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Episode 129: No Such Thing As Jack the Stripper

**No Such Thing As Jack the Stripper** is the 129th episode ofNo Such Thing As A Fish, the 25th episode of the third year, and the 36th 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 hummingbird capes, spacesuits for ants, and the origin of the ballpoint pen.
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## Facts

* Neanderthals wore capes. (Harkin)
* When the first ballpoint pen was launched in the US, riot police had to be deployed to restrain the crowds. (Ptaszynski)
* Not only was *Lady Chatterley's Lover* banned in Australia, but a book about the ban was also banned. (Schreiber)
* Henry VIII contributed to NASA's spacesuit design. (Murray)

## Trivia

* Schreiber jokingly introduces Alex Bell at the beginning of the show, in reference to Bell having covered for Murray in the previous two episodes. Murray was away doing his Edinburgh Fringe show Andrew Hunter Murray: Round One.
Episode 139: No Such Thing As A Lobster Nappy

**No Such Thing As A Lobster Nappy** is the 139th episode ofNo Such Thing As A Fish, the 35th episode of the third year, and the 46th episode of 2016. It features regular presenters James Harkin, Andrew Hunter Murray, Anna Ptaszynski, and Dan Schreiber, and was recorded at the 2016 London Podcast Festival, in the Kings Place, King's Cross, London.

## Description

> Live from the London Podcast Festival, Dan, James, Anna and Andy discuss Evel Knievel's jail time, the complete history of turtle soup, and a telescope too big to use.
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## Facts

* Smooth-fan lobsters travel around the sea inside jellyfish, eating them as they go. (Harkin)
* In 1892, France built a telescope that was so long, it couldn't actually be pointed at the sky. (Murray)
* The first gentleman's club in America was formed for the purpose of eating turtle soup. (Ptaszynski)
* When Evel Knievel starred in the 1977 film *Viva Knievel!*, he used a stunt double. (Schreiber)

## Trivia

* Dan repeats his claim that under US law, Jackie Chan's fists are "lethal weapons", which he previously said in TBA.
* Dan's love of Brian Blessed is again mentioned.
* Nixon banning soup from the White House is mentioned again in Episode 172: No Such Thing As A Cat-a-Cops Cartoon.
Episode 285: No Such Thing As Giving Birth Up A Climbing Wall

**No Such Thing As Giving Birth Up A Climbing Wall** is the 285th episode of No Such Thing As A Fish, the 25th episode of the sixth year, and the 36th 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, Andrew and Anna discuss special mud for baseball, why YouTube was invented, and Brazilian caesarian section parties.
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## Facts

* Major League Baseball has an official mud. (Murray)
* In Brazil women throw c-section parties where guests are served champagne and canapes while watching the host have a caesarean section through a viewing window. (Ptaszynski)
* When Samuel Johnson visited Paris he worried that his French wasn't good enough, so he spent the whole time speaking in Latin. (Harkin)
* YouTube was created because one of its founders couldn't find an online video of Janet Jackson's breast being exposed at a Super Bowl halftime show. (Schreiber)

 Trivia

* The Book of the Year 2019 is announced.
	+ Live shows to promote it are mentioned, but no locations are named yet.
* Facebook and IMDb originally being used to rate pictures of attractive women was previously mentioned in Episode 78 and Episode 258.
Alex Edelman

**Alex Edelman** is an American stand-up comedian. His show "Millennial" won the Edinburgh Comedy Award for Best Newcomer at the 2014 Edinburgh Festival Fringe, the first American to do so since 1997.

He was a guest presenter on two episodes of No Such Thing As A Fish, and one of International Factball.

## Appearances

* Episode 3: No Such Thing As The Middle Ages
* International Factball: USA v Russia
* Episode 236: No Such Thing As A Brie Sculpture
Episode 202: No Such Thing As A Deadly Birthday Cake

**No Such Thing As A Deadly Birthday Cake** is the 202nd episode of *No Such Thing As A Fish*, the 46th episode of the fourth year, and the 5th episode of 2018. It features regular presenters James Harkin, Andrew Hunter Murray, Anna Ptaszynski, and Dan Schreiber, and was recorded at the Warwick Arts Centre in Coventry.

## Description

> Live from Coventry, Dan, James, Anna and Andy discuss trousers for horses, swimming the Atlantic, and why the inventor of basketball was so bad at teaching it.
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## Facts

* In the annual Lady Godiva parade, which famously celebrates a lady who rode naked through Coventry, not only does the rider always wear clothes, but one year even the horse wore trousers. (Schreiber)
* The worst basketball coach in the history of the University of Kansas is James Naismith — the man who invented basketball. (Harkin)
* Blowing out the candles on a birthday cake increases the number of bacteria on it by 1,400%. (Murray)
* The first person to swim the Atlantic said "never again" as soon as he was finished. He is now planning to swim the Pacific. (Ptaszynski)

### Audience Fact

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

> Places in Canada include Shagger's Cove, Dildo, and Ball's Falls. (@CuparArab)
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## Trivia

* This is the eleventh and final stop on the 2017 Tour.
* The behind the scenes documentary Behind The Gills is promoted again during this episode.

