Hello and welcome to another episode of No Such Thing as a Fish, a weekly podcast.
This week, coming to you live from Cambridge,
my name is Dan Shriver and I am sitting here with Anna Chazinski, Andrew Hunter Murray and James Harkin and once again,
we have gathered round the microphones with our four favorite facts from the last seven days and in no particular order,
here we go.
Starting with my fact, my fact this week is that adult scooters were invented by a that's true.
This was in the 1990s,
there was a man who was a Dutch Swiss banker and he was called Wim Obeter and he was at home one night and he suddenly really wanted a sausage and he thought,
you know, it's what he called a micro distance.
It wasn't far enough to get in a car and drive there and find car parking.
What, the sausage shop?
Yeah, he had a favorite sausage shop and it wasn't close enough that he could walk to it and he thought,
why is there not a device that I could use to get me there?
And then he suddenly had the idea of turning what was only available really for kids, kid scooters.
Why not make an adult version of that?
So he invented that as a result.
But by the time he's invented it, he's not going to want a sausage anymore.
That's the sad bit of this story.
He starved to death in the manufacturing process.
So when he eventually had a prototype,