First broadcast 22nd September 2014.
Lee Mack
Simon Foster
Emily Grossman
David Wharton
John Sergeant
Richard Madeley
Denise Van Outen
Jason Manford
Val Curtis
Harriet Rosenthal
Rachel Riley
Hannah Critchlow
Lee Mack
Simon Foster
Emily Grossman
David Wharton
John Sergeant
Richard Madeley
Denise Van Outen
Jason Manford
Val Curtis
Harriet Rosenthal
Rachel Riley
Hannah Critchlow
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00:00This is a show where we reveal some of the most bizarre facts you'll probably ever hear.
00:25Each of tonight's guests have brought along their own favourite facts, and we will be putting them to the test to decide whose is the best.
00:30So, let's see who's with us tonight.
00:32A fact about my first guest is he once waited eight hours outside a ladies' toilet in Ecuador to see a sword-billed hummingbird alight on a particular flower.
00:42At least that's what his defence lawyer said when he was up in court.
00:45Please welcome Chris Packham.
00:50A fact about my next guest, and this is true, a fibreglass model of his head recently sold on eBay for £15,000.
00:58At 13 feet high and 11 feet wide, it's an exact replica of his head before he lost all that weight.
01:04Please welcome Jimmy Carr.
01:08And a fact about my final guest is that she says the most impressive people she's ever met are Pharrell Williams, Kylie and Snoop Dogg.
01:15But let me tell you, now that she's met Jimmy and Chris, nothing's changed.
01:19Please welcome Kimberley Walsh.
01:24So, this is a show all about extraordinary facts.
01:28For example, custard can dance.
01:32Custard that you eat, custard?
01:34Is there any other type of custard?
01:35Like runny custard can dance?
01:36We're not talking about the custard you use for your sexual excitement, Jimmy Carr.
01:41What do you mean custard can dance, then? What are we...
01:43I'll show you exactly what I mean.
01:44So we have normal household speaker, normal household custard, right?
01:48So we pour the custard into the speaker.
01:50Oh, and your base speaker's wearing a condom.
01:54What do you normally do with your speakers?
01:58Now, this custard, before we do this, it's a non-Newtonian, which means it can be a solid or a liquid, right?
02:03Depending on what forces are acting on it.
02:05So when it has pulses of sound waves forced through it, it behaves like a solid.
02:09So, Kimberley, from Girls Aloud, what non-Newtonian liquids are?
02:14I think it's a bit early for sarcasm, Jimmy.
02:18Like you knew, right?
02:20I literally know what I did.
02:23Right, let's play the music.
02:25Look at this. This is incredible.
02:27Look at this. Dancing custard.
02:30How brilliant is that?
02:34Right, stop the music.
02:36It'll go liquid again.
02:37Is it liquid, though?
02:38Look, more liquid again.
02:39And then it goes...
02:40solid again!
02:44Touch me!
02:47Look, if I do that...
02:56Can I have a touch?
02:57You can have a little touch of the touch.
03:01You can pick it up for a split second.
03:03But put it straight down, it'll go liquid again.
03:06Girls Aloud! Always Girls Aloud!
03:14Let's cut the music.
03:15I have to ask this question, Kimberley.
03:17How can you miss from that distance?
03:20You know why it flew off when you did that?
03:22Why?
03:23Because it's birds.
03:29Fact proved. Fact proved.
03:31OK, let's get on with the show.
03:32We asked each of our guests to come up with their favourite fact,
03:34but which one will be voted the best?
03:36It's time for round one. Fact off.
03:42Jimmy, you're going to go first. What's your fact?
03:44OK, I've got a fascinating fact.
03:45If you added up all the blinking you do in a day,
03:49it would add up to 24 minutes of having your eyes closed.
03:5424 minutes of...?
03:56So all the blinking in a day, add it all up.
03:58If it was one continuous long blink,
04:00that blink would be 24 minutes long.
04:02I don't know who discovered this, but they need to get out more.
04:05No, really, it's kind of like a power nap.
04:08In other words, you don't need to ever power nap,
04:10you've done it in little shifts.
04:11You've done it already.
04:12Tiny little shifts.
04:13You've spent all day power napping.
04:15So, Vicky, you could go on and just go,
04:17I'm just going to have a power nap.
04:18I'm just going to have a power nap.
04:21I'm awake.
04:23Just like my wife left me.
04:24I'm just going to have a power nap.
04:25I'm awake.
04:26All day like that.
04:2724 minutes, I think that's extraordinary.
04:2924 is a lot of clicks, right?
04:30I'm not buying into that, I don't think.
04:31You don't think that's true?
04:32Because you think a blink is pretty quick.
04:33What is a blink?
04:34It's a blink.
04:35It is quick.
04:36It's one of the fastest muscles that we've got in our body.
04:38Not as fast as...
04:39Well, I don't want to...
04:41I remember reading somewhere that the blink reflex of the human eyes
04:45can occur at about 400 milliseconds.
04:48So, OK, it's got to close the eyes, it's got to remain closed,
04:50do the function, wash the eye,
04:52or we also close our eyes when we move our heads.
04:55Always.
04:56Not always, but a lot of people do.
04:58Sometimes.
04:59We sometimes close our eyes when we move our heads.
05:01It's not a fascinating fact.
05:05How quick is a blink, then?
05:06About 0.2, 0.1 of a second, I reckon.
05:08So you can do ten blinks in a second?
05:10I reckon so.
05:11But you can't actually do ten blinks.
05:12Oh, hang on.
05:13I tried to test that and then I was batting my eyelids.
05:15Yeah, you had to...
05:16Oh.
05:20Why, Jimmy?
05:24You've got, like, enormous...
05:25You've got, I think, something...
05:27I thought it was a spider.
05:30No, but they are going to slow me down, right?
05:32You're going to blink quite slowly, I would imagine.
05:34They're useful, aren't they?
05:35Because they tell you when to blink.
