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Episode 104: No Such Thing As A Herd of Koalas

**No Such Thing As A Herd of Koalas** is the 104th episode ofNo Such Thing As A Fish, the 52nd and final episode of the second year, and the 11th episode of 2016. It is also the second anniversary special. It features regular presenters James Harkin, Andrew Hunter Murray, Anna Ptaszynski, and Dan Schreiber, and was recorded at the 2016 Leicester Comedy Festival.

## Description

> Live from Dave's Leicester Comedy Festival, Dan, James, Andy and Anna discuss meteorwrongs, avian arsonists and the Norman Conquest of America.
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## Facts

* When something thought to be a meteorite turns out to be an ordinary rock, it is called a "meteorwrong". (Schreiber)
* Brown falcons commit arson. (Murray)
* In 1461, the mayor of Jaén, Spain donated 10,000 eggs to his citizens so that they could have a huge food fight. (Ptaszynski)
* In 1951, Australia's football team played against England and lost 17-0. Their goalkeeper was called Norman Conquest. (Harkin)

## Trivia

* This is the last episode of Year Two, the second anniversary special, and the twelfth stop on the No Such Thing As A Fish Live tour.
* Meteorwrongs are mentioned again in Episode 362: No Such Thing As Batman and Robinette.
* Dan discusses the explorer Charles Brewer-Carias, who is a source of many disputed discoveries.
* Dan mentions Steven Bradbury, the first Australian to win an Olympic gold medal in speed skating, mainly because his competitors crashed and fell over. Bradbury is again mentioned in TBA.
Atomaders

Atomaders is a game created by Kraisoft Entertainment.

Atomaders is a Space Invaders game that puts you in a fighter ship on a mission to defeat wave after wave of alien attackers. The level will have harder waves of aliens and different backdrops to do battle in.

You can gain bonus weapons, such as curving missiles, a powerful laser, and the all-mighty crusher, by collecting pieces that fall from the destroyed enemies. You also have to avoid asteroids and fight giant boss enemies on several different planets. All with the control of your mouse, keyboard, or gamepad.

There are 2 main campaign modes and a player limit of 10 slots. The main campaign modes include Leda Prime, the main campaign, and Leda Prime Part 2, the same campaign with more enemies. It features 5 planets from the first to end: Coralos, Altoni, Citus, Redunda, and Tentro.

Each planet is divided up into 12 levels, with a bonus level every 6th level, and a boss at the final level. And each also provides a new enemy type and weapon to battle and earn respectively.
Episode 22: No Such Thing As A Magic Camel Filter

**No Such Thing As A Magic Camel Filter** is the 22nd episode of No Such Thing As A Fish, the 22nd episode of the first year, and the 37th 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 (@schreiberland), James (@eggshaped), Anna (@nosuchthing) and Andy (@andrewhunterm) discuss how to post a human, ancient ham, apes using iPads and the definition of Wales.
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## Facts

* In 1903, a man called W. Reginald Bray posted himself. (Harkin)
* The world's oldest ham has just celebrated its 112th birthday. (Schreiber)
* Orangutans like playing with iPads, but gorillas do not. (Ptaszynski)
* In the 1888 edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica, the entry for Wales reads "see England". (Murray)

## Trivia

* Marc Abrahams and the team behind the Ig Nobel Prizes are mentioned as having attempted to send a helium balloon through the mail.
* Anna believes that her local butcher, M Feller Son & Daughter, may have a ham which is older than the World Record-holding ham.
* Hippos being able to retract their testicles into their bodies is discussed in Episode 275: No Such Thing As A Squashed Microbe.
* Some dubious facts from this episode are eventually corrected in Episode 145: No Such Thing As E.T. Part Three:
	+ Dan claims that water can be filtered of poison by getting a camel to drink and regurgitate it. This is followed up on in Episode 145, where he admits that it is untrue, but that camel dung can be wrung out to yield water in a desert.
	+ Dan also claims that Ash Gardner told him that the carbon dioxide bubbles are removed from fizzy drinks before they are shipped, and the bubbles are put back in afterwards. In Episode 145 he admits he was told this was false, and when he confronted Gardner about it, he responded with "I know."
* James remarks that the town of Hamilton!, Ohio sounds like a musical. Hamilton premiered in 2015.
QBz

QBz, or QBeez is a tile-clicking game created by Skunk Studios.

Your purpose in QBz (pronounced *Cubes*) is simple, all you need to do is to remove all QBz from the playfield, once it is done, you advance with the next level.

The game can be either played as a strategy game, where you must get a certain amount of points to reach the next level if you fail, it's game over. Or on the other side, you can play it more like an "action" game, where you play against the time. And if you don’t play it at easy difficulty, you don’t have time to think there.

Once you start a game, you will be granted with your playfield, which consists of 4x4 or up to 14x14 QBz. There are three different colours available (in easy difficulty), four in normal, and five in hard. Now all you need to do is to click on any of the QBz, which has at least one of the same colour adjacent (horizontal or vertical). Then these specific QBz will vanish and you score, but the more of them you can remove at the same time, the better you score. If you try to remove a single QB, you get a penalty of 1000 points (removed). Once all possible combinations are gone, the level is completed. Now you get bonus points depending on how many per cent of the playfield you cleared, if you cleared them all, you will see a special “Perfect Clear” sequence.

To help you on your gameplay, you have three buttons at your control. Two of them will rotate the QBz in the playfield, either left or right. The other button will randomize them all. All of these buttons are only available three times per level. So if you switched the playfield three times to the left, you can't randomize it any more.
Episode 287: No Such Thing As Pets In Heaven

**No Such Thing As Pets In Heaven** is the 287th episode of No Such Thing As A Fish, the 27th episode of the sixth year, and the 38th episode of 2019. It features regular presenters James Harkin, Andrew Hunter Murray, Anna Ptaszynski, and Dan Schreiber, and was recorded at the Arenberg in Antwerp, Belgium.

