First broadcast 6th October 2014.
Lee Mack
Simon Foster
Emily Grossman
David Wharton
John Sergeant
Chris Tarrant
Robert Webb
Kimberly Wyatt
Richard Woolfson
Peter Ayton
Kim Woodburn
Lee Mack
Simon Foster
Emily Grossman
David Wharton
John Sergeant
Chris Tarrant
Robert Webb
Kimberly Wyatt
Richard Woolfson
Peter Ayton
Kim Woodburn
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00:00This is a show where we reveal some of the most amazing facts you've probably never heard of.
00:25We've asked each of our guests to come armed with their own fact, which we will be testing out to see whose is best.
00:29So, let's see who's on tonight's show.
00:31A fact about my first guest is that when he was trying to get into telly, he wrote letters to TV companies claiming to be the face of the 70s.
00:38Unfortunately, it was the 90s at the time.
00:41Please welcome, Chris Tarrant.
00:43Hello.
00:45A fact about my next guest is that she has released a skincare range called Beautiful Movements.
00:50I'll be honest, if I have one Beautiful Movement a day, I'm very happy.
00:54Please welcome, Kimberly Wyatt.
00:58And a fact about my final guest is that after winning Let's Stands for Comic Relief, he said,
01:02my best feature is my legs.
01:05I have to disagree. I think he's got a lovely arse.
01:09Please welcome, Robert Webb.
01:14So, this is a show all about extraordinary facts.
01:18For example, you can open a bottle of wine using a boot.
01:25Let's see.
01:26Well, do you have any idea how that is possible?
01:28I'll tell you what, I'll give you a little help, I'll take this bit off.
01:30What's this bit called? I never know what this bit's called.
01:32The top.
01:33The bit that gets in the way of the booze.
01:34Yeah.
01:35So, there you go. I'll divvy that up between the three of you.
01:37Have a boot and see if there's any way you can think of getting that cork off.
01:41I can think of a way, but not a way that would leave you with any wine.
01:47You look like a really bad wine waiter.
01:50It's my first day on mute.
01:53No, I've no idea.
01:54OK. Any ideas, nobody?
01:56No idea.
01:57I love that action, I love the way it slides.
01:59Did you have this table designed especially for that?
02:01Especially for the wine thing.
02:03Where are you going, Sam?
02:06This is going to go terribly wrong.
02:08You don't know?
02:09No.
02:10Yeah, me neither.
02:11So...
02:12No, I do know, of course I know, right?
02:14Of course I know.
02:15Right, what we do, we get that in there, we force it down like that,
02:18tie it up.
02:19Do the laces have to be tied up, does it matter?
02:21It just holds it in place so you can put the corkscrew in.
02:23Oh, yeah, there's a corkscrew involved, did I not mention that?
02:25Sorry.
02:26There you go.
02:27Chris, you can demonstrate it for us.
02:29Oh, thanks, I've no idea.
02:30What you need to do, if you look over there,
02:32you'll see we've conveniently built a brick wall for you.
02:34What?
02:35So, if you can just bash that on the side of the wall like that...
02:39It'll smash to pieces.
02:40But the boot's there to protect the bottle.
02:42That's all the boot's doing, it's protecting the bottle.
02:44Stop it from smashing.
02:45I could kill this woman here, sorry about that.
02:47The boot protects the bottle from smashing,
02:49and by banging it sideways you create enough pressure to force the cork out.
02:52Yeah, try and do it so the boot hits level, so they'll hold...
02:56Let me help you.
02:57What?
02:58Let me help you.
02:59I don't know about this.
03:00I'm sorry, I've never done this before, funnily enough.
03:02So you just hold it sort of level like that.
03:04Then go...
03:05Like that.
03:06I've just got an image of, like, Chris living under a bridge
03:08and just passing him and seeing...
03:10Whoa, let me out!
03:11Funnily enough, I did this on telly once.
03:13I used to be on telly!
03:17Oh, that's it, keep doing that.
03:18Keep doing that and then...
03:19It's coming.
03:20Hold on to that bottle, it is coming.
03:21No, it's not.
03:23Let me read that card again.
03:24Oh, no!
03:26I'm sorry, you can't do it this way.
03:28Sorry, you can't.
03:31No, you can, you can!
03:33Let me have a go.
03:38Yeah, that's making all the difference.
03:41It's not working!
03:42Come on!
03:47Robert, your turn.
03:49Trust me, if you keep tapping it enough,
03:51eventually it'll produce enough pressure.
03:56Is it coming out at all?
03:57No, it's just getting a bit fizzy.
03:59Is it even fizzy wine?
04:00It's getting angry.
04:01It's turning into champagne.
04:04Have you ever thought you're suddenly part of the world's
04:06biggest practical joke?
04:09By a tiny bit.
04:10Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, look at that, look at that!
04:12Look at it!
04:13You guys are going to get blast!
04:17I think the cork's coming out out of sheer boredom.
04:22Come on!
04:25Have the glory shot.
04:26Go on, you can have the glory shot.
04:28Who wants to do the last bit?
04:29Kimberly, come on.
04:30Oh, dear.
04:31Keep hold of the bottle with both hands, I think, now,
04:33cos it's on me.
04:34Have a dabble.
04:35A dabble.
04:37Bloody hell.