05:36If something's approaching your eye,
05:37that's what the lashes are for.
05:38Last minute, you trigger.
05:39Is that what they're for?
05:40Oh, yeah.
05:41So if there's a little bit of custard, let's say,
05:43coming towards you.
05:44It just happened.
05:47OK, that's what we all think,
05:48but I think we should probably see the cold, hard facts for ourselves.
05:58Blinking is used to clean and moisten the surface of our eyes.
06:02But could we actually have our eyes shut for 24 minutes a day?
06:06Well, let's ask an expert.
06:08Each blink takes about a tenth of a second,
06:10and on average we blink about 15 times a minute.
06:13If we take into account the time that we spend asleep,
06:16about eight hours,
06:17then we blink maybe about 14,000 times a day,
06:21which amounts to about 24 minutes of the day
06:23that we spend with our eyes closed.
06:28To put this theory to the test, we needed a blinking volunteer.
06:34Thanks, Shelley.
06:37A state-of-the-art piece of equipment.
06:39This has been specially fitted with a mini camera
06:42to capture every single blink.
06:46And a team of researchers
06:48to count each blink recorded by the head cam throughout the day.
06:52So let's see how Shelley got on.
06:57With the equipment now on her head, Shelley was ready to blink.
07:04She woke up at 7am.
07:08Brushed her teeth and took the kids to school.
07:13She arrived just in time for her weekly yoga class.
07:21And that was followed by lunch with a friend.
07:25Oh, mind the headgear.
07:34Then it was off to the supermarket to pick up the shopping for dinner.
07:41Back home, she made her special recipe, chocolate brownies.
07:47So halfway through her day,
07:48we can see that Shelley has already blinked an incredible 21,000 times.
07:55And interestingly, when she was concentrating particularly hard,
07:58such as during yoga, her blink rate went down.
08:03Next, she did the rest of the housework
08:05and then took her children to the park.
08:12Where some people found her head cam rather strange.
08:17Then it was back home for dinner.
08:20She helped the kids with their homework...
08:24..leaving her just a few hours to relax...
08:29..before it was time for bed.
08:36At the end of her day, our research team counted a total of 43,040 blinks.
08:43Each blink lasts 0.1 of a second,
08:45which equals a massive one hour, 11 minutes and 44 seconds with her eyes closed.
08:51Well above the average 24 minutes.
08:55How exhausting.
08:57I'm off for some shut-eye.
08:59APPLAUSE
09:01What do you think of that? It's true.
09:03It's true, isn't it? But it's not only true, it's a lot more than you said.
09:06Because they did say that they actually do count,
09:08that you do blink while you're asleep a bit as well,
09:11and they counted that, didn't they?
09:13Or did I just say that? You just made that up.
09:15LAUGHTER
09:17The worst one is when you open your eyes when you're asleep.
09:19Have you ever done that, where you open your eyes when you're asleep
09:21but you can't wake up? Oh, God.
09:23Please tell me I'm not very mental.
09:25Do you know that thing where you're awake but you can't wake yourself up?
09:28You must have done that. No! No.
09:30What are you talking about? It's quite a well-known phenomenon.
09:33Give us a cheer if you've at least woken up but can't wake up.
09:36That's quite a well-known phenomenon.
09:38That's quite a well-known phenomenon.
09:40But I've done it where one of my eyes has been slightly open
09:42and I'm looking round the room, but I can't wake up.
09:45And I'm trying to say to my wife, wake me up, cos I'm terrified,
09:48and all I'm hearing is...
09:52I genuinely think we need to get you to a hospital.
09:57So, what are we thinking? We're thinking...
09:59You can't argue with it, really, can you?
10:01Unless she's a heavy blinker, that woman.
10:03And I doubt the data analysis as well.
10:06That would mean that somewhere out the back here,
10:08one of our researchers would have to sit down and watch
10:1116 hours of her face to count the number of blinks.
10:14Now, I wouldn't do that. No.
10:16I would only watch about ten minutes and then multiply it up.
10:19But haven't you been known to, like, spend three days
10:21looking at a bird's neck?
10:23I would say that's a bit odder, to be honest with you, Chris.
10:26I mean...
10:29So, it's time for the Scorging Facts.
10:31What are you going to give it out of ten, Kimberley?
10:33It didn't blow my mind, I'm going to be honest.
10:35It wasn't the most amazing fact I've ever heard.
10:37Not the first time a woman's said that to me.
10:39But I did not know that we blinked for that amount of time,
10:42so I thought it was all right, I'm going to give you six.
10:45Six. OK. Chris?
10:47You didn't believe it. I didn't believe it,
10:49so I've been proved wrong, so that should, you know, provide...
10:52It might have just annoyed you.
10:54Yeah, but it's annoyed me, so I'm going to mark it down.
10:57I'll give it around five.
10:59Five. That's a balance of being annoyed and impressed.
11:02I obviously knew some of this, because you do know that if you blink,
11:05it adds up to a certain amount of time.
11:0723 minutes, I would have thought, that's quite a lot,
11:10so that's a ridiculous amount.
11:12But you didn't say that ridiculous amount, you said 23 minutes.
11:15All right, don't cry.
11:16So, I'm going to give it a five as well.
11:18Oh!
11:19So, let's see what your total is, Jimmy.
11:21Five and five and six, we'll never be able to work this out once again.
11:25Oh, it's not what I thought.
11:28APPLAUSE
11:31OK, we've heard Jimmy's favourite fact,
11:33but after the break, it's Kimberley's turn to try and win us over with hers.
11:36Don't go away.
11:48Welcome back to Bitcoin Stone Echo,
11:50the show that puts amazing but slightly odd facts to the test.
11:53Still with me are Chris Packham, Kimberley Walsh and Jimmy Carr.
11:57Before the break, Jimmy scored 16 points with his fact about blinking.
12:00Right, Kimberley, it's your turn.
12:02What facts have you got for us?