## Notes

1. ↑ Wikipedia: Godiva Procession
2. ↑ Bleacher Report: Kansas Basketball: Ranking Every Coach in Jayhawks' History
3. ↑ The Atlantic: Blowing Out Birthday Candles Increases Cake Bacteria by 1,400 Percent
4. ↑ NPR: To Raise Awareness For Climate Change, 50-Year-Old Makes Bid To Swim Across Pacific
5. ↑ Wikipedia: Benoît Lecomte
Club Fish

**Club Fish** is an ad-free paid premium subscription option that began in July 2022 and is available to listeners and fans of No Such Thing As A Fish through Apple Podcasts or Patreon for a small monthly fee.

Perks include, among others, the ability to listen to fully ad-free episodes as well as access to regular bonus content which is typically released every other week.

The most commonly released types of Club Fish content are bonus compilations of extras/outtakes as well as monthly installments of the *Drop Us A Line* segment which is hosted by Andrew Hunter Murray and centers around him sharing selected correspondence sent in by listeners alongside the three other regular Fish presenters James Harkin, Anna Ptaszynski, and Dan Schreiber.

Note: Drop Us A Line — June 2023 was re-released in July 2023 as a subscription-free teaser of Club Fish content with the purpose of enticing listeners to join Club Fish.

## List of Club Fish Bonus Releases

### 2022

* Drop Us A Line — July 2022
* Bonus Compilation — August 2022
* Drop Us A Line — August 2022
* No Such Thing As A Quiz — September 2022
* Drop Us A Line — September 2022
* Bonus Compilation — October 2022
* Drop Us A Line — October 2022
* Bonus: Nerd Credentials 2022
* Drop Us A Line — November 2022
* Bonus Compilation — December 2022
* Drop Us A Line — December 2022
* Bonus Compilation — New Year 2023

### 2023

* Drop Us A Line — January 2023
* Bonus Compilation — January 2023
* Drop Us A Line — February 2023
* Bonus Compilation — February 2023
* Drop Us A Line — March 2023
* Meet The Elves: Tara
* Drop Us A Line — April 2023
* Meet The Elves: Leying
* Drop Us A Line — May 2023
* Meet The Elves: Ethan
* Drop Us A Line — June 2023
* Bonus Compilation — June 2023
* Drop Us A Line — July 2023
* Bonus Compilation — July 2023
* Drop Us A Line — August 2023
* Bonus Compilation — August 2023
* Drop Us A Line — August 2023 #2
* Bonus Compilation — Semptember 2023
* Drop Us A Line — September 2023
* Fishy Openings — October 2023
* Drop Us A Line — October 2023
* Bonus Compilation — November 2023
* Drop Us A Line — November 2023
* Meet the Elves: Manu
* Drop Us A Line: December 2023

### 2024

* Bonus Compilation — January 2024
* Drop Us A Line — January 2024
Episode 166: No Such Thing As A Courgette In Your Ear

**No Such Thing As A Courgette In Your Ear** is the 166th episode of No Such Thing As A Fish, the 10th episode of the fourth year, and the 21st 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 chicken egg orientation, drawing on your ear drums, and the Georgian garden of celebrity trees.
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## Facts

* Chickens' eggs turn from pointy-end first to blunt-end first just before they come out. (Murray)
* The former Prime Minister of Georgia has started taking famous trees from around his country, digging them up, and planting them in his own garden. (Harkin)
* US Military medics use longer needles than normal because soldiers are often too buff for the regular ones. (Schreiber)
* If you drew a dot in indelible ink on your eardrum, it would appear on the outside of your ear within a few weeks. (Ptaszynski)

## Trivia

* Harkin's fact was obtained while researching for the Book of the Year.
	+ Harkin mentions Abkhazia, who he supported in the 2018 CONIFA World Cup.
Episode 305: No Such Thing As A Sentient Jelly

**No Such Thing As A Sentient Jelly** is the 305th episode of No Such Thing As A Fish, the 45th episode of the sixth year, and the 4th episode of 2020. 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 the world's first electric cargo ship, jelly wobbliness testing Edison's near-miss with a flying badger.
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## Facts

* Thomas Edison was once almost killed by a flying badger. (Harkin)
* There are only two groups of animals on Earth that live entirely on seaweed. They are a type of iguana and a type of sheep. (Ptaszynski)
* In 2017 China launched the world's first electric cargo ship. The ship is now being used exclusively to transport coal to power stations. (Schreiber)
* The first ever instrument made for food quality control was built to test the consistency of jelly. (Murray)

## Trivia

* Edison was also the subject of a headline fact in Episode 209: No Such Thing As A Sexy Black Hole.
* Charles Babbage is the subject of a headline fact in Episode 313: No Such Thing As A Dangerous Coconut.
* NSTAAF is Sian Tarrant's second-favourite podcast - the Fish team appeared on her favourite, *The Guilty Feminist*, in TBA **september 2019**.
	+ The hosts of *The Guilty Feminist* appeared on Fish during the 20 Hour Podcast.
Episode 161: No Such Thing As A Magic Donkey

**No Such Thing As A Magic Donkey** is the 161st episode of No Such Thing As A Fish, the 5th episode of the fourth year, and the 16th 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 lie detector, a robotic Cleopatra and the world's largest exporter of false teeth.
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## Facts

* The person who invented the lie detector married the first person he interrogated with it. (Ptaszynski)
* Liechtenstein has roughly two companies for every person who lives there. (Murray)
* In 47 BC there was a giant robot Cleopatra walking the streets of Alexandria, squirting milk from her breasts onto the heads of onlookers. (Schreiber)
* Manatees control their buoyancy through flatulence. (Harkin)

