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[[Witch]]es used [[broomsticks]] to put [[hallucinogen|hallucinogenic drugs]] up their buttocks. (Schreiber)

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No Such Thing As A Fish
File:No Such Thing As A Fish.png
Presentation
Hosted byJames Harkin
Andrew Hunter Murray
Anna Ptaszynski
Dan Schreiber
GenreComedy
Created byThe QI Elves
UpdatesWeekly, every Friday
Publication
Original release8 March 2014

No Such Thing As A Fish is a weekly British podcast series produced and presented by the researchers behind the BBC Two panel game QI. In it each of the researchers, collectively known as "The QI Elves", present their favourite fact that they have come across that week. The most regular presenters of the podcast are James Harkin, Andrew Hunter Murray, Anna Ptaszynski and Dan Schreiber, although other QI elves also make appearances, and there are also guest presenters in some episodes. Since the launch of the podcast it has attracted 480,000 subscribers.[1]

Title

The title for No Such Thing As A Fish comes from a fact in the original QI TV series. In the third episode of eighth series, also known as "Series H", an episode on the theme of "Hoaxes" reported that after a lifetime studying fish the biologist Stephen Jay Gould concluded that there was no such thing as a fish. He reasoned that while there are many sea creatures, most of them are not closely related to each other. For example, a salmon is more closely related to a camel than it is to a hagfish.[2]

Format

In each episode each presenter takes in turn to present their favourite fact that they have come across that week. They discuss the information surrounding that fact, and the other presenters add in extra facts and information connecting to it. One of the QI Elves also acts as a "fact checker", double-checking any information that is mentioned during the course of the recording. Listeners are also encouraged to contact the presenters via their Twitter accounts if they have any connecting information, except for Ptaszynski who has no Twitter account and thus is instead contacted by QI's official Twitter account.

Production

In an interview with ThreeWeeks, Schreiber said the podcast, "came about because too many facts in the QI office kept going to waste. Like the time Chief Elf James Harkin looked up from his computer and said: 'You know there are currently over 600 guys in the world with two dicks'. We decided to gather round a microphone once a week and share our favourite facts we'd found that week."[3]

Episodes are normally recorded at the QI offices in Covent Garden, although there have been live recordings in other locations. The theme tune used is the song "Wasps" by Emperor Yes.

List of episodes

# Title Presenters Original airdate
1"Pilot"[4]Harkin, Murray, Ptaszynski and Schreiber8 March 2014

The Large Hadron Collider was turned off for a short period of time because a piece of baguette was found in the machinery. (Harkin)

For the last month of his life, James A. Garfield ate everything through his anus. (Ptaszynski)

In 2013, six people in the United States named their child "Mushroom". (Harkin)

The person who found Richard III of England's bones, Philippa Langley, was not an archeologist, but a screenwriter. (Schreiber)
2"No Such Thing As Death By Acne"[5]Harkin, Murray, Ptaszynski and Schreiber14 March 2014

The first ever sandwich that we know about contained wine. (Ptaszynski)

In 2003, three people in Mexico were officially listed as having died of acne. (Harkin)

Amongst the other scientists called Einstein there is M.E. Einstein who came up with a formular for predicting the composition of a pork carcass, and Rosemary Einstein who co-investigated the use of cannabis, alcohol and tobacco on 300 young persons at her university. (Schreiber)

The first contact lenses cost as much as a car. (Murray)
3"No Such Thing As The Middle Ages"[6]Harkin, Ptaszynski, Schreiber, Alex Edelman and Greg Jenner21 March 2014

The earliest known dentistry is 9,000 years old. (Jenner)

According to the phantom time hypothesis, the Middle Ages never happened. (Schreiber)

The most indispensable sea creature in the United States is the horseshoe crab, due to its blood being used for medical purposes. (Edelman)

28 women were known to have slept in the same bedroom as Elizabeth I of England. (Harkin)
4"No Such Thing As The Mountains of Kong"[7]Harkin, Murray, Ptaszynski and Schreiber28 March 2014