## Description

>  Live from Antwerp, Dan, James, Anna and Andrew discuss diamond vacuums, North Korean app stores, and what happens when you give an elephant a gold enema.
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## Facts

* Pope Leo X had a pet elephant, who was killed when doctors gave it a gold enema. (Harkin)
* Johnny Cash, who released the song "I Walk the Line*"* had a lesser-known musician brother called Tommy Cash, who released a song called "I Didn't Walk the Line". (Schreiber)
* De Beers use a giant vacuum cleaner to get diamonds from the bottom of the sea. (Murray)
* If you want to buy a phone app in North Korea you have to go to a physical app store. (Ptaszynski)

 Trivia

* This is the twenty-sixth and final stop on the In No Particular Order tour, and the first stop in Belgium.
	+ This is the second live show in Belgium since Episode 38: No Such Thing As A Super Mario Love Hotel.
* Murray's fact came via twitter user Matt Grapes.
Episode 178: No Such Thing As A Cup Full Of Nessie

**No Such Thing As A Cup Full Of Nessie** is the 178th episode of No Such Thing As A Fish, the 22nd episode of the fourth year, and the 33rd 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 your amazing expanding liver, the land of ex-presidents, and scientists disguised as mooses...or is that meese?
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## Facts

* One of the costume designers on Star Wars also made a moose suit to help scientists sneak up on moose. (Ptaszynski)
* Switzerland has 18 living ex-Presidents. (Harkin)
* A New Zealand scientist is planning to hunt for the Loch Ness Monster inside a cup. (Schreiber)
* Your liver grows and shrinks by 40% every 24 hours. (Murray)

## Trivia

* Anna announces some live events in branches of Waterstones to promote The Book of the Year, but they were not recorded.
* Andy mentions that David Cameron was at the Wilderness Festival at the same time as Fish were recording Episode 177.
* Andy brings up a story about Yeti-hunters.
Episode 280: No Such Thing As Permanently Latvian Beer

**No Such Thing As Permanently Latvian Beer** is the 280th episode of No Such Thing As A Fish, the 20th episode of the sixth year, and the 31st episode of 2019. It features regular presenters James Harkin, Andrew Hunter Murray, Anna Ptaszynski, and Dan Schreiber, and was recorded at Folketeateret in Oslo, Norway.

## Description

> Live from Oslo, Dan, James, Anna and Andrew discuss medically-induced drunkenness, how to avoid being eaten by wolves on holiday, and what happens if you go clubbing with millipedes.
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## Facts

* There was once an Olympic sport where you had to dive into a pool and then glide along for a minute. It was scrapped because the main factor was how heavy you were. (Murray)
* At Polar Park in Norway you are told not to wear wool clothes in case the wolves confuse you with a sheep. (Ptaszynski)
* Doctors in Vietnam saved a man's life by pumping 15 cans of beer into his body. (Schreiber)
* If you put a bunch of milipedes in a nightclub, all their genitals will glow different colours. (Harkin)

 Trivia

* This is the twenty-first stop on the In No Particular Order Tour, and the first in Norway.
* The US Tour is announced in this episode.
	+ Locations announced include Boston, Philadelphia, New York, and Washington DC.
* Rewilding wolves is discussed. Rewilding Pandas was a headline fact in Episode 213: No Such Thing As Panda Gladiators.
* Winston Churchill drinking pints of champagne was mentioned in TBA (**47**?).
	+ Ptaszynski is again mentioned to drink large glasses of wine.
	+ Harkin mentions that they were in Ireland a few weeks previously.
* Beavers' secretions are part of a fact in Episode 304: No Such Thing As A Phantasmic Foot.
* Schreiber mentions another strange remedy from Pliny the Elder.
* Ptaszynski's (somewhat joking) assertion about Norway being the first country to have fluorescing ultraviolet details on its passport is not true - Canada did it at least a year earlier.
Episode 300: No Such Thing As Swimming In The Sky

**No Such Thing As Swimming In The Sky** is the 300th episode of No Such Thing As A Fish, the 40th episode of the sixth year, and the 51st episode of 2019. It features regular presenters James Harkin, Andrew Hunter Murray, Anna Ptaszynski, and Dan Schreiber, and was recorded at STADTSAAL in Vienna, Austria. It celebrated the Fish team winning the Heinz Oberhummer Award for science communication.

## Description

>  Live at the Heinz Oberhummer Award ceremony in Vienna, Dan, James, Anna and Andrew discuss edible sleds, the first attempt at laser eye surgery, and our shithole universe.
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## Facts

* The last TV show that the award-winning eminent physicist Heinz Oberhummer made before he passed away was called "The Universe Is A Shithole". (Schreiber)
* Early laser eye surgery was performed in a trailer next to a trash compactor that, whenever it was switched on, would vibrate the trailer as the doctors were trying to operate. (Ptaszynski)
* Some Inuit, if they got extremely hungry, would've been able to eat their own sleds. (Murray)
* Some bottled water in Vienna costs €9000 per litre. (Harkin)

 Trivia

* The team having won the award was announced in Episode 294: No Such Thing As A 15-Hour Working Week.
* Although Harkin claims that it has been 300 weeks since the start of the podcast (as it is a "weekly" show), it was in fact 302 weeks between Episode 1 and Episode 300.
* Harkin quotes Carl Sagan, who was the subject of a headline fact in Episode 297.
	+ Ptaszynski talks about the fact that a syphilis-like condition existed in llamas before Columbus arrived, which is connected to a headline fact from Episode 297.
* Chewing gum was part of a headline fact in Episode 296.
* Schreiber mentions the Harvard Bridge being measured in Smoots. The bridge was an audience fact in Episode 75: No Such Thing As Diarrhoea Drive.
Episode 339: No Such Thing As A Penguin in a Nightclub

**No Such Thing As A Penguin in a Nightclub** is the 339th episode of No Such Thing As A Fish, the 27th episode of the seventh year, and the 39th episode of 2020. It features regular presenters James Harkin, Andrew Hunter Murray, Anna Ptaszynski, and guest presenter Tom Scott. It was recorded from home due to COVID-19.

