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

to you from the QI offices in Covert Garden.

My name is Dan Schreiber and I'm sitting here with Anichezinski, Andrew Hunter Murray and

James Harkin and once again we have gathered around the microphones with our four favorite

facts from the last seven days and in a particular order here we go.

Starting with you Anichezinski.

My fact this week is that the largest diamond ever found in Russia is called the 26th Congress

of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.

That's its name.

That's it's catchy.

That's it's catchy, shiny name.

It's called this because it was mined in 1980 and the 26th Congress of the Communist Party

opened in 1981 in February 1981 so I think the diamond was actually named before the

Congress happened.

That's wonderful.

So the Congress was this big meeting for the Soviet delegates.

So was it a complete coincidence?

Did they think, oh what should we call our meeting?

Let's name it after that lovely big diamond we found last year.

What was that called?

Yeah, it was that.

It was quickly have 25 similar conferences.

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