04:38Do you ever feel like you're working at a stud farm?
04:40What a woman.
04:42It's getting there, it's getting there.
04:43I'll finish it off, I'll finish it off, yeah?
04:47Oh!
04:48Faster!
04:50You can do it!
04:51Faster!
04:52Shut up!
04:54I'm a witch!
04:57Can we just help it a little bit? Yes!
04:59If I use my teapot, it'd blow my head off.
05:01Yes!
05:04No!
05:12That was amazing.
05:16APPLAUSE
05:21Do you know, for a second there, I thought that wasn't going to work.
05:25Bear in mind we've got an edit.
05:27Now, guys, can you believe we did that in 20 seconds?
05:29No, I can't.
05:32OK, here's another interesting fact.
05:34It is possible to open a bottle of beer...
05:36Oh, what now?
05:39This is true, using only a bra.
05:43Oh, well, it's worth a try.
05:45APPLAUSE
05:49It's time for our first round.
05:51We've asked all the guests to bring a fact in that they really love,
05:54but who's his best?
05:55It's time for round one, Fact Off.
06:01Chris Tarrant, you're up first. Tell us your fact.
06:04The average child...
06:07..asks 288 questions every single day.
06:11How many?
06:12288.
06:13That's a lot of questions.
06:14It is, that's the point.
06:15Little girls ask the most. Little girls of four ask the most.
06:18They ask one every one minute and 26 seconds when they're awake.
06:21That's a lot of questions.
06:22You've got kids.
06:23Daddy, why? Daddy, why? Daddy, where are we going?
06:25Why are we going there? What are we going to do?
06:27Yeah, that's what they say to me.
06:28They say, Daddy, why are you dressed as Batman and stood on that crane?
06:31I won't name my child, but one of them said to me,
06:33Daddy, why have you got a willy?
06:35Yeah, but to be fair, it was in a box.
06:39Kimberley, have you got any kids, nephews, nieces, anything?
06:42I have lots of nieces and nephews, no kids yet.
06:45And I think that that is quite possibly true.
06:47I don't think it's different questions throughout the day,
06:50but kids like to go on tangents.
06:52If they want to know something, there's at least 10, 20 questions to follow.
06:55The spin-off's the best bit, isn't it? Exactly.
06:57They can go all over the place.
06:58And I think there's enough tangents throughout the day.
07:00So what about you, Robert, you got kids?
07:01I do, I have two girls, two and nearly four,
07:03and I can believe that, 288 questions.
07:05As long as 287 of them are the question, why?
07:09But they are starting to ask those questions.
07:11We've got this friend, Wendy, who's just had a baby.
07:13You know Wendy's baby?
07:14How did Wendy's baby get out of Wendy?
07:17And I was just about to start making something up about butterflies and magic,
07:21and my wife went, from her vagina.
07:26Out of her vagina.
07:28Four-year-old said, it's too big to come out of her vagina.
07:31No, no, it's not too big to come out of her vagina,
07:33because when the baby is fully grown, inside your tummy,
07:35your vagina stretches, and the baby comes out,
07:37and then your vagina goes...
07:41The next reasonable question was, does that hurt?
07:45Even my wife eased off slightly there.
07:48Slightly took her foot off the gas.
07:49It does hurt a little bit, but it's not very much.
07:52At the end of it, you've got a lovely baby.
07:53It's a bit like when you fall over and bump your knee,
07:55and then you get a lovely lollipop.
08:02OK, let's see what it's like to get grilled by a child all day.
08:05Here's the evidence.
08:11Children, they do ask a lot of questions.
08:14Why is water wet?
08:16Are we there yet?
08:18Are there dinosaurs in heaven?
08:21All good questions, but could children really ask an average 288 of them a day?
08:26Let's ask an expert.
08:28Children ask lots of questions every day,
08:31but they don't just ask why questions.
08:34They ask questions to get reassurance, for permission,
08:38to challenge, and to boost their confidence.
08:42Parents and teachers encourage children to ask questions
08:46whenever they're not sure of anything.
08:48So when you think about it, it's hardly surprising
08:51that children, on average, ask a couple of hundred questions every day.
08:58Still, 288 questions a day seems like an awful lot.
09:02We decided to follow three children of average curiosity
09:06over the course of their waking day to count how many questions they asked.
09:11But how to choose our three children?
09:13Well, we took a test group of children
09:16and individually showed them an unusual image.
09:19We then asked each child if they had any questions concerning the image.
09:24Where do they live?
09:26Do you think they're rehearsing?
09:28We ruled out the least inquisitive children.
09:31I can't think of any questions.
09:34We also ruled out the most inquisitive children.
09:37Are they brothers?
09:39How long can they hold their breath?
09:41Do they like pizza?
09:43Leaving us with the children from our test group with average curiosity.
09:47Are we nearly finished yet?
09:50Now for the science.
09:53With our child-friendly helmet cameras,
09:55we're going to monitor each child from the moment they wake until they fall asleep
09:59to see precisely how many questions they ask in a day.
10:03Here we go.
10:04Why have I got a camera in front of my face?
10:08What shall we do later?
10:10Can I have a baby brother?
10:14What's your favourite thing?
10:17Shall I swing?
10:18Can I have a biscuit?
10:20Can we start the questions?
10:22Yes, ready to go.