## Trivia

* New dates for The 2017 Tour are announced, which were broadcast as Episode 190, Episode 191 and Episode 192.
* This is the fourth episode in which all the facts came from the audience after Episode 75: No Such Thing As Diarrhoea Drive, Episode 94: No Such Thing As Sexy Mucus Pyjamas, and Episode 145: No Such Thing As E.T. Part Three.
Episode 128: No Such Thing As A Million Dollar Bill

**No Such Thing As A Million Dollar Bill** is the 128th episode ofNo Such Thing As A Fish, the 24th episode of the third year, and the 35th 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 glow-in-the-dark fungi, presidential putters and reasons for spying your neighbours.
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## Facts

* The controls in the world's first combat submarine were lit up with glowing mushrooms. (Bell)
* While he was president, Woodrow Wilson played more than 1,200 rounds of golf. (Harkin)
* When Percy Shelley and Lord Byron went on a writer's retreat to Lake Geneva in 1816, the hotel opposite them hired out telescopes to their guests so that they could spy on them. (Schreiber)
* Famous historical games of Go include the blood-vomiting game, the ear-reddening game, the famous killing game, and the atomic bomb go game. (Ptaszynski)

## Trivia

* Regular presenter Andrew Hunter Murray is absent, doing his Edinburgh Fringe show Andrew Hunter Murray: Round One.
	+ Alex Bell guests, making his seventeenth appearance, and his second in a row.
* Harkin's phobia of mushrooms is again discussed.
* Dan mentions Jim Lovell of Apollo 13, the film of which he claimed was his favourite of all time in Episode 75: No Such Thing As Diarrhoea Drive.
* Ptaszynski's favourite US President is Jimmy Carter, again mentioned in Episode 182: No Such Thing As An Auction For Auction School and Episode 200: No Such Thing As A Jigsaw For The Queen.
Episode 296: No Such Thing As A Glowing Ballet Dancer

**No Such Thing As A Glowing Ballet Dancer** is the 296th episode of No Such Thing As A Fish, the 36th episode of the sixth year, and the 47th episode of 2019. It features regular presenters James Harkin, Andrew Hunter Murray, Anna Ptaszynski, and Dan Schreiber, and was recorded at the Punch Line Philly in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

## Description

>  Live from Philadelphia, Dan, James, Anna and Andrew discuss crash test moose, radioactive slippers, and the multi-presidential inventor of chewing gum.
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## Facts

* The star of the film Candyman, where a character has bees coming out of his mouth, negotiated a $1000 bonus for every time he got stung. He ended up with $23,000. (Murray)
* As well using crash test dummies, Volvo tests its cars with a crash test moose. (Schreiber)
* Americans used to make their slippers radioactive so they could find them in the dark. (Harkin)
* The man who introduced chewing gum to the world had already been President of Mexico 11 times. (Ptaszynski)

 Trivia

* This is the second stop on the US Tour.
	+ This is the second live show in North America or the USA, and the first in Philadelphia or Pennsylvania.
* A live show and Christmas special in Birmingham is announced, which became Episode 301.
* Ptaszynski claims that the average weight of an American adult has increased by 2 stone over the last 20 years. An audience member corrects her, saying that it's 28 lbs. These two weights are identical.
* Radium Girls were mentioned in passing when discussing Herring Girls in TBA.
* Schreiber mentions a fact from The Book of the Year 2019.
* Santa Anna is mentioned again in TBA.
* Murray is about to get married.
Episode 263: No Such Thing As Millipede Lipbalm

**No Such Thing As Millipede Lipbalm** is the 263rd episode of No Such Thing As A Fish, the 3rd episode of the sixth year, and the 14th episode of 2019. It features regular presenters James Harkin, Andrew Hunter Murray, Anna Ptaszynski, and Dan Schreiber, and was recorded at the Corn Exchange in Cambridge.

## Description

> Live from Cambridge, Dan, James, Anna and Andrew discuss silk-spinning goats, the invention of the scooter, and millipede PR problems.
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## Facts

* Adult scooters were invented by a Swiss banker who was hungry for a sausage. (Schreiber)
* Goats have been engineered to produce spider silk, because when farmers tried to get spiders to do it themselves, they just kept eating each-other. (Ptaszynski)
* When George VI visited Washington, an American chemist provided the royals with special "London water" so that they could have identical tea as in England. (Murray)
* Many millipede researchers are annoyed that, more than 70 years after World War II, the animals are still associated with the Nazis. (Harkin)

 Trivia

* This is the fifth stop on the In No Particular Order tour.
* Harkin's fact came from Erica McAlister.
	+ The association of millipedes with the Nazis is mentioned again in the 20 Hour Podcast.
Episode 184: No Such Thing As Dinosaur Diaries

**No Such Thing As Dinosaur Diaries** is the 184th episode of *No Such Thing As A Fish*, the 28th episode of the fourth year, and the 39th 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 snakes that eat snakes, mathematical street performers, and the celebrity most likely to give you a virus.
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## Facts

* Avril Lavigne is the celebrity most likely to give you a virus. (Harkin)
* There is a type of dinosaur which is almost always found on its back. (Murray)
* Snakes that eat snakes can eat snakes that are 139% of their body length. (Schreiber)
* Medieval street performers multiplied numbers together in public for entertainment. (Ptaszynski)

## Trivia

* James and Andy discuss whether snakes know that they are snakes.
* James has changed his Twitter account name to @JamesHarkin, prompting Andy to give his Twitter name as @eggshaped.
	+ The podcast's group account has also changed its handle from @qipodcast to @nosuchthing.

