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Episode 341: No Such Thing As A May-I Sandwich

**No Such Thing As A May-I Sandwich** is the 341st episode of No Such Thing As A Fish, the 29th episode of the seventh year, and the 41st episode of 2020. It features regular presenters James Harkin, Anna Ptaszynski, and Dan Schreiber, and special guest Rhys Darby. It was recorded from home due to COVID-19.

## Description

>  Dan, James, Anna and Rhys Darby discuss dog dramas, wacky walks, and killer Kiwis.
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## Facts

* In 1943 a spy who topped the Gestapo's most-wanted list was New Zealander Nancy Wake, who once judo-chopped a Nazi to death. (Darby)
* John Cleese's silly walk is exactly 6.7 times sillier than a normal walk. (Harkin)
* In 1814 there were days of rioting in Dublin because a dog that was supposed to be starring in a play failed to show up on stage. (Ptaszynski)
* While filming *Return of the Jedi* in the forests of California, the actor who played Chewbacca had to be accompanied by crew members in brightly-coloured vests so that he wasn't shot by Bigfoot hunters. (Schreiber)

## Trivia

* This is the twenty-eighth Working From Home episode due to the Coronavirus pandemic.
* Rhys Darby guests, making his first appearance.
	+ Regular presenter Andrew Hunter Murray is absent.
	+ Darby hosts the podcast *The Cryptid Factor* with Schreiber.
* Harkin accuses Darby of taking over Dan's role of making up dubious facts when Darby claims that mayo used to be called "may-i".
* Marcel Marceau was mentioned in TBA.
* Darby provides many facts about Bigfoot. Harkin questions where he got them from, implying that Schreiber may have been involved.
* Darby, when asked for his Twitter account, says "Please don't contact me - it gives me anxiety." Ptaszynski responds that she wishes she'd thought of that excuse 5 years ago.
Franciszek Mazowiecki

Franciszek Mazowiecki(1706-?)Inicjator wyprawy na Grenlandie,podający się za członka rodu Mazowieckich.Urodził się w 1706 w Płocku,nie wiemy nic o jego rodzinie.Prawdopodobnie podróżował po Europie i wtedy to postanowił dokonać wyprawy na Grenlandie aby utworzyć tam kolonie dla trójkoronny,w tym celu uda się do Krakowa gdzie podaje się za przedstawiciela rodu Mazowieckich aby uzyskać wejście do pałacu.Będzie musiał poczekać na audiencje ponieważ cesarz był w tej chwili u Chana Bułgarii Nadwołżańskiej.W styczniu 1741r.po długim oczekiwaniu nareszcie otrzymuje zgodę na audiencję u Cesarza. Przedstawia on plan skolonizowania Grenlandii. Władca z powodu wojny nie chce sfinansować jego wyprawy, nie może on również udostępnić okrętów, które wypłynęły już z kraju z jedną z armii do szwedzkich koloni. Szczęśliwie dla niego w momencie audiencji w sali tronowej znajdował się Grzegorz, który powiedział, że chętnie wyślę 5 swoich barek i 1 okręt wojenny. W zamian oczekuje on wyłączności dla swojej kompani w przewożie towarów z przyszłej koloni. Cesarz udziela zgody.I w lutym dojdzie do wypłynięcia ekspedycji z portu w Hamburgu.

W Czerwiecu 1742 dochodzi do dopłynięcia ekspedycji do Grenlandii południowej, zabicie bądź przepędzenie tubylców. Założy tam osade o nazwie biały port.
Broadcasting House

The One Show set

**Broadcasting House** is the headquarters of the BBC in Marylebone, London. It has been used for radio and television broadcasts since 1932, and has hosted one episode of the podcast No Such Thing As A Fish.

Neither Fish's parent programme QI, nor its sister programme The Museum of Curiosity are recorded here. Both are recorded at other venues in London.

## No Such Thing As A Fish

* The One Show Special, which was recorded in parallel with an episode of the BBC's The One Show.
Episode 176: No Such Thing As A Communist Caterpillar

**No Such Thing As A Communist Caterpillar** is the 176th episode of No Such Thing As A Fish, the 20th episode of the fourth year, and the 31st 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 vomiting caterpillars, quarantined chocolate, and Russian news that's literally stored in the cloud.
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## Facts

* In America, you get traffic jams caused by people chasing tornadoes. (Schreiber)
* There is a special quarantine centre for chocolate in the English countryside. (Murray)
* To celebrate the communist revolution, the Bolsheviks planned to build a tower in Saint Petersburg that projected the news onto the clouds. (Ptaszynski)
* Caterpillars are more likely to vomit when they're on their own. (Harkin)
Belgium v Algeria

**Belgium v Algeria** is the 6th episode of International Factball, and the 20th episode of 2014. It features presenters James Harkin, Andrew Hunter Murray, Anna Ptaszynski, and Dan Schreiber, and was recorded at the QI Offices in Covent Garden, London.

