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Episode 112: No Such Thing As A Lego Aircraft Carrier

**No Such Thing As A Lego Aircraft Carrier** is the 112th episode ofNo Such Thing As A Fish, the 8th episode of the third year, and the 19th episode of 2016. It features regular presenters James Harkin, Andrew Hunter Murray, Anna Ptaszynski, and Dan Schreiber, and was recorded at the King's Theatre in Edinburgh.

## Description

> Live from Edinburgh, Dan, James, Anna and Andy discuss jet plane catapults, the Hemline Index, and the world’s most expensive toilet paper.
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## Facts

* Antarctica exports used toilet paper. (Murray)
* Planes are launched off aircraft carriers via catapult. (Ptaszynski)
* Apple used to give out an annual award to the employee who best stood up to Steve Jobs. (Schreiber)
* There are Japanese rock bands called Abingdon Boys School, Mass of the Fermenting Dregs, and Seagull Screaming Kiss Her Kiss Her. (Harkin)

## Trivia

* This is the eighteenth and final stop on the No Such Thing As A Fish Live tour.
* Dan mentions a story told by Wade Davis about a man, in order to survive, freezing his own feces into a knife and killing a dog with it. As of Episode 290: No Such Thing As A Winter Fax Machine, this has been retracted.
* Dan mentions that David Bowie chose that as his stage name because both his birth name (David Jones) and his first stage name (Tom Jones) were taken by other musicians. This was previously mentioned in TBA.
Episode 323: No Such Thing As Floating Vaseline

**No Such Thing As Floating Vaseline** is the 323rd episode of No Such Thing As A Fish, the 11th episode of the seventh year, and the 22nd episode of 2020. It features regular presenters James Harkin, Andrew Hunter Murray, Anna Ptaszynski, and Dan Schreiber, and was recorded from home due to COVID-19.

## Description

>  Dan, James, Anna and Andy discuss what vaseline does in water; why an owl was found in an owl; and why you need to always keep in the lines.
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## Facts

* Early proposals for raising the Titanic back to the ocean's surface included filling it up with ping-pong balls, injecting 180,000 tonnes of vaseline into it, and turning the ship itself into an iceberg. (Schreiber)
* In 1927 an owl was found that had another owl in its stomach, and that owl had a third owl in *its* stomach. (Harkin)
* Almost every Englishman at the Battle of Agincourt ate a small amount of soil just before the battle started. (Murray)
* The first known colouring book was meant for adults. (Ptaszynski)

## Trivia

* This is the tenth Working From Home episode due to the Coronavirus pandemic.
* When Murray attempts to see if vaseline floats, reference is made to Episode 321: No Such Thing As A Frothy Beer, when Schreiber did an experiment to see if human skin oil collapses the head of a glass of beer.
* Different species of the same type of animal eating each-other was part of a headline fact in Episode 184: No Such Thing As Dinosaur Diaries.
* Schreiber mentions the fact about a golfer called "The Shark" catching a shark from The Book of the Year 2019, which was featured in the Audiobook of the Year 2019 Preview.
* After Murray describes a ludicrous folk story about Neville Chamberlain being cursed by a mythical owl, Schreiber questions why Murray is allowed to get away with that when he couldn't.
* Harkin mentions examples of nominative determinism such as a saddler called Saddler, a knight called Horsey, and an archer called Bower.
* Being excommunicated for mentioning Jesus' foreskin was mentioned in TBA.
* Horatio Nelson and Emma Hamilton were discussed in Episode 303: No Such Thing As Suckling's Column.
* Panini sticker albums were discussed at length in Episode 221: No Such Thing As A Fully Carpeted Country.
* Hitler's moderate reputation in Asia was discussed in TBA, and him being Time's Man of the Year was mentioned in TBA.
* Colouring books referenced:
	+ Altman, D. M., Cohen, R. E., Cohen, M. A. (1962). The John Birch Coloring Book. Chicago, IL: The Serious Products Co.
	+ Hans, M, Altman, D., & Cohen, M. A. (2017). The Executive Coloring Book. New York, NY: G.P. Putnam's Sons. (Originally published 1961.)
	+ Roman, A. A., Laikin, P., & Drucker, M. (2014). JFK Coloring Book. Camarillo, CA: About Comics.

## Further Reading

* Marsh, L. (2015). The Radical History of 1960s Adult Coloring Books. *The New Republic*.
* McCormack, J. W. & Kantrowitz, L. (2017). The strange, subversive roots of the adult coloring book craze. *Vice*.
Episode 148: No Such Thing As A Plummeting Moose

**No Such Thing As A Plummeting Moose** is the 148th episode of No Such Thing As A Fish, the 44th episode of the third year, and the 3rd episode of 2017. It features regular presenters James Harkin, Andrew Hunter Murray, and Anna Ptaszynski, and guest QI Elf Alex Bell. It was recorded at the QI Offices in Covent Garden, London.

## Description

> Andy, James, Anna and Alex discuss helicopter dung attacks, Sesame Street's Donald Trump and the best way to cover the smell of urine.
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## Facts

* The second President of the United States of America used to inspect London's dung. (Ptaszynski)
* You can be blocked from getting a Swiss passport if your neighbours find you too annoying. (Harkin)
* There are people in the Houses of Parliament who are constantly looking for fire. (Murray)
* The Cookie Monster isn't allowed to eat cookies. (Bell)

## Trivia

* Regular host Dan Schreiber is absent.
	+ In his absence, Murray hosts.
	+ Alex Bell guests, making his second in a row.
Episode 228: No Such Thing As Seatbelts On Your Sofa

**No Such Thing As Seatbelts On Your Sofa** is the 228th episode of *No Such Thing As A Fish*, the 20th episode of the fifth year, and the 32nd episode of 2018. It features regular presenters James Harkin, Andrew Hunter Murray, Anna Ptaszynski, and Dan Schreiber, and was recorded at the QI Offices in Covent Garden, London, to replace a lost recording from Bristol Beacon, Bristol.

