305: No Such Thing As A Sentient Jelly

No Such Thing As A Fish

Arts, Nature, History, Science, Improv, Comedy

4.8 • 17.9K Ratings

🗓️ 24 January 2020

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Dan, James, Anna and Andrew discuss the world's first electric cargo ship, jelly wobbliness testing Edison's near-miss with a flying badger.

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to another episode of No Such Thing as a Fish, a weekly podcast coming
0:19.6	to you from the QI offices in Covenant Garden.
0:22.7	My name is Dan Schreiber, I am sitting here with Anitzenski, James Harkin and Andrew
0:27.6	Hunter Murray.
0:28.6	And once again we have gathered around the microphones with our four favourite facts
0:32.6	from the last seven days and in no particular order, here we go.
0:37.6	Starting with you, James.
0:39.2	Okay, my fact this week is that Thomas Edison was once almost killed by a flying badger.
0:46.4	Was this one of his inventions that had gone wrong?
0:49.4	You're absolutely right, it was a badger cannon.
0:53.7	And one of the badgers got stuck in it and he kind of prodded it to see if the badger
0:57.1	would get free and then it went off in his face.
1:00.0	Wow.
1:01.0	That's not it.
1:02.0	No, no.
1:03.0	Dan Schreiber, you're going to have to resize the whole thing.
1:05.5	Oh my god.
1:06.5	Two badger incidents.
1:08.0	No, he was riding on a locomotive on a train and he got very friendly with people who were
1:15.1	engineers on this train and they let him sit on the cow catcher which is the little bit
1:20.1	of metal in the front of the train so kind of knocks things out of the way.
1:24.4	It looks like if you picture the front of a night of the realm like Solantholot's helmet
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