Hello and welcome to another episode of No Such Thing as a Fish, a Weekly

Weekly, a Weekly, a Weekly Live, a Family Entertainment from Oxford.

My name is Dan Shriver. I am sitting here with Anna Chazinski, 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 no particular order. Here we go, starting with you, Anna.

My fact this week is that the Victorian soldier, Major Charles Bendire, once braved enemy

fire to get an egg from a tree, then held it in his mouth while he climbed down and on

finding that it was stuck inside his mouth, removed one of his teeth to free it.

It's amazing. And this is just egg collecting or egging, in fact, was a really popular

pursuit in the 19th century and still some people do it today and yeah, he was an

egger and it was sort of as quite a manly pursuit. It was very dangerous because like

birds lay their eggs in precarious positions on cliff faces or really high up trees and

stuff. So yeah, Major Charles Bendire got up there to prove his manhood and yeah, had

to have his tooth removed and he was being attacked by a patchies, wasn't he? Yes.

This was in America. He was trying to get an egg of a zone-tailed hawk and I looked

to see how big those eggs are and they are about three inches by two inches.

Okay, so if you can imagine that, what, I've got my phone here, the width of my phone,

this is an iPhone 6S Plus. This is about the same width as the egg, so I'm going to put

it in my mouth, okay. Oh, wow. For this one, it's at home, this is incredible stuff.

I mean, the people of Oxford have never seen anyone deep throw tonight. Nobody has.

Please no one text me right now. But anyway, that gives you an idea of how big the egg was.

That's the width of it. Yes. So that's the length actually and the width is two inches,

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