12:03My fact is that coffee tastes better
12:07when the coffee beans have been excreted by a cat.
12:14Let me show you.
12:16Well, bring on the cat.
12:17Oh, hello.
12:18So, the green ones...
12:19Also, this sounds like it's going to be a horrible display.
12:21So, Kimberley, what are the green ones?
12:23These are what they look like when they've been excreted.
12:25May I have a look at that?
12:26So, that's a regular coffee bean.
12:27No, no, no, no, and then these...
12:29OK, so this is after the cat has pooed them out.
12:32Yeah, and then this is them when they've been roasted.
12:34They look like regular coffee beans.
12:36So, this is the same thing but roasted, OK.
12:38Are you sure you've got that the right way round?
12:40They look like they've just come out.
12:43So, basically...
12:45And they actually taste better.
12:46My sister's actually a bit bolesome when she was in Bali,
12:49and what they do is they have, like, the cat,
12:51whatever type of cat it is, in a cage,
12:53and you can see the animal that you're going to purchase from,
12:56and then they have the coffee beans,
12:58and then you can see them eat the coffee beans,
13:02and then you can choose which animal you like
13:04and take their excreted coffee beans away with you
13:06for quite a large sum of money.
13:08Whereabouts is this? I mean, it sounds quite specialist,
13:10but the kind of thing that I'd be into...
13:12This was in Bali, where my sister actually bought them.
13:14Well, surely you can make your own at home, though.
13:16We've got a cat, I've got coffee beans...
13:18I think it's got to be a special kind of cat, though.
13:20Come here, come here, come here.
13:23And if you... If you want it really quick, though,
13:25you give him instant coffee.
13:33That's an extraordinary fact.
13:35I admire scientists for, like, trying things.
13:37They look at a leaf and they go,
13:38well, maybe that'll be good on something,
13:39maybe that'll be good on a sting,
13:40and I can see how someone might have gone,
13:42oh, yeah, that sort of works.
13:43But the idea that they went, that's just fallen out of a cat,
13:45I'm like, oh, why don't we try roasting that and have a little...
13:49This is not scientists, this is local people.
13:51Because what you've got to think is, in a natural situation,
13:53the cat, the civet...
13:55Is it really the civet?
13:56It's the civet.
13:57Oh, OK.
13:58It's not actually a cat.
13:59What, a cat? What is it?
14:00Well, you call them civet cats, it's just a name,
14:02it's one of those sort of rubbish names.
14:04It's not actually a cat, it's an espresso machine.
14:09The coffee bean on the tree is going to have fruit round it
14:11and the fruit is there to get an animal to eat it
14:13so that it will poo them out somewhere else,
14:15so this can move from A to B, which it can't otherwise do.
14:18That's the only reason for fruit,
14:20so animals will eat it to transfer the...
14:22Of course.
14:23I don't know anything, mate.
14:24So, basically...
14:25What about strawberries?
14:26The seeds are on the outside, that doesn't make sense.
14:28No, same thing, you'd still swallow it. Carry on.
14:30I've realised this is your speciality and I know nothing.
14:34You can see the speed at which Lee's mind works.
14:37Oh, hang on, no, wait, no, good, fine.
14:40No, hang on, no, wait, ah, OK.
14:45OK, carry on, please.
14:46So, therefore, the civet will go out, eat lots of coffee beans
14:49and poo them all in one place,
14:51so if you want to make a cup of coffee,
14:52you don't go and pick out individual beans,
14:54you just go to where all of the civet poo is
14:56and collect lots of beans that are all in one place.
14:59He's a genius.
15:00But isn't, like, the main thing about why the coffee's better
15:03that the civets pick out the best beans?
15:06So, Kimberly, is this why cats lick their own bum,
15:08is it, and have to be picked out?
15:12Are you tasting those?
15:13Yeah.
15:14You did not taste that.
15:15Why wouldn't you taste that?
15:16You just put that in your mouth.
15:17If you found a bag, then obviously people are tasting them.
15:19I'll give that a go again.
15:20I mean...
15:21Oh, give that a go.
15:22Oh, it's really cat's bummy.
15:25Well, there's only one way to test this, isn't there?
15:27We need to get drinking.
15:29But before we do, we should probably find out the science behind it.
15:36When the civet cat is in the wild, they feed on coffee cherries.
15:41During the digestive process, the flesh of the cherries is removed,
15:45leaving the coffee bean inside an inner skin called the parchment.
15:50The parchment is permeable, allowing acids in the cat's stomach
15:54to soak the beans, causing a breakdown of some of the proteins in the coffee
15:58and altering their final taste.
16:01Once the cat has excreted the coffee beans, they're collected by humans.
16:06And then it's over to the factory,
16:08where the beans are dried, pounded, and sorted,
16:11leaving you with a final product.
16:14So that's how it's made.
16:15But there's only one way to find out
16:17if the coffee really tastes as good as they say.
16:20Bottoms up.
16:23So, Kimberley, in front of us are three different coffees,
16:26and our barista, Anwar.
16:28Hello, Anwar.
16:29Hello.
16:30OK, well, one of these coffees is a supermarket brand.
16:33One is a cheap instant from Dave's van outside the studio.
16:37And the third is our very special 60-quid-a-cup brew
16:41that comes from coffee beans that have been excreted by a cat.
16:44Now, we have no idea which is which,
16:46but if the fact is correct,
16:47then we should be able to easily taste the difference.
16:49So, Anwar, what sort of taste should we be looking for?
16:52So, three things.
16:53First one is the chocolate undertones.
16:56You don't want to read the word chocolate in this,
16:59unless it's all there.
17:00It's the one time when chocolate doesn't sound nice.
17:02Chocolate undertones.
17:04Yes, really.
17:05And the second thing is the smooth and delicate body.
17:09Smooth and delicate body.
17:10Yeah, and...
17:11Don't mind that too much.
17:12And the last one is mild acidity.
17:14OK, right.
