187: No Such Thing As An Ant On Its Gap Year

No Such Thing As A Fish

Arts, Nature, History, Science, Improv, Comedy

4.8 • 17.9K Ratings

🗓️ 20 October 2017

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Andy, James, Anna and Alex discuss how to get ants drunk, the stolen cities in China, and The Sound Of Julie Andrews Being Blown Over By A Helicopter.

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to another episode of Most Such Things A Fish, a weekly podcast coming
0:19.0	to you from the QI offices in Covent Garden.
0:22.0	My name is Andrew Hunter Murray and I am sitting here with James Harkin, Anna Tijinsky and
0:26.2	Alex Bell and once again we have gathered around these microphones to tell you our four
0:31.4	favourite facts from the last seven days.
0:34.5	So in no particular order, here we go, starting with fact number one and this week that is
0:40.7	James.
0:41.7	OK, my fact this week is that when a prince in the Byzantine Empire was ready to marry,
0:47.2	caught officials would walk around the land with an imperial shoe that they used to check
0:52.2	the foot size of potential princesses.
0:55.5	That is amazing.
0:57.4	It's amazing.
0:58.5	I can't really believe that.
0:59.9	No, it sounds very much like a fairy tale.
1:02.3	Yeah, it does.
1:03.3	It's just my white or something.
1:05.0	Yeah, I check it at the beanstalk.
1:06.6	Yeah.
1:07.8	So does everyone do you think know what the Byzantine Empire was?
1:12.1	I did not until I started researching this fact.
1:15.4	So it is otherwise known as the Eastern Roman Empire and the Roman Empire kind of split
1:20.0	into two towards the end and they had the Western side and the Eastern side.
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