## Example Facts

* A large group of Algerians publicly ate lunch during Ramadan to protest the persecution of those who do not observe it. (Murray)
* In 1856 the Marabout people of Algeria, who claimed they could do magic, rose up against their French imperial rulers. Napoleon III sent the greatest French magician, Houdin, to quell the uprising. Houdin inspired the name of Houdini. (Ptaszynski)
* Only 2% of Belgians know the words to their own national anthem. (Schreiber)
* Baarle-Hertog has white crosses on the floor marking the Belgium-Netherlands border, and each house displays the flag of the country it belongs to. (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 only town in England named after a novel is Westward Ho! in Devon, which is also the only town with punctuation in its name. (Murray)
* John Mytton, known as "Mad Jack", gave everyone in Shrewsbury £10 in 1819 as a bribe to vote for him so he could become an MP. (Harkin)
* The Queen of England can be addressed in many ways, but Brian Blessed likes to call her "Knuckles" because, when they meet, she smacks him on the knuckles to chastise him for always going on dangerous adventures. She also makes him say "Gordon's Alive!" (Schreiber)

## Trivia

* Despite none of the regular presenters being absent, Anna Ptaszynski hosts in place of Dan Schreiber.
Episode 334: No Such Thing As A Babysitter's Trade Union

**No Such Thing As A Babysitter's Trade Union** is the 334th episode of No Such Thing As A Fish, the 22nd episode of the seventh year, and the 34th episode of 2020. It features regular presenters James Harkin, Andrew Hunter Murray, Anna Ptaszynski, and Dan Schreiber, and was recorded from home due to COVID-19.

## Description

>  Dan, James, Anna and Andy discuss swimming, wrestling, necking, and a very unfortunate giraffe.
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## Facts

* In 1948 a drive-through fly-through cinema opened in New Jersey, where you could watch movies from the seat of your car or the seat of your small aircraft. (Harkin)
* The Beatles once rejected a £50m reunion gig because the warm-up act was going to be a man wrestling a great white shark. (Schreiber)
* In 1919 it was ruled that women would be allowed to swim competitively without wearing stockings on the one condition that they quickly put on a robe as soon as they got out of the water. (Ptaszynski)
* The filming of Doctor Dolittle was delayed for days after the giraffe being used accidentally stepped on its own penis. (Murray)

## Trivia

* This is the twenty-first Working From Home episode due to the Coronavirus pandemic.
* This episode was announced in Episode 328: No Such Thing As A Romantic Lollipop. It was going to take place at a drive-in cinema, but the venue had to cancel due to COVID restrictions, so the Fish team used the same facts in a Working From Home episode.
* Schreiber's headline facts in Episode 37 and Episode 308 were both chosen because of his love of The Beatles. Harkin's headline fact in Episode 180 was chosen to annoy him.
* Murray reports a doubtful fact about a man being blasted 170 feet into the air. This resembles Ptaszynski's fact about a man being blasted through a riverbed by compressed air from Episode 160.
* Murray describes a man who performed an incredible regurgitation act. Sword-swallowing and similar talents were discussed in TBA and Episode 318: No Such Thing As 'Of Quails and Men'.
* Harkin has not seen Doctor Dolittle.
Episode 258: No Such Thing As A Brutally Honest Yoga Mat

**No Such Thing As A Brutally Honest Yoga Mat** is the 258th episode of No Such Thing As A Fish, the 50th episode of the fifth year, and the 9th 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 plumbing detectives, guinea pigs in the freezer, and the Head of Cybersecurity who's never used a computer.
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## Facts

* Animal metabolism was first proven by Antoine Lavoisier in an experiment where he put a guinea pig in a freezer. (Harkin)
* Britain has a special team of "leak detectives" who listen to the sound of water using a special stick. (Murray)
* Japan's cyber-security minister has never used a computer. (Schreiber)
* A Mumbai businessman is trying to sue his parents for giving birth to him. His mother has responded by saying that if she had met him before he was born, she definitely wouldn't have done it. (Ptaszynski)

 Trivia

* Another inaccurate statue was mentioned in Iran v Argentina v Ecuador.
* Santorio Santorio's weighing experiment is mentioned, which was also discussed in TBA.
	+ Schreiber made another joke about the Latin word *Ars* sounding like "arse" in TBA.
* The differing culture around desktop computers, fax machines, and mobile phones in Japan was previously mentioned in TBA.
* Facebook and IMDb originally being used to rate pictures of attractive women was previously mentioned in Episode 78, and later mentioned in Episode 285.
* The Europe dates for In No Particular Order were released this week.
Episode 346: No Such Thing As An Unsexy Astronaut

**No Such Thing As An Unsexy Astronaut** is the 346th episode of No Such Thing As A Fish, the 34th episode of the seventh year, and the 46th episode of 2020. It features regular presenters Andrew Hunter Murray, Anna Ptaszynski, and Dan Schreiber, and special guest Tim Peake. It was recorded from home due to COVID-19.

## Description

>  Dan, Anna, Andrew and Major Tim Peake discuss an out of this world diet, the last species on Earth, and what Tom Collins has been saying behind all of your backs.
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## Facts

* When you do a spacewalk, you have to wear 16 layers of clothing and a nappy. (Peake)
* Visitors to the Sarawak Cave in Borneo don't report feeling claustrophobic. They report feeling agoraphobic. (Ptaszynski)
* Chicago has an alcoholic spirit which tastes so bad that its own founder used to boast that only 1 in 49 men liked it. (Murray)
* Land Rover once released a manual which was edible, so if you got lost in the desert you could eat it to survive. (Schreiber)

## Trivia

* This is the thirty-second Working From Home episode due to the Coronavirus pandemic.
* Tim Peake guests, making his first appearance.
	+ Regular presenter James Harkin is absent.
Episode 262: No Such Thing As A Man In A Wine Bottle

**No Such Thing As A Man In A Wine Bottle** is the 262nd episode of No Such Thing As A Fish, the 2nd episode of the sixth year, and the 13th episode of 2019. It features regular presenters James Harkin, Andrew Hunter Murray, Anna Ptaszynski, and Dan Schreiber, and was recorded at the Eventim Apollo in Hammersmith, London.