17:15Shall we start with number one?
17:16Right, shall we have a little taste first?
17:18A little smell.
17:19A little smell first, yeah.
17:20A little smell.
17:21Oh, it's warm as well.
17:22Oh, I'm getting coffee.
17:24You're getting coffee.
17:26I'm getting instant.
17:29Horrible, isn't it?
17:33Now, you don't even have to say anything.
17:35I'm guessing you're not massively keen.
17:37By the way, Jimmy, would you like to have a little taste of this?
17:39Oh, yeah.
17:40Feel free, if you want to have a sip.
17:41Why does that taste so bad?
17:42Can we have a look?
17:43So, how bad is this one?
17:44Give Jimmy a taste of your coffee.
17:46But we don't know what it tastes like.
17:47Instant coffee.
17:48That's instant coffee.
17:49That's like cheap, instant...
17:51Hmm.
17:52The Travelodge 2005.
17:56Right, let's try number two.
17:57Let's try number two.
17:58OK, let's have a little smell of this one.
18:00Now, that certainly smells nice, doesn't it?
18:03I like that one.
18:04Do you?
18:05I do like that one.
18:06I'm quite liking that one.
18:07That's what's gone wrong.
18:09I'm more northern you.
18:10I'm more northern you.
18:11I'm thinking...
18:12Something's missing from this coffee.
18:13Yeah, milk and sugar, yeah.
18:14No, I'm thinking, what's missing?
18:15Coffee, mate.
18:16Right, let's get to the end.
18:19This looks a lot darker in colour.
18:21Oh, hello.
18:22Taste it, see what you think.
18:24That is very unusual, isn't it?
18:26Isn't it different?
18:27Yeah, that's...
18:28This whole experiment...
18:29For me, that's the odd one out, isn't it?
18:30It doesn't mean it's the odd one out.
18:31It's which is the nicest, though.
18:32Which tastes the nicest is what you've got to go for.
18:34But, Jimmy, what are you going to go for?
18:36I'll go with that one.
18:37That's your favourite?
18:38Yeah, I'm going three.
18:39You think three, Chris?
18:40It's the odd coffee out, I'd go for that.
18:42OK, well...
18:43Are we going to ask the barrister, barista, whatever he's called?
18:46He's not a barrister.
18:47For once, Jimmy, you don't need a barrister.
18:53OK, well, I reckon it's...
18:55Genuinely think it's number two.
18:57And I don't know, honestly, but I think it's number two.
18:59Number two would be funnier.
19:00It would, actually, wouldn't it, for obvious reasons?
19:02I think it's probably number two because you're involved.
19:06I think you would have gone, number two is the poo coffee.
19:09Er, Chris?
19:10Three.
19:11Kimberly?
19:12Three.
19:13OK, well, let's find out.
19:14We're going to start with number one.
19:15Number one was...
19:16Dave's van.
19:18We knew that, didn't we?
19:19We sort of knew that was Dave's van, didn't we?
19:21I think...
19:22Or maybe Dave's actually ingested it and pooed it out.
19:26We'll go for number three, make it dramatic.
19:28Oh, no, that wouldn't be any more dramatic
19:29cos then we'd know what number two is, wouldn't we?
19:31Let's have a look at one.
19:32This is your favourite.
19:33It's the supermarket one.
19:34Wow.
19:35This is your favourite, the Civic Cat coffee.
19:40So, there you go.
19:41We haven't proved that the Civic Cat coffee is nicer,
19:43but we have proved one thing.
19:44If you spend £60 on a bag of coffee, you're an idiot.
19:58So, we tested Kimberly's facts and it failed.
20:01Well, the last coffee was the most unusual.
20:03I think they'd made it a bit too strong.
20:04That supermarket coffee was really strong and sort of overpowering.
20:06So, we all thought, oh, maybe that'll be it.
20:08The second one was nicer.
20:09Well, that's all we wanted.
20:10The nicest one, it's too late now.
20:12We went for the unusual one, though.
20:13We voted with the unusual.
20:14And the acid and the chocolate thing really threw me off.
20:17I think it was an interesting thing to try.
20:20I've heard about that coffee, I've never tried it
20:22and I was really interested to give it a go,
20:23so I'd give it a... give it a seven.
20:25You're going to give it a seven?
20:26A seven, fun fact.
20:27That's all the patronising, but well done.
20:28Yeah, thanks.
20:29That's very kind.
20:30Chris, I like the question.
20:32I wanted more rigour in the science of the analysis,
20:35so I'm going to give it a three.
20:38I wanted a civet cat pooing on a plate.
20:41You wanted to see a cat pooing?
20:43Have a day off.
20:46I'm going to give it an eight.
20:48Because, for me, it worked perfectly.
20:50That was the nicest coffee,
20:51so I am going to give you an eight, Kimberly.
20:53Thank you.
20:54So, let's add it all up and see where you are.
20:55Will you be buying that coffee the next time you go shopping?
20:57I'll be stealing it.
21:03APPLAUSE
21:05Right, let's see what that puts you on the leaderboard, Kimberly.
21:08You're up in the lead with 18 points.
21:10CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
21:13Last but not least, Chris, it's your turn. Tell us your fact.
21:15The fact is that bulls are not angered by the colour red.
21:19I've seen a lot of documentary footage that would suggest they are,
21:22mainly cartoon-based.
21:25The simple reason is they can't see the colour red.
21:29I think I have heard that before.
21:31They can't see red?
21:32They can't see red.
21:33So they just think there's a gap in space and time?
21:35No, they see...
21:36They're looking at red and they're going,
21:38-"Hang on, nothing." -"They can't see the cape."
21:40They just don't see the colour.
21:41They see the swirling cape and they note the contrast of that
21:44against the rest of the bullfighting arena.
21:46In fact, what's interesting is that, amongst the mammals,
21:49very few of us have what we call trichromatic vision,
21:52so we see like this, with a full range of colours.