## Description

> Not live and not from Bristol, Dan, James, Anna and Andy discuss indoor hot air balloon shows, McBaseball and what you'll find inside a giraffe's armpit.
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## Facts

* The first hot air balloon flight in Bristol was indoors. (Murray)
* In rage rooms, where people pay to smash things up, the things people want to smash up the most are printers. (Ptaszynski)
* One of the first things that McDonald's founder Ray Kroc did when he bought the baseball team the San Diego Padres was to sign a player called "Big Mac". (Schreiber)
* The yellow-billed oxpecker bird sleeps in giraffes' armpits. (Harkin)

 Trivia

* This episode was originally recorded live in Bristol as part of the 2018 Tour, but the original audio was lost, so it was recreated in the QI Offices.
	+ Dan refers to the similar loss of audio in the previous episode.
* James compares Anna's fact about Jean-Pierre Blanchard's dog to Dan's story about Grahame Donald's loop-the-loop from Episode 222.
* James watched *The Founder* the day before the original Bristol live show.

## Notes

1. ↑ Bailey Balloons: A history of ballooning in Bristol
2. ↑ BBC Worklife: Need to smash a printer with a baseball bat? Now you can
3. ↑ Friars on Base: The Padres 1974: Willie McCovey's Time
4. ↑ National Geographic: Birds Sleep in Giraffe Armpits, New Photos Reveal
Episode 163: No Such Thing As Too Fast For A Fish

### Presenters

James Harkin, Andrew Hunter Murray, Anna Ptaszynski, Dan Schreiber, John Hodgman

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Episode 164: No Such Thing As A Poo Powered Plane

**No Such Thing As Too Fast For A Fish** is the 163rd episode of No Such Thing As A Fish, the 7th episode of the fourth year, and the 18th episode of 2017. It features regular presenters James Harkin, Andrew Hunter Murray, Anna Ptaszynski, and Dan Schreiber, and guest presenter John Hodgman. It was recorded at the QI Offices in Covent Garden, London.

## Description

> Dan, James, Anna, Andy and special guest John Hodgman discuss draining the sea, why the Titanic really sunk, and how most of Britain isn't really in Britain.
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## Facts

* Conspiracy theorists believe that the real reason the Titanic sank was **not** because it hit an iceberg, but because so many time travellers visited it at the same time that their combined weight forced it under the surface. (Hodgman)
* During the Californian Gold Rush, a pair of boots could cost the equivalent of $2,300 in today's money. (Harkin)
* The area of Australia owned by British people is larger than Britain. (Murray)
* In the first half of the 20th century, multiple countries considered draining the Mediterranean Sea. (Ptaszynski)

## Trivia

* More of Murray's live stand-up shows at the Soho Theatre are announced.
* This episode marks the first and only appearance of John Hodgman.
	+ The episode begins with a clip of Schreiber and Ptaszynski appearing on Hodgman's podcast Judge John Hodgman.
	+ There are five people around the microphones, so Dan Schreiber does not submit a fact.
	+ Hodgman's fact has been suggested many times by Schreiber, but vetoed because Schreiber kept phrasing it in a way that stated the conspiracy theory as a fact.
	+ Schreiber originally found this fact on the podcast StarTalk.
* Schreiber's sister, who lives in Abu Dhabi, was previously mentioned in Episode 159: No Such Thing As An Edible Jockey.
Episode 146: No Such Thing As A Queen Orca

**No Such Thing As A Queen Orca** is the 146th episode of No Such Thing As A Fish, the 42nd episode of the third year, and the 1st episode of 2017. It features regular presenters James Harkin, Andrew Hunter Murray, and Dan Schreiber, and special guest Sara Pascoe. It was recorded at the QI Offices in Covent Garden, London.

## Description

> Dan, James, Andy and special guest Sara Pascoe discuss sympathetic pregnancy, the world's most famous umbrellas and the surprisingly romantic life of coral.
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## Facts

* The first man to use an umbrella in London was pelted with rubbish for doing so. (Harkin)
* When a partner is pregnant, the male brain changes due to the decrease in testosterone and the increase in prolactin and cortisol. (Pascoe)
* One fifth of all species of coral on the planet have been named by the same man. (Murray)
* The first female British playwright was called Joanna Lumley. (Schreiber)
Episode 16: No Such Thing As A Ghost In Poland

**No Such Thing As A Ghost In Poland** is the 16th episode ofNo Such Thing As A Fish, the 16th episode of the first year, and the 31st episode of 2014. It features regular presenters James Harkin, Anna Ptaszynski, and Dan Schreiber, and guest QI Elves Alex Bell and Anne Miller. It was recorded at the QI Offices in Covent Garden, London.

## Description

> This week in the QI Office Dan Schreiber (@schreiberland), James Harkin (@eggshaped), Anna Ptaszynski (@nosuchthing), Anne Miller (@miller\_anne*)* & Alex Bell (@alexbell) discuss randy bears, Bhutanese yeti park rangers, clever 12 year old girls, and more...
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## Facts

* The World Record for most kicks to one's own head is 127 in a minute. (Harkin)
* There is a bear in the Pyrenees facing castration because he has fathered nearly all the other bears in the area. (Miller)
* Poland's only official ghost-hunter thinks that ghosts have given up on haunting humans. (Schreiber)
* Nuclear fallout from the Cold War is being used to solve murders. (Ptaszynski)

## Trivia

* This episode marks the third appearance of Anne Miller and the fourth appearance of Alex Bell.
	+ As there are five people in the studio, Bell is fact-checking for this episode.
* Regular presenter Andrew Hunter Murray is absent.
* This episode features the first mention of Yetis.
Episode 237: No Such Thing As A Closed-Minded Tortoise

**No Such Thing As A Closed-Minded Tortoise** is the 237th episode of No Such Thing As A Fish, the 29th episode of the fifth year, and the 41st episode of 2018. It features regular presenters James Harkin, Andrew Hunter Murray, Anna Ptaszynski, and Dan Schreiber, and was recorded at 2020 Audio in Islington, London.