30 million Chinese people live in caves. (Schreiber)

There is a banker in Latvia who will lend you money using your immortal soul as security. (Harkin)

For 100 years, almost all maps of Africa contained a mountain range that did not exist, called the Mountains of Kong. (Ptaszynski)

Male Pennsylvania grass spiders are more likely to approach a female for sex if she has recently killed and eaten another male. (Murray)
5"No Such Thing As A Kiss"[8]Harkin, Murray, Ptaszynski and Schreiber4 April 2014

Rats, namely Josephoartigasia monesi, were once the size of hippos. (Ptaszynski)

During his 27-year reign, Pope John Paul II took over 100 skiing vacations. (Schreiber)

100 years ago a quarter of the residents of New York City would move house on every single 1 May, at exactly 9 am. (Harkin)

Nobody knows why we kiss. (Murray)
6"No Such Thing As One Direction in North Korea"[9]Harkin, Murray, Molly Oldfield and Marc Abrahams11 April 2014

Some plastic surgeons operated on a Belgian man to make him look more like Michael Jackson. (Abrahams)

The largest Viking ship ever discovered was found when renovated the Viking Ship Museum (Oldfield)

The tobacco hornworm uses extremely bad halitosis to protect itself. (Murray)

During this podcast you could have fallen asleep up to five times and not have known about it. (Harkin)
7"No Such Thing As The Loch Ness Monster"[10]Harkin, Murray, Ptaszynski and Schreiber18 April 2014

A computer game has been invented that takes more than a lifetime to complete. (Harkin)

2013 was the first year since 1933 where there has been no sighting of the Loch Ness Monster. (Schreiber)

The French government forced Madame Tussaud to make models of her friends' decapitated heads. (Ptaszynski)

During the Normandy landings the Allied Forces dropped dogs by parachute onto the battlefield. (Murray)
8"No Such Thing As A Swear Word on the Moon"[11]Harkin, Ptaszynski, Schreiber and Alex Bell25 April 2014

One of the last things that NASA had to do before launching space shuttles was to detach their inflatable owls that were used to scare woodpeckers. (Bell)

The music used on the You Wouldn't Steal a Car anti-piracy advert was stolen by the people who made the advert. (Schreiber)

According to the government website of the Czech Republic there are three symbols of Easter in the country: Easter eggs, the Easter lamb and whipping. (Harkin)

At Earl's Court tube station, in 1911, a one-legged man named "Bumper Harris" was hired to ride the escalator. (Ptaszynski)
9"No Such Thing As A Word For 'Silent Fart'"[12]Harkin, Murray, Ptaszynski and Schreiber2 May 2014

It was fashionable in New York City at the end of 19th century for women live lizards as broocheses. (Harkin)

Codebreaker Alan Turing lost his buried treasure when he could not crack his own code. (Schreiber)

In 2011, the largest sperm bank in the world stopped accepting sperm from redheads. (Ptaszynski)

The English language has more words borrowed from the Hawaiian language than it does from the Welsh language. (Murray)
10"No Such Thing As A Soggy Monk"[13]Harkin, Murray, Schreiber, Anne Miller and Eric Lampaert9 May 2014

In 1923, jockey Frank Hayes won a race, despite dying of a heart attack while riding his horse. (Lampaert)

Some Buddhist monks run marathons to achieve enlightenment. (Schreiber)

The Slovakian and Slovenian embassies in Washington D.C. meet once a month to exchange wrongly addressed mail. (Harkin)

In the 18th century there were medicines called "Alan's Nipple Liniment", "Grimstone's Eye Snuff", "Miller's Worm Plums" and "Italian Bosom Friend". (Murray)
11"No Such Thing As A Doorknob in Vancouver"[14]Harkin, Murray, Ptaszynski and Schreiber16 May 2014

The words "Tory" and "Prime Minister" both started out as insults. (Murray)