## Description

> Live from the Eventim Apollo in Hammersmith, Dan, James. Anna and Andy discuss time-travelling swordfish, the actor who reviewed his own plays, and Waddington's cattle semen trading board game.
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## Facts

* In the 18th century London plays written by David Garrick and starring David Garrick would often be shown in theatres owned by David Garrick. They would then be reviewed by David Garrick in newspapers owned by David Garrick. (Harkin)
* The main source for Sigmund Freud's work on paranoid schizophrenia was the memoirs of a man who made unbelievable and ludicrous claims. The man's name was Dan Schreber. (Schreiber)
* Swordfish can speed up and slow down time with their minds. (Ptaszynski)
* In 1986 Waddingtons invented a board game which was all about trading cattle semen. (Murray)

 Trivia

* This is the fourth stop on the In No Particular Order tour.
* It was feared that Samuel Johnson's expressive face would scare children. Schreiber's fact from the previous episode was about a man with a face which scared children.
* Harkin suggests that the titular wine bottle was just a very large one, an appropriate size for Ptaszynski to drink.
* Schreiber's fact is a reference to his own habit of telling strange stories.
* Freud's work on finding eel testicles was mentioned in TBA, and mentioned again in Episode 322: No Such Thing As A Crown Of Willie Thornes.
* Flatulists were also discussed in TBA.
* Murray's copy of *Grade Up To Elite Cow* is mentioned again in Episode 319: No Such Thing As 19th Century Feudal Japanese Monopoly.
Episode 109: No Such Thing As A Speared Shrimp

**No Such Thing As A Speared Shrimp** is the 109th episode ofNo Such Thing As A Fish, the 5th episode of the third year, and the 16th 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 Belgian horseback fishing, flattop mountains and the world's first newspaper.
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## Facts

* In 1921, the News of the World gave away a free tea tray to any mother on the birth of their tenth child. (Harkin)
* Belgian fishermen go fishing on horseback. (Murray)
* 68% of mountains don't have pointy peaks. (Schreiber)
* The oldest "your mum" joke appears on a 3,500-year-old Babylonian tablet. (Ptaszynski)

## Trivia

* Andy requests that people send in news stories for the live show on the 20th of April. This was a pilot for No Such Thing As The News, and was released as the podcast Episode 114: No Such Thing As A Tantrump.
* Dan reads a list of facts which James originally researched for an episode of The Museum of Curiosity.
Episode 282: No Such Thing As A Bored Shrew

**No Such Thing As A Bored Shrew** is the 282nd episode of No Such Thing As A Fish, the 22nd episode of the sixth year, and the 33rd episode of 2019. It features regular presenters James Harkin, Andrew Hunter Murray, Anna Ptaszynski, and Dan Schreiber, and was recorded at the Bremen Teater in Copenhagen, Denmark.

## Description

> Live from Copenhagen, Dan, James, Andrew and Anna discuss Bjorn Borg's karate-tennis instructor, singing teachers for canaries, and what happens when a shrew gets brain-freeze.
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## Facts

* When 11-time grand slam tennis champion Björn Borg came out of retirement he returned using a wooden racket, and was coached by a 79-year-old karate expert from Wales. Three years later he retired again, having failed to win a single match. (Schreiber)
* Shrews cope with winter by shrinking their own brains. (Murray)
* According to US intellectual property law you are not allowed to hold any patents if you are the Holy Spirit. (Harkin)
* In the 18th century you could hire a professional canary trainer to expand your canary's singing repertoire. (Ptaszynski)

 Trivia

* This is the twenty-third stop on the In No Particular Order Tour, and the first in Denmark.
* Schreiber's fact came from Ash Gardner, but unlike previous facts he provided, this one is true.
Episode 201: No Such Thing As Lobsters At The Lobster Festival

**No Such Thing As Lobsters At The Lobster Festival** is the 201st episode of *No Such Thing As A Fish*, the 45th episode of the fourth year, and the 4th episode of 2018. It features regular presenters James Harkin, Andrew Hunter Murray, Anna Ptaszynski, and Dan Schreiber, and was recorded at the Grove Theatre in Dunstable.

## Description

> Live from Dunstable, Dan, James, Anna and Andy discuss King Ferdinand's Orient Express phobia, the giant magnet roaming Glastonbury and Foyle's unorthodox method of wartime shop defence.
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## Facts

* King Ferdinand of Bulgaria was so scared of being murdered on the Orient Express that he locked himself in the toilet. (Harkin)
* The new goalie of the ice hockey team The Belfast Giants is allergic to ice. (Schreiber)
* After every festival, the founder of Glastonbury has to drive around his farm with a giant magnet. (Murray)
* During World War II, the owners of Foyles bookshop protected the store from Nazi bombs by covering the roof in copies of *Mein Kampf*. (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 French language has 17 different words for "surrender". (@Gtomro)
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## Trivia

* This is the tenth stop on the 2017 Tour.
* The behind the scenes documentary Behind The Gills was announced in this episode, and recorded during the 2017 Tour.
* Anna's headline fact from Episode 58 was also about Kaiser Wilhelm II and Ferdinand of Bulgaria not getting on.
* Dan says of a fact "I've been assured that this is not true, but I think it's worth saying", which Andy suggests is typical of him.
* Jeremy Corbyn is mentioned as the winner of Parliamentary Beard of the Year, which was previously brought up during the pre-show segment of Episode 164.

## Notes

1. ↑ Smithsonian Magazine: The True History of the Orient Express
2. ↑ BBC: Meet the ice hockey netminder who's allergic to ice
3. ↑ Somerset Live: Glastonbury Festival 2019: Michael Eavis explains what happens to the cows at Worthy Farm
4. ↑ Wikipedia: Michael Eavis
5. ↑ Retail Week: 15 fascinating facts about Foyles as it prepares to open its Charing Cross flagship
Episode 26: No Such Thing As A Yeti Fact

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**No Such Thing As A Yeti Fact** is the 26th episode of No Such Thing As A Fish, the 26th episode of the first year, and the 41st episode of 2014. It features regular presenters James Harkin, Andrew Hunter Murray, Anna Ptaszynski, and Dan Schreiber, and guest presenter Simon Rich. It was recorded at the QI Offices in Covent Garden, London.