## Description

> Dan, James, Andy and Anna discuss facial recognition for chickens, the whales older than Moby Dick, and the European Space Agency's rockin' sound system.
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## Facts

* There are whales alive today who were alive before Moby-Dick was written. (Murray)
* The European Space Agency has a sound system so loud that, if you heard it, it would kill you. (Schreiber)
* South Korean teachers are banned from drinking coffee at school. (Harkin)
* Facial recognition technology for chickens allows you to pre-order a specific chicken and watch it grow on the farm before it ends up on your plate. (Ptaszynski)

 Trivia

* This episode was recorded in the same booth at 2020 Audio that the Fish team had just finished recording The Audiobook of the Year 2018 in.
Episode 2: No Such Thing As Death By Acne

**No Such Thing As Death By Aardvark** is the 2nd episode of *No Such Thing As A Fish*, the 2nd episode of the first year, and the 2nd episode of 2014. It features presenters James Harkin, Andrew Hunter Murray, Anna Ptaszynski, and Dan Schreiber, and was recorded at the QI Offices in Covent Garden, London.

## Description

> Episode 2 - The second episode of the new podcast from the writers of QI, who discuss the best facts they've found that week. This episode features Dan Schreiber (@schreiberland), James Harkin (@eggshaped), Anna Ptaszynski (@nosuchthing) & Andrew Hunter Murray (@andrewhunterm).
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## Facts

1. The first ever sandwich that we know about contained wine. (Ptaszynski)
2. In 2003, 3 people in Mexico died of acne. (Harkin)
3. Amongst the other scientists called Einstein there are M. E. Einstein, who came up with a formula for predicting the composition of a pork carcass, and Rosemarie Einstein, who co-investigated the use of cannabis, alcohol and tobacco on 300 young persons at her university. (Schreiber)
4. The first contact lenses cost as much as a car. (Murray)

## Notes

1. ↑ What's Cooking America: Sandwich History
2. ↑ NationMaster: Acne statistics - countries compared (archived)
3. ↑ Dan got his fact from the book *This is Improbable Too* by Marc Abrahams. (Amazon)
4. ↑ The Guardian: Einstein's relative's theories
5. ↑ Andy got his fact from a visit to the British Optical Association Museum.
Episode 221: No Such Thing As A Fully Carpeted Country

**No Such Thing As A Fully Carpeted Country** is the 221st episode of *No Such Thing As A Fish*, the 13th episode of the fifth year, and the 24th episode of 2018. It features regular presenters James Harkin, Andrew Hunter Murray, Anna Ptaszynski, and Dan Schreiber, and special guest Alan Davies. It was recorded at the QI Offices in Covent Garden.

## Description

> Dan, James, Anna, Andy and special guest Alan Davies discuss the street value of football sticker albums, anti-diving shin pads and instructional chat-up pamphlets for Argentinian footballers.
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## Facts

* Austria qualified for the 1938 World Cup, but then had to withdraw because it stopped existing as a country. (Davies)
* This year, Argentina's Football Association gave its players a World Cup manual with a chapter on how to pick up Russian women. (Ptaszynski)
* Scientists have invented anti-diving shin pads. (Harkin)
* In April, police in Lima seized over 20,000 counterfeit Panini football sticker albums, with a street value of $350,000. (Murray)

 Trivia

* Alan Davies guests, making his first appearance.
	+ Alan is not on Twitter, just like Anna.
	+ As there are five people around the microphones, Dan does not submit a fact.
* This is the World Cup Special, to coincide with the 2018 World Cup.
* The Complete Second Year Cassette was released the day after this episode.

## Notes

1. ↑ History.com: World Cup 1938: When Nazi Germany Forced Austrians to Play For Them—And Lost
2. ↑ MercoPress: World Cup advice for Argentine media: "How to stand a chance with a Russian girl"
3. ↑ Metro: 'Anti-diving' shinpads developed to stop footballers cheating
4. ↑ The Mirror: Police in Peru seize 20,000 counterfeit Panini World Cup sticker books worth almost a quarter of a million pounds
Episode 30: No Such Thing As A Song In The Sound Of Music

**No Such Thing As A Song In The Sound Of Music** is the 30th episode of No Such Thing As A Fish, the 30th episode of the first year, and the 45th episode of 2014. It features regular presenters James Harkin, Andrew Hunter Murray, Anna Ptaszynski, and Dan Schreiber, and was recorded at the Aces And Eights Saloon Bar, Tufnell Park, London.

## Description

> In their first ever live podcast recording, Dan (@schreiberland), James (@eggshaped), Andy (@andrewhunterm) and Anna (#getannaontwitter) discuss cow-based computer code, who won the Bone Wars and how northern accents beat the Nazis.
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## Facts

* The first BBC radio presenter with a northern accent, Wilfred Pickles, was given the job to make it more difficult for the Nazis to impersonate news readers. (Harkin)
* In China, if you want to empty a building of people, or indeed if you want to end anything, play the song "Going Home" by Kenny G. (Schreiber)
* The two leading paleontologists of the 19th century, Edward Drinker Cope and Othniel Charles Marsh, used to destroy their fossil sites after excavating them so that their rival couldn't find anything. (Ptaszynski)
* In the Fula language, a computer crash is known as a "hookii", which means "a cow falling over but not dying". (Murray)

## Trivia

* This is the first ever live episode of Fish, and their first performance in Aces And Eights.
* Anna discusses Grace Archer being killed off to draw attention away from the launch of ITV. As of Episode 270: No Such Thing As BIG SHERLOCK HOLMES, the podcast has revealed the real reason.
* Dan's inability to pronounce "Covent Garden" is discussed for the first time.
* "Scrotum humanum" is discussed, becoming a main fact in Episode 131: No Such Thing As Walking the Life Jacket.
Episode 13: No Such Thing As A Funny Nazi

### Presenters

James Harkin, Andrew Hunter Murray, Anna Ptaszynski, Dan Schreiber, Lieven Scheire

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Episode 14: No Such Thing As A Dirty Pair of Jeans

**No Such Thing As A Funny Nazi** is the 13th episode of No Such Thing As A Fish, the 13th episode of the first year, and the 13th episode of 2014. It features regular presenters James Harkin, Andrew Hunter Murray, Anna Ptaszynski, and Dan Schreiber, and special guest Lieven Scheire. It was recorded at the QI Offices in Covent Garden, London.

