Betting shops, incest, Pet Shop Boys, Indian train drivers and Shaznay Lewis. Plus Edwina Currie's daughter (who did not do a degree in Nursing - as Marty said - but English and Communication Studies). 

Facts you didn't need to know

Episode 1 - betting shops and train drivers

Marty and Vic discuss where they were on that fateful day in August '97; plus Marty tries to explain the type of jumper Neil Buchanan used to wear on Art Attack.

Episode 2 - Princess Di, second-hand bras and Neil Buchanan

Our excitement at the Olympics starting overflowed into this bossa nova hit.

Extra: The Olympic song "Heathrow To Rio"

Marty and Vic take a trip to Dublin where they find out interesting facts about the Irish change system, the literal translation of Sean Bean's name and the queuing practices of independent coffee houses.


(Short Guitar Clip by Audionautix is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution license.)

Episode 3 - The Dublin Special

Each week we finger and flick our way through a book of facts Marty has spent the past eighteen months of her life collecting... Putting the 'WTF' in serendipity.

FACTS you didn't need to know

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