Hello, and welcome to another episode of No Such Thing as a Fish,
a weekly podcast coming to you from the QI offices in Covent Garden.
My name is Dad Schreiber, and I'm sitting here with James Harkin,
Andrew Hunter Murray, and Anna Chazinski, and once again we have gathered around the microphones,
and once again we have gathered around the microphones with our four favorite facts from the last seven days,
and in no particular order, here we go.
Starting with my fact, and my fact this week is that the man who popularized the high five wave only has four fingers,
and this was a basketball player called Wiley Brown.
Back in 1978 slash 79 sees in a basketball, he and his mate started high fiving, and they talk about it really,
really interestingly, I read an interview where he said, you know, no one was doing it,
they all did it low, there's all these low fives going on, no one did it high,
and he said then the first time we did it, both of us looked at each other and said, did that just happen?
So they're really into it, it was a magical moment.
Can I just ask, when you say four fingers, you mean on one of his hands?
Exactly.
So nine fingers.
Yes, exactly.
So he had nine fingers in total, he was missing a thumb, he lost his thumb when he was four years old,
and a prosthetic thumb was made, which meant that he could still become an amazing sports star,
because he played basketball and football, he was a bit sort of carefree about his thumb at times,