## Description

> Dan (@schreiberland), James (@eggshaped), Andy (@andrewhunterm) and special guest Simon Rich discuss chimps with pets, Kama Sutra crosswords, slinkies on escalators and sagging yeti breasts.
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## Facts

* Koko the Gorilla, who knows sign language, has owned and cared for three pet cats during her lifetime. (Rich)
* According to Yeti experts, it is easier to escape from a female Yeti than a male. (Schreiber)
* The Kama Sutra suggests 64 arts to practice alongside sex, including solving word puzzles and teaching birds how to talk. (Harkin)
* There are more than 15 trillion tonnes of water above the Earth at any given moment. (Murray)

## Trivia

* This episode marks the first and only appearance of Simon Rich. He is promoting his book *Spoiled Brats*.
	+ As there are no absences, Anna Ptaszynski fact-checks.
* This episode marks the first time that Dan's "fact" is not strictly a fact.
Episode 179: No Such Thing As Stare-Boxing

**No Such Thing As Stare-Boxing** is the 179th episode of No Such Thing As A Fish, the 23rd episode of the fourth year, and the 34th episode of 2017. 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 mail-order portraits, the first ever Encyclopaedia Britannica, and the country with only five star hotels.
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## Facts

* 10% of the UFC is owned by the UAE. (Schreiber)
* Palau is about to pass a law meaning that every hotel in the country has to be 5\*. (Harkin)
* Every Canadian citizen is entitled to a free government-issue portrait of the Queen. (Bell)
* The first ever *Encyclopaedia Britannica* said that humans were divided into five categories: American, European, Asiatic, African, and Monstrous. (Ptaszynski)

## Trivia

* Regular presenter Andrew Hunter Murray is absent.
	+ Alex Bell guests.
* James mentions the joke from TBA about how half of the job of an Olympic diver is walking up to the board.
* The story about humans believing that monsters existed was previously mentioned in TBA.
Episode 268: No Such Thing As Welsh Guinness

**No Such Thing As Welsh Guinness** is the 268th episode of No Such Thing As A Fish, the 8th episode of the sixth year, and the 19th episode of 2019. It features regular presenters James Harkin, Andrew Hunter Murray, Anna Ptaszynski, and Dan Schreiber, and was recorded at Vicar Street in Dublin.

## Description

> Live from Dublin, Dan, James, Anna and Andrew discuss miniature miniature trains, bees in mourning, and unholy transplants.
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## Facts

* If you were flying from England to Dublin, the air traffic control waypoint you pass that tells you you're going the right way is called GINIS. (Ptaszynski)
* The first ever bone transplant used dog bone to repair the skull of a patient, who was immediately excommunicated by the church for not being fully human. (Harkin)
* There is a world record for pulling a train with model trains. (Murray)
* In the 19th century, if the owner of an estate died, it was traditional for the estate's beekeeper to inform all the bees of the death, then allow them to mourn by covering the hives in black veils. (Schreiber)

 Trivia

* This is the tenth stop on the In No Particular Order tour.
* This is the second Fish show at Vicar Street, and the second in the Republic of Ireland, the first being Episode 215: No Such Thing As A Chihuahua Dog Sled Team.
	+ It is the third show on the island of Ireland after Episode 212: No Such Thing As A Hipster Pharaoh.
	+ It is the first show outside the UK since Episode 215, and only the third in Europe.
* Chuck Yeager was previously mentioned in TBA.
* Fecal transplants were discussed in TBA.
* During a conversation on the frequency of cats' purring, Dan suggests that Anna has his notes.
* Ptaszynski mentions that Robert Hook was the subject of a fact in Episode 266: No Such Thing As An Innocent Pisces Sign.
* Harkin's excommunication was last mentioned in TBA.
	+ The Mafia being excommunicated was discussed in Episode 164: No Such Thing As A Poo Powered Plane.
* Ptasynski mentions QI Elf Mat Coward, who has not appeared on the podcast.
* The belief that bees sprang out of animal corpses, as in the Tate & Lyle logo, was mentioned in TBA and again in Episode 289: No Such Thing As A Horse Called Brian.
Episode 24: No Such Thing As A Malicious Robot

**No Such Thing As A Malicious Robot** is the 24th episode of No Such Thing As A Fish, the 24th episode of the first year, and the 39th episode of 2014. 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 (@schreiberland), James (@eggshaped), Anna (@nosuchthing), and Alex (@alexbell) discuss the shape of the Sun, fake baseball fans, giant birds' nests and how to play Hooverball.
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## Facts

* When he was bored, Calvin Coolidge used to ring a bell to summon his bodyguards and then hide from them under the Oval Office desk. (Bell)
* Until 2011, the Sun was only in theory a sphere. (Schreiber)
* There are some bird's nests that contain over 100 rooms and are so heavy they cause trees to fall down. (Ptaszynski)
* The worst baseball team in South Korea, the Hanwha Eagles, has replaced its supporters with robots. (Harkin)

## Trivia

* This is the seventh appearance of Alex Bell.
	+ For the second episode in a row, regular presenter Andrew Hunter Murray is absent.
Comedy Theatre

The **Comedy Theatre** is a comedy and performance venue in Melbourne, Australia, built on the site of an earlier, abandoned theatre.

It hosted two episodes of the QI podcast No Such Thing As A Fish during the Australasia Tour.