In a 2005 questionnaire about substance abuse, almost one in five people taking part admitted to taking a drug that did not exist called derbisol. (Ptaszynski)

Sea otters have a secret pocket in their armpit where they like to keep their favourite stones. (Schreiber)

In Vancouver it is illegal to put a doorknob on the front door of a house as it is harder for people to open if they suffer from arthritis. (Harkin)
12"No Such Thing As A 164 Foot Tall Gorilla-Whale"[15]Harkin, Murray, Ptaszynski and Schreiber23 May 2014

If the 2014 version of Godzilla really existed, it would produce 12.9 million gallons of urine a day. (Harkin)

The real Long John Silver – William Ernest Henley, was the father of the real Wendy Darling – Margaret Henley. (Ptaszynski)

The tin foil hat worn by conspiracy theorists to stop the government sending messages into their brains actually has the opposite effect. It amplifies the signal. (Schreiber)

Geese sometimes fly upside-down to lose height quickly when they come into land. (Murray)
13"No Such Thing As A Funny Nazi"[16]Harkin, Murray, Ptaszynski, Schreiber and Lieven Scheire30 May 2014

During World War II, the Nazi Party employed two official Nazi comedians called Tran and Helle. (Scheire)

The Philippine Basketball Association, the second oldest such association in the world, has ten teams in total, including the Rain or Shine Elasto Painters, the San Miguel Beermen, and the Talk 'N Text Tropang Texters. (Schreiber)

If you get a zebrafish drunk, and put that zebrafish in a tank full of sober zebrafish, the sober ones will follow the drunk one around. (Ptaszynski)

The youngest woolly mammoths are older than the oldest Egyptian pharaohs. (Murray)
14"No Such Thing As A Dirty Pair of Jeans"[17]Harkin, Murray, Ptaszynski, Schreiber and Freddy Soames7 June 2014

The CEO of Levi's, Chip Bergh, hasn't washed his jeans in more than a year. (Harkin)

During the first successful transatlantic flight, by Alcock and Brown, the pilots got lost in midair, entered some cloud and fog, and when they got out of the cloud and fog, they found they were just 60 feet above the water, and flying at a 90° angle. (Schreiber)

In 2007, a woman call Evan Lattimer inherited Napolean Bonaparte's penis from her father. (Ptaszynski)

To say "I don't care about something", a German has the option of saying: "das ist mir Wurst". This translates into English as: "It's sausage to me". (Murray)
15"No Such Thing As A Bulge in Ken's Groin"[18]Harkin, Murray, Ptaszynski and Schreiber28 June 2014

The Aztecs wore necklaces made out of popcorn. (Harkin)

In 2011, China tried to pass-off a scene from the film Top Gun as footage from its own air force. (Ptaszynski)

In 2003, somebody misplaced the masterkeys to the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, thus meaning they had to replace the locks, at a cost of $1,000,700. (Schreiber)

The children's toy doll Ken is officially an accessory to Barbie. (Murray)
16"No Such Thing As A Ghost in Poland"[19]Alex Bell, Harkin, Anne Miller, Ptaszynski, Schreiber5 July 2014

The World Record for the most kicks to one's own head is 127 in a minute. (Harkin)

There is a bear in the Pyrenees which is facing castration because he has fathered nearly all the other bears in the area. (Miller)

Poland's only official ghosthunter thinks that ghosts have given up on haunting humans. (Schreiber)

Nuclear fallout from the Cold War is being used to solve murders. (Ptaszynski)
17"No Such Thing As A Bassoon in a Football Stadium[fn 1]"[20]Harkin, John Lloyd, Murray, Ptaszynski and Schreiber11 July 2014

The first known football chant was composed by Edward Elgar. (Ptaszynski)

Eric Cantona was raised in a cave. (Schreiber)

In the first World Cup final, Uruguay and Argentina could not agree on the size of the ball to use, so they used Argentina's small ball in the first half and Uruguay's big ball in the second. After half time Argentina were 2–1 up, but by the end Uruguay won 4–2. (Harkin)