10:24Why am I putting ice cream on?
10:28Why are they called cupcakes?
10:31Can I lick my finger?
10:33No, wait till you've finished.
10:35At the halfway stage, things are progressing nicely.
10:38Zachary has so far asked 122 questions.
10:41Bryony has asked 157
10:44and Imani is staggering 177,
10:47giving an average of 152,
10:50putting them on course to smash the predicted total of 288.
10:56Will they be able to keep it up?
10:59Am I as fast as you say about, Mum?
11:02Is the sun hot?
11:04Are there any ducklings?
11:06Can I have a lolly or an ice cream?
11:09What's for dinner tonight?
11:11I haven't said anything.
11:13I've got mussels.
11:15Why are mussels that you can eat called mussels?
11:19Well, that was impressive.
11:21The question is, did our children really ask as many as 288 questions over the course of the day?
11:28Let's find out. Drum roll, please.
11:32Thank you.
11:34The average number of questions asked by our three children over the course of their waking day
11:39was an incredible 312.
11:42Why?
11:45Because I said so, all right?
11:52So, you wondered yesterday,
11:55Why, why, why?
11:57They were cute.
11:59No, they weren't.
12:00They were adorable.
12:02Oh, come on, who really likes kids? They're horrible, aren't they?
12:04I do.
12:05Isn't it funny? We've all got kids and we hate them,
12:07and you love them and you haven't got any.
12:09So, Robert and Kimberley, it's time for you to give Chris' fact a score out of ten.
12:13So, based on what you've seen, what are you giving it, Kimberley and Robert?
12:16Start with you, Kimberley.
12:17I am going to give it a good solid eight.
12:20A good solid eight.
12:21That's incredibly high.
12:22I was on your side, yeah.
12:24I thought it was incredibly delivered.
12:26I really enjoyed the fact, I believed it, I love big kids.
12:29It was great.
12:30Robert.
12:31I believed that fact straight away.
12:33I found it spectacularly unsurprising.
12:36I thought the kids were charming,
12:38but because I was pretty sure it would turn out to be true,
12:41I'm going to give it a miserable two.
12:45Two?
12:46Because it was unsurprising.
12:47Because it was unsurprising.
12:49I get to score as well.
12:51OK.
12:52And I'd say two's a little harsh,
12:54but I think eight might be a little generous.
12:56When are you going to say that?
12:57I'm a very diplomatic person.
12:58Yeah, you are.
12:59So, I'm going to give it a more comfortable six.
13:01Good man.
13:02Let's see what your total is, Chris.
13:04It's 16 points.
13:08We've heard Chris' favourite facts,
13:10but after the break, we'll find out what Robert Webb's got up his sleeve.
13:22Welcome back to Duck, Quack, Stone, Echo,
13:24the show that put some pretty extraordinary facts to the test.
13:27Still with me are Chris Tarrant, Kimberly Wyatt and Robert Webb.
13:32Now, before the break, Chris told us his fact,
13:34which essentially pointed out how annoying children are.
13:37And at the same time, he won 16 points for it.
13:39Robert, you're next. Your fact, please.
13:41My fact is this.
13:43Four ceramic cups can bear the weight of a two-ton truck.
13:48That's insane.
13:50Four ceramic cups?
13:52Four normal ceramic cups can bear the weight of a two-ton truck.
13:57I don't know. My dad's a truck driver.
13:59He has lots of semis.
14:01He has lots of what?
14:02Semis.
14:04Yeah, over here, that means a different thing.
14:07Should I explain?
14:08A semi-truck.
14:10See, we pronounce it semi-truck over here.
14:12A semi-truck.
14:13So, could you say that again, but this time say,
14:15my dad has lots of semis?
14:16Does that mean something else?
14:18Yes, it does.
14:19Does that mean big trucks?
14:20Yeah, that's what we sort of mean, but...
14:23I mean the real things that drive and are very heavy,
14:26as in two tons, and have trailers.
14:28An articulated lorry.
14:30That's what we call them.
14:31That goes wibble-wibble at the front.
14:32Yes, an articulated lorry.
14:34If you want a real man's man chat, speak to Robert.
14:38I really don't think so.
14:40Sorry, I think your fact is rubbish.
14:42OK, I'm going to take that on board.
14:44So, Robert.
14:45Yes.
14:46You wouldn't have any cups under there by any chance, would you?
14:48They are there.
14:49Good Lord!
14:50What are the chances?
14:51My lucky cups that I take everywhere.
14:52Tell me, under there, have you got a truck?
14:54Spooky.
14:55No, I haven't.
14:56Under there, have you got a semi?
14:57I haven't got a semi under there.
14:59So...
15:00Thank goodness for the frosted glass.
15:03So that's what this lot think, but are ceramic mugs really that strong?
15:06This calls for an experiment, but before we do,
15:08let's see the science behind it.
15:10If you've ever dropped a coffee cup, you'll know how easily they break.
15:14You'd be forgiven for thinking that these cups are very weak.
15:17However, when they're subjected to an even and constant pressure,
15:21they're capable of bearing tremendous force.
15:24Why is this?
15:26Most cups are made of ceramic.
15:28The atoms of ceramics are bonded together by ionic bonds.
15:33These bonds are incredibly strong.