## No Such Thing As A Fish

* Episode 222: No Such Thing As A Warmongering Pigeon
* Episode 223: No Such Thing As A Worthless Doorstop
Episode 246: No Such Thing As The Worm Revolution

**No Such Thing As The Worm Revolution** is the 246th episode of No Such Thing As A Fish, the 38th episode of the fifth year, and the 50th episode of 2018. It features regular presenters James Harkin, Andrew Hunter Murray, Anna Ptaszynski, and Dan Schreiber, and was recorded at the QI Offices in Covent Garden, London.

## Description

> Dan, James, Anna and Andy discuss the Royal Anagrammist, the man from M.O.U.L.D, and Darwin's publisher's not-so-helpful notes.
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## Facts

* There is a special language in Papua New Guinea that is only used when gathering nuts. (Harkin)
* The man who worked out how to stop soft cheese going mouldy came from a place called Molde. (Ptaszynski)
* When Charles Darwin submitted *On the Origin of Species* to his publisher, the publisher suggested he should rewrite it entirely about pigeons. (Murray)
* King Louis XIII of France had a royal anagram-maker. (Schreiber)

 Trivia

* Two dates are announced for the In No Particular Order tour; Hammersmith and Brighton.
* Ptaszynski mentions the crossword fact from Episode 245.
* Harkin makes a callback to Primula in Episode 250: No Such Thing As The Mysterious Chamber.
Episode 329: No Such Thing As A Female Cereal Mascot

**No Such Thing As A Female Cereal Mascot** is the 329th episode of No Such Thing As A Fish, the 17th episode of the seventh year, and the 29th episode of 2020. It features regular presenters James Harkin, Andrew Hunter Murray, Anna Ptaszynski, and Dan Schreiber, and was recorded from home due to COVID-19.

## Description

>  Dan, James, Anna and Andy discuss ostriches, tigers and a history's loneliest crab
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## Facts

* Before hermit crabs were called hermit crabs there was a hermit called Crab. (Schreiber)
* The Magna Carta smells of newly pressed sheets with traces of old socks. (Harkin)
* Ford has a car wash made of giant ostrich feather dusters. (Murray)
* According to Kellogg's, Tony the Tiger is an adult cartoon. (Ptaszynski)

## Trivia

* This is the seventeenth Working From Home episode due to the Coronavirus pandemic.
* Murray mentions the discussion of ornamental hermits from TBA.
* Harkin mentions that Jenny Ryan briefly lived in a cardboard box in a shopping mall.
* Schreiber mentions the stylites in the Byzantine Empire from TBA (**Episode 79?**).
* Harkin refers back to a story he told about a scratch-and-sniff book from Episode 314: No Such Thing As A Tiny Ferris Wheel.
* Harkin's face blindness is again mentioned.
Episode 314: No Such Thing As A Tiny Ferris Wheel

**No Such Thing As A Dangerous Coconut** is the 314th episode of No Such Thing As A Fish, the 2nd episode of the seventh year, and the 13th episode of 2020. It features regular presenters James Harkin, Anna Ptaszynski, and Dan Schreiber, and guest QI Elf Alex Bell. It was recorded from home due to COVID-19.

## Description

> Dan, James, Anna and Alex discuss 4-D, I.D., STDs and why we're all a little bit jealous of Jessica Alba.
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## Facts

* Before we had the technology to take photos for mugshots, policemen had to visit prisons to memorise the inmates' appearances. (Ptaszynski)
* Scientists working in the Arctic Ocean have caught chlamydia, and they can't explain how. (Harkin)
* Jessica Alba has ridden the London Eye thirty-one times. (Bell)
* In 2003 the county of Ottawa, Michigan released a brochure for would-be residents to prepare them for living in the countryside. It included a scratch-and-sniff that emitted the smell of manure. (Schreiber)

## Trivia

* This is the first Working From Home episode due to the Coronavirus pandemic, and begins a streak of them that lasts until Episode 331: No Such Thing As A Queen In A Fig Tree.
	+ Regular presenter Andrew Hunter Murray is absent.
	+ Alex Bell guests making his fortieth appearance.
* Alex Bell himself appears in the episode art. The art also features the phonetic spelling **Covernt** Garden, which appeared on the Second Year Cassette.
* The complete Second Year of Fish was re-released online due to the pandemic.
* James Harkin has not seen *Fight Club*.
* Ptaszynski mentions fecal transplants, which were first mentioned in TBA, and pap, which was discussed in Episode 306: No Such Thing As Heavy Snuggle-Pupping.
Episode 278: No Such Thing As A Herring-Okapi Hybrid

### Presenters

James Harkin, Andrew Hunter Murray, Anna Ptaszynski, Dan Schreiber, Richard Herring

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Episode 279: No Such Thing As A Backflipping Doctor

**No Such Thing As A Herring-Okapi Hybrid** is the 278th episode of No Such Thing As A Fish, the 18th episode of the sixth year, and the 29th episode of 2019. It features regular presenters James Harkin, Andrew Hunter Murray, Anna Ptaszynski, and Dan Schreiber, and special guest Richard Herring. It was recorded at the QI Offices in Covent Garden, London.