## Notes

1. ↑ McAfee Blog: Web Searches Get Complicated! Avril Lavigne Tops the 2017 Most Dangerous Celebrities List [direct source]
2. ↑ Live Science: Belly Up: Why Ankylosaurs Are Always Found Upside Down
3. ↑ snakesarelong.blogspot.com: Snake-eating snakes [direct source]
4. ↑ *Lost Discoveries: The Ancient Roots of Modern Science — from the Babylonians to the Mayans* by Dick Teresi. (Amazon) [direct source]
Episode 295: No Such Thing As A 200m Baguette

**No Such Thing As A 200m Baguette** is the 295th episode of No Such Thing As A Fish, the 35th episode of the sixth year, and the 46th episode of 2019. It features regular presenters James Harkin, Andrew Hunter Murray, Anna Ptaszynski, and Dan Schreiber, and was recorded at the Wilbur Theatre in Boston, Massachusetts.

## Description

>  Live from Boston, Dan, James, Anna and Andy discuss Bastard baguettes Saddam Hussein's campaign song, and the first ever criminal to be put in Boston's stocks.
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## Facts

* The first criminal in Boston to be sent to the stocks was the man who had built the stocks. He was found guilty of overcharging for the building of the stocks. (Schreiber)
* Five of the main types of French baguette are called flute, ficelle, Viennois, sarmentine and bastard. (Murray)
* Whitney Houston's record label once sent a cease and desist letter to Saddam Hussein asking him to stop using the song I Will Always Love You as part of his political campaign. (Ptaszynski)
* In 1898 a Boston magazine described the game of croquet as "a source of slumbering depravity. a veritable Frankenstein's monster of recreation". (Harkin)

 Trivia

* This is the first stop on the US Tour.
	+ This is the first live show in North America or the USA, and the first in Massachusetts or Boston.
	+ A mashup of the Fish theme song with the American national anthem is played - although it is different to the one used for the No Such Thing As The News: US Election Special.
* Murray prefaces the first fact with an audience fact about Boston's laws concerning the American national anthem.
* Boston's unusual laws were a headline fact in Episode 236: No Such Thing As A Brie Sculpture.
* Parisian bakers having to organise their holidays was also mentioned in Episode 260: No Such Thing As A Giant War Sausage.
Episode 113: No Such Thing As A Flycycle

**No Such Thing As A Flycycle** is the 113th episode ofNo Such Thing As A Fish, the 9th episode of the third year, and the 20th 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 underwater tailors, the overlord of all emojis, and the alphabet of the future.
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## Facts

* When you are 30 metres underwater, your lungs are only a quarter of their normal size. (Murray)
* Online shopping was predicted in 1857. (Ptaszynski)
* The word "pants" comes from the Greek word for "all-compassionate". (Harkin)
* All new emojis are approved by one 63-year-old man named Mark Davis. (Schreiber)

## Trivia

* Tickets to watch the first episode of No Such Thing As The News being recorded are plugged.
* Harkin mentions that in hat-making towns like Stockport and Luton, people who did not wear hats would have things thrown at them, a fact brought up again in TBA.
* Mention is made of Murray being part of Austentatious.
Episode 312: No Such Thing As Quentin Tarantino's Bambi

**No Such Thing As Quentin Tarantino's Bambi** is the 312th episode of No Such Thing As A Fish, the 52nd and final episode of the sixth year, and the 11th episode of 2020. 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 dangerous Roman toilets, what shoes were thrown at a Bush, and the love life of a Lothario turtle called Diego.
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## Facts

* Pompeii's 'new' drain system is 2300 years old. (Murray)
* There is a factory in Iran that makes 2000 US, British, and Israeli flags every month specifically for people to burn. (Harkin)
* The old word for intestines was arseropes. (Schreiber)
* Researchers have 3D printed sex dolls for turtles. (Ptaszynski)

## Trivia

* This is the final episode of Year Six.

* Murray mentions fatbergs, which were discussed at length in Episode 229, and was featured in The Book of the Year 2018.
* Ptaszynski mentions recycling wine bottles, which was also discussed in the previous episode.
Episode 27: No Such Thing As An Egg And Cress Portsmouth

**No Such Thing As An Egg And Cress Portsmouth** is the 27th episode of No Such Thing As A Fish, the 27th episode of the first year, and the 42nd episode of 2014. It features regular presenters Andrew Hunter Murray, Anna Ptaszynski, and Dan Schreiber, and guest presenter Helen Zaltzman. It was recorded at the QI Offices in Covent Garden, London.

## Description

> Dan (@schreiberland), Anna (@nosuchthing), Andy (@andrewhunterm), and special guest Helen Zaltzman (@helenzaltzman) discuss little old ladies in space, a gang of spying squirrels, Gandalf the Grey's real name, and more...
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## Facts

* LOL was originally medical slang for "Little Old Lady". Other slang included LOLINAD - "Little Old Lady In No Apparent Distress" - and LOLFDGB - "Little Old Lady Fall Down Go Boom". (Zaltzman)
* According to researchers at Glasgow Caledonian University, listening to Billy Connolly can substantially increase your pain tolerance. (Schreiber)
* The first woman to cycle around the world, Annie "Londonderry" Cohen Kopchovsky, learnt to ride only the day before she set off. (Ptaszynski)
* When California ground squirrels are attacked by rattlesnakes, they increase their blood pressure so much that their tails give off more infrared radiation and make them look bigger. (Murray)

## Trivia

* This episode marks the first ever absence of regular presenter James Harkin, and the first and only appearance of Helen Zaltzman.
* Dan mentions the Mongolian death worm for the first time.
* It is announced that James, Andy and Anne Miller are due to appear on Only Connect, hosted by Victoria Coren Mitchell.
Episode 251: No Such Thing As An Accidental George

**No Such Thing As An Accidental George** is the 251st episode of No Such Thing As A Fish, the 43rd episode of the fifth year, and the 2nd episode of 2019. It features regular presenters James Harkin, Andrew Hunter Murray, and Anna Ptaszynski, and guest QI Elf Anne Miller. It was recorded at the QI Offices in Covent Garden, London.

