Hello and welcome to the No Such Thing as a Fish fact generator. This is the place to be for feeding your brain with some random facts. Whether they’re about Steven Segal destroying nuclear devices or the way snails use trails.

All the facts come from the No Such Thing as a Fish podcast, in which QI researchers Dan Schreiber, James Harkin, Anna Ptaszynski and Andrew Hunter Murray share “the most bizarre, extraordinary and hilarious facts they’ve discovered over the last seven days”.

The facts are sourced from the overview of NSTAAF, who went to great lengths to keep track of all the facts that the presenters brought with them throughout hundreds of episodes.

Doomscrolling on crazyfacts.org

As a kid I used to love this website called crazyfacts.org. “We publish weird facts every day” were the only words I needed to be convinced to visit the website A LOT. Visitors could submit facts themselves, but in practice it was mostly one user named ‘Weirdo’ that would carry the heavy load and publish thousands of facts about anything that would spark interest.

The great thing about the facts was that they had all been accompanied by a hyperlink to the source of the fact. “A scientist in the 60s gave LSD to dolphins in an attempt to teach them English”, it would read for example. Well, you’ve got me hooked.

Homage to the good old times

I was sad to learn that crazyfacts.org doesn’t exist anymore. I tried looking up what happened to the website, whether the archive is still out there somewhere, but with no success. I don’t know how I ever stumbled upon the website in the first place either, but the endless feed of facts has entertained me for hours.

So in honour of crazyfacts.org, I wanted to set up a similar type of page. A page where the curious mind can go to feed themselves with an endless stream of random facts that are connected in no way whatsoever. I hope you enjoy the facts. Some are quite out of context, but let that be an invitation to listen to the podcast.