21:55There's us, the other great apes, some female monkeys
21:58and most marsupials.
22:00We're the only mammals that see the world like this.
22:03And how are they seeing it?
22:04The rest of them have what we call dichromatic,
22:06or even monochromatic vision,
22:08so they lack the ability to see the red part of the spectrum.
22:12So they'll see yellows, blues and greens.
22:14So when I bought my dog a HDTV, that was a waste.
22:19Isn't it interesting, the way you've described your brilliant fact,
22:21and Kimberley's was,
22:22-"Coffee's nicer than cat s***."
22:26OK, well, you've heard what this lot think,
22:28we're going to take a break,
22:29and we'll see what happens when you antagonise a bull.
22:31See you soon.
22:42Welcome back to DocQuack's Star Echo,
22:44the show that's all about unbelievable facts.
22:46Before the break, Chris told us that the colour red
22:48does not make bulls angry.
22:49So let's see the experiment.
22:52Everybody knows that it's not a good idea to make a bull angry.
22:57And most of us believe the one thing that is guaranteed
23:00to get a bull furious is the colour red.
23:03But is there actually any truth in that?
23:06Time to ask an expert.
23:09All mammals except primates have got a condition called dichromacy,
23:12which means they're red-green colour blind.
23:14Consequently, they tend to see red and green as bright green.
23:18So why the misconception about the colour red?
23:21The link comes from the red matador's cloak or flag,
23:25which he uses to increase colour contrast between himself
23:28and the ground, which tends to be sandy.
23:30But also, at the same time, it also masks the blood,
23:33which comes from the fight.
23:35Well, the last thing we want to see on our show is bloodstains.
23:39So that is where the link to bullfighting ends.
23:42It's time to put this to the test.
23:44So we needed a bull with the right kind of natural power and aggression.
23:49We considered a highland bull,
23:51but his long red hair muddled our science.
23:55And we tried a dairy stud,
23:57but he seemed more interested in keeping Daisy happy.
24:01So it became clear we needed a bull with a more fiery Latin temperament.
24:06And that's what we did.
24:09So it became clear we needed a bull with a more fiery Latin temperament.
24:14There was only one place for us to go.
24:17Spain.
24:21And as we also needed some bright colours to test on the bull,
24:24our production team prepared to become the ultimate guinea pigs.
24:31We researched numerous ranches across the country
24:34where bulls are raised for beef and stud rather than sport.
24:39Finally, we met this cattle farmer, Jesus,
24:42who introduced us to this fellow.
24:51Weighing in at 2,500 pounds,
24:53three-year-old Lunarito is so dangerous
24:56we weren't allowed to film any closer than this.
24:59So let's put him into his holding pen and get this experiment started.
25:06For our first test, we wanted to see
25:08how our bull would react to a range of colours, including, of course, red.
25:14But we couldn't really sacrifice our guinea pigs to science,
25:17so we let them enjoy the Spanish sun.
25:24The only people allowed to handle the bull
25:26were experienced farmers like Jesus.
25:36Couldn't have put it better myself, Jesus.
25:39We replaced our volunteers with coloured cut-outs
25:43and positioned them in the pen before the bull was allowed to enter.
25:47But will they make him angry?
25:52With Lunarito, the bull is ready to go.
25:56Now in the pen, let's see what he does to green.
26:03Well, not much, to be honest.
26:06So we replaced green with blue.
26:10And again, he did nothing.
26:13And then we tried yellow.
26:16And zilch.
26:19And now for our big moment.
26:22We placed a red cut-out man in the pen
26:26and absolutely nada.
26:30As expected, our bull didn't seem bothered
26:32by any of the colours facing him in the pen,
26:35which means we can safely say that red does not make a bull angry.
26:40So what does?
26:42Bulls are very aggressive and territorial,
26:44and if they see movement within their area,
26:46they will tend to attack and charge.
26:49I think it's time for test two, don't you?
26:52This time, we attached our cut-out figures to a fishing rod.
26:56This may sound primitive,
26:58but it meant Jesus could safely control the movement of the cut-outs
27:02in front of the bull.
27:04First up is green,
27:06but will the bull get angry if he sees anything move?
27:13He charged the moment he recognised movement.
27:17But with the green figure out of sight and motionless,
27:20the bull stops,
27:22until Jesus moves the figure again,
27:25and immediately he reacts.
27:30But would the same happen with blue?
27:35Well, yes, it did.
27:38And also with yellow.
27:43So will Mr Red fare any better?
27:46If Lunarito treats him as roughly as he did the other cut-outs,
27:50then we can conclusively prove our hypothesis.
27:58And bulls are.
28:00Lunarito flattened Mr Red.
28:02Proof, therefore, that the one thing guaranteed to make a bull angry
28:06isn't any colour in particular,
28:08it's movement.
28:10So what do we think to the common perception about the colour red?
28:14Wow, that's a load of old bull, isn't it?
28:23So what do we think to that fact now, then?
28:25Now we've seen the VT, what do we think, Jimmy?
28:27I like it. I mean, I like the fact...
28:29It's not an urban myth, but the idea...
28:31It's one of those things that everyone believes.
28:33So I like it, it's a fun fact.
28:35OK, so let's give it some marks. Jimmy, what do you reckon?
28:37I'll give it an eight. I like that, yeah.
28:39OK, Kimberly? For the fact that I already knew that...
28:42You knew it.
28:44..and that I'm quite competitive and I want to win,
28:47I'm going to go with a four.
28:50Four?!
28:52It gave me a three. Fair enough, man.
28:54Didn't work, but...
28:56So you get slightly better marks, if it's true.
28:59Yeah.
29:00I'm old school, I thought we'd go after red,
29:02so I was impressed, so I'm going to give it a six.
29:04Well done, Chris. Let's have a look on the board.
29:06And that puts Chris in the joint lead with 18 points.
29:10So, Kimberly and Chris are at the top of the leaderboard with 18 points,
29:13but that could change after our next round.