## Description

> Anna, James, Andy and Anne discuss undercover restaurant reviewers, weightlifting cockroaches, and what to pack for a trip on the Orient Express.
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## Facts

* Cockroaches can carry 900 times their own body weight on their backs. (Ptaszynski)
* The first British travellers aboard the Orient Express were advised to bring a revolver and a teapot with them. (Miller)
* The largest known prime number has 24,862,048 digits. When written in binary, it has 82,589,933 digits, but they are all the number 1. (Harkin)
* To preserve their anonymity, Michelin restaurant reviewers are advised not to tell even their parents what they do for a living. (Murray)

 Trivia

* Regular host Dan Schreiber is absent.
	+ In his absence, Ptaszynski hosts.
* Cockroaches becoming rear-heavy with age was also mentioned in No Such Thing As Wasted Material 2017.
* The previous largest known prime number was Andrew Hunter Murray's headline fact in Episode 98: No Such Thing As Planet George.
Episode 304: No Such Thing As A Phantasmic Foot

**No Such Thing As A Phantasmic Foot** is the 304th episode of No Such Thing As A Fish, the 44th episode of the sixth year, and the 3rd episode of 2020. 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 parachuting beavers, why hotdogs are called hotdogs, and how your emails are warming the planet.
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## Facts

* In Britain alone, unnecessary emails create nearly 24,000 tons of carbon every year. (Murray)
* Hot dogs are called hot dogs because people used to think they contained dog. (Harkin)
* The oldest recording we have of a poet reading his own poem is of Robert Browning, who forgets the words to the poem halfway through and ends the recording with an apology. (Schreiber)
* In 1948 in Idaho, leftover World War II parachutes were used to drop beavers out of aeroplanes. (Ptaszynski)

## Trivia

* Tim Berners-Lee's brother is mentioned. Tim was part of a headline fact in Episode 286: No Such Thing As A Banana With Wifi.
* Schreiber mentions the headline fact about Melbourne's trees having email addresses from Episode 167: No Such Thing As Milk From A Yak.
* Arthur Conan Doyle's belief in seances was a headline fact in Episode 130: No Such Thing As Train Jam.
* Harkin mentions working on the second series of QI with Molly Oldfield.
Brighton Comedy Festival

The Brighton Dome during the festival

The **Brighton Comedy Festival** is an annual comedy festival in Brighton, mainly based in the Brighton Dome, although other events of the festival are held at the Brighton Komedia and The Old Market in Hove. It has hosted one episode of the podcast No Such Thing As A Fish.

## No Such Thing As A Fish

* Episode 85: No Such Thing As Michaelangelo's Snowman
Episode 320: No Such Thing As A Hairy Gearstick

**No Such Thing As A Hairy Gearstick** is the 320th episode of No Such Thing As A Fish, the 8th episode of the seventh year, and the 19th 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 the Greatest Showman, the Longest Limo and the World's Most Dangerous Mirrors.
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## Facts

* P.T. Barnum once tried to buy William Shakespeare's birthplace and move it to America. (Ptaszynski)
* In 1547 the Venetian government assassinated two men to stop them from revealing how mirrors were made. (Harkin)
* The longest car in the world was so long that it had a *literal* backseat driver. (Schreiber)
* Ancient British fruit varieties include the Hen's Turd Apple and the Bloody Bastard Pear. (Murray)

## Trivia

* This is the seventh Working From Home episode due to the Coronavirus pandemic.
* Murray refers back to Barnum being mentioned in TBA.
* Harkin mentions performers who multiplied large numbers together in their head, similar to a headline fact in Episode 184: No Such Thing As Dinosaur Diaries.
* Harkin has seen *The Terminator* and *Terminator 2*.
* Murray mentions Schreiber's dubious fact about the Blackbird from TBA.
Episode 273: No Such Thing As A Scuba Diver Covered With Meat

**No Such Thing As A Scuba Diver Covered With Meat** is the 273rd episode of No Such Thing As A Fish, the 13th episode of the sixth year, and the 24th episode of 2019. It features regular presenters James Harkin, Andrew Hunter Murray, Anna Ptaszynski, and Dan Schreiber, and was recorded at Sheffield City Hall.