15:35They won't flex when subjected to force,
15:38in the way that those in a metal might.
15:41But because these bonds don't flex,
15:43if they're subjected to a sharp, uneven force,
15:46like being dropped on the floor, the cups will break.
15:50So, as long as the ceramic is subjected to an even, constant pressure,
15:55the bonds stay strong and can support a great weight.
16:01So, here we have a massive truck.
16:04As you can see, we've got someone sat in the front seat
16:07and they're just keeping their foot on the brake to stop the wheels from spinning.
16:11Now, we're going to put these standard ceramic coffee cups
16:14in position under the wheels.
16:15I'll do one, you can do the other.
16:17Now, we've already got two on the other side.
16:19If you'd like to put your little coffee cup where that ring is, there.
16:22I wonder how many household objects they did this with
16:25before they realised it was coffee cups.
16:27Sorry, love, I broke the deck chairs.
16:29Can you bring out the cups? We'll try that.
16:31If you're right, Robert, these little old cups that weigh 11 ounces
16:35could support the weight of this two-tonne monster.
16:37It's a bold claim. Still feeling confident?
16:39Yes. Always.
16:41Right, scissor lift operator, please lower the truck.
16:47Oh. Sorry, that's my pacemaker, ignore that. OK.
16:51I'm genuinely a bit nervous.
16:58Amazing, it actually works.
17:00Four ceramic cups can hold the weight of a two-tonne truck.
17:04But how much more weight do you think it can hold?
17:08Follow me, Robert. Oh, now we're pushing our luck.
17:10Let's get in. OK.
17:12Right.
17:14Get yourself in there. Right.
17:17Getting on quite gingerly.
17:19This is like a really bad hitchhiking movie, innit?
17:23I reckon these mugs could take even more weight, Robert.
17:26And I know just the people that can really put this to the test.
17:28Come on, lads, please welcome our bodybuilders.
17:31CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
17:38CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
17:48Easy, tiger. I feel so safe.
17:51I'll tell you what, lads, I hope you left some steroids for those horses.
17:54So there you have it.
17:56Not only can four ceramic cups hold the weight of a two-tonne truck,
17:59but it can also take the weight of this lot.
18:01And just to prove that these mugs are genuine...
18:03I don't mean these mugs, cos they'd kill me if I said that.
18:05Just to prove these mugs are genuine,
18:07I'm going to break them by all jumping at the same time.
18:09One, two, three, jump!
18:11CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
18:15Ladies and gentlemen, our bodybuilders!
18:17CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
18:32So, any thoughts on that? I think it was a fail.
18:34What was it, a fail? Cos it broke two.
18:36Yeah, but that's cos we... We had to jump up and down with six massive guys.
18:39He said four, you broke two. No, but his fact was...
18:41If you just started with two and had one on each corner...
18:44It wasn't about how many were going to break,
18:46it was about how many could take the weight of a two-tonne truck,
18:48without the guys. Without the guys.
18:50He did mention... He didn't mention any bodybuilder.
18:52He did, he said four with big, strong men.
18:54Darren, eat my fact.
18:56I have to stand corrected,
18:58cos I thought your fact was rubbish,
19:00and after all, it was not complete rubbish.
19:02Is that the best you're going to do as a compromise?
19:04It wasn't complete rubbish. It wasn't.
19:06It withstood the cups.
19:08OK, so, we've tested Robert's fact, but how impressed were you?
19:11Time to give your marks out of ten.
19:13Chris and Kimberley, starting with you, Chris.
19:15Four. Four?!
19:17The fact did everything. There was one for each cup.
19:20Kimberley.
19:22I was not impressed to start with,
19:24but I do stand corrected.
19:26Seven. Seven.
19:28APPLAUSE
19:31I was impressed with that fact,
19:33and I'm going to give it an eight,
19:35because I didn't think it was going to be...
19:37I genuinely didn't think we were going to have to do that.
19:40So, let's add that up and see where you are on the leaderboard.
19:43Robert Webb, you're in the lead with 19 points.
19:49OK, last but not least, Kimberley, it's your turn. Tell us your fact.
19:53This is a fact we have all been waiting for.
19:56The toilet cubicle closest to the door
19:59generally has the least amount of germs.
20:02You mean in a public toilet? Yes, I do.
20:05Obviously. Who has more than one toilet in the toilet?
20:08So, what do we think? Why?
20:10Well, I mean, especially for a woman,
20:12when you go in and you have to de-trouse and sit in the toilet...
20:16De-trouse?! You are using some great words tonight.
20:19Is that different to taking your trousers off, de-trouser in?
20:22De-trouse, yeah, like, pull your pants down.
20:24De-pant? De-pant.
20:27And you think about cubicles, there's all the slits and stuff in the doors
20:31where people can potentially see through.
20:33So, of course, you're not going to go to the cubicle
20:35where the line is starting, cos everybody's going to be staring at you.
20:38There's going to be more people passing that cubicle. Exactly.
20:41One side of the first one will be the wall, so they can't look through the wall.
20:44I can believe this, cos when you walk in,
20:46and if the one nearest the door is empty,
20:48it's a bit like when you go into a car park
20:50and there's immediately a free parking space.
20:52I never park there, because there must be something wrong with it.
20:55A lot of people know that I don't know.