## Description

> Dan, James, Anna, Andy and special guest Richard Herring discuss Hitler's feet, greeting hyenas and George III in a house on fire.
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## Facts

* Adolf Hitler had size 13 feet. (Herring)
* In the indigenous Mexican language of Chalcotongo Mixtec it is impossible to ask anyone a question. (Ptaszynski)
* King George III once went to a safety demonstration which involved putting him in a house and setting it on fire. (Murray)
* Female hyenas say hello by licking each-other's clitorises. (Harkin)

 Trivia

* This episode marks the first appearance of Richard Herring.
	+ As there are five people around the microphones, Dan Schreiber does not submit a fact.
	+ The Elves have also made an appearance on Richard Herring's Leicester Square Theatre Podcast, which they also appeared on around the time of Episode 254 - Episode 257. Herring is promoting his show at the 2019 Edinburgh Fringe.
* Schreiber talks about Bigfoot.
* Schreiber suggestst that Herring's book Emergency Questions would not have sold well in the language. The question which inspired the book was mentioned in Episode 232: No Such Thing As A Seven Foot Bond.
* Harkin mentions Hamilton, which he eerily predicted in Episode 22: No Such Thing As A Magic Camel Filter.
* Female hyenas' unusual genitals were discussed in TBA.
* Murray mentions Pliny the Elder, "friend of the podcast", who was previously cited in Episode 110, Episode 116 and Episode 250.
Episode 205: No Such Thing As The Number Six

**No Such Thing As The Number Six** is the 205th episode of *No Such Thing As A Fish*, the 49th episode of the fourth year, and the 8th episode of 2018. It features regular presenters James Harkin, Andrew Hunter Murray, and Anna Ptaszynski, and guest QI Elf Alex Bell. It was recorded at the QI Offices in Covent Garden, London.

## Description

> Andy, James, Anna and Alex discuss ski lift thefts, the world's largest wine cellar and what would happen if all the bacteria disappeared in the world.
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## Facts

* If all the bacteria in the world disappeared, we wouldn't notice for about a week. (Harkin)
* The world's largest wine cellar has tunnels 150 miles long, and it's so big it has to have traffic rules for people who drive through it. (Murray)
* Before they settled on the name Windsor, surnames that were considered for the royal family included Guelph, Wipper, Wettin, Tudor-Stuart, and England. (Ptaszynski)
* In 2012, thieves stole an entire ski lift from the Czech Republic. (Bell)

## Trivia

* Regular host Dan Schreiber is absent.
	+ In his absence, Andrew Hunter Murray hosts.
	+ Alex Bell guests.
* Prince Henrik of Denmark's anger over not being made a King was mentioned in No Such Thing As The News: Series 1, Episode 1.
* James claims that a rat doesn't even know it's a rat.

## Notes

1. ↑ "Life in a World without Microbes" by Jack A. Gilbert, Josh D. Neufeld (plos.org) [direct source]
2. ↑ The Washington Post: Life would go on if all bacteria disappeared (but it would totally suck)
3. ↑ National Geographic: This Massive Underground City is Filled With Wine
4. ↑ Wikipedia: Mileștii Mici (winery)
5. ↑ The National Archives: Wettin to Windsor: changing the royal name
6. ↑ Unofficial Networks: Whole Ski Lift STOLEN in Czech Republic...
Episode 271: No Such Thing As A Safe Robot

**No Such Thing As A Safe Robot** is the 271st episode of No Such Thing As A Fish, the 11th episode of the sixth year, and the 22nd episode of 2019. It features regular presenters James Harkin, Andrew Hunter Murray, Anna Ptaszynski, and Dan Schreiber, and was recorded at Birmingham Town Hall.

## Description

> Live from Birmingham, Dan, James, Anna and Andrew discuss underwater dog treadmills, hitchhiking robots, and the late, late Elizabeth Taylor.
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## Facts

* hitchBOT was a robot invented to see how far human kindness would take a mechanical hitchhiker. In 2015 he was left by the side of a road in Boston, and was found dismembered in a ditch 17 days later. (Harkin)
* A Hungarian entrepreneur has been fined for not building an underwater treadmill for dogs. (Ptaszynski)
* The late actress Elizabeth Taylor, who was notorious for always being late, arranged to arrive at her own funeral 15 minutes late. (Schreiber)
* Mexico has a national championship of double entendres. (Murray)

 Trivia

* This is the thirteenth stop on the In No Particular Order tour.
* Schreiber points out that since Ptaszynski is not on social media she won't know what a meme is.
* Twice in a row Schreiber is able to make sense of confusing facts, challenging his status as purveyor of dubious facts.
* Foyles bookshop was previously mentioned in Episode 201: No Such Thing As Lobsters At The Lobster Festival.
Episode 195: No Such Thing As A Hummingbird With A Greggs Steak Bake

**No Such Thing As A Hummingbird With A Greggs Steak Bake** is the 195th episode of *No Such Thing As A Fish*, the 39th episode of the fourth year, and the 50th episode of 2017. It features regular presenters James Harkin, Andrew Hunter Murray, Anna Ptaszynski, and Dan Schreiber, and was recorded at the Manchester Opera House in Manchester.

## Description

> Live from Manchester, Dan, James, Anna And Andy discuss how much Coke a human-sized hummingbird would drink, the world's first rollercoaster, and American grocery bag-packing competitions.
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## Facts

* The first loop-the-loop roller coaster closed because so many riders were passing out. (Harkin)
* America has a national grocery bag packing competition. (Murray)
* One of the things you need to know in order to become a British citizen is who introduced shampoo to the UK. (Schreiber)
* If your metabolism was as fast as a hummingbird's, you'd need to drink a can of coke every minute to stay alive. (Ptaszynski)

### Audience Fact

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

> In 1993, San Francisco held a referendum over whether police officer Bob Geary was allowed to patrol while carrying a ventriloquist's dummy called Brendan O'Smarty. (Evie Hull)
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## Trivia

* This is the sixth stop on the 2017 Tour.

## Notes

1. ↑ Wikipedia: Flip Flap Railway
2. ↑ Delish.com: A Grocery Bagging Competition Exists — And It's Strangely Intense
3. ↑ WalesOnline: All the things you have to learn to pass a British citizenship test
4. ↑ Slate Magazine: Hummingbirds Are Fierce, Deadly Gods of War
Alan Davies

**Alan Davies** is an English stand-up comedian, writer, and actor. He is the only permanent panelist on QI, outlasting the original host Stephen Fry.