## Description

> Live from Sheffield, Dan, James, Anna and Andy discuss urine-tasting, relocating entire buildings and the thing that's more painful to tread on than fire.
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## Facts

* As a child the naturalist Frank Buckland learned to differentiate different types of animal urine by taste alone. (Murray)
* In the 1980s Romania lifted up and relocated dozens of buildings, often with the residents still inside them. (Ptaszynski)
* When at home Freddie Mercury slept in a queen-sized bed. (Schreiber)
* According to people who make their livings walking on fire and walking on broken glass, neither is as painful as walking on LEGO. (Harkin)

 Trivia

* This is the fifteenth stop on the In No Particular Order tour.
* Frank Buckland's father once determined that purported "saint's blood" was in fact bat urine. He was discussed in Episode 54: No Such Thing As Domesticated Furniture.
Episode 185: No Such Thing As Scottish Snow

**No Such Thing As Scottish Snow** is the 185th episode of No Such Thing As A Fish, the 29th episode of the fourth year, and the 40th episode of 2017. It features regular presenters James Harkin, Andrew Hunter Murray, and Anna Ptaszynski, and guest presenter Cariad Lloyd. It was recorded at the QI Offices in Covent Garden, London.

## Description

> Andy, Anna, James and special guest Cariad Lloyd discuss Unity Mitford's BFFs, how planes (don't) cure deafness, and why you shouldn't eat Scottish show.
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## Facts

* Unity Mitford was the only person to be BFFs with Churchill and Hitler. (Lloyd)
* In the 1920s, doctors prescribed intentionally terrifying flights in aeroplanes to cure deafness. (Ptaszynski)
* There is a patch of snow in Scotland that fell 11 years ago and it's just melted this week. (Harkin)
* The first person ever to use the word "sponge cake" was Jane Austen. (Murray)

## Trivia

* Regular host Dan Schreiber is absent.
	+ In his absence, Andrew Hunter Murray hosts.
	+ Cariad Lloyd guests.
	+ Andy and Cariad are both members of Austentatious.
* Andy mentions the Canadian man named Adolf Hitler, which was previously brought up in Episode 75.
* James mentions Andy's "take me to Cuba" fact from Episode 110.
* Cariad talks about making rudely-shaped snowmen, a topic previously discussed in Episode 85.

## Notes

1. ↑ Spartacus Educational: Unity Mitford
2. ↑ Smithsonian Magazine: Doctors Once Prescribed Terrifying Plane Flights to “Cure” Deafness
3. ↑ BBC: UK's longest-lasting patch of snow melts away
4. ↑ Wikipedia: Snow patches in Scotland
5. ↑ Andy's fact comes from the *Oxford English Dictionary*.
Episode 106: No Such Thing As A Six-Tier Japanese Human Pyramid

**No Such Thing As A Six-Tier Japanese Human Pyramid** is the 106th episode ofNo Such Thing As A Fish, the 2nd episode of the third year, and the 13th episode of 2016. It features regular presenters James Harkin, Andrew Hunter Murray, Anna Ptaszynski, and Dan Schreiber, and was recorded at the Tobacco Factory Theatre, Bristol.

## Description

> Live from Bristol, Dan, James, Anna and Andy discuss colour-changing animals, caffeinated mushrooms and fashionable hay fever.
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== Facts ==

* The frog whose Latin name means "blue frog" is actually green. (Schreiber)
* You can surf on mushrooms. (Ptaszynski)
* If you are allergic to cats, you are also allergic to lions. (Murray)
* It is illegal in Japan to make a human pyramid higher than five tiers. (Harkin)

## Trivia

* This is the fourteenth stop on the No Such Thing As A Fish Live tour.
* Harkin's mushroom phobia is again discussed.
Episode 286: No Such Thing As A Banana With Wifi

**No Such Thing As A Banana With Wifi** is the 286th episode of No Such Thing As A Fish, the 26th episode of the sixth year, and the 37th 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 the invention of ball pits, a fisherman's unluckiest fruit, and how the internet was nearly called The Information Mine.
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## Facts

* The first ever ball pit was inspired by a jar of pickled onions. (Murray)
* Bananas are considered such bad luck on fishing boats that many captains ban anyone on-board from wearing Banana Boat sunscreen, or clothes made by the company Fruit of the Loom whose logo used to feature a banana. (Ptaszynski)
* Tim Berners-Lee originally wanted to call the world wide web "the information mine" - TIM for short. (Schreiber)
* The first known use of the word "bell-end" to refer to a person was for the entire 1992 West Bromwich Albion football team. (Harkin)

 Trivia

* Schreiber's fact came from the Fish team's visit to CERN in Episode 283: No Such Thing As A Lost Shadow.
* Murray mentions a fact about Michael Flatley from The Book of the Year (TBA).
Episode 218: No Such Thing As Tennis On The Moon

**No Such Thing As Tennis On The Moon** is the 218th episode of *No Such Thing As A Fish*, the 10th episode of the fifth year, and the 21st 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.

This episode contains spoilers for the following work:
the ending of the novel *Great Expectations* by Charles Dickens

## Description

> Dan, James, Anna and Andy discuss cavemen living on the moon, Victorian reaction times, and the mystery of The Mystery Of Edwin Drood.
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## Facts

* In an attempt to work out who the murderer in Charles Dickens's last unfinished novel was, the lead character was put on trial. (Schreiber)
* In the past 10 years, the number of registered pinball players worldwide has gone from 500 to over 100,000. (Ptaszynski)
* The Victorians had better reaction times than we do today. (Harkin)
* The first people to live on the Moon might be cavemen. (Murray)

 Trivia

* Anna and James mention that pinball was banned in the 1940s in New York City, a fact they admit would come up in the next series of *QI*.
* Francis Galton is again mentioned, having previously been discussed in Episode 12 and Episode 115. James calls him a "friend of the podcast".
* James carefully uses the word data as a plural, since the singular form is datum.
* James again insults Australia, as he did in Episode 215, and Andy reminds him that they are touring Australia soon. This is a reference to The Australasia Tour, which had not begun when this episode was recorded.
* Dan mentions Buzz Aldrin having smuggled bread to the Moon for a communion, which was previously mentioned in Episode 8.