## Description

> This week in the QI Office Dan Schreiber (@schreiberland), James Harkin (@eggshaped), Andrew Hunter Murray (@andrewhunterm) Anna Ptaszynski (@nosuchthing) & special guest Lieven Scheire (@Lievenscheire) discuss Disney's war effort, the rules of pillow fighting, stoned dolphins and more...
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## Facts

* During World War II, the Nazi Party employed two official Nazi comedians called Tran and Helle. (Scheire)
* The Philippine Basketball Association, the second oldest such association in the world, has ten teams in total, including the Rain or Shine Elasto Painters, the San Miguel Beermen, and the Talk 'N Text Tropang Texters. (Schreiber)
* If you get a zebrafish drunk and put it in a tank full of sober zebrafish, the sober ones will follow the drunk one around. (Ptaszynski)
* The youngest woolly mammoths are younger than the oldest Egyptian pharaohs. (Murray)

## Trivia

* This episode marks the first appearance of Lieven Scheire.
* There are five people around the microphones, but no absences, so James Harkin is fact-checking in this episode.
Episode 15: No Such Thing As A Bulge in Ken's Groin

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Episode 16: No Such Thing As A Ghost in Poland

**No Such Thing As A Bulge in Ken's Groin** is the 15th episode of No Such Thing As A Fish, the 15th episode of the first year, and the 30th episode of 2014. It features regular presenters James Harkin, Andrew Hunter Murray, Anna Ptaszynski, and Dan Schreiber, and was recorded at the QI Offices in Covent Garden, London.

## Description

> This week in the QI office Dan Schreiber (@schreiberland), James Harkin (@eggshaped), Andrew Hunter Murray (@andrewhunterm) & Anna Ptaszynski (@nosuchthing) discuss Aztec popcorn, Top Gun in China, exploding dolls and David Cameron's door handle.
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## Facts

* The Aztecs wore necklaces made out of popcorn. (Harkin)
* In 2011, China tried to pass off a scene from Top Gun as footage from its own air force. (Ptaszynski)
* In 2003, someone misplaced the master keys to the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, meaning they had to replace the locks at a cost of $1,000,700. (Schreiber)
* The children's toy doll Ken is officially an accessory for Barbie. (Murray)

## Trivia

* This is the first numbered episode of the podcast after the International Factball series, which is not part of the main series of podcasts.
Episode 294: No Such Thing As A 15-Hour Working Week

**No Such Thing As A 15-Hour Working Week** is the 294th episode of No Such Thing As A Fish, the 34th episode of the sixth year, and the 45th episode of 2019. It features regular presenters James Harkin, Andrew Hunter Murray, Anna Ptaszynski, and Dan Schreiber, and was recorded at the QI Offices in Covent Garden, London.

## Description

> Dan, James, Anna and Andrew discuss hand-drawn stockings, raccoon-damaged temples, and the doomsday aircraft destroyed by a single bird.
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## Facts

* The US Navy's "Doomsday aircraft", which was designed to survive a nuclear attack, was recently taken out by a single bird. (Harkin)
* When Nylon stockings became rationed during World War II, department stores set up leg makeup bars where women could have stockings drawn onto their legs instead. (Schreiber)
* More than 80% of Japan's temples have suffered from raccoon damage. (Ptaszynski)
* The economist John Maynard Keynes once bought a priceless Cézanne painting and then hid it in a hedge. (Murray)

 Trivia

* The Fish team have won the Heinz Oberhummer Award for science communication.
	+ The live show in Vienna that is to become Episode 300 is announced.
* Murray refers back to his fact from Episode 165: No Such Thing As A Spider The Size Of A Sheep about the Boeing E-4 having 5-mile-long antenae.
* Harkin refers to Murray's preoccupation with ceiling fans in the previous episode.
* Duncan Hamilton and the Le Mans race were both mentioned in TBA.
* Murray's fact comes from Tim Harford's show *Cautionary Tales*.
* **NOT SURE IF THIS WAS FEATURED BEFORE** Schreiber mentions the theory that Walter Sickert was Jack the Ripper, which was brought up in TBA.
* Harkin has not seen *Stuart Little*.
Episode 330: No Such Thing As An Antarctic Vindaloo

**No Such Thing As An Antarctic Vindaloo** is the 330th episode of No Such Thing As A Fish, the 18th episode of the seventh year, and the 30th episode of 2020. It features regular presenters James Harkin, Andrew Hunter Murray, Anna Ptaszynski, and Dan Schreiber, and was recorded from home due to COVID-19.

## Description

>  Dan, James, Anna and Andy discuss rocks of ages, cool treads and disco moles.
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## Facts

* Golden moles shine in all the colours of the rainbow and they'll never know it. (Ptaszynski)
* Mozart and Beethoven both composed music for an instrument made entirely of glass. It was invented by Benjamin Franklin. (Schreiber)
* Envelopes used to be made of clay. (Murray)
* In 1939 America made a huge vehicle to drive across Antarctica. Unfortunately they put no tread on the tyres so it couldn't drive across the ice. (Harkin)

## Trivia

* This is the eighteenth Working From Home episode due to the Coronavirus pandemic.
* Murray asks whether golden moles even know they're moles.
* Ptaszynski mentions Franz Mesmer from TBA.
* Harkin mentions that Piers Fletcher has a Babylonian clay envelope.
Episode 328: No Such Thing As A Romantic Lollipop

**No Such Thing As A Romantic Lollipop** is the 328th episode of No Such Thing As A Fish, the 16th episode of the seventh year, and the 28th episode of 2020. It features regular presenters James Harkin, Andrew Hunter Murray, Anna Ptaszynski, and Dan Schreiber, and was recorded from home due to COVID-19.