FIFA has more members than the United Nations. (Lloyd)
18"No Such Thing As A Kilt On The Battlefield"[21]Harkin, Ptaszynski, Schreiber and Richard Turner18 July 2014

When Neil Armstrong stepped on the Moon and said "That's one small step for man", he was wearing ladies underwear. (Turner)

In 1963, Muhammad Ali released a stand-up comedy album. (Schreiber)

In 1325, in Italy, a war was declared and 2,000 people were killed because of a stolen bucket. (Ptaszynski)

There is a group of chimpanzees in Zambia who wear a blade of grass in their left ear as a fashion statement. (Harkin)
19"No Such Thing As Unicorn Stew"[22]Harkin, Murray, Ptaszynski and Schreiber25 July 2014

A kangaroo's tail is used as a leg, so they have either three or five legs. (Harkin)

During the financial crisis of 1720, known as the South Sea Bubble, the Houses of Parliament called for stockbrokers to be sown into sacks filled with poisonous snakes and thrown into the River Thames. (Ptaszynski)

There are three times as many estate agents in the UK as there are members of the British Armed Forces. (Murray)

Medieval manuscripts are littered with drawings of warfare between snails and knights. No-one knows why. (Schreiber)
20"No Such Thing As A Dangerous Daffodil"[23]Harkin, Anne Miller, Murray and Schreiber1 August 2014

The most painful place on the human body to be stung by a bee is the nostril. (Harkin)

For breakfast, Walt Disney ate fresh doughnuts dunked in Scotch whisky. (Schreiber)

The French word for arsenic used to be "poudre de succession" or "inheritance powder", because it was used in so many murders. (Miller)

Shouting at drivers improves their driving. (Murray)
21"No Such Thing As A Testicle-Retracting Sumo Wrestler"[24]Alex Bell, Harkin, Murray, Ptaszynski and Schreiber8 August 2014

"Made in Germany" product labels were originally invented to put people off buying the product. (Ptaszynski)

In 1991, Prof. Alexander Abian of Iowa State University proposed that we could solve virtually every problem of human existence by blowing up the Moon. (Schreiber)

In New York City, until 1925, drivers going east or west stopped at an amber traffic lights and drove on green, while drivers going north or south drove on an amber light and stopped on green. (Harkin)

There are companies which lasso icebergs to stop them hitting oil rigs. (Murray)
22"No Such Thing As A Magic Camel Filter"[25]Harkin, Murray, Ptaszynski and Schreiber15 August 2014

In 1903, a man called W. Reginald Bray posted himself. (Harkin)

The world's oldest ham has just celebrated its 112th birthday. (Schreiber)

Orangutans like playing with iPads, but gorillas do not. (Ptaszynski)

In the 1888 edition of Encyclopædia Britannica the entry for Wales reads: "See England". (Murray)
23"No Such Thing As A Yawning Psychopath"[26]Alex Bell, Harkin, Ptaszynski and Schreiber22 August 2014

Alexander the Great banned beards in battle to combat beard-pulling. (Ptaszynski)

Psychopaths do not experience contagious yawning as often as non-psychopaths. (Schreiber)

The Big Bang was quieter than a Motörhead concert. (Harkin)

Pixar accidentally deleted Toy Story 2 while they were half-way through making it. (Bell)
24"No Such Thing As A Malicious Robot"[27]Alex Bell, Harkin, Ptaszynski and Schreiber29 August 2014

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, but it has since been confirmed that it is actually 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)
25"No Such Thing As A Randy Rat In Polyester Pants"[28]Harkin, Murray, Ptaszynski and Schreiber5 September 2014

Rats that wear polyester trousers cannot get erections. (Ptaszynski)

During World War I entertainments for the troops included organised pillow fights, wheelbarrow races and wrestling on the backs of mules. (Murray)

The atmosphere of Venus is so hot that if you took a pizza out of a freezer there it would cook in three seconds. (Harkin)

