2014-06-12
13 分钟Hello and welcome to the very first episode of no such thing as a fish presents the World Cup of Facts This is the only football podcast out there with no mention of football whatsoever We are the QI elves this podcast is brought to you by visit England comm and each day We're gonna be pitting each country playing in this year's World Cup against each other to find out who the most quite interesting is And we begin with Brazil versus Croatia Okay,
I've got a flashback Brazil go for it.
You want to hear it?
Yeah, okay?
There's an island in Brazil.
It's the size of Buckingham Palace Gardens, but it contains more than half a million venomous snakes Wow,
yeah, you want me to go that would you that's in favor of Brazil being a better country?
Don't go there Well,
I mean doesn't it have a great flora and fauna for instance of which this is a mostly fauna But they can't be as far
as I know the most venomous snakes in the world of the top ten all ten are in Australia So they haven't got particularly no ruthless venomous snake.
Yeah, but I think The animals in Brazil have got to be top of their list of great things.
Haven't they?
Yeah Well parrots I have a lot of parrots right
because it was the country is named after a Brazil tree But initially Italian merchants called it the land of parrots due to the number of parrots that were there Okay.
Yeah, but yeah, so okay, so they've got parrots.
What else they got there?
They have piranha those little fish that bite you
that everyone else calls piranha The Kayapo people of Brazil they have a writer passage called Hornet fighting Where men climb up ladders and assault Hornet's nests with their bare hands I think to prove
that they're men we've got to develop better ways of showing women like the 18th birthday Oh Brazil also has in the Amazon you just have larger animals of every kind so they also have the giant river otter Which gets up to about two meters long.
Wow.