4: No Such Thing As The Mountains of Kong

No Such Thing As A Fish

Arts, Nature, History, Science, Improv, Comedy

4.8 • 17.9K Ratings

🗓️ 28 March 2014

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Episode 4: This week in the QI Office Dan