## Description

>  Dan, James, Anna and Andy discuss Summer Homes, Summer Treats and Sunday Trading
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## Facts

* The London Underground used to have a church interval on sundays. (Schreiber)
* The first ice cream on a stick was called the Good Humor Bar. It was a modified version of a lollipop caleld the Jolly Boy Sucker. (Harkin)
* Kublai Khan's summer palace could be dismantled and folded away at the end of every summer. (Ptaszynski)
* According to the people who have drunk it, billion-year-old water tastes terrible. (Murray)

## Trivia

* This is the sixteenth Working From Home episode due to the Coronavirus pandemic.
* The charity fundraising from No Such Thing As The iSausage raised over £10,000 for the Care Workers' Charity.
* The planned drive-in cinema episode is first announced, which was cancelled and replaced with Episode 334: No Such Thing As A Babysitter's Trade Union.
* Ptaszynski mentions Franciscans who were discussed in Episode 322: No Such Thing As A Crown Of Willie Thornes.
Episode 159: No Such Thing As An Edible Jockey

**No Such Thing As An Edible Jockey** is the 159th episode of No Such Thing As A Fish, the 3rd episode of the fourth year, and the 14th episode of 2017. It features regular presenters James Harkin, Andrew Hunter Murray, Anna Ptaszynski, and Dan Schreiber, and was recorded at the QI Offices in Covent Garden, London.

## Description

> Dan, James, Anna and Andy discuss falcon sex caps, a 73-year-old superhuman swimmer, and the morning routine of a seahorse.
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## Facts

* In 1966, the Chinese press reported that 73-year-old Chairman Mao had swum 15 kilometres of the Yangtze river in 65 minutes. That's twice the speed that Michael Phelps has ever swum. (Harkin)
* Seahorses greet their partners every day to make sure that they're still alive. (Murray)
* Falcon experts put on a special hat when they want to collect semen. (Schreiber)
* Mayan women had to prove that they could make cocoa with the right amount of froth before men would marry them. (Ptaszynski)

## Trivia

* Mao's love of swimming was previously mentioned in Episode 75: No Such Thing As Diarrhoea Drive.
* The fact that dragonflies are the most successful hunters in nature was previously mentioned in TBA.
* All of Schreiber's material about seahorses comes from a script Harkin wrote for Museum of Curiosity.
	+ The same script contains the question "is it true that there's no such thing as a fish?"
* Schreiber mentions cocoa beans being used as currency, which was Anne Miller's halftime fact in Italy v Switzerland.
* Murray mentions Erica McAlister's fact about cocoa becoming more expensive from Episode 156: No Such Thing As A Limited Edition.
Episode 321: No Such Thing As A Frothy Beer

**No Such Thing As A Frothy Beer** is the 321st episode of No Such Thing As A Fish, the 9th episode of the seventh year, and the 20th episode of 2020. It features regular presenters James Harkin, Andrew Hunter Murray, Anna Ptaszynski, and Dan Schreiber, and was recorded from home due to COVID-19.

## Description

> James, Anna, Andy & Dan discuss chalk giants, corn circles and what the Mayans got right in 2012.
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## Facts

* If you were to take a corn on the cob and remove each kernel in a row while saying "she loves me" and then "she loves me not", then she will always love you not. (Harkin)
* Mayan gods include "flying scab", "gathered blood", and "pus demon". (Ptaszynski)
* In pre-industrial Sweden, some people used slugs as grease to lubricate their cart wheels. (Murray)
* In 2019 sixty-nine pilgrims made a journey from the Cerne Abbas Giant, a nude chalk man carved into a hillside in England, to CERN in Geneva. Or, as they put it, "from the large hard-on to the large hadron". (Schreiber)

## Trivia

* This is the eighth Working From Home episode due to the Coronavirus pandemic.
* Harkin makes reference to a fact about a NASA astronaut promoting pears from the previous episode.
	+ He also makes reference to a cache of apples buried under the Italian mountains from the same episode.
* Earwax getting rid of beer foam was mentioned in TBA.
* The Fish team again try to experimentally prove a fact in Episode 323: No Such Thing As Floating Vaseline.
Episode 18: No Such Thing As A Kilt on the Battlefield

**No Such Thing As A Kilt on the Battlefield** is the 18th episode of No Such Thing As A Fish, the 18th episode of the first year, and the 33rd episode of 2014. It features regular presenters James Harkin, Anna Ptaszynski, and Dan Schreiber, and guest Richard Turner. It was recorded at the QI Offices in Covent Garden, London.

## Description

> This week in the QI Office Dan Schreiber (@schreiberland), James Harkin (@eggshaped), Anna Ptaszynski (@nosuchthing) & Museum of Curiosity co-producer Richard Turner (@therichturner) discuss James Joyce's tiny underpants dance, a bucket worth starting a war for, fashionable apes, and much more...
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## Facts

* When Neil Armstrong stepped on the Moon and said "That's one small step for man", he was wearing ladies' underwear. (Turner)
* In 1963, Muhammad Ali released a stand-up comedy album. (Schreiber)
* In 1325, in Italy, a war was declared and 2,000 people were killed because of a stolen bucket. (Ptaszynski)
* There is a group of chimpanzees in Zambia who wear a blade of grass in their left ear as a fashion statement. (Harkin)

## Trivia

* This episode marks the first and only appearance of Richard Turner.
* Regular presenter Andrew Hunter Murray is absent.
* Mohammed Ali being a magician is discussed. This was used as a headline fact in No Such Thing As The News: Series 1, Episode 4, in the week of Ali's death.
Episode 147: No Such Thing As Burrito Party Boy

**No Such Thing As Burrito Party Boy** is the 147th episode of No Such Thing As A Fish, the 43rd episode of the third year, and the 2nd episode of 2017. It features regular presenters James Harkin, Andrew Hunter Murray, and Anna Ptaszynski, and guest QI Elf Alex Bell. It was recorded at the QI Offices in Covent Garden, London.