## Description

>  Anna, James, Andy and Tom Scott discuss flashing lights, measuring trees and naughty penguins
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## Facts

* Tom Scott wanted to make a YouTube video about how interesting strobe lighting is, but the likelihood was that it would give one of his viewers an epileptic fit. (Scott)
* From the 1880s until 1927 Paris had an underground clock system which ran on puffs of air. (Murray)
* After a penguin had to be isolated due to health issues, zookeepers in Perth are keeping him entertained by letting him binge-watch Pingu. (Harkin)
* The person who measured the world's tallest tree did so by climbing to the top of it and dropping a tape measure down. (Ptaszynski)

## Trivia

* This is the twenty-sixth Working From Home episode due to the Coronavirus pandemic.
* Regular host Dan Schreiber is absent.
	+ In his absence, Anna Ptaszynski hosts.
	+ Tom Scott guests, making his first appearance.
* Harkin mentions Ruth Belville. Tom Scott hosted the YouTube series *Citation Needed* who did an episode about her.
* Harkin and Murray talk about how penguins don't know they're penguins.
Episode 236: No Such Thing As A Brie Sculpture

**No Such Thing As A Brie Sculpture** is the 236th episode of No Such Thing As A Fish, the 28th episode of the fifth year, and the 40th episode of 2018. It features regular presenters James Harkin, Andrew Hunter Murray, and Anna Ptaszynski, and guest presenter Alex Edelman. It was recorded at the QI Offices in Covent Garden, London.

## Description

> Anna, James, Andy and special guest Alex Edelman discuss illegal canoe practices, the funniest poo joke in history and Henry VIII's favourite pudding.
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## Facts

* In 1903 it was made illegal in Boston to lie down in a canoe. (Ptaszynski)
* Henry VIII once enjoyed a pudding so much that he awarded the woman who made it one of the monasteries he'd just seized from the Catholic church. (Harkin)
* Dolphins in the wild have been teaching each-other how to moonwalk. (Murray)
* In Medieval Germany, the funniest joke had ever heard involved replacing a flower with a poo. (Edelman)

 Trivia

* Regular host Dan Schreiber is absent.
	+ In his absence Anna Ptaszynski hosts.
	+ Alex Edelman guests, making his third appearance on the podcast.
* Boston's unusual laws are discussed again in Episode 295: No Such Thing As A 200m Baguette, which was recorded live in Boston.
* Edelman mentions the Sourtoe Cocktail, which was previously mentioned in TBA.
* Making sculptures from marzipan was previously discussed in Episode 131: No Such Thing As Walking the Life Jacket.
Episode 122: No Such Thing As A Sticky Shell Spoon

**No Such Thing As A Sticky Shell Spoon** is the 122nd episode ofNo Such Thing As A Fish, the 18th episode of the third year, and the 29th 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 holey spoons, the speed of snow and how to get more milk from a cow.
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## Facts

* Farmers in Botswana have started painting eyes on their cows' bottoms to stop lions from attacking them. (Murray)
* James Harkin's stop speed running in armour is the same as the top speed of a snowflake falling to Earth. (Harkin)
* Archaeologists have started throwing finds into skips because there is now too much history for them to store. (Schreiber)
* Restaurants in 1950s Vietnam used to put holes in their soup spoons to stop people stealing them. (Ptaszynski)

## Trivia

* Murray's 2016 show at the Edinburgh Fringe, Andrew Hunter Murray: Round One, is first plugged here.
Episode 270: No Such Thing As BIG SHERLOCK HOLMES

**No Such Thing As BIG SHERLOCK HOLMES** is the 270th episode of No Such Thing As A Fish, the 10th episode of the sixth year, and the 21st episode of 2019. It features regular presenters James Harkin, Andrew Hunter Murray, Anna Ptaszynski, and Dan Schreiber, and was recorded at the Theatre Royal in Norwich.

## Description

> Dan, James, Anna and Andrew discuss the Mona Lisa's wandering eye, coffee cups that grow on trees, and ancient Roman earlobe specialists.
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## Facts

* For the last four years there has been an annual academic conference dedicated to *The Archers*. (Schreiber)
* A company in New York has invented coffee cups that grow on trees. (Harkin)
* The Mona Lisa Effect is where a painting is looking directly at you. It has just been discovered that the Mona Lisa Effect does not apply to the Mona Lisa. (Murray)
* In Ancient Rome there was a job which was to deal with infected earlobes. (Ptaszynski)

 Trivia

* This is the twelfth stop on the In No Particular Order tour.
* The falsified reason for Grace Archer being killed off was mentioned in Episode 30 and Episode 210.
* Romans dying their hair was mentioned in Episode 99: No Such Thing As Bread Civilians.
* Ptaszynski mentions the actor Michael Fenton Stevens. He is married to QI Elf Mandy Fenton, who has not appeared on the podcast.
* The uses of urine by ancient civilisations were mentioned in TBA.
Lani Misalucha

*The following article or section is incomplete. Please add accurate information to fill this article or section out.*

Song "Unbreakable" featured in "Moving Mountains." Off the album *Superpop (Reaching High 2)* from 2016.