He has made three appearances on QI spin-off podcast No Such Thing As A Fish.

## Appearances

* Episode 221: No Such Thing As A Fully Carpeted Country
* Episode 350: No Such Thing As Tickling Baseball Players
* Episode 354: No Such Thing As Worrying About What Might Happen
Episode 174: No Such Thing As A Manta Ray

**No Such Thing As A Manta Ray** is the 174th episode of No Such Thing As A Fish, the 18th episode of the fourth year, and the 29th 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 competitive tongue injuring, the popemobile for hire and Bogotan traffic mimes.
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## Facts

* The Guinness Book of World Records has entries for "most mousetraps released on the tongue", "most matchsticks extinguished by the tongue", and "most fan blades stopped by the tongue". (Harkin)
* Pope John Paul II's popemobile can be hired out for stag dos and hen dos. (Schreiber)
* There is no such thing as a manta ray. (Murray)
* The mayor of Bogotá once hired 420 mime artists to make fun of traffic violators because he believed Colombians fear ridicule more than punishment. (Ptaszynski)

## Trivia

* Ashrita Furman is mentioned again in Episode 188: No Such Thing As A Mouth-Propelled Grenade Launcher.
* Schreiber falling asleep in a nightclub is mentioned again, having been discussed in TBA.
* Schreiber references the US President's car, a headline fact from No Such Thing As The News: Series 1, Episode 2.
Episode 265: No Such Thing As A Hole In The Bowl

**No Such Thing As A Hole In The Bowl** is the 265th episode of No Such Thing As A Fish, the 5th episode of the sixth year, and the 16th episode of 2019. It features regular presenters James Harkin, Andrew Hunter Murray, Anna Ptaszynski, and Dan Schreiber, and was recorded at the Regal Theatre in Redruth.

## Description

> Live from Redruth, Dan, James, Anna and Andrew discuss Disney-themed punishment, grandfather clocks, and George Eliot's massive right hand.
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## Facts

* After the author George Eliot died, her family spent 50 years publicly denying that she had a massive right hand. (Schreiber)
* Some grandfather clocks used to use ox testicles for their pulleys. (Murray)
* The first motel was meant to be called a "motor hotel", but the sign was too small to fit all the letters on. (Harkin)
* A man found guilty of deer poaching has been sentenced to a year in prison, and has been ordered to watch *Bambi* once a month during that year. (Ptaszynski)

 Trivia

* This is the seventh stop on the In No Particular Order tour.
* George Eliot's essay about "Silly novels by Lady Novellists" was previously mentioned in No Such Thing As Unbroadcastable Material.
* Neither Dan nor James has seen *Bambi*.
* During the live recording of this show, the podcast was sponsored by a local tennis club. During this cut section, Anna claimed that all Cornish towns begin with "Tru-". The show was performed in Redruth.
Episode 191: No Such Thing As A Cannibal Squirrel

**No Such Thing As A Cannibal Squirrel** is the 191st episode of *No Such Thing As A Fish*, the 35th episode of the fourth year, and the 46th episode of 2017. It features regular presenters James Harkin, Andrew Hunter Murray, Anna Ptaszynski, and Dan Schreiber, and was recorded at the Komedia in Bath.

## Description

> Live from Bath, Dan, James, Anna and Andy discuss Calvin Coolidge's robotic horse, the inventor of email, and the language it's easiest to speak while drunk.
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## Facts

* It's easier to speak Dutch if you're drunk. (Harkin)
* American president Calvin Coolidge used to ride a robot horse inside the White House 3 times every day. (Schreiber)
* A member of Iceland's Pirate Party just injured her eye and had to appear on TV wearing an eyepatch. (Ptaszynski)
* The man who invented email later changed career to become a sheep semen importer. (Murray)

### Audience Fact

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

> The inventor of the bra had a pet whippet named Clytoris. (Caris Rubenzer)
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## Trivia

* This is the third stop on the 2017 Tour.
* The Audiobook of the Year is announced.
* Dan puts forward a "fact" that Adam and Eve were actually tree people.
	+ Later in the episode Andy is about to claim a dubious fact when Dan corrects him.
* Dan mentions John Harvey Kellogg, whose unusual inventions were discussed in Episode 51.
* Dan refers to the headline fact about Calvin Coolidge's pranks from Episode 24.
* Andy makes a joke about the @-symbol being called an amphora in his Twitter name.
* Caresse Crosby would be discussed again in Episode 198.
* Schreiber's school nickname "Dandan" is mentioned again in the 20 Hour Podcast.

## Notes

1. ↑ Maastricht University: Dutch courage – Alcohol improves foreign language skills
2. ↑ Mental Floss: Show & Tell: Calvin Coolidge’s Electric Exercise Horse
3. ↑ BBC: Icelandic Pirate Party MP forced to wear eyepatch
4. ↑ The Daily Gazette: Ray Tomlinson: Adept @ finding solutions
5. ↑ Wikipedia: Ray Tomlinson
6. ↑ Wikipedia: Caresse Crosby
Emperor Yes

Emperor Yes performing live at the Scala, London 2013

**Emperor Yes** are a synthpop band from London. They have released an album and three singles. The B-side of their first single, Fishes, was Wasps - the theme tune to No Such Thing As A Fish and its spin-off show No Such Thing As The News.