## Notes

1. ↑ Wikipedia: The Mystery of Edwin Drood
2. ↑ NBC News: Tilt! Ancient pinball is no longer old-school
3. ↑ Mind Hacks: Did the Victorians have faster reactions?
4. ↑ New Scientist: Can high-tech cavemen live on the Moon?
Episode 311: No Such Thing As A Michelangel-ogram

**No Such Thing As A Michelangel-ogram** is the 311th episode of No Such Thing As A Fish, the 51st episode of the sixth year, and the 10th episode of 2020. 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 a bank that was too warm, a bottle that was too full, and a nose that was just right.
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## Facts

* When the world's largest bottle of wine sprung a leak this year, the owner called the local fire department, who stopped the spillage with sandbags. (Harkin)
* When Michelangelo sculpted David, the town mayor told him that the nose was too big, so Michelangelo picked up some dust, climbed to the top of the statue, sprinkled the dust down, and claimed that he had fixed it. (Ptaszynski)
* A plane was once built which had nine wings. (Murray)
* This year a sperm bank lost a court case to a man named Dick Weiner. (Schreiber)

## Trivia

* This episode is the fifth anniversary of the podcast beginning.
* The illegality of selling wine by the bottle in the middle ages was discussed in TBA.
* Kenelm Digby is discussed, having previously been mentioned in Episode 256. He was the son of Everard Digby, who was originally mentioned in TBA.
* Harkin mentions Ptaszynski's fact about travelling salesmen from the previous episode.
* Lazzaro Spallanzani's experiments are mentioned, a similar experiment having been discussed in Episode 25 and again in Episode 41.
Episode 272: No Such Thing As A Non-Judgemental Herring

**No Such Thing As A Non-Judgemental Herring** is the 272nd episode of No Such Thing As A Fish, the 12th episode of the sixth year, and the 23rd episode of 2019. 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

> Dan, James, Anna and Andrew discuss the world's most fashionable accountant, disapproval-based herring migration, and the invention of veganism.
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## Facts

* In 18th century Scotland people believed that herring would punish adulterers by leaving the area. (Murray)
* The most fashionable person of the 16th century was an accountant from Germany. (Harkin)
* The North Pole is moving so fast that we can't keep up. (Ptaszynski)
* The British Vegetarian movement was started 200 years ago by a man called Reverend Cowherd. (Schreiber)

 Trivia

* This is the fourteenth stop on the In No Particular Order tour.
	+ This is the second time Fish have appeared at the King's Theatre, the first being Episode 112: No Such Thing As A Lego Aircraft Carrier.
* Murray suggests that a purported study about men reacting well to photographs of meat is one of Dan's Facts.
Mechakoopa

Appearance In Super Mario World

Mechakoopas will walk forward, turning at walls and occasionally changing direction to follow a player.

Stomping on a Mechakoopa will cause it to get stunned and hide away, similarly to what a Galoomba would do. The player can then kick the Mechakoopa around or pick them up. They can be carried or kicked at them to defeat them. After a while of not being stomped on, they will wake up and walk towards the player to resume their attacks. They can be spin-jumped on, which will result in the Mechakoopa moving slightly while the player can still bounce off of them (using regular a jump, the player cannot stomp on a stunned Mechakoopa, only kick them away).

Winged Mechakoopas fly back and forth horizontally. When stomped, they lose their Wings.

In the Night Ground Course Theme, all Mechakoopas will fly with jet engines to reach the player.

## Zappa Mechakoopa

Zappa Mechakoopas patrol and damage the player like the other two types but, periodically, they will fire an electric beam in the player's direction after roughly one second of wind-up. This laser beam travels very quickly in a straight line, and will stop upon contact with solid, unbreakable objects. The Mechakoopas will fire towards the player even if the beam cannot reach them. The beam of a small Zappa Mechakoopa does not interact with anything but the player, who will take damage, but that of a large Zappa Mechakoopa will destroy breakable blocks upon contact, except clouds, and is also two blocks tall instead of one. If the beam makes contact with an unbreakable solid block, even if only half of it is touching said block type, the beam will stop. The beam has a range limitation, meaning that if the player moves very quickly, they might be able to run in a straight line and escape the beam's range. The beam will also follow the Mechakoopa's movements and the fact that these stand still while shooting doesn't mean they can't be moved by Conveyor Belts or pushed off ledges by blocks on Tracks.

## Blasta Mechakoopa

Blasta Mechakoopas patrol and damage the player like the other two types but, periodically, they will fire an missile in the player's direction after roughly one second of wind-up. Those missiles travel like a Bullseye Bill, homing in on the player until it stops and explodes, destroying all breakable blocks except clouds.