In Iceland there is a phone app that tells you if you are related to the person who are having sex with. (Schreiber)
26"No Such Thing As A Yeti Fact"[29]Harkin, Murray, Ptaszynski, Simon Rich and Schreiber13 September 2014

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 yeti, because females has such long dangling breasts, so before they can chase a human they need to chuck them over their shoulders, otherwise they may trip over them. (Schreiber)

The Kama Sutra suggests 64 arts to practice alongsde 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)
27"No Such Thing As An Egg and Cress Portsmouth"[30]Murray, Ptaszynski, Schreiber, Helen Zaltzman19 September 2014

LOL originally meant "Little Old Lady". It was a medical definition. Other included "LOLINAD", meaning "Little Old Lady In No Apparent Distress", and "LOLFDGB", meaning "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 makes them look bigger. (Murray)
28"No Such Thing As A Man-Eating Clam"[31]Harkin, Murray, Ptaszynski and Schreiber26 September 2014

Over 100 people used to watch Louis XIV of France getting dressed every morning. (Murray)

There is an original Picasso that no-one will ever see because it was eaten by his dog. (Harkin)

During World War II the US Navy diving manual contained detailed instructions for what to do if you eaten by a giant clam. (Schreiber)

A "hundred" used to be 120. (Ptaszynski)
29"No Such Thing As Terrestrial Sweetcorn"[32]Harkin, Murray, Ptaszynski and Schreiber3 October 2014

The head of the International Chess Federation, Kirsan Ilyumzhinov, believes chess was brought to Earth by aliens. (Harkin)

The Greenland shark is so slow it needs all of its food to be asleep in order to eat it. It can only swim at 1mph, so if the prey moves it will outrun the shark. (Schreiber)

In 19th century America you could be committed to an mental asylum for reading a novel. (Ptaszynski)

The yakuza has its own website that has a theme tune designed to attract new members. (Murray)
30"No Such Thing As A Song In The Sound Of Music[fn 2]"[33]Harkin, Murray, Ptaszynski and Schreiber10 October 2014

The first BBC radio presenter with a northern accent, Wilfred Pickles, was given the job to make it more difficult for the Nazis to impresonate news readers. (Harkin)

In China, if you want to empty a building of people, or indeded if you want to end anything, people play the song "Going Home" by Kenny G. (Schreiber)

The two leading paleontologists of the 19th century, Edward Drinker Cope and Othniel Charles Marsh, used to destroy their fossil sites after excuvating them so that their rival couldn't find anything about the site. (Ptaszynski)

In the Fulah language, a computer crash is a known as a "hookii", which means: "a cow falling over but not dying". (Murray)
31"No Such Thing As A Snake In My Pie"[34]Harkin, Murray, Ptaszynski and Schreiber17 October 2014

In the 17th century there was a prophet called Dorothy Harling who would cure you of your sins by urinating on the offending body part. (Harkin)

Despite the fact that homosexuality is illegal in South Sudan a woman can have a female husband and a child can have a female father. (Ptaszynski)

Tommy Flowers, the designer of the Colossus computer, discovered that the way to prevent the valves from blowing up was not turning it off and on again. (Schreiber)

Botanists in Kew Gardens checked a £1.29 bag of supermarket mushrooms and found three species of mushroom previously unknown to science. (Murray)
32"No Such Thing As A Good Gift For Gordon Brown[fn 3]"[35]Harkin, Ash Gardner, Murray, Ptaszynski and Schreiber24 October 2014

In 1060 BC, the entire Egyptian city of Pi-Ramesses was moved 20 kilometres to the north because part of the River Nile dired up. (Gardner)

In 1864 a friend of Charles Dickens had a flatpack Swiss chalet send to his home as a Christmas present. (Ptaszynski)

Neruoscientists can tell if you are a musician simply by looking at your brain. (Harkin)

