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The sound quality on this podcast is terrible.
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We had a few issues in the venue on the night.
Hope you can tolerate it nonetheless.
Okay, on with the show.
Hello and welcome to another episode of No Such Thing as a Fish,
a weekly podcast this week coming to you from Canterbury.
My name is Dan Schreiber and please welcome to the stage is the three regulars Anna Chazinski,
James Harkin and Andy Murray.
And once again,
we have gathered around the microphones with our four favorite facts and in no particular order, here we go.
Starting with you, James Harkin.
Okay, my fact this week is that the first water balloons were made out of socks.
So cotton made out of rubber, rubber socks.
This was it was invented by a guy called Edgar Ellington and he was trying to come up with a thing that could kind of treat trench foot.
So the idea that you would get your feet very wet and it could cause problems, he wanted to stop that.
And so he wanted to make socks that were made out of rubber out of latex.
The main problem he had was putting the socks on because they were so kind of latex and you shouldn't get them on.
And then once he even managed to sort that out, he thought, well, I'll just make sure the waterproof.