20:57I haven't really enjoyed my whole car park experience
20:59unless I've gone round moaning and swearing a few times.
21:02People do have weird toilet habits.
21:04My weird toilet habit is, and apparently this is very common,
21:06are you a poo-waiter? I beg your pardon?
21:08I don't mean to go...
21:10Waiter, poo-poo!
21:12If you've sat on a public toilet and it's empty
21:14and you're the only one in there,
21:16but then someone else comes in and sits in the one next to you,
21:19you think, I'm holding on, I'm waiting till he goes
21:22before I carry on with the action.
21:24You want him to hear my noises.
21:26Yes, but I had an incident recently where the fellow next door,
21:29I think he was a poo-waiter.
21:31We were in there for days.
21:34No-one was moving.
21:36I once walked into a loo.
21:38I was doing a thing at the BBC and I walked into a loo.
21:41There was the sound of a flush and who should come out of the cubicle
21:44but the BBC political editor Nick Robinson.
21:46And I was so surprised to see him there, I kind of panicked
21:49and then just went into the cubicle that he'd just come out of.
21:55A thing I hate, and I think it's mainly in lavatories at airports,
21:58people who obviously just run in for the flight,
22:00they leave dirty nappies in there.
22:02Oh, no, no.
22:04That is disgusting, especially when they haven't got kids.
22:07You know what, this isn't a joke, but genuine true fact is that
22:10we all hopefully wash our hands after the toilet.
22:12I washed before.
22:14You washed before? I would if I was you.
22:17I'd be worried, gloves are getting a pair of forks.
22:21But, you know, you wash your hands,
22:23so you're all nice and clean after the toilet
22:25and the last thing you do, of course, is touch the door handle
22:28before you go out and the door handle is the dirtiest thing in the toilet.
22:31Use your teeth. Use your teeth.
22:34So, Kimberley, the basic principle is that people will assume
22:37that the first one is the easiest, so therefore the dirtiest,
22:40which is actually the same system people use for my sisters.
22:44And so they don't use the first cubicle for that reason
22:48and because everyone thinks that, it turns out it's the least dirtiest.
22:52Everyone wants poo anonymity.
22:55That, if we don't have anything else tonight,
22:57can we just use that as the trailer?
23:00That's the campaign message that we're trying to get.
23:02Wendy Trazard, we want poo anonymity!
23:05Yes!
23:07That's a great word.
23:09I like the word poo anonymity.
23:11What if there's a floater?
23:13What if there's a floater?
23:15Somebody from the audience wants to know what if there's a floater.
23:18Some sort of Tourette's version of Question Time.
23:23Yes, question from the back.
23:25What if there's a floater in the poo?
23:27OK, let's go to our...
23:29That would be good, wouldn't it, on Question Time,
23:31if someone genuinely did a question from the back.
23:33You know I don't have any...
23:37Sorry!
23:40OK, so you've heard what this lot think.
23:42Join us after the break when you'll see what happened
23:44when we spent a day hanging round some public toilets.
23:46See you in a minute.
23:58Welcome back to Clockwork Stone Echo,
24:00the show all about bizarre and brilliant facts.
24:02Before the break, Kimberley told us the cubicle closest to the door
24:05in a public toilet generally has the least amount of germs.
24:08So let's see the experiment.
24:16Everyone has a method for coping with public toilets.
24:20From the elbow pushers
24:22to the loo paper placers
24:24to the hardcore germophobes.
24:28But apparently the best tactic
24:30is to head to the cubicle closest to the door.
24:33Here's an expert to clarify.
24:36People tend to avoid extremes in life
24:38and that applies to toilet cubicles as well.
24:41Very often we are confronted with
24:43selections between arbitrary options
24:45that we really don't care about.
24:47They can be almost identical.
24:49For example, when I'm in the supermarket
24:51it doesn't really matter which particular tin of baked beans
24:54I pick up and put in my basket.
24:56And it's actually easier, of course,
24:58to pick up an item to aim thoughtlessly
25:00at the middle of a row
25:02so I can use my brain for something else.
25:04And that pattern of behaviour
25:06applies to toilet cubicles as well.
25:08So we stick to the safe middle ground
25:10to save mental energy.
25:12Let's put it to the test.
25:16First we needed some public toilets.
25:19So here are three.
25:21We then placed cameras in each of them.
25:24Obviously we're not going to watch people go about their business
25:27because there are probably websites for that kind of thing.
25:30But we are going to monitor
25:32which cubicles were used.
25:34So will people really avoid
25:36the cubicle nearest the door?
25:46This is our first public toilet.
25:49It's a ladies' loo at a shopping centre in Essex.
25:53So presumably it has a tanning cubicle
25:55and a jazzling service.
25:58Anyway, here come the women.
26:01And as you can see, almost every single one
26:04avoided the cubicle nearest the door.
26:06We also wanted to check
26:08if the same was true in grottier public toilets,
26:11like this gent's in a run-down athletic stadium.
26:16And the more luxurious ones,
26:18like at this theatre.
26:21In each of our toilets,
26:23the cubicle nearest the door was used the least.
26:27Having monitored every person
26:29across three different public toilets,
26:31the percentage of people choosing the first cubicle
26:34was only 5%.
26:42We may have proved the psychology part of the theory,
26:45but we also need to check
26:47how clean these toilets were.
