Hi guys, just before we start this show, I wanted to say, hope you're all doing okay,

in this bizarre situation that we've all found ourselves in. And I hope you're staying safe and

washing your hands a billion times a minute and not going near anyone else. And there's really

nothing that we can tell you about this virus that you can't already learn from the news and the

medical advice and all of that jazz. But what we can do is we can still share with you our four

favourite facts from the last seven days and fill your head with distracting nonsense facts,

which hopefully will distract you from the fact you're stuck in a house with your spouse or

your kids or your mates and you now all want to kill each other and will distract you even from

the slightly more disconcerting global event. So as long as you guys continue to listen, we

am afraid are going to continue to podcast every week, starting now. Okay, on with the show.

Hello and welcome to another episode of No Such Thing as a Fish, a weekly podcast coming to you

from the QI offices in Cauldron Garden. My name is Dan Shriver, I am sitting here with Andrew

Hunter Murray, Anich Zinsky and James Harkin. And once again, we have gathered around the microphones with our

four favourite facts from the last seven days and in no particular order here we go. Starting with

my fact this week, my fact is computer pioneer Charles Babbage once cooked himself in an oven for four

minutes at 265 degrees just to see what would happen. What was he trying to make at the time?

Cooked Babbage. Babbage, cabbage, confusion. So this was as a result of an artistic friend of him

called Sir Francis Chantry who was a sculptor and he made big bronze statues and he was doing a

particularly big one so they had to build this giant oven for him to build it to cook it in. And

so Babbage heard about this and he was really intrigued and he went to see it and while he was

there he was sort of talking to them and they said why don't you go inside, be interested, right?

And Babbage said yeah that would be interesting. So he went along with another guy called Captain

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