**Season 1 soundtrack**

**Songs**

Hope Begins • Roll With Me • Blood From My Veins • Burn in Hell • Overflow • Chips & Hennessy • Bubble & Peak • Wobby Woo • The Miami Drift • Keep It Funky • Kalifornia • And I'm Coming Home • Wait For Me • One of the Girls • Let the Dice Roll • What's Gone Will Never Leave • Home • Set It Off • Redemption • Just Say • Wildside • Downtown • The River • Voyage Home • Underdog • Better Ask Somebody • Keep Your Head Up • Heaven's Child • Keep Your Head • Alone • We Could Cry • King and Queen • Light 'Em Up • I See Fire • Unbreakable • Elephants

**Artists**

Dexter French • Wolfgang Black • Raphael Lake • Daniel Farrant • Paul Rawson • Virgil Ruff • Rupert Pope • John Robertson • Oh No • Brian Dougans • Gaz Cobain • Paul Haslinger • Classik • Kidd Marley • All Good Things • Ben Fisher • Blues Sarceno • Stephan Bertrand • Scarlett Burke • Jared Gutstadt • A Void • James McLean • Emanuel Vo Williams • Grayson Voltaire • Cut One • David O'Dowda • Smidi • Nine One One • TJ Stafford • Robin Loxley • Naomi August • Atlantic Line • Frank Fields • Mr. J • Giles Palmer • Lee Richardson • Jonathan Murill • Tom Ford • James Cocozza • Sarah Norman • Graycie • **Lani Misalucha** • We the Committee

**Albums**

*Folk Electronica 2* • *Garage Blues 4* • *Girl Garage* • *Girl Garage 2* • *Hipster Hop* • *OHNO* • *Deep Chill* • *Need For Speed: Undercover* (Original Soundtrack) • *Post Grunge* • *Indie Folk 2* • *Indie Soul* • *Indie Chill* • *Indie Blues* • *Indie Americana* • *Epic Hip Hop* • *Epic Hip Hop 2* • *Velvet Ears presents: David O'Dowda* • *Chamber Pop* • *Alt Hip Hop* • *Dark Country 4* • *Exit to Intro* • *Made, Vol. 9* • *Made, Vol. 11* • *Made, Vol. 13* • *Made, Vol. 16* • *Future Soul* • *Dark Pop* • *Superpop (Reaching High)* • *Superpop (Reaching High 2)* • *This Won't End Quietly (AA)*

**Record Labels**

Extreme Music • Builders International • Family Ties, LLC • Nettwerk Productions • Jingle Punks • Hype Music • Superpop.Co
Alex Jones

**Alex Jones** is a Welsh television presenter, who has been the presenter of the BBC's The One Show since 2011. In 2015 the QI podcast No Such Thing As A Fish did their One Show Special, which consisted of an episode of The One Show and an episode of Fish taking place in parallel. This meant that Jones, her co-host Matt Baker, and celebrity guest John Bishop can all be heard on the podcast, but are not technically guest presenters of the episode.
Episode 180: No Such Thing As Playing Snake On A Plane

**No Such Thing As Playing Snake On A Plane** is the 180th episode of No Such Thing As A Fish, the 24th episode of the fourth year, and the 35th episode of 2017. It features regular presenters James Harkin, Anna Ptaszynski, and Dan Schreiber, and guest QI Elf Anne Miller. It was recorded at the QI Offices in Covent Garden, London.

## Description

> Dan, James, Anna and Anne discuss Hitler's Beatles cameo, how lobsters fly, and the most surprising place to find John Goodman.
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## Facts

* Genoa airport has relaxed its liquid ban, but only for pesto. (Miller)
* It has been scientifically proven that The Beatles were an average band who didn't really influence music. (Harkin)
* When the first pilgrims went over on the Mayflower, one of them brought 139 pairs of shoes with him. (Ptaszynski)
* A new scientific paper on why horses only have one toe has been published. The author of that paper is called Brianna McHorse. (Schreiber)

## Trivia

* Regular presenter Andrew Hunter Murray is absent for the second episode in a row.
	+ Anne Miller guests.
Episode 193: No Such Thing As Death By Conga

**No Such Thing As Death By Conga** is the 193rd episode of *No Such Thing As A Fish*, the 37th episode of the fourth year, and the 48th 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 testifying in court through a window, the ant nests made of ants, and book the size of postage stamps.
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## Facts

* It used to be thought that you couldn't testify in court if you'd seen a crime through a window. (Harkin)
* American pioneering explorers Lewis and Clark have been tracked via their poo. (Schreiber)
* The authors Thomas Hardy, Rudyard Kipling, and Joseph Conrad have all written books the size of postage stamps. (Ptaszynski)
* Army ant nests are made of other army ants. (Murray)

## Trivia

* Windows made of walrus penis membrane were previously mentioned in Episode 124.
* Andy doubts what Herodotus said about laxatives given his writings about India from Episode 169.

## Notes

1. ↑ James' fact was sent to him by Richard Tisdale @richiet1892. (original tweet)
2. ↑ MEL Magazine: Lewis and Clark's Mercury Laxatives: The Strange but True American Story
3. ↑ BBC: Stamp-sized book created for Queen Mary's doll house published
4. ↑ Discover Magazine: How Army Ants Build City-Like Nests Using Their Own Bodies
Episode 117: No Such Thing As Dr No Teeth

**No Such Thing As Dr No Teeth** is the 117th episode ofNo Such Thing As A Fish, the 30th episode of the third year, and the 24th episode of 2016. It features regular presenters James Harkin, Andrew Hunter Murray, Anna Ptaszynski, and Dan Schreiber, and guest presenter Tim Minchin. It was recorded at the QI Offices in Covent Garden, London.

## Description

> Dan, James, Anna, Andy and special guest Tim Minchin discuss performing racoons, blue hailstones, and the giant that provides constipation relief.
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## Facts

* Bulgaria has an agency that shoots rockets to kill hail. (Minchin)
* We judge music more on how it looks than how it sounds. (Ptaszynski)
* The BFG's dream powder also helps against constipation. (Harkin)
* Britain has only one performing circus raccoon. (Murray)

## Trivia

* This episode marks the first and only appearance of Tim Minchin.
	+ As there are five people around the microphones, Dan Schreiber does not submit a fact.
* The Mariko Aoki phenomenon is again discussed, having been mentioned in Episode 96: No Such Thing As A Touch of Worms.
Episode 116: No Such Thing As Notting Mountain

**No Such Thing As Notting Mountain** is the 116th episode of No Such Thing As A Fish, the 12th episode of the third year, and the 23rd episode of 2016. It features regular presenters James Harkin, Anna Ptaszynski, and Dan Schreiber, and guest QI Elf Alex Bell. It was recorded at the QI Offices in Covent Garden, London.