26:49And who on earth wants that job?
26:52That's right, it's King Woodburn
26:54from How Clean Is Your House.
26:56Oh my God.
26:58And Kim's marigolds went places they'd never been before.
27:01Oh, this is horrible.
27:03Comparing the cleanliness of the cubicles nearest to the door...
27:06Smells like a toilet, but not terrible.
27:08I've smelt worse.
27:10...with that of the other cubicles.
27:14I'm going to be sick.
27:16Our cleanliness expert deemed
27:18the first cubicles to be the cleanest.
27:20But to prove the science once and for all,
27:23Kim even swabbed the dirtiest of our public loos
27:26in the Athletic Stadium.
27:28Faeces.
27:30So on the tops of the seats, round the seats, down the seats.
27:33Oh, I've got to get out.
27:35These swabs were put on ice
27:37and sent to a laboratory for analysis.
27:39So the average for all other cubicles in the Athletic Stadium
27:43was 85,000 bacteria-colony-forming units on each swab.
27:50While the cubicle nearest the door
27:52had 2,610 units per swab,
27:55considerably lower than its more frequently used neighbours.
28:00Now, if we can only persuade Kim to relieve herself,
28:04of her duties, that is.
28:06I've got to get this place clean.
28:08Leave me alone, I've got to get it cleaned up.
28:18So what do you think of that?
28:19Tried and tested.
28:21The problem now, of course, is now, you know,
28:23by saying this on national television,
28:25it's now going to be the dirtiest one, but...
28:28So what do we think?
28:29Are we going to have to score that? Robert, what do you think?
28:31That's a good fact. I like that fact.
28:33And I'm going to give it an eight.
28:35You're going to give it an eight?
28:37And Chris, you're going to give her a...?
28:39Nine. OK.
28:40I'm very impressed with that fact,
28:42so I'm going to give it a big old ten.
28:45Ten! A ten.
28:48And let's see where that puts you on the leaderboard, Kimberley.
28:52That puts you right at the top with 27 points.
28:56Wowzer.
29:00Kimberley is sitting at the top of the leaderboard with 27 points,
29:03but everything could change in our next round.
29:05It's time for Fact Finder.
29:10It's not just my guests who've brought in facts,
29:12we've also asked our studio audience to bring in those too.
29:15Chris, Kimberley and Robert have looked through them
29:17and each picked out the one they love the most
29:19in the hope that it will win them the most points.
29:21Chris, you're up first. Who have you chosen?
29:23Hope Slater, what is your fact? Where are you?
29:26Tell me, where are you from, Hope?
29:28I'm from Chester. Are you? Yes.
29:30And what do you do?
29:32I'm in a gap year. I'm going to do university.
29:34The word you're looking for is unemployed.
29:38So what's your fact, Hope?
29:40Thinking about your muscles can make you stronger.
29:44Thinking about your muscles can make you stronger? Yes.
29:47Which muscle?
29:50So if I think about my bicep, my bicep will become stronger?
29:53Apparently.
29:55Well, apparently worries me a little bit on that fact.
29:57It's not what you want to hear, is it,
29:59when a doctor's putting you to sleep, is it,
30:01and that's how you'll be cured? Thank you.
30:05And where did you hear this?
30:07It was in a very, very cheap trivia game at Christmas.
30:10Oh, it sounds like science already.
30:13What was the game?
30:15It was actually... I mean, I say cheap
30:17because it was printed three times on three different cards,
30:20so that's why I remember it.
30:22And it wasn't really a game either, so it's cheap.
30:26It was more of a cracker.
30:28This gap year you're having, is it more of a mental break?
30:34Yeah. OK.
30:35So what do we think of that, Robert? Do you believe this?
30:38No. I'm very, very sceptical indeed.
30:40What do you think about muscle, that it gets stronger?
30:42This is madness.
30:44I think it's absolutely true, cos I'm well into my fitness, right?
30:47I'm also very flexible.
30:49Can you do Wednesdays?
30:53And so, sometimes different muscle groups sort of fall asleep,
30:57so you have to wake them up.
30:58So you think you can physically feel the difference by just thinking...
31:01Yes, I do.
31:02So it sounds a lot like going down to the gym and, like, cracking up.
31:04I think you still have to go to the gym as well.
31:06Yeah, he does. Can you do that for anything?
31:08Can you do it?
31:11So, that's Chris's chosen audience facts.
31:13Now, we can't test it because we've only just heard it tonight,
31:15so we've got a panel of brain boxes who, between them,
31:18know everything there is to know about everything.
31:20So please welcome rocket scientist Dr Simon Foster,
31:23expert in cell biology and genetics Dr Emily Grossman,
31:25and chemical engineer David Wharton.
31:27It's our Verifiers!
31:33Two blokes and a girl.
31:34This is what N-dubs would have been like
31:37How are you? All right?
31:38Yeah, I'm fine.
31:39What do we think of this fact?
31:41There is actually some truth in it.
31:43Researchers did a study of bodybuilders,
31:45and when they were training their biceps,
31:47as they were undergoing the exercise,
31:49if they thought about the muscle that they were exercising,
31:52there was actually extra electrical stimulus in that region,
31:55and that could make them stronger.