29:15It's time for Fact Finder.
29:19Yes, it's not just my guess who brought these facts,
29:21we've also asked our studio audience to bring in theirs too.
29:24We've had a look at them, and Jimmy, Chris and Kimberly
29:26have picked out their favourite one in the hope that it will win them the most points.
29:29Jimmy, you're first. Whose fact have you picked?
29:31Er, Justin Cooper. Where's Justin?
29:33Justin Cooper, where are you? Would you like to stand up, Justin?
29:35Where are you from, Justin?
29:37I'm from near Guildford.
29:39What do you do?
29:40I've just finished doing my A-Levels at school,
29:42so I'm off to university in September.
29:44No comedy there, just get on with the bloody fact.
29:46Where are you going to university?
29:48Bristol.
29:49Well, maybe you'd worked a bit harder for your A-Levels.
29:52It's not my day, Justin. Where's your fact?
29:54OK, my fact is that when you die,
29:57your hair carries on growing for a couple of months afterwards.
30:00You're not getting the words hair and kid mixed up, are you?
30:04When you... After you die, your hair keeps growing for a couple of months?
30:07I've heard hair and nails.
30:09Yeah, hair and nails.
30:10OK, and have you got any evidence of this? Who told you this?
30:13Well, I heard it when I was younger. My dad told me.
30:16Did he come in very late at night, like, covered in soil,
30:19little lantern and a shovel, and go,
30:21You're not going to believe what I've seen.
30:24Bald when he died, I say, bald!
30:29OK, Chris, do you think there's any truth in it? None whatsoever.
30:32Two months is a long time.
30:34Two months. The state of decay sets in within hours.
30:38And you'd need blood flow to stimulate the growth of that,
30:41and that would all cease when your heart stopped.
30:43All right, Dr Lecter.
30:46Jimmy, you like this fact. I like it, I like the idea of it.
30:49You want it to be true.
30:50I don't believe in an afterlife, but I like to think I might have a quiff.
30:55Kimberly?
30:56I do think that's quite an interesting fact,
30:58but I don't like the idea of it.
31:00You don't want it to be true?
31:01I don't want it to be true. Your roots would show, wouldn't they?
31:04OK, so that's what we think of Jimmy's chosen audience fact.
31:06Now, we can't test this fact, because we've only just heard it tonight,
31:08so we've got a panel of brain boxes who can tell us if there's any truth in it.
31:11So please welcome rocket scientist Dr Simon Foster,
31:13expert in cell biology and genetics Dr Emily Grossman,
31:16and chemical engineer David Wharton.
31:18It's our Verifiers.
31:23Hello, Verifiers.
31:24Hello, Lee.
31:25Three wonderful people.
31:26They're so intelligent, they can say the planet Uranus without giggling.
31:30Is there any truth in this, Verifiers?
31:32No, there isn't.
31:33Hair itself is actually dead, but it grows from living cells,
31:37and those living cells are in the root.
31:39Now, when the heart stops pumping,
31:41those cells no longer get what they need from the blood,
31:43so they run out quickly of energy and they stop producing hair,
31:46and this would happen pretty much immediately after death.
31:48Within about two months, yes.
31:49No, no, pretty much immediately.
31:50Correct.
31:51However, it can look like the hair's still growing,
31:54and that's because after death,
31:57the skin cells around the hair follicle dry out, or desiccate.
32:00That means that they shrink, and the skin itself retracts,
32:03exposing a tiny little bit of each hair extra at its base,
32:07so it looks a little bit longer.
32:09So basically, even if you die clean-shaven,
32:12you could leave behind a stubbly corpse.
32:14She's good, isn't she? She is good.
32:16You're so clever, Dr Emily Grossman.
32:18Answer me this.
32:19How many female doctors does it take to change a lightbulb?
32:23Do you know the answer?
32:24No.
32:25OK, the answer is one.
32:27The same as male doctors.
32:28Sexist.
32:31So...
32:34OK, we'll score it at the end once we've heard everyone's fact.
32:38Your next, Kimberley.
32:39Whose fact are you backing?
32:40I'm backing the fact from Joe Chilton.
32:44Hiya, Joe, you all right?
32:45Where are you from, Joe?
32:46I'm originally from Bournemouth, but I live in London.
32:48OK, I don't want the full biography.
32:50What do you do, Joe?
32:51I'm a science teacher.
32:52You're a science teacher?
32:53That could be true, they're not ready.
32:54What are you teaching?
32:55Mostly chemistry.
32:56Mostly chemistry, with a little bit of...?
32:58A little bit of biology, a little bit of physics.
33:00Bit of physics, and quite a lot of PE.
33:02You're not a real doctor.
33:04OK, what's your fact?
33:05We share 50% of our human DNA with a banana.
33:09Well, mine does have a bend in it, yeah.
33:18Kimberley.
33:19I just thought that was a brilliant fact.
33:21If it's true, it's amazing.
33:2350% is a lot of... That's a big percent, right?
33:25I think it is true.
33:2650%?
33:27I think people have got a weird view of what DNA is,
33:29cos it's the building blocks of life, isn't it?
33:31It's that thing of everything, all life started with DNA.
33:34Like, we're 98% or 98.5% chimpanzee, aren't we?
33:38You'll know about all this.
33:39Hang on, we're 95% chimpanzee and 50% banana?
33:44What's going on here?
33:45That's a recipe for disaster, is what it is.
33:47He's going to eat us and we're gone.
33:50Chris, you're the only person on this panel
33:52with even an ounce of brains, I've decided.
33:54What do you think?
33:55I'm going to go for true on that, yeah.
33:57You think 50%?
33:58Yeah, because there's a limited range in its diversity on the planet.
34:01Our relatedness to everything else is quite significant.
34:04And you mentioned, you know, chimpanzee, 98-point-something,
34:07even ants, it's in the upper 80s,
34:09and that's an insect, a completely different life form.