Jack Warner, head of Warner Bros., spotted that from the air his studios looked identical to a nearby aircraft factory, so on the roof he painted an arrow and the words "Lockheed: That Way". (Schreiber)
33"No Such Thing As A Clairvoyant Chicken[fn 4]"[36]Harkin, Murray, Ptaszynski and Schreiber31 October 2014

Until the year 635 AD Halloween was celebrated on 12 May. (Murray)

Witches used broomsticks to put hallucinogenic drugs up their buttocks. (Schreiber)

The woman who played the voice of Regan MacNeil in The Exorcist only agreed to play the part on the grounds that she had two priests in her sound booth at all times, could be constantly drinking whisky, chain-smoking cigarettes and eating raw eggs. (Ptaszynski)

The secret of youth is drinking the blood of the young, if you happen to be a mouse. (Harkin)

World Cup of Facts: International Factball

During the 2014 FIFA World Cup, the podcast did a spin-off series sponsored by the VisitEngland tourism campaign. In it, the Elves played a "Factball" contest, with facts representing each country taking part that have nothing to do with football. The country with the most quite interesting fact went into the next round (except England). The winning countries are in bold.[37]

# Title Presenters Original airdate
1"Brazil v Croatia"Harkin, Murray, Ptaszynski and Schreiber12 June 2014
2"Spain v The Netherlands"Harkin, Murray, Ptaszynski and Schreiber13 June 2014
3"Uruguay v Costa Rica"Harkin, Murray, Ptaszynski and Schreiber14 June 2014
4"France v Honduras"Harkin, Murray, Ptaszynski and Schreiber15 June 2014
5"Germany v Portugal"Harkin, Murray, Ptaszynski and Schreiber16 June 2014
6"Belgium v Algeria"Harkin, Murray, Ptaszynski and Schreiber17 June 2014
7"Cameroon v Chile"Jack Burke, Harkin, Ptaszynski and Schreiber18 June 2014
8"Colombia v Ivory Coast"Harkin, Murray, Ptaszynski and Schreiber19 June 2014
9"Italy v Switzerland"Harkin, Anne Miller, Murray and Ptaszynski20 June 2014
10"Nigeria v Bosnia-Herzegovina"Harkin, Murray, Ptaszynski and Schreiber21 June 2014
11"United States v Russia[fn 5]"Alex Edelman, Harkin, Ptaszynski and Schreiber21 June 2014
12"Australia v Mexico[fn 6]"Alex Bell, Harkin, Molly Oldfield and Schreiber23 June 2014
13"Greece v Japan"Harkin, John Mitchinson, Molly Oldfield and Ptaszynski24 June 2014
14"Iran v Argentina v Ecuador"Harkin, Ptaszynski, Schreiber and Freddy Soames25 June 2014
15"South Korea v Ghana"Alex Bell, Harkin, Ptaszynski, Schreiber26 June 2014

Reception

Miranda Sawyer in The Observer gave the podcast a positive review writing, "the podcast is jolly, packed with impressive and silly facts, and so far hasn't descended into too much in-joke chumminess, so hooray for No Such Thing As a Fish."[38]

Comedy critic Bruce Dessau wrote on his Beyond the Joke blog that: "All it lacks is the likes of Alan Davies [a panelist on the TV version of QI] and co chipping in with their comedic quips, but there are still plenty of laughs to be had."[39]

Footnotes

  1. ^ This episode was a tie-in to the final of the 2014 FIFA World Cup final, and was thus devoted entirely to football.
  2. ^ This episode was recorded in front of a live audience in the Aces and Eights Bar, Tufnell Park, London.
  3. ^ This episode featured tracks to Emperor Yes's album An Island Called Earth, including the entire song "Monkey King".
  4. ^ Halloween special
  5. ^ This match was declared a draw, so both teams went into the next round.
  6. ^ Most of the panel voted for Mexico, but Australian Schreiber, who hosted this episode, mockingly declared that Australia were the winners instead.

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General
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  7. ^ "No Such Thing As The Mountains of Kong". QI. 28 March 2014. Retrieved 24 May 2014.
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