## Description

> Dan, James, Anna and Alex discuss prehistoric butterflies, secret power stations, and Buddhist robots.
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## Facts

* The first performance-enhancing drug to be used in baseball was pulverised guinea pig testicles. (Ptaszynski)
* There is a power station buried inside a Welsh mountain that is only turned on during TV advert breaks. (Bell)
* 85 million years before butterflies existed, there was another animal that looked and acted exactly the same as butterflies. (Harkin)
* The Longquan Buddhist Temple in China has a monk called Worthy Stupid Robot Monk. (Schreiber)

## Trivia

* Regular presenter Andrew Hunter Murray is absent.
	+ Alex Bell guests, making his fifteenth appearance.
* Charles-Édouard Brown-Séquard is first mentioned in this episode, and again in Episode 203: No Such Thing As A Muscular Butterfly.
* Dan mentions Pliny the Elder's unusual recommendations, which were also discussed in Episode 110: No Such Thing As A Dull Post Box.
* Dan is engaged.
Episode 279: No Such Thing As A Backflipping Doctor

**No Such Thing As A Backflipping Doctor** is the 279th episode of No Such Thing As A Fish, the 19th episode of the sixth year, and the 30th episode of 2019. It features regular presenters James Harkin, Andrew Hunter Murray, Anna Ptaszynski, and Dan Schreiber, and was recorded at Huxley's Neue Welt in Berlin, Germany.

## Description

> Live from Berlin, Dan, James, Anna and Andrew discuss chicken lifeguards, carrot concrete and the most-signed birthday card in history.
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## Facts

* Pigeons make better coastguards than people. (Murray)
* Concrete is stronger if you make it with carrots. (Schreiber)
* Head lice clinics always seen an uptick in business when a new Pixar movie comes out. (Harkin)
* In 1926 Poland sent the USA a birthday card which was signed by 1/6 of its population. (Ptaszynski)

 Trivia

* This is the twentieth stop on the In No Particular Order Tour, and the first in Germany.
* Schreiber mentions a QI fact that pigeons do not bob their heads on treadmills.
* Ptaszynski calls back to Episode 44: No Such Thing As Vegan Fryup, because how the Romans made concrete has been discovered.
* Schreiber repeats his claim from TBA that badgers can dig through concrete when cornered.
* While in Berlin, Schreiber bought a (purported) piece of the Berlin Wall, which he mentions in Episode 340: No Such Thing As A Didgeridoo in a Bar.
Super Gem Drop

Super Gem Drop is 3-tile matching game developed by GameHouse.

The objective of this game is to use a mouse to drop gems and try to match at least 3 or more of the same colour of gems to remove it from the gameplay screen. It can be vertically, horizontally or diagonally. There's a lump of coal which can be suppressed with any gems into diamonds.
Cameroon v Chile

**Cameroon v Chile** is the 7th episode of International Factball, and the 21st episode of 2014. It features presenters James Harkin, Anna Ptaszynski, and Dan Schreiber, and guest QI Elf Jack Burke. It was recorded at the QI Offices in Covent Garden, London.

## Example Facts

* In 1931, during the Great Depression, the people of Cameroon raised money for the starving Americans, and managed to send over $3.77. (Burke)
* Cameroon's Lake Nyos is the most dangerous lake in the world; in 1986 it killed 1,700 people and 3,500 livestock. (Ptaszynski)
* Chile has a telescope due to be finished in 2021, at an altitude of 2,600 metres. It's called the ELT, which stands for Extremely Large Telescope. (Schreiber)
* Galvarino was a Chilean freedom fighter. When the Spanish cut off his hands to punish him, he attached swords to the stumps and kept fighting. (Harkin)

## Half Time Show

As Factball is made in association with VisitEngland, the presenters ask three trivia questions about England during half time, and provide answers at the end.

* The Battle of Hastings actually took place in the town of Battle. (Burke)
* In the grounds of Leeds Castle you can find the Dog Collar Museum. (Ptaszynski)
* The town of Berwick-upon-Tweed has passed between England and Scotland 13 times. (Harkin)

## Trivia

* This episode marks the only appearance of Jack Burke, who is the fifth QI Elf to appear on the podcast after Molly Oldfield, Alex Bell, Anne Miller, and Freddy Soames.
* This is the first episode of International Factball to feature an absence by a regular presenter (Andrew Hunter Murray).
Episode 308: No Such Thing As The Land Of Flying Sheep

**No Such Thing As The Land Of Flying Sheep** is the 308th episode of No Such Thing As A Fish, the 48th episode of the sixth year, and the 7th episode of 2020. It features regular presenters Andrew Hunter Murray, Anna Ptaszynski, and Dan Schreiber, and guest QI Elf Anne Miller. It was recorded at the QI Offices in Covent Garden, London.