34:11Those three are thinking, leave us something to say.
34:14See, I'm interested to see if this is true.
34:16Verify us.
34:17Yes, this is true.
34:18About 650 million years ago, life on Earth went through a change
34:23and we had the plants and the animals.
34:26Now, we might think we're different,
34:28but we have a lot in common with bananas.
34:30We're both made of cells.
34:32We both breathe.
34:33We even reproduce sexually, just like bananas.
34:36So there's a lot in common with a banana.
34:38Sorry, reproduce sexually?
34:40Whoa, whoa, whoa, speak for yourself, brother.
34:42I'm not reproducing.
34:43Are you saying that bananas reproduce in the same way as us?
34:46They reproduce sexually.
34:47Do you see?
34:48I've never seen a banana...
34:50Yeah.
34:51..and gone waka-waka-wow-wow, and he's jumped on another banana.
34:55I mean, maybe a banana and a donut, but even then, I don't know.
34:59Well, they use pollens and stamen, we use sperm and eggs.
35:02But biologically, there's very little difference.
35:05But it's true.
35:06It is true.
35:07That is absolutely brilliant.
35:09So my great, great, great, great...
35:11If I say great enough times, I get back to, was a banana.
35:16So, finally, Chris, whose fact do you think can win it for you?
35:18I've gone for Eloise Lovejoy.
35:20Eloise Lovejoy.
35:22Oh, I like that name, Lovejoy.
35:23Have you got a canal barge and do you like antiques?
35:27Where are you from?
35:29Sorry.
35:30You're apologising?
35:33So, what's your fact?
35:34Rats giggle when you tickle them.
35:36Rats giggle when you tickle them?
35:39Well, we're not even going to ask Chris for a second,
35:41cos I know he's going to know this.
35:42He looks like a man that's tickled all sorts of beasts.
35:45Oh, what do you think, Jimmy?
35:47I could believe that. I could believe...
35:49Does that make a jerky?
35:50Rats don't giggle.
35:51Yeah, a little squirming.
35:52But I bet they've got that reaction, cos I think you're...
35:54Why do we laugh when we're tickled?
35:57Because we're human beings and we have the ability to laugh.
35:59Cos you can't tickle yourself, can you?
36:01Well, I've tried, but I can't get into trouble on the tube.
36:05Chris, come on.
36:06We'll go to the experts in a moment, but, Chris, just...
36:09They do giggle.
36:10Right, that'll do.
36:11So, er...
36:13I wouldn't want to put you on the spot.
36:14Could you do a rough impression? I don't mind doing the impression.
36:17I'd love to, except that the sound that they make
36:19is not audible to the human ear.
36:21Oh, well, that sounds easy for this fat, doesn't it?
36:23They do this, they go...
36:25LAUGHTER
36:27APPLAUSE
36:29That is good.
36:31So, OK, verifiers, what do you think?
36:33Please tell me this isn't true. I don't want rats to laugh.
36:35It's not as bizarre as it sounds.
36:36Yes, it is. It's very bizarre.
36:39Scientists are constantly trying to find out
36:41why human beings find something humorous,
36:43and to do this, they look at primates and actually rats,
36:46and they saw that young rats, the pups,
36:48would actually play with each other, like children do,
36:50and they tickle each other.
36:51Can I stop you? Sorry. Did you call them pups?
36:53Yeah, they are called pups.
36:54No, you're thinking of dogs, even. I know that. What an idiot.
36:56Sorry about my friend at the end.
36:58A little rat to call little rats.
37:00Yeah.
37:01That's what you call children, but...
37:02And do you know what rats are if they're twins?
37:04Ratatoos.
37:06Sorry, the little pups.
37:07So, yeah, and they play with each other like children,
37:09like our own children, and actually some scientists
37:12put their hands in and started to tickle their bellies,
37:14and they found out that they really enjoyed it,
37:16and they followed their hand around the cage,
37:18trying to be tickled more, but they couldn't really hear it.
37:21It was way above human audible hearing,
37:23and it was just like how human beings enjoy being massaged
37:26or enjoy being touched.
37:28Rats seem to as well.
37:29Now, whether that's humorous or not...
37:31In exactly the same way?
37:32We don't know.
37:33So, for a little bit extra...
37:37But we don't know if they're giggling or not,
37:39but they are enjoying it. They're definitely enjoying it.
37:42Well, if they're enjoying it and making a little chirping noise,
37:44I think we could give them giggling.
37:45Yeah, but we don't know the language of the rat.
37:47They follow their hand.
37:48They might be masochists.
37:49They want it.
37:50So, we've heard the facts,
37:51but how many points will our verifiers give them?
37:53After the break, we'll find out who picked the best one
37:55and whether Jimmy, Chris or Kimberley will be walking away
37:58as tonight's DuckQuacks Don't Echo champion.
38:04APPLAUSE
38:10Welcome back.
38:11Before the break, Jimmy, Chris and Kimberley
38:13chose their favourite fact from the audience.
38:15Our verifiers have told us if there's any truth in them,
38:17but how many points have they awarded each one?
38:19Let's find out.
38:20Jimmy, please remind us of your chosen fact.
38:22Well, my fact, it was Justin Cooper's fact.
38:24When you die, your hair grows for a couple of months,
38:26and it is 100% true, according to our verifiers,
38:29if you're just tuning in.
38:31Can you verify what Jimmy's just said?
38:33Um, actually, no, we didn't say it was 100% true,
38:36but we did say that it was based on true observations
38:38made by medical students who actually observed
38:40that in cadavers, the hair does look a little bit longer
38:42because of the skin pulling back.
38:44So, it's not true that it's grown,
38:45but it does look a bit longer,
38:47but we are going to give you three points.
38:49Three points.
38:50Three.
38:51Three.
38:52Out of three.
38:53Kimberley, remind us of the fact you backed.
38:55My fact was from Joe Chilton,
38:57that we share 50% of our DNA with a banana.