Lead singer, guitarist, and keyboard player Ash Gardner has appeared on NSTAAF several times; once as a presenter, and performing Wasps in several live episodes.
Ed Brooke-Hitching

**Ed Brooke-Hitching** is a QI Elf who has appeared on the podcast No Such Thing As A Fish.

Ed is the author of Fox Tossing, Octopus Wrestling, and Other Forgotten Sports, which is discussed in Episode 79: No Such Thing As A Sad High Five, and The Phantom Atlas, which he promotes in Episode 138: No Such Thing As Fluff Island.

## Appearances

* Episode 138: No Such Thing As Fluff Island
* Episode 247: No Such Thing As Footprints On The Sea
Episode 256: No Such Thing As A Puddle Photographer

**No Such Thing As A Puddle Photographer** is the 256th episode of No Such Thing As A Fish, the 48th episode of the fifth year, and the 7th 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 Andy discuss flirty cuttlefish, rooster beer and the best weather for starting a business.
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## Facts

* Harvard Business School recommend companies locate their headquarters in rainier places because it makes employees more productive. (Ptaszynski)
* When they're mating, male cuttlefish can flirt with one side of their body and simultaneously pretend to be a female with the other side of their body. (Murray)
* William of Orange's favourite drink was cock ale. (Harkin)
* After 5 months of forensically anaysing the indents made by a pen on paper, Dorset police managed to recover 26 pages of lost words by a blind novelist who hadn't realised that her pen had run out of ink. (Schreiber)

 Trivia

* The QI game GetFact is first plugged in this episode.
* Cock ale was invented by Kenelm Digby, whose father was mentioned in TBA.
	+ Digby apparently invented eating bacon and eggs together. In TBA the man who popularised this combination in the USA is discussed.
* Firefighters who light fires were mentioned in TBA.
Episode 127: No Such Thing As 'Carry On Colliding'

**No Such Thing As 'Carry On Colliding'** is the 127th episode ofNo Such Thing As A Fish, the 23rd episode of the third year, and the 34th 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 man-made earthquakes, the world's least favourite font, and how this episode will end up on the moon.
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## Facts

* This episode of No Such Thing As A Fish is going to the Moon. (Bell)
* Geologists have made an earthquake by dropping something heavy from somewhere high. (Ptaszynski)
* Until 1970 you could buy men-only flights from United Airlines. (Harkin)
* The discovery of the Higgs boson was announced in Comic Sans. (Schreiber)

## Trivia

* Regular presenter Andrew Hunter Murray is absent, doing his Edinburgh Fringe show Andrew Hunter Murray: Round One.
	+ Alex Bell guests, making his sixteenth appearance.
* In this episode, Year One of Fish is released as a digital download.
* Vincent Connare, creator of Comic Sans, is mentioned again in Episode 266: No Such Thing As An Innocent Pisces Sign.
Episode 172: No Such Thing As A Cat-a-Cops Cartoon

**No Such Thing As A Cat-a-Cops Cartoon** is the 172nd episode of No Such Thing As A Fish, the 16th episode of the fourth year, and the 27th 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 police force for dead people, Indonesia's KFC CDs and Chinese mistress-dispellers.
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## Facts

* In China you can hire Mistress-Dispellers to lure away your husband's mistress. (Ptaszynski)
* Richard Nixon's chair was 2.5 inches higher than everyone else's in the cabinet room. (Harkin)
* There is a special police unit in France whose job is to monitor 6 million dead people, and they are called the Catacops. (Murray)
* The number one place to buy CDs in Indonesia is KFC. (Schreiber)

## Trivia

* A live show at the Wilderness Festival is announced, which was released as Episode 177: No Such Thing As A Barking Spy.
* Dan's dubious fact about a trapdoor in the White House from Episode 64: No Such Thing As An Honest Saiga is finally corrected here.
* Nixon banning soup from White House dinners was previously mentioned in Episode 139: No Such Thing As A Lobster Nappy.
Ash Gardner

**Ash Gardner** is the lead singer, guitarist, and keyboard player of Emperor Yes, a synthpop band from London. Their song Wasps is the theme tune to No Such Thing As A Fish and No Such Thing As The News.

 List of Appearances

Gardner has appeared on the podcast once as a presenter, and several times to perform the song Wasps live on stage.

### Presenting

* Episode 32: No Such Thing As A Good Gift For Gordon Brown

### Performing

* Episode 196: No Such Thing As Faking The Magic Dream
* TBA
Australia v Mexico

**Australia v Mexico** is the 12th episode of International Factball, and the 26th episode of 2014. It features presenters James Harkin and Dan Schreiber, and guest QI Elves Alex Bell and Molly Oldfield. It was recorded at the QI Offices in Covent Garden, London.

## Example Facts

* Peter Dodds McCormick wrote the Australian national anthem on a bus home from a concert of other countries' national anthems. (Schreiber)
* Kangaroos, wombats, and Tasmanian devils have 3 vaginas. (Oldfield)
* Escaping from prison is not illegal in Mexico, as they recognise that the desire to be free is natural. (Bell)
* Words derived from Nahuatl include avocado, chocolate, chilli, axolotl, coyote, tomato, and tequila. (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.

* In 1925, Martin Coles bought Lundy island, and issued coins called the Puffin and the Half-Puffin. (Oldfield)
* The German word "coventrieren" means "to flatten", referring to the bombing of Coventry during World War II. (Harkin)
* When William the Conqueror went to crush and uprising in Exeter in 1068, a resident upset him by climbing the city walls, dropping his trousers, and breaking wind at the approaching army. (Bell)

## Winner

Although Harkin, Bell and Oldfield voted for Mexico, Schreiber,an Australian, overruled and named Australia the winner.

## Trivia

* This marks the second appearance of both Alex Bell and Molly Oldfield.
* Both Andrew Hunter Murray and Anna Ptaszynski are absent.