Hello and welcome to another Working from Home episode of No Such Thing as a Fish,
a weekly podcast coming to you from four undisclosed locations in the UK.
My name is Dan Schreiber, I am sitting here with Anna Chazinski,
Andrew Hunter Murray and James Harkin and once again we have gathered around the microphones with our four favourite facts from the last seven days and in no particular order here we go.
Starting with you, James.
Okay my fact this week is that if you were to take a corn on the cob and remove each kernel in a row
while saying she loves me and then she loves me not,
then she will always love you not.
Right.
No.
How many, how many, that's quite a long version of that game I'm guessing.
Well it's row by row right?
Row by row, yeah so it's not that long.
It's long and disappointing for any lovers doing it.
There's no jeopardy, it's just a guaranteed lose.
There's an argument that it's not quite as romantic as sitting wistfully in a field taking petals off a flower,
just going to your fringe and grubbing an old corn on the cob.
But this is basically, I mean the fact is that there are an even number of kernels on every row of a corn on the cob.
The best way to check it yourself is to get a corn on the cob from your fridge or your supermarket.
Cut it in half width ways and then look at the sliced part and you'll get a circular cross section with the inside of the cob surrounded by corn kernels and then