39:00OK, verifiers?
39:02Well, how can I disagree with the science teacher?
39:04Cos it's absolutely true, we do share that,
39:06and it's fascinating when you think of the history of paleontology
39:09and how we've got that far, so we're going to give it nine points.
39:12Right.
39:13That is a good score.
39:17And finally, Chris, which fact did you go for?
39:19Eloise Lovejoy told us that rats giggle when you tickle them.
39:23OK, verifiers, what are we giving that?
39:25Well, because we can't be sure that they're giggling,
39:27but they are enjoying it, we're going to give it six.
39:30Six points.
39:31Let's put all that up onto the leaderboard
39:33and see the final scores.
39:35In third place, Jimmy Carr, in second place, Chris Packham,
39:38but tonight's winner with 27 points, it's Kimberley Walsh.
39:41CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
39:43Well done.
39:44Well done, Kimberley.
39:45You've won, which means you're the lucky one
39:47who gets to help me prove my fact,
39:49which is you can lift a sofa with two people sitting on it
39:52using normal household Velcro.
39:54So let's test it out. It's time for Max Fact.
40:01So, as you can see, we've raided an old people's home
40:04and taken their sofa, all in the name of science.
40:07Now, we've got two of these discs here, OK?
40:10One's up here and one that is attached to the actual sofa,
40:13and it weighs a tonne.
40:14So just to prove it's real Velcro,
40:16I think the fact that it's sticking to that rum sort of proves it.
40:18Proving it pretty well.
40:19If you can hold that top bit there.
40:20I'll take the heavy bit, I'm a gentleman.
40:22Yeah.
40:23I'm from Bradford, it should have been the other way round.
40:25And we just stick it on like that.
40:27Now, if I let go of that, I'm hoping that will stick,
40:29and then hopefully when we rip it off now,
40:31you'll get that lovely sound of Velcro ripping.
40:33Just before we do, do you know how Velcro was invented?
40:35No. Genuinely.
40:36It was after someone tried to split up a fight
40:38between the Jacks and Five.
40:40So, here we go. Have a listen to this.
40:42Ooh, did you hear that? Did you hear that?
40:44It's a lovely sound, wasn't it? Real Velcro.
40:46So I'm going to now stick this... We've got to get it exactly...
40:48We've got to get it in the middle, because basically our life depends on it.
40:51I'll just get that...
40:53In the middle!
40:54Because I have to be honest with you, I say facts, it's more of a hunch.
40:58Right, now, let's get these properly aligned, which we have done.
41:00That's all aligned.
41:01So whilst we get into something more suitable for slouching on the sofa...
41:05That sounds like a terrible child line.
41:07Let's find out why Velcro is so strong from Dr Foster.
41:10If you've ever inspected a piece of Velcro,
41:13you'll see that there are two parts to it.
41:15There's a kind of rough part, and that's got tiny little hooks on it,
41:18and there's a soft part that's got tiny little loops.
41:20And when you place the two halves together,
41:22the hooks get stuck inside the loops.
41:24Now, on their own, they're not particularly strong,
41:27but on a strip of Velcro, you've got hundreds or thousands.
41:30Now, why this works is that if, on your coat,
41:33you put a large force into a small area, you can rip this apart.
41:37But on a normal piece of Velcro,
41:39if you spread that force over the entire area,
41:42the force on each hook and loop combination isn't that strong,
41:45and it won't pull them apart.
41:47And this is so good that a piece about two-inch square,
41:50which is roughly the size of a light switch box,
41:53can hold up about 80 kilos.
41:55That's 12.5 stone.
41:56That's about the weight of an average human being.
41:59Now, if you scale that up,
42:00it should be able to cope with a sofa with two human beings on it.
42:04APPLAUSE
42:06Now, thank you, Dr Foster.
42:07So, this is it, Kimberly. How are you feeling?
42:09Yeah, I'm a little bit nervous, I'm not going to lie.
42:12Feeling ready?
42:13It's only about 30, 40 centimetres.
42:17In diameter?
42:18Yeah.
42:19So I'm a little bit worried, yeah.
42:20You know, you're not the first person to sit on a sofa with me
42:22and say, it's 30 or 40 centimetres in diameter,
42:24and I'm a little bit worried.
42:26So, are we ready? Should we do this?
42:28Let's do it.
42:29OK, let's go for it.
42:30We need to stay quite still, yeah?
42:31Keep very still, don't make a loud noise,
42:32and don't worry, me parents aren't in.
42:34Here we go.
42:35Let's lift it.
42:37Oh, hello.
42:40Oh, oh!
42:41APPLAUSE
42:45There we go, rightly.
42:46All right, have we got the idea?
42:47OK.
42:48We're twisting a little bit.
42:51I feel like a ride's broken down at Alton Towers.
42:54So, here's the proof.
42:56You can lift a sofa and two people using normal household Velcro.
42:59APPLAUSE
43:02That's it for tonight.
43:03I'll make this quick,
43:04because I think I can hear the Velcro starting to peel off.
43:07A huge thanks to my guests, Jimmy Carr,
43:10Chris Packham,
43:12and, of course, Kimberly Walsh.
43:14See you next time. Good night.
43:18Just to prove that these mugs are genuine...
43:20I don't mean these mugs, because they'd kill me if I said that.
43:23Just to prove these mugs are genuine,
43:25we are going to break them by all jumping at the same time.
43:27One, two, three, jump!
43:29Oh!
43:30APPLAUSE
43:34It's one of history's most epic love stories,
43:37and for Kim Cattrall,
43:38Anthony and Cleopatra is very much her Shakespeare.
43:41All new and starting in a few moments over on Sky Arts 1HD.
43:44And up next on Sky 1HD,
43:46it's the last new 50 ways to kill your mammy,
43:49and Baz is most definitely not letting Nancy off lightly.
43:52One word, spiders.
43:54APPLAUSE