31:57However, if, as we're just sitting here,
32:00and we think about a muscle, please don't comment, Lee,
32:03it won't get any bigger or stronger.
32:06LAUGHTER
32:10You know, Dr Simon Foster knows everything,
32:12but you just wait until he discovers girls.
32:14It's all going to change.
32:17OK, we'll score it at the end once we've heard everyone's fact.
32:20Your next, Robert, who have you chosen?
32:22I've chosen Ellie Gay.
32:24Ellie Gay. Where are you, Ellie Gay?
32:26Hello, Ellie Gay. Hiya.
32:28What's your fact?
32:29My fact is, if you eat six almonds before you go on a night out,
32:33you won't have a hangover.
32:35If you eat six almonds before you go on a night out,
32:38you won't have a hangover.
32:40How do you know this? Have you tried it?
32:42Yeah, my friend at work told me about it,
32:44and I sort of tried it once, not thinking it would work,
32:47and it actually worked, so now I do it all the time.
32:50You do it all the time? What, like, how often? Every day?
32:53That's bad, because if you're an alcoholic and you've got a nut allergy.
32:58And it's worked for you personally, so you are evidence of this.
33:01You don't think there's a chance it's psychosomatic?
33:03No, it actually works, honestly.
33:05How much do you drink, though, on a night out?
33:07Average amount.
33:08What's an average for you, though? It might be different for us.
33:11A couple of glasses. A couple of glasses of what? White spirits?
33:16Are you used to being in big meetings and standing up like this?
33:23Come on, share with the group.
33:26I'm not an alcoholic, I'm just addicted to almonds.
33:31Does it work with anything else apart from almonds?
33:33Would it work with Brazil nuts?
33:34I've only tried it with almonds. You can have those.
33:36No, no, you're getting mixed up.
33:38You've got to have four Brazil nuts if you're a crackhead.
33:43OK, Robert.
33:44I like this fact. I wish I'd known it some time ago.
33:48But I've never tested it, but I like the sound of it.
33:51Kimberly, do you like a drink?
33:53I do like a drink every now and then.
33:55And are you a fan of nuts?
33:57I do like nuts, yes.
34:00OK, verifiers, what do we think?
34:02Well, there is no scientific evidence that says it'll work, I'm afraid.
34:06We've got to think what a hangover is.
34:08You have a hangover cos you've dehydrated yourself
34:10because alcohol's a diuretic,
34:12and so you've urinated a lot of liquid out of your body,
34:16and the concentration of chemicals, what we call electrolytes,
34:20in your blood and your brain has therefore increased.
34:23And that causes the cells in your brain to misfunction,
34:26gives you the headache and makes you feel quite ill.
34:28Almonds do contain lipoproteins,
34:31and they contain other things like fats and vitamin E,
34:36a lot of vitamin E.
34:37These are all electrolytes and will get into the body
34:40and help correct that imbalance.
34:42But six almonds is not going to do it.
34:45I have calculated you'd need to eat about 250g of almonds
34:49to have any effect at all.
34:51Far better, have a good meal and just drink water.
34:55OK, and finally, Timberley, whose facts have you picked up?
34:58I have a lovely fact from Ken Thomas.
35:01Ken Thomas, where are you? Where are you from, Ken?
35:04Well, I'm originally from Slough, but I now live in Chipping Sodbury.
35:07I don't want a biography, where are you from?
35:09Sorry, I've drunk a lot of caffeine today.
35:11Chipping Sodbury, Bristol.
35:13Bristol, OK. Tell me your amazing fact.
35:15Babies' cries can sound different in different languages.
35:18OK, and have you witnessed this yourself?
35:22Well, I have, yeah. I've had me own children
35:24and I've got six grandchildren
35:26and I've been to countries like the Philippines.
35:28Right. It is totally different.
35:30When you say totally different, how is it?
35:32There's just a different tone to the cry.
35:34Is it to do with your language?
35:36Like, would an American baby cry different to...?
35:38I think so, yes.
35:40It would whinge more, wouldn't it?
35:42I'm sorry, but this is, like, full fat and I said semi.
35:46I genuinely didn't mean that.
35:48So, what do we think?
35:50That babies can cry in different countries?
35:52Well, I think they probably do,
35:54because they're influenced by the noises around them.
35:56And I actually think it's probably, yeah, I think it's probably right.
35:58Kimberly?
35:59I think it would be fascinating if it were true.
36:01Are you sceptical? I'm a bit sceptical.
36:03But I want it to be true. Yeah, I want it to be true.
36:06We wanted the almonds to be true.
36:08OK, Verifiers, please, don't break our hearts.
36:11Tell us it might be true.
36:13Actually, it is true. Yes!
36:15So, the native language of a newborn baby
36:18will affect the sounds that it makes.
36:20So, a baby is born with the capacity to learn any language,
36:23but its intonation patterns are shaped
36:26by the sounds that it hears in its environment.
36:28So, even in the womb, the baby will hear
36:31the different melodic sounds of the languages spoken around it
36:34and it will memorise some of those sounds.
36:36And then when it's born, it will be born with the sound pattern
36:41most closely related to what it's heard
36:43and it's able to reproduce those sounds in its cry,
36:46even though it doesn't yet have a mature vocal tract.
36:49So, for example, a French baby will cry
36:51with a rising melody sound to its cry,
36:53kind of going from low to high.
