Hi guys, we've got a seriously special guest on the podcast today.

It is Sarah Pasco and you're about to hear that she is brilliant and funny and fascinating

and has a book out which is also all of those three things.

It's called Animal or if you want the full unedited title, it's called Animal,

colon, the autobiography of a female body.

And it's out right now. Go and get it.

Okay, on with the show.

Hello and welcome to another episode of No Such Thing as a Fish, a weekly podcast coming

to you from the QI offices in Covent Garden.

My name is Dan Schreiber.

I'm sitting here with Andy Murray, Aniches Ensky, James Harkin and Sarah Pasco.

And once again, we have gathered around the microphones with our four favorite facts

from the last seven days and in no particular order, here we go.

Sarah Pasco.

Okay, in the 1920s, scientists concluded that menstruating women wilted flowers.

So it's a proper scientist and so his name, and it's a he, but his name's Bella Schick.

I think I've only seen it written down and he's a proper scientist.

He cured diphtheria and I think apparently he was the first person to use the word immunization.

So he's a proper guy.

But then one day he's made, was passing him some flowers.

So she was like, I don't want to pass you the flowers and then he's like, do the flowers.

And then the next day they were all wilted, these red roses and she was like, oh,

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