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 Dad Trriver, I'm sitting here with Anish Zinski, James Harkin and Andy Murray,

and once again we have gathered around the microphones with our poor favorite facts from the last

seven days and in no particular order, here we go, starting with you Chazinski.

My fact this week is that the first trampolines were made of wool or skin, and this is a thing

that is called blanket tossing and it's been practiced for the...

My teenage boys for thousands of years.

Okay, so blanket tossing is something that's been practiced by the Anupiat Eskimos up in Alaska

for we don't know exactly how long but references to it go back to...

On Google Books they go back to the very early 19th century and that talks about it as a tradition

that's obviously been practiced for a long time.

And it's a game they played where they'd get a wool rust hide and they'd attach it with ropes to four poles

and then they'd have lots of holes drilled into the wool rust hide all around it so people could get their hands through the holes

and pull on the holes so they pull on the skin and then they dump somebody in the middle of the skin

and it's about waist height it's suspended and then when everyone pulls on the holes at the same time

then obviously the skin flicks upwards and it throws the person on them up in the end.

Wow.

So we're going to say that counts as a trampoline are we?

I think I am for the sake of this fact.

No I think because it's attached to things at the side.

People are holding... it sounds more like a... you know when there's a fire in a building

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