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EPISODE FIVE

Dan, James, Anna and Andy discuss a post office nightmare, racing robots and a dropped tart.

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FACT ONE

MONGOLIA IS CHANGING ALL OF ITS ADDRESSES

James

75% of the world’s population doesn’t have a reliable address.

Mongolia made a postage stamp for their three millionth citizen.

Mongolia have their own navy, despite being landlocked. They have one ship, and only one of the naval officers can swim.

A Mongolian mummy was found wearing Adidas trainers.

To get good mobile reception, Mongolians have been known to throw their phone in the air to find signal while trying to send texts.

Mongolia only has one gay bar.

A Russian postman was fired for folding a vinyl in half to fit it through a letterbox.

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FACT THREE

DISHES AVAILABLE AT THE WORLD'S BEST RESTAURANT INCLUDE: MEMORY OF A MORTADELLA SANDWICH, THE CRUNCHY PART OF THE LASGAGNE, AND OOPS! I DROPPED THE LEMON TARTE

James

Despite gaining rave reviews overseas, Italian food inspectors thought the chef Massimo Bottura was poisoning people with his food and his ideas.

The restaurant has contained various artworks, most notably a bin bag.

The Tate Modern has twice as many live parrots as paintings, and it has two parrots.

A naked restaurant in Japan bans people who are too old or overweight.

The Aspire Assist allows you to drain food directly from your stomach into a toilet.

FACT TWO

THE WEB ADDRESSES: IhateDonaldTrump.com, IambeingsuedbyTheDonald.com, and IhateTrumpVodka.com ARE ALL OWNED BY DONALD TRUMP.

James

29% of Americans are favourable to Donald Trump. That’s the same number of Americans who have a rodent problem, cannot find the Pacific ocean on a world map, and it’s 1 fewer percent than the number of Americans who pronounce the word “meme” “me-me”.

Janet LaCelle owns numerous web addresses, in the hope she can sell them off for a huge profit in the future.

Rick Astley is number one this week- the same week as the internet thought Donald Trump may be a rickroll.

A Richmond woman's obituary reads: "NOLAND, Mary Anne Alfriend. Faced with the prospect of voting for either Donald Trump or Hillary Clinton, Mary Anne Noland of Richmond chose, instead, to pass into the eternal love of God on Sunday, May 15, 2016, at the age of 68."

Samuel L Jackson wants to do a duet with Donald Trump.

FACT FOUR

BRITAIN HAS ITS FIRST ROBOT OFFICE MANAGER, BETTY; SHE HAS A SHORT TERM CONTRACT IN MILTON-KEYNES

James

Betty has a brother called Bob- a security guard in Tewksbury.

Another robot, Linda, was less office appropriate- she got stuck in thick carpet and had to text for help.

ASIMO had to be taught gesticulation for Italians to understand him.

Touching robots in their private parts turns humans on.

@assbot is a Twitterbot which replies to all Donald Trump tweets. He responds to Trump fans with nonsense.

EXTRA FACTS

James

A woman in Germany alerted police after she saw a man burying something in woodland. When the police examined the scene, they found a wooden cross grave marking, and buried beneath it a box containing a mouldy gherkin.

A 230-ft-long 'Noah's Ark' crashed into a Coast Guard vessel as it was being towed into Oslo harbour.

A disqualified driver with no teeth was hauled before the court for assaulting a police officer – by gumming him.

In the 1881 England vs Wales match, Wales won by 1-0 after an illegal goal was allowed by the referee, Segar Bastard.

A chemistry professor testing a weed breathaliser was puzzled when a student tested positive for weed before the dose had been administered.

The youngest person on the Queen’s honour list is 21, and is accepting the award for exemplary service to plumbing and heating.

Nearly 4 years after Richard III was discovered under a car park in Leicester, Henry I may have been found under a car park in Reading. Historian John Mullany believes Henry would have been fascinated by the idea of cars, and thus would have quite liked being buried under a car park.

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