## Description

> Anna, James, Andy and Alex discuss the unluckiest politician in the world, the elephant on the River Thames, and the best way of getting invited to Buckingham Palace.
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## Facts

* In 1683 some people were ice skating in the Netherlands when the ice broke away and they floated all the way to Essex. (Harkin)
* Former Argentinian President Carlos Menem had such a reputation for bad luck that people would touch their left breast or testicle while shaking his hand. (Bell)
* Isambard Kingdom Brunel once spent six weeks with a coin stuck in his windpipe as the result of a magic trick that backfired. (Ptaszynski)
* To deal with violent or drunk people, Japanese police carry massive futons and roll the offender up in them to calm them down. (Murray)

## Trivia

* Regular host Dan Schreiber is absent.
	+ In his absence, Ptaszynski hosts.
	+ Alex Bell guests.
* Andy's stand-up show at the Soho Theatre is plugged, having sold out at the Edinburgh Fringe.
* There is another fact about ice-skating in the Netherlands in No Such Thing As Wasted Material 2017.
* Andy gives his Twitter handle as @BurritoPartyBoy.
China Theatre

The **China Theatre** is a theatre in Stockholm, Sweden. Although built in 1928 as a movie theatre, it has since been used for stage shows, comedies, and musicals.

It has hosted one episode of the QI podcast No Such Thing As A Fish during their In No Particular Order tour.

## No Such Thing As A Fish

* Episode 277: No Such Thing As An Elephant Polo Rider In A Sombrero
Episode 140: No Such Thing As Books For Pirate-Children

**No Such Thing As Books For Pirate-Children** is the 140th episode ofNo Such Thing As A Fish, the 36th episode of the third year, and the 47th episode of 2016. It features regular presenters James Harkin, Andrew Hunter Murray, Anna Ptaszynski, and Dan Schreiber, and was recorded at the QI Offices in Covent Garden, London.

## Description

> Dan, James, Anna and Andy discuss ancient greek bathtubs, badgers on submarines and the logistics of Santa's Naughty and Nice List.
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## Facts

* A pub in London has just named itself The Bill Murray. However, because they couldn't get his permission, they had to name it after William Murray, who was King Charles I's whipping boy instead. (Schreiber)
* It is impossible to paint a picture with the world's blackest black **and** the world's pinkest pink. (Harkin)
* At least 30% of the cocaine in America arrives by submarine. (Ptaszynski)
* In the Greek myth of Odysseus, he escapes the cyclops by hiding under one of the cyclops' sheep. In the Apache version of the same story, he escapes by hiding in the anus of a buffalo. (Murray)

## Trivia

* Andy talks about flamingos who live in frozen lakes, previously mentioned in TBA.
* Ptaszynski mentions Tyrian purple. In TBA it was mentioned as one of the shades in the Colour Archive.
* Ptaszynski mentions Homer's "wine-dark sea", which was a headline fact in Episode 108: No Such Thing As Samurai Olaf.
* Dan's fact about blue sheep in China is doubted, but his source is that Molly Oldfield went to China to make a documentary.
* The story of Odysseus and the cyclops is discussed again in Episode 322: No Such Thing As A Crown Of Willie Thornes, where it is pointed out that the cyclops was making cheese in his cave.
Episode 12: No Such Thing As A 164-Foot-Tall Gorilla-Whale

**No Such Thing As A 164-Foot-Tall Gorilla-Whale** is the 12th episode of No Such Thing As A Fish, the 12th episode of the first year, and the 12th episode of 2014. It features regular presenters James Harkin, Andrew Hunter Murray, Anna Ptaszynski, and Dan Schreiber. It was recorded at the QI Offices in Covent Garden, London.

## Description

> This week in the QI Office Dan Schreiber (@schreiberland), James Harkin (@eggshaped), Andrew Hunter Murray (@andrewhunterm) & Anna Ptaszynski (@nosuchthing) discuss urinating voles, the rules of cricket according to J.M. Barrie, and more...
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## Facts

* If the 2014 version of Godzilla really existed, it would produce 12.9 million gallons of urine a day. (Harkin)
* The real Long John Silver (William Ernest Henley) was the father of the real Wendy Darling (Margaret Henley). (Ptaszynski)
* The tin foil hat worn by conspiracy theorists to stop the government sending messages into their brains actually amplifies the signal. (Schreiber)
* Geese sometimes fly upside-down to lose height quickly when they come in to land. (Murray)

## Trivia

* The hashtag "#GetAnnaOnTwitter" is first used in this episode. As of Episode 300, she is still not on twitter.
Episode 186: No Such Thing As Russian Hacking in the Cockroach Election

**No Such Thing As Russian Hacking in the Cockroach Election** is the 186th episode of *No Such Thing As A Fish*, the 30th episode of the fourth year, and the 41st episode of 2017. It features regular presenters James Harkin, Andrew Hunter Murray, and Anna Ptaszynski, and guest QI Elf Alice Campbell Davis. It was recorded at the QI Offices in Covent Garden, London.

## Description

> Anna, James, Andy and Alice discuss portable bridges, sneeze-based votes, and why you can't detect magnets with your mind.
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## Facts

* Humans should be able to sense magnetic fields. (Davis)
* The army has tanks that carry fold-out bridges for when they meet a river that they can't cross. (Ptaszynski)
* A new law in Oregon has banned a game called "Big Injun". There is no evidence that anyone has played Big Injun since the 1950s, and no living person appears to know the rules. (Harkin)
* African wild dogs have a sneeze-based voting system. (Murray)

## Trivia

* Regular host Dan Schreiber is absent for the second episode in a row.
	+ In his absence, Anna Ptaszynski hosts.
	+ Alice Campbell Davis guests, making her first appearance.
* Andy mentions a previous fact from Episode 59 that buffalo vote, as well as the fact that cockroaches vote which comes up again in Episode 234.