36:55But a German baby's cry will have a decreasing melody,
36:58so going from high to low,
37:00which obviously reflects the difference
37:02between those two language tones.
37:04Amazing.
37:06Wow.
37:09That's amazing. I found that amazing.
37:11I like the idea that the Germans go from, like, high to low.
37:14They sort of go...
37:16Because then the babies, the mums will think,
37:18oh, he's fallen out of his cot.
37:23And then the French babies, when their mums are listening,
37:26they'll go...
37:27And the dad's going, he's fallen out of his cot,
37:30but I think he's climbing back in.
37:32So, we've heard the facts,
37:33but how many points will our verifiers give them?
37:35After the break, we'll find out
37:37who picked the best one and which one of these three
37:39will be leaving as tonight's DuckQuacks Don't Echo champion.
37:53Welcome back.
37:54Before the break, each of our guests
37:56chose their favourite fact from the audience.
37:58Our verifiers have told us if there's any truth in them,
38:00but how many points have they awarded each one?
38:02Let's find out.
38:03Chris, reminders of your chosen fact?
38:05Thinking about your muscles can make you stronger.
38:08Verifiers?
38:09Well, we've been chatting about this,
38:11and thanks to Kimberley for giving me a hand about this,
38:14and so we've decided that since it's semi-right,
38:17we're going to give it five.
38:22OK, Robert, reminders of the fact you're back?
38:24Ellie Gay claims that eating six raw almonds
38:27before drinking prevents a hangover.
38:29Verifiers?
38:30Well, because it's not really true,
38:32you'd have to eat this huge amount of almonds
38:34to make any difference.
38:35We could only give it three points.
38:39And finally, Kimberley, what fact did you go for?
38:42Ken Thomas' fact that babies' cries can sound differently
38:46in different languages.
38:48OK, verifiers?
38:49Well, given that this is actually true
38:51and babies in different countries do cry with a different melody,
38:54we decided we have to give it ten points.
38:56CHEERING
38:57You know what? You are extraordinary.
39:00You're extraordinary.
39:02So, let's put all of that onto the leaderboard
39:05and see the final scores.
39:07Chris Tarrant has 21 points, Robert Webb, 22,
39:09but storming ahead tonight,
39:10Kimberley Wyatt is our winner with 37 points.
39:12Wow.
39:14Wow.
39:15Well done, Kimberley.
39:17You've won tonight's show, but more importantly,
39:19that means you get to help me prove my fact,
39:21which is human hair is so strong
39:23that it can support the weight of another person.
39:26So let's test it out.
39:28Let's begin with Max's fact.
39:33Right, let's get started, then.
39:35It's time to see this fact in action.
39:37Kimberley, meet Anastasia.
39:39Hello.
39:40Now, she's going to be helping us with the experiment
39:42and offering us the use of her hair, which is 100% real.
39:45It's lucky that you won, Kimberley,
39:47because I don't fancy Anastasia's chances with Robert or Chris.
39:50Now, Anastasia is going to be suspended upside down
39:53and lift you up, only using her hair.
39:56Anastasia has a special clamp attached to her hair,
39:58which will be attached to a swing, which you will sit in.
40:02Oh, my goodness. How exciting.
40:04Anastasia is also wearing conditioner
40:06to protect and keep her hair strong.
40:09Anastasia, can you just confirm that this is all of your own hair?
40:12100% real.
40:13This is the kind of chat up line I use in bars.
40:16Now, whilst Anastasia gets hoisted up
40:18and Kimberley slips into something a lot more unflattering,
40:20let's find out from Dr Emily Grossman
40:22about how ridiculously strong human hair is.
40:24So, human hair is made mainly of the protein keratin,
40:27which also makes up our skin and our nails.
40:30Now, keratin is composed of highly structured fibres,
40:33which are coiled to form helices
40:35and then further twisted to make superhelical ropes,
40:38which are held together by many strong hydrogen bonds.
40:42Now, this unique structure gives hair its remarkable properties.
40:46It's exceptionally strong and exceptionally tough.
40:49And even though it's very easy to bend it,
40:51it's incredibly difficult to extend it.
40:53In fact, pound for pound, hair is as strong as aluminium.
40:57Now, a single human hair can support about 100 grams in weight.
41:01That's about the weight of two chocolate bars.
41:03And a head of hair consists of about 150,000 strands of hair.
41:09So the whole head of hair can support 12 tonnes.
41:14That's about the weight of two elephants.
41:18OK, Anastasia, are you OK up there?
41:20Absolutely fine.
41:21Are you ready?
41:22Ready.
41:23Let's lift them up.
41:26CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
41:35Wow!
41:37Now, remember, do not try this at home or if you are Wayne Rooney.
41:43So there's the proof.
41:44Human hair is so strong that it can support the weight of another person.
41:47CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
41:50That's it for tonight.
41:52A huge thanks to my guests, Chris Pallon, Robert Webb,
41:57Kimberley Wyatt and, of course, Anastasia.
42:02See you next time. Goodnight.
42:09Henry has got a hunch about a suspicious death
42:12and he just won't let it go.
42:14In brand new Forever on Thursday at 9,
42:16I guess being 200 years old makes you pretty stubborn, huh?
42:19And you can catch up with episode one on Demand Now.