## Description

> Dan, Anne, Anna and Andrew discuss Ringo Starr's exorcism, driving with a pavlova, and the tiniest classified thing at GCHQ.
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## Facts

* Even the dust at GCHQ is classified. (Miller)
* People drive more carefully if they have a pavlova in the car than their own child. (Murray)
* Ringo Starr's grandmother performed exorcisms on him to cure him of being left-handed. (Schreiber)
* Baby Albatrosses can take up to six days to peck their way out of their eggs. (Ptaszynski)

## Trivia

* Regular presenter James Harkin is absent.
	+ Anne Miller guests, making her twenty-second appearance.
	+ Anne Miller's children's book *Mickey and the Animal Spies* is promoted.
* Schreiber loves The Beatles - his headline fact in Episode 37 was Beatles-related, and Harkin's fact in Episode 180 was anti-Beatles to annoy him.
Episode 319: No Such Thing As 19th Century Feudal Japanese Monopoly

**No Such Thing As 19th Century Feudal Japanese Monopoly** is the 319th episode of No Such Thing As A Fish, the 7th episode of the seventh year, and the 18th episode of 2020. It features regular presenters James Harkin, Andrew Hunter Murray, and Anna Ptaszynski, and QI Elf Anne Miller. It was recorded from home due to COVID-19.

## Description

> James, Anna, Andy & Anne Miller discuss the Amazon, Jumanji, Loofahs and Ooya!
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## Facts

* Loofahs are edible. (Ptaszynski)
* The man who invented Jumanji did so because he hated Monopoly. (Miller)
* There is a man in Brazil who nobody is allowed to go within 5 miles of. (Harkin)
* In 19th century Osaka, flat residents owned the rights to their own urine, but the rights to their poo belonged to their landlords. (Murray)

## Trivia

* This is the sixth Working From Home episode due to the Coronavirus pandemic.
* Regular host Dan Schreiber is absent for the second week in a row.
	+ In his absence, Andrew Hunter Murray hosts.
	+ Anne Miller guests, making her twenty-third appearance.
	+ Miller's children's book *Mickey and the Animal Spies*, as well as Murray's novel *The Last Day* are promoted again.
* Gourds were part of a headline fact in Episode 270: No Such Thing As BIG SHERLOCK HOLMES.
* Murray mentions the board game *Grade Up To Elite Cow*, which he bought a copy of as part of a headline fact from Episode 262: No Such Thing As A Man In A Wine Bottle.
* Murray's love of Club Moss is again mentioned, having been part of a headline fact in Episode 315: No Such Thing As Tedious Moss.
* Harkin mentions that Brazil's highest mountain was only discovered in the 1950s, which was a fact in Brazil v Croatia.
Episode 284: No Such Thing As Salty Yeti Bones

**No Such Thing As Salty Yeti Bones** is the 284th episode of No Such Thing As A Fish, the 24th episode of the sixth year, and the 35th episode of 2019. It features regular presenters James Harkin, Andrew Hunter Murray, Anna Ptaszynski, and Dan Schreiber, and was recorded at the Palais des Glaces in Paris, France.

## Description

> Live from Paris, Dan, James, Andrew and Anna discuss odour-analysing t-shirts, New York under meteor attack, and self-pricking porcupines.
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## Facts

* North American porcupines sometimes fall out of trees and impale themselves on their own spikes. (Harkin)
* Scientists are developing a t-shirt which tells you when you smell. (Murray)
* The best astrophysicists in the world failed to save New York from a fake asteroid. (Ptaszynski)
* Until the 1840s there was no maximum size for a rugby team, so matches were sometimes played with up to 300 players on the pitch at the same time. (Schreiber)

 Trivia

* This is the twenty-fifth stop on the In No Particular Order Tour, and the first in France.
* Murray mentions research into porcupine quills carried out by the team behind the Ig Nobel Prizes.
* Ptaszynski relates "facts" about Yetis, mainly for the entertainment of Schreiber.
* Schreiber asserted in TBA that the human race would only have 1 second of warning for an asteroid impact.
Episode 222: No Such Thing As A Warmongering Pigeon

**No Such Thing As A Warmongering Pigeon** is the 222nd episode of *No Such Thing As A Fish*, the 14th episode of the fifth year, and the 26th episode of 2018. It features regular presenters James Harkin, Andrew Hunter Murray, Anna Ptaszynski, and Dan Schreiber, and was recorded at the Comedy Theatre in Melbourne, Australia.

## Description

> Live from Melbourne, Dan, James, Anna and Andy discuss superloud fish sex, taxiing to a war zone and why these facts probably aren't true.
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## Facts

* There was a showman in the 1930s whose act consisted of repeatedly crashing his plane into the ground. (Murray)
* A new scientific study has shown that people who claim to know a lot of facts don't actually know as many facts as they think they do. (Schreiber)
* In the first major battle of World War I, the soldiers arrived by taxi, and the taxi drivers duly charged the government 70,012 francs for the journey. (Ptaszynski)
* The Gulf Corvina fish has such loud sex that it can deafen dolphins. (Harkin)

 Trivia

* This is the second stop on the Australasia Tour.
	+ This is the second ever Fish live show outside of Europe, the second in Oceania, and the second in Australia.
	+ This is also the first of two shows at the Comedy Theatre.
* James previously discussed the word "barnstorming" in Episode 185.
* Dan's dubious story about Grahame Donald's loop-the-loop is mentioned again in Episode 228.
* Dan's fact is a direct reference to his own reputation for providing dubious facts.
* Semen being used as invisible ink was a half-time fact in Italy v Switzerland.

## Notes

1. ↑ Andy's fact was sent to him by Cameron Dawkins.
2. ↑ Air & Space Magazine: Frank Frakes, Plane Crasher
3. ↑ "Is belief superiority justified by superior knowledge?" by Michael P. Hall and Kaitlin T. Rami (ResearchGate)
4. ↑ University of Michigan News: Superiority complex? People who claim superior beliefs exaggerate their own knowledge
5. ↑ Wikipedia: Renault Taxi de la Marne
6. ↑ Phys.org: Fish sex so loud it could deafen dolphins
Episode 227: No Such Thing As A More Ambitious Crossover Event In History

**No Such Thing As A More Ambitious Crossover Event In History** is the 227th episode of *No Such Thing As A Fish*, the 19th episode of the fifth year, and the 31st episode of 2018. It features regular presenters James Harkin, Andrew Hunter Murray, Anna Ptaszynski, and Dan Schreiber, and was recorded partly at the Opera House in Wellington, New Zealand, and partly at the QI Offices in Covent Garden, London.

