Hello and welcome to another episode of No Such Thing as a Fish,
this week coming to you from the Literary Arena in the Latitude Festival,
my name is Dan Schreiber, I'm sitting here with three other QILs, it's Anna Chazinski, Andy Murray and James Harkin,
and once again we've gathered around the microphones with our four favorite facts from the last seven days and in a particular order here we go,
and we're gonna start with my fact this week,
my fact this week is that the world record for horse long jump is shorter than the world record for human long jump.
That just can't even be true, that just is so obviously not true, it's unbelievable.
No, it's absolutely true, but here's the weird thing, horse long jump, did anyone know that existed?
It was an Olympic sport for one year.
I have a question about the horse long jump, did they have to do it with a human on their back?
Yes.
Well then of course they're gonna, like if you put a...
If you put a horse on a human's back.
That's not a fair comparison though, you need to put something,
it'd be like strapping a child to your back maybe, which wouldn't be allowed I guess,
no, but listen horses, okay how many people here,
just by show of hands, are surprised that humans can jump further than horses?
Yeah, pretty much everyone, and when you say surprised, none of them believe you.
Okay, so this is absolutely true, you can go online to Wikipedia, so this was in the 1900s.
You're niche sources for these facts.