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

to you from the QI offices in Covern Garden.

My name is Dan Schreiber and I am sitting here with Anichesinski, Alex Bell and James

Tarkin 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.

Starting with you, Alex Bell.

My fact this week is that the controls in the world's first combat submarine were lit up

with glowing mushrooms.

That is disgusting.

Amazing.

When you say the controls with the controls themselves the mushrooms or you know, it would

be amazing.

It was actually like in your car at nighttime when you were driving all the dials kind

of lights up.

Yeah.

So it was literally the little needles on the dials and things that had tiny bits of

fox fire which is the type of bioluminescent fungi attached to them.

I think fox fire is what Americans call any kind of glowing fungus and it comes from

fox more like foe as in fake fire.

He used to call it cold fire didn't they?

I think maybe Aristotle or someone said it's cold fire.

When was this submarine?

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