Hello, and welcome to another episode of No Such Thing as a Fish,
a weekly podcast this week coming to you live from Red Roof!
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 favorite facts from the last seven days,
and in no particular order here we go.
Starting with fact number one, and that's my fact this week, my fact is after the author George Elliot died,
her family spent 50 years publicly denying that she had a massive right hand.
Where to start with the questions?
Did she?
Well, basically before she was famous, this was in the 1840s, she was talking to a neighbor,
she was in her mid-20s, pre-fame, and she stretched out her right hand,
and with some pride demonstrated how massive it was.
It's like, look how big this is!
And it was big, she said, because in her teenage years she was making butter and cheese on her family's farm,
so she was doing all the churning that she needed to do, and as a result she built up this massive hand.
So it wasn't even by birth, like she built it herself, and she said that it was so big, her hand,
comparative to the left hand that she had, that it left her kind of lopsided,
because the weight of it, she did in this anecdote.
So this is the problem, it was an anecdote that was said before she was famous,
and when she died, 28 months after she died,