Hello and welcome to another episode of No Such Thing as a Fish, a weekly podcast that is coming to you today from the QI offices in Covert, Garden.

I am Anna Toshinsky and I'm sitting here today with Andrew Hunter Murray, James Harkin and one Alex Edelman.

Hi Alex, thanks for coming on. Who is that other guy we used to have?

Who?

The other, there was another guy.

No it's always been three person one guest, isn't it?

Oh yeah, no no you're right, sorry.

Alex Bell.

Alex Bell, okay.

So once again the three of us and our guests Alex Edelman have gathered around the microphones with our four favorite facts in the last seven days

and in no particular order here we go starting with this is going to seem suspicious because I'm never the first fact and yet the day I host

we're starting with my facts and my fact is that in 1903 it was made illegal in Boston to lie down in a canoe.

That was very well known I know subtle facts for you guys but for us going up the real neighborhood bad boys would get drunk late at night and take turns lying down in the canoe.

Sure so this is not news to Bostonians obviously it's a big deal.

No this was this is turning the 20th century and it was because there were a series of lakes that had been created after the

Charles River was damned about 100 years earlier and they became lovers haunts because basically it created all these little nooks and crannies in the water where you could pop in a canoe and you suddenly didn't have a

shaper and you weren't around the grown ups anymore so you took your girlfriend popped in a canoe and went and lay down sexually in it in the undergrowth and people caught onto the fact this was happening and so a law was passed in the area that said you

weren't allowed to actually leave the in canoes and that covered doing things like hand holding in a canoe embracing and lowering your head below the you know that bit that's the top of the canoe.

You were forbidden from canoe doing can do do that would be the day over here. I've seen them. Yeah so people call it that. Yeah so if you lay down in a canoe but you were by yourself would that still get you in trouble.

Well I don't think it would but technically it was and it was a $20 fine. Yeah but I read somewhere that was about $500 today.

Yeah so there's a more serious penalty than yeah. Is it still is it still in effect?

Well I didn't mean that it'd been withdrawn they only arrested people for a couple of years and I think people got pretty annoyed about it.

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