## Description

> Live (partly at least) from the Wellington Opera House, Dan, James, Anna and Andy discuss how to birth a lamb, the most niche Netflix categories, and Elton John's travel arrangements.
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## Facts

* If a lamb starts being born the wrong way up, the farmer pushes it right back up into the womb and gets it to start again. (Ptaszynski)
* The Netflix category "Gory Canadian Revenge Movies" only has one film in it. (Murray)
* In sacred Moche combat, the aim was not to kill your oponent but to knock his hat off. (Harkin)
* Pseudonyms that Elton John has used when checking into a hotel include "Sir Binky Poodleclip", "Judas Fart", and "The Marquis of Minge". (Schreiber)

 Trivia

* This is the seventh and final stop on the Australasia Tour.
	+ This is the seventh Fish live show outside of Europe, the seventh in Oceania, and the second show in New Zealand.
* Part of the recording of this episode was lost, so the rest of it had to be recreated in the QI Offices.
	+ The difference in time between the original live show and the re-recording was 9 weeks.
	+ The "crossover" occurs about 33 minutes into the episode.
* James talks about removing your spleen to run faster, which he previously mentioned being done in Ancient Egypt in Episode 212.
* James guesses that David Garrick was the most prolific actor of all time. Garrick would later be part of a headline fact in Episode 262.
* Anna mentions the musical version of *The Mystery of Edwin Drood*, which was previously discussed in Episode 218.
* Andy gives his Twitter name as @GiorgioSpelvino, after a discussion on the name George Spelvin.

## Notes

1. ↑ The New Yorker: The Tweeting of the Lambs: A Day in the Life of a Modern Shepherd [direct source]
2. ↑ Andy forgot to write down the name of the film in question. It's called *Visiting Hours*, and has since been removed from Netflix, along with the microgenres system.
3. ↑ BuzzFeed: 23 Oddly Specific Netflix Categories That Only Have One Show You Can Watch
4. ↑ James got his fact from a 2017 visit to the Larco Museum in Lima, Peru.
5. ↑ Robb Report: The Fake Names Celebrities Use (and the Hotels Where They Use Them) | Elton John
Episode 194: No Such Thing As An Orange Crocodile

**No Such Thing As An Orange Crocodile** is the 194th episode of *No Such Thing As A Fish*, the 38th episode of the fourth year, and the 49th episode of 2017. It features regular presenters James Harkin, Andrew Hunter Murray, Anna Ptaszynski, and Dan Schreiber, and was recorded at the Nottingham Playhouse in Nottingham.

## Description

> Live from Nottingham, Dan, James, Anna and Andy discuss green robins, Lenin’s unexpected accent and the Nottingham cheese riots.
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## Facts

* In 1766, there was a cheese riot in Nottingham where the mayor of Nottingham was knocked over by a large cheese. (Harkin)
* Baby robins sometimes eat so many caterpillars they turn green. (Murray)
* The Russian communist leader Vladimir Lenin spoke with an Irish accent. (Schreiber)
* In Japan, if you make a mistake at work, you can hire someone to get told off by your boss so you don't have to. (Ptaszynski)

### Audience Fact

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

> The Liechtenstein national football team's stadium is only half in Liechtenstein, the other half is in Switzerland, so for 45 minutes every match the Liechtenstein goalie invades Switzerland. (Sam Ward)
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## Trivia

* This is the fifth stop on the 2017 Tour.
* Andy is again introduced as "Drew", as per Episode 150.
* Two episodes at Up The Creek are announced, which would be released as episodes 197 and 198.
* Andy compares the Congress of Vienna's cheese competition to Eurovision, similar to his point in Episode 197.

## Notes

1. ↑ Wikipedia: Nottingham cheese riot
2. ↑ *The Robin: A Biography* by Stephen Moss. (Amazon) [direct source]
3. ↑ The Irish Times: Lenin's Irish accent
4. ↑ The Atlantic: How to Hire Fake Friends and Family [direct source]
5. ↑ Wikipedia: Rheinpark Stadion
Episode 32: No Such Thing As A Good Gift For Gordon Brown

**No Such Thing As A Good Gift For Gordon Brown** is the 32nd episode of No Such Thing As A Fish, the 32nd episode of the first year, and the 47th episode of 2014. It features regular presenters James Harkin, Andrew Hunter Murray, Anna Ptaszynski, and Dan Schreiber, and guest Ash Gardner of Emperor Yes. It was recorded at the QI Offices in Covent Garden, London.

Instead of the usual theme tune, "Wasps", being played in-between facts, this episode used clips from other songs from Emperor Yes' album An Island Called Earth, including the entire song "Monkey King".

## Description

> Dan (@schreiberland), James (@eggshaped), Andy (@andrewhunterm), Anna (#getannaontwitter) and the composer of our theme tune, musician Ash Gardner (@emperor\_yes) discuss useless Presidential gifts, great big arrows, Tom and Jerry’s sweet ending, and a passport carrying pharaoh.
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## Facts

* In 1060BC, the entire Egyptian city of Pi-Ramesses was moved 20 kilometres to the north because part of the River Nile dried up. (Gardner)
	+ "Paramesse to Tanis"
* In 1864, a friend of Charles Dickens had a flat-pack Swiss chalet sent to his home as a Christmas present. (Ptaszynski)
	+ "Cosmos"
* Neuroscientists can tell if you are a musician simply by looking at your brain. (Harkin)
	+ "Cosmic Cat"
* Jack L. Warner, head of Warner Bros., spotted that from the air his studios looked identical to a nearby aircraft factory, so on the roof he painted an arrow and the words "Lockheed: that way". (Schreiber)
	+ "Monkey King"