## Notes

1. ↑ Science: Maverick scientist thinks he has discovered a magnetic sixth sense in humans
2. ↑ Popular Mechanics: When You Need to Cross a River with No Bridge, Build One Yourself [direct source]
3. ↑ Wikipedia: Armoured vehicle-launched bridge
4. ↑ Willamette Week: An Oregon Anti-Poker-Room Bill Bans "Chinese Chuck-a-Luck” and Something Called “Big Injun." What Are These Games? [direct source]
5. ↑ BBC: Swansea Uni study: African wild dogs 'sneeze to vote'
Episode 291: No Such Thing As A Quintruple-Cooked Chip

**No Such Thing As A Quintruple-Cooked Chip** is the 291st episode of No Such Thing As A Fish, the 31st episode of the sixth year, and the 42nd episode of 2019. It features regular presenters James Harkin, Andrew Hunter Murray, Anna Ptaszynski, and Dan Schreiber, and was recorded at the QI Offices in Covent Garden, London.

## Description

> Dan, James, Anna and Andrew discuss marrying chips, geese-rearing astronauts and the restaurant with tables in two different countries.
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## Facts

* One of the women about to take part in the first all-female spacewalk has spent the last eight years hand-rearing a flock of geese. (Ptaszynski)
* The Netherlands has a restaurant where if you move tables there is a chance you'll end up in Belgium. (Murray)
* In order to stop drought an Indian village married two frogs. Two months later they had to be divorced because it wouldn't stop raining. (Schreiber)
* Sainsbury's sells triple-cooked chips which you then have to cook. (Harkin)

 Trivia

* Schreiber mentions Apollo 13, which he said was his favourite film in Episode 75 and Episode 128.
* Ptaszynski mentions the Peace Village just across the North Korean border from TBA.
* Harkin says that the married frogs don't even know they're frogs.
* Harkin's fact came via QI Elf Mat Coward, who was previously mentioned in Episode 268: No Such Thing As Welsh Guinness.
* Harkin watched *The Spacewalker* in Moscow. Alexei Leonov, the subject of the film, was sat right in front of him at the theatre.
* Schreiber mentions a guest from The Museum of Curiosity who worked discovering new types of potato.
* Copyrighting plant species has been discussed in TBA.
* Ptaszynski mentions the campaigns against saturated fat that were discussed in TBA.
* Ptaszynski points out several instances of nominative determinism.
Episode 219: No Such Thing As Jeremiah Wingdings

**No Such Thing As Jeremiah Wingdings** is the 219th episode of *No Such Thing As A Fish*, the 11th episode of the fifth year, and the 22nd episode of 2018. It features regular presenters James Harkin, Andrew Hunter Murray, Anna Ptaszynski, and Dan Schreiber, and was recorded at the QI Offices in Covent Garden.

## Description

> Dan, James, Anna and Andy discuss cosmetic surgery for Fish, how to get the edge in the Tour de France, and competitive typesetting.
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## Facts

* In Singapore, pet fish have plastic surgeons. (Ptaszynski)
* According to scientists, you're more likely to win the Tour de France if you are more good-looking. (Schreiber)
* In the 19th century, setting type for newspapers was a competitive sport. (Murray)
* Britain exports fresh air to China. (Harkin)

 Trivia

* James and Dan were shown neuticles, i.e. prosthetic dog testicles for neutered dogs which won an Ig Nobel Prize, by Marc Abrahams.
* Crisp packets being filled with nitrogen was previously discussed in Episode 22 and Episode 125, and briefly mentioned in Episode 169.

## Notes

1. ↑ Anna's fact was sent to her by fellow QI Elf Lauren Gilbert.
2. ↑ The New York Times: Cosmetic Surgery for a Pet Fish? In Asia, This One Is King of the Tank [direct source]
3. ↑ Ripley's: The Fish That Gets Eye Lifts, Chin Jobs, And Other Cosmetic Surgeries
4. ↑ University of Zurich: Attractive professional cyclists are faster
5. ↑ The Economist: When newspaper compositors were sporting heroes
6. ↑ Leadfellas: When typesetting was a competitive sport!
7. ↑ The Independent: Man sells British fresh air to wealthy Chinese elite for £80 a jar
Episode 325: No Such Thing As An Earwig Family Zoom Chat

**No Such Thing As An Earwig Family Zoom Chat** is the 325th episode of No Such Thing As A Fish, the 13th episode of the seventh year, and the 24th episode of 2020. It features regular presenters James Harkin, Andrew Hunter Murray, Anna Ptaszynski, and Dan Schreiber, and was recorded from home due to COVID-19.

## Description

> Dan, James, Anna and Andy discuss medieval knights, 1001 nights, and French day trippers.
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## Facts

* Paris' first public transport system failed because wealthy passengers bought all the tickets for themselves and then convinced the government to ban poor people. (Murray)
* Aladdin is Chinese. (Ptaszynski)
* Merry-go-rounds were invented in medieval times for knights to ride on. (Schreiber)
* In some parts of Japan earwigs are known as Chinpo-Kiri. Literally "penis cutters". (Harkin)

## Trivia

* This is the twelfth Working From Home episode due to the Coronavirus pandemic.
* Harkin makes reference to Murray's apparent love for funicular railways from the previous episode.
* Blaise Pascal was discussed in TBA, when his involvement in public transport was briefly mentioned.
* Harkin has not seen The Italian Job, Spice World, Summer Holiday or Aladdin.
Episode 267: No Such Thing As Mission Impossible For Slugs

**No Such Thing As Mission Impossible For Slugs** is the 267th episode of No Such Thing As A Fish, the 7th episode of the sixth year, and the 18th episode of 2019. It features regular presenters James Harkin, Andrew Hunter Murray, Anna Ptaszynski, and Dan Schreiber, and was recorded at the Tyne Theatre and Opera House in Newcastle.