## Trivia

Big Mechakoopas resemble Mega Mechakoopas from Mario Party 10
Episode 310: No Such Thing As A Mungmonger

**No Such Thing As A Mungmonger** is the 310th episode of No Such Thing As A Fish, the 50th episode of the sixth year, and the 9th episode of 2020. 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 Romans vs Vandals; Artists vs Artists; Door-to-Door Sales; and Bear-on-Bear action.
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## Facts

* Travelling salesmen used to carry around miniature versions of everything they were selling. (Ptaszynski)
* Female grizzly bears can get half-pregnant. (Murray)
* When the Vandals sacked Rome in 455 AD, they agreed that they would just take the money and not damage any of the property. (Harkin)
* People who have died from laughing include a 5th century Greek artist who couldn't stop laughing at his own painting, and an Australian dog trainer who died after reading the price difference of some commodities in 1915 as opposed to 1920. (Schreiber)
Cariad Lloyd

**Cariad Lloyd** is a British actress, writer, and podcaster. She hosts Griefcast, and is a member of the improv-comedy group Austentatious alongside Andrew Hunter Murray. She has made three appearances as a guest on *No Such Thing As A Fish.*

## Appearances

* Episode 185: No Such Thing As Scottish Snow
* Episode 476: No Such Thing As Othello’s Casio
* Episode 490: No Such Thing As Whistling At A Fact
Episode 261: No Such Thing As A Chocolate Train

**No Such Thing As A Giant War Sausage** is the 261st episode of No Such Thing As A Fish, the 1st episode of the sixth year, and the 12th episode of 2019. It features regular presenters James Harkin, Andrew Hunter Murray, Anna Ptaszynski, and Dan Schreiber, and was recorded at The Venue in Uffculme, Devon.

## Description

> Live from Uffculme, Dan, James, Anna and Andy discuss chocolate gramophones, licking your own forehead and Icelandic sheep dating.
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## Facts

* There is a man in Nepal who can lick his own forehead. (Harkin)
* In 1903 you could buy a gramophone record made of chocolate, which you could play a song on and then eat the disc. (Murray)
* In the early 1700s the most popular British guide to the history, language and culture of Taiwan was written by a man who didn't speak the language, had never been there, and knew nothing about it. (Ptaszynski)
* Ahead of breeding season, Iceland publishes an illustrated catalogue of the country's most eligible sheep. (Schreiber)

 Trivia

* This is the third stop on the In No Particular Order tour and the first episode of Year Six.
	+ Tour stops in Paris and Berlin are announced in this episode.
* The chocolate eaten by Scott's Antarctic Expedition was previously mentioned in TBA.
* Murray mentions disgusting foods (like boiled sheep's brain), which were part of Harkin's headline fact in Episode 250: No Such Thing As The Mysterious Chamber.
* After a piece about artificial insemination, Murray suggests that the authorities should contact Ptaszynski by email.
Episode 257: No Such Thing As A Squilkman

**No Such Thing As A Squilkman** is the 257th episode of No Such Thing As A Fish, the 49th episode of the fifth year, and the 8th 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 kissing hedgehogs, the time on Saturn, and competitive ploughing.
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## Facts

* In the 19th century, champion ploughers were traded like Premier League footballers. (Murray)
* The American Centre for Disease Control has warned against kissing hedgehogs. (Harkin)
* Scientists have finally worked out what time it is on Saturn. (Schreiber)
* The first ever blood transfusion to be scientifically recorded used a goose quill to connect an artery in the neck of one dog to the jugular vein of another. (Ptaszynski)

 Trivia

* Harkin mentions Richard Herring's stone clearing podcast. The Fish team had just appeared on his other podcast.
* Saturn's rings were previously mentioned in TBA in relation to Harkin being excommunicated.
* Reference is made to Murray's role in Austentatious.
* Schreiber mentions that In No Particular Order will be going to Europe, although no dates or locations are announced.
Cheltenham Literature Festival

The **Cheltenham Literature Festival** is an international festival of literature held every year in Cheltenham, and sponsored by the newspapers The Times and The Sunday Times. The QI podcast No Such Thing As A Fish recorded a live episode at the festival while promoting The Book of the Year.

## No Such Thing As A Fish

* Episode 189: No Such Thing As A Meringue-Utan
Propeller Mushroom

The **Propeller Mushroom** is an item in *Super Mario Maker 2* and is one of the special powerups that is exclusive to New Super Mario Bros. U style. It is cross-compatible with the Big Mushroom, the Super Leaf, and the Cape Feather. It will float in the air and will eventually fly away and disappear if not collected in time. It will grant the player the ability to immediately fly up when they press ZL. They will automatically fall down slowly after doing this, but the player can press ZL to shortly stall the falling. If the player presses ↓ to ground-pound, they will dive down. It works identically to the ground-pound, except it's slower.
Episode 135: No Such Thing As Queen of Clean, the Sausage Machine

**No Such Thing As Queen Of Clean, The Sausage Machine** is the 135th episode ofNo Such Thing As A Fish, the 31st episode of the third year, and the 42nd episode of 2016. It features regular presenters Andrew Hunter Murray, Anna Ptaszynski, and Dan Schreiber, and guest QI Elf Alex Bell. It was recorded at the QI Offices in Covent Garden, London.

## Description

> Dan, Anna, Andy and Alex discuss animal babysitters, supermarket laser tag, and the best party in the history of the world.
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## Facts

* Scientists have developed barcodes for zebras. (Murray)
* Agatha Christie was once turned away from a party held in her honour. (Bell)
* Different species of dolphin babysit each-other's children. (Ptaszynski)
* Jackie Stallone is a bum-reader. (Schreiber)

## Trivia

* Regular presenter James Harkin is absent.
	+ Alex Bell guests.
* Dan gives a fact which was told to him by Lieven Scheire.
* Dan is accused of his fact being dubious, but it is true.