## Trivia

* This episode marks the first and only appearance of Ash Gardner.
	+ Gardner is promoting the Emperor Yes album "An Island Called Earth".
	+ As there are no absences from regulars, Andrew Hunter Murray is fact-checking.
Episode 157: No Such Thing As High-Fiving The Beatles

**No Such Thing As High-Fiving The Beatles** is the 157th episode of No Such Thing As A Fish, the 1st episode of the fourth year, and the 12th 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 the first ever high-five, an iceberg storage facility in Antarctica and how to put make-up on in space.
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## Facts

* The man who popularised the high-five only has four fingers. (Schreiber)
* When the first American woman went into space, NASA designed a makeup kit for her. (Ptaszynski)
* The Indian justice system has a backlog of 31 **million** cases. (Harkin)
* Scientists are building a special bunker in Antarctica to store bits of glacier from the Alps. (Murray)

## Trivia

* This is the first episode of Year Four.
* No Such Thing As A Fish: The 2017 Tour is first announced in this episode.
* Ptaszynski mentions Ig Nobel Prize winner Lal Bihari, who was declared dead without his knowledge. He was mentioned in Episode 10: No Such Thing As A Soggy Monk.
Episode 209: No Such Thing As A Sexy Black Hole

**No Such Thing As A Sexy Black Hole** is the 209th episode of *No Such Thing As A Fish*, the 1st episode of the fifth year, and the 12th episode of 2018. It features regular presenters James Harkin, Andrew Hunter Murray, Anna Ptaszynski, and Dan Schreiber, and was recorded at the Citizens Theatre in Glasgow.

## Description

> Live from Glasgow, Dan, James Anna and Andy discuss denim arson, and why 1p on the ground isn't worth anything.
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## Facts

* When a very large star quietly turns into a black hole without the usual explosion, the official term used by astronomers is a "massive fail". (Harkin)
* Levi jeans are set on fire before they're sold. (Ptaszynski)
* Thomas Edison tested over 1,600 different materials to find the right filament for the inside of his light bulbs, including fishing lines, cardboard, and hairs from the red beard of an old friend. (Schreiber)
* It's only worth leaning over to pick up a 1p coin if you can do it in less than 3 seconds. (Murray)

###  Audience Fact

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

> Glasgow was once voted the friendliest AND most dangerous city in the UK in the same year. (Julien Mazet)
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## Trivia

* This is the third stop on the 2018 Tour.
	+ This is also the first episode of Year Five.
* Thomas Edison would later be part of a headline fact in Episode 305.

## Notes

1. ↑ Space.com: Supernova Fail: Giant Dying Star Collapses Straight into Black Hole
2. ↑ Levi's® Presents Future Finish
3. ↑ McGill: No Need to be In the Dark About the Light Bulb
4. ↑ That's Hamori: Glasgow Scotland - Western Europe's Friendliest Murder Capital
Episode 215: No Such Thing As A Chihuahua Dog Sled Team

**No Such Thing As A Chihuahua Dog Sled Team** is the 215th episode of *No Such Thing As A Fish*, the 7th episode of the fifth year, and the 18th episode of 2018. It features regular presenters James Harkin, Andrew Hunter Murray, Anna Ptaszynski, and Dan Schreiber, and was recorded at Vicar Street, Dublin.

## Description

> Live from Dublin, Dan, James, Anna and Andy discuss the monumental conception of Victor Hugo, when North Korea is the safest place to be, and why you should bring 600 pairs of shoes to a dog sled race.
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## Facts

* Every competitor at the world's longest dog sled race brings about 600 spare pairs of shoes with them, and they're for the dogs. (Ptaszynski)
* 3,000 ft up a mountain in France is a block of sandstone commemorating the exact spot where the author Victor Hugo's parents conceived him. (Schreiber)
* In the event of a zombie apocalypse, only 1 country will survive, and that country is North Korea. (Harkin)
* The 1930s actor George Arliss once booked himself into the Left Luggage Office at Charing Cross as a parcel in order to escape people who wanted his autograph. (Murray)

###  Audience Fact

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

> Adolf Hitler's brother Alois used to work at the Shelbourne Hotel in Dublin, where he was known as Paddy Hitler. (Kieran Dowling)
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 Trivia

* This is the eighth stop on the 2018 Tour.
	+ This is the first ever Fish live show in the Republic of Ireland, and the second on the island of Ireland after Episode 212.
	+ This is the first show outside the UK since Episode 38, and the second episode in Europe.
* Dan says that after George Arliss won an Oscar for *Disraeli* (1929), he went on to win it again for the same role. This is false, as he never won another Oscar, and the one he did win was for the second of his two portrayals of Benjamin Disraeli, the first one being *Disraeli* (1921), released several years before the creation of the Academy Awards.
* James insults Australia, and Dan reminds him that they are touring Australia soon. This is a reference to The Australasia Tour, which begins in the next episode.
* The audience suspect that Dan's fact about Mozart is dubious.
* Dan reveals that the cost of the four Elves' autographs is 1 penny, based on the price of No Such Thing As A Fish LP.

## Notes

1. ↑ Outside: The Gear You Need to Race the Iditarod
2. ↑ Wikipedia: Mont Donon
3. ↑ The Daily Star: Just ONE country could survive ZOMBIE apocalypse say maths boffins
4. ↑ *Up the years from Bloomsbury* by George Arliss (Amazon)
5. ↑ Dublin City Council: Hitler's Irish Nephew
Birmingham Town Hall

**Birmingham Town Hall** is a Grade I listed concert hall and community venue in Birmingham. While was built in the style of many town halls, it was intended to be the home for a music festival, not an actual seat of local government. It hosts music, poetry, dance, educational performances, conferences, graduation ceremonies, broadcasts, and two episodes of the QI podcast No Such Thing As A Fish.

## No Such Thing As A Fish

* Episode 271: No Such Thing As A Safe Robot
* Episode 301: No Such Thing As The Queen's Christmas Burlesque