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🗓️ 2 December 2016
⏱️ 34 minutes
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0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to another episode of No Such Thing as a Fish, a weekly podcast coming |
0:20.7 | to you from the QI offices in Covern Garden. |
0:23.5 | My name is Dan Schreiber and I'm sitting here with James Harkin, Anichezinski and Andrew |
0:28.4 | Hunter Murray and once again we have gathered around the microphones with our four favorite |
0:32.9 | facts from the last seven days and in no particular order here we go. |
0:38.3 | Starting with fact number one and that is my fact, my fact this week is that the White |
0:43.0 | House's Oval Office is a giant weighing scale. |
0:48.8 | What do they use it for normally? |
0:51.3 | Wailing the President. |
0:52.3 | No, to see how heavy he is. |
0:54.7 | No, it's not. |
0:55.7 | That's why you weigh things. |
0:56.7 | Yeah, that's why I thought. |
0:57.7 | It's to see that he's there full stop. |
1:00.0 | So the Secret Service need a monitor where the President is at all times. |
1:04.0 | However, they're not allowed into the Oval Office. |
1:06.0 | He doesn't want them in there so they have to stand outside. |
1:08.9 | Now when the door is open they can see where he is but when the door is shut they can't |
1:12.4 | see where the President is. |
1:13.7 | So if you look at pictures of the Oval Office there is a giant oval carpet that literally |
1:18.0 | spans the entire office room except for a few inches to the wall and underneath it are |
1:22.2 | weighing pads that are connected to a line that goes outside. |
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