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No Such Thing As A Fish

Arts, Nature, History, Science, Improv, Comedy

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🗓️ 8 February 2019

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Dan, James, Anna and Andy discuss skimming meteors, snowy bacteria, and incorrectly formatted declarations of war.

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to another episode of No Such Thing as a Fish, a weekly podcast coming
0:20.4	to you from the QI offices in Covenant Garden.
0:23.6	My name is Dan Schreiber, I'm sitting here with James Harkin, Andrew Hunter Murray, and
0:28.8	Aniches Innski and once again we have gathered around the microphones with our four favorite
0:33.2	facts from the last seven days and in no particular order here we go.
0:38.0	Starting with you, Andy.
0:40.0	Myvector's that when Britain declared war in 1914 they accidentally did it in the wrong
0:44.1	format and they had to swap the letters otherwise Britain would not technically be at war.
0:49.3	Well what kind of farm that was it?
0:51.1	I don't know, I don't know if it was in landscape or in some kind of...
0:55.9	What they declared with a painter or in a...
0:57.7	Yeah, or emojis or so.
0:59.2	I don't know, I have no idea.
1:01.1	But this is from an article in Times Literary Supplement which is great by the way, highly
1:05.1	recommended and there was a British diplomat called Harold Nicholson who was working at the foreign
1:09.7	office and one day he was told we declared war on Germany but we screwed it up and we sent
1:16.4	the letter which doesn't quite say the right phrase I think.
1:18.8	I think what it was was they thought that Germany had declared war
1:23.3	because they intercepted some thing over their radio waves but actually Germany hadn't declared
1:28.7	war and so the letter said we accept your declaration of war but what they actually wanted to say
1:33.1	was we declared war on you.
1:35.6	Because Britain was obliged to go to the defence of Belgium and Germany had violated
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