## Description

> Live from Newcastle, Dan, James, Anna and Andrew discuss superglued frogs, how to get into an Ancient Turkish house, and the Oscar won by nobody.
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## Facts

* Some of the plants at the poison gardens at Alnwick Castle are so deadly, they're kept in cages. (Schreiber)
* The man who got nominated for an Oscar for editing *No Country for Old Men* doesn't exist. (Murray)
* Houses in ancient Turkey had no doors or windows; you got in by climbing a ladder up to the roof and dropping through a trapdoor. (Ptaszynski)
* The red triangle slug can escape from frogs by supergluing them to trees. (Harkin)

 Trivia

* This is the ninth stop on the In No Particular Order tour.
* Ptaszynski mentions mad honey, which was a headline fact in Episode 196: No Such Thing As Faking The Magic Dream.
* Schreiber claims that archaeologists could date the age of a door by counting the rings on the wood.
Edinburgh Festival Fringe

The **Edinburgh Festival Fringe** is the world's largest arts festival, held in Edinburgh. In 2015, the QI podcast No Such Thing As A Fish recorded five live shows at the festival.

## No Such Thing As A Fish

* Episode 76: No Such Thing As Mould Juice
* Episode 77: No Such Thing As Pee-Bay
* Episode 78: No Such Thing As An Ugly Pair of Eyes
* Episode 79: No Such Thing As A Sad High Five
* Episode 80: No Such Thing As A Mousetrap-Remote-Control

## Other Live Shows

Members of the No Such Thing As A Fish team have done shows at the Fringe other than the podcast.

* In 2014, Dan Schreiber did his own stand-up show, Clockblocked From Outer Space, and a live show with Museum of Curiosity.
	+ Also in 2014, Andrew Hunter Murray did a live show with Austentatious.
* In both 2014 and 2015, Andrew Hunter Murray did a stand-up show, Folie à Deux.
	+ In 2016, Murray did a stand-up show, Andrew Hunter Murray: Round One.
* John Lloyd's live show Emperor of the Prawns did a run at the Fringe.
Episode 206: No Such Thing As A Pig In Court

**No Such Thing As A Pig In Court** is the 206th episode of *No Such Thing As A Fish*, the 50th episode of the fourth year, and the 9th episode of 2018. It features regular presenters James Harkin, Andrew Hunter Murray, Anna Ptaszynski, and Dan Schreiber, and was recorded at the QI Offices in Covent Garden, London.

## Description

> Dan, James, Anna and Andy discuss Victorian fern mania, why stripes are a fashion crime and ice golf championships.
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## Facts

* The dome of the Taj Mahal is held together with sugar, fruit juice, and egg white. (Ptaszynski)
* There is an ice golf championship held each year in Greenland, 600 km north of the Arctic Circle. However, because of the constantly shifting ice shelf, no players hold any records on that course, because it changes on a daily basis. (Schreiber)
* In the 14th century, you could be executed in France for wearing stripes. (Harkin)
* Victorian Britain had such a fern-mania for so many years that some species were almost completely wiped out. (Murray)

## Trivia

* James played golf in the Himalayas in Bhutan, which he visited around the time of Episode 46.
	+ James mentions the rare orchid from Brazil v Croatia, which grew on a golf course that he frequented.
* Dan once again says "the opposite of sex" instead of "the opposite sex".
* Andy would later mention fern-mania again in Episode 384.

## Notes

1. ↑ *Built: The Hidden Stories Behind our Structures* by Roma Agrawal (Amazon)
2. ↑ The Guardian: Built by Roma Agrawal review - the secret lives of structures
3. ↑ Golf-information.info: The World Ice Golf Championship
4. ↑ *The Devil's Cloth: A History of Stripes* by Michel Pastoureau (Amazon)
5. ↑ The New York Times: When Fashion Decreed Stripes A Capital Crime [direct source]
6. ↑ Mental Floss: That Time When Victorians Contracted Fern Fever
Episode 210: No Such Thing As A Sheep's Bedside Table

**No Such Thing As A Sheep's Bedside Table** is the 210th episode of *No Such Thing As A Fish*, the 2nd episode of the fifth year, and the 13th episode of 2018. It features regular presenters James Harkin, Andrew Hunter Murray, Anna Ptaszynski, and Dan Schreiber, and was recorded at Leeds Town Hall.

## Description

> Live from Leeds, Dan, James, Anna and Andy discuss sheep in a lift, the cocktail-endorsing pope, and why the RAF have banned Tunnocks Teacakes.
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## Facts

* The first hydraulic lift was invented to carry sheep onto a roof. (Ptaszynski)
* Pope Leo XIII was once the face of a wine and cocaine cocktail. (Schreiber)
* Tunnock's Teacakes aren't allowed in RAF planes in case they explode. (Harkin)
* When Louis XIV, the French king, needed an operation, his doctor was so nervous that he practiced it on 75 people beforehand, many of whom did not have the condition the operation was meant to cure. (Murray)

###  Audience Fact

Throughout this tour, the Elves gave away a copy of The Complete Second Year Cassette to the best audience-submitted fact.

> In 2004, a boat capsized in Texas because all people on board ran to one side to get a glimpse of a nudist beach they were passing. All 60 passengers ended up in the water. (Hannah Watson)
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## Trivia

* This is the fourth stop on the 2018 Tour.
* James mentions Switzerland's nuclear bunkers, which was a fact in Italy v Switzerland.
* During an advert for this episode's sponsor, *The Economist*, Anna mentions previous facts that the podcast obtained from it including the Go facts from Episode 128, and the pedestrian fact from Episode 62.
* Andy discusses Grace Archer being killed off to draw attention away from the launch of ITV. As of Episode 270, the podcast has revealed the real reason.
* James relates a fact about gladiators being involved in product placement, which Greg Jenner helped him find out.
* Louis XIV was previously part of a headline fact in Episode 28.

## Notes

1. ↑ Leeds Live: The iconic Leeds building based on Egyptian temples where sheep used to graze on the roof
2. ↑ Wikipedia: Temple Works
3. ↑ Wikipedia: Vin Mariani
4. ↑ Daily Record: Retired RAF bomber reveals the secret of the exploding tea cake during the Cold War
5. ↑ Le Temps: How King Louis XIV’s bottom propelled surgery into the modern age
6. ↑ NBC: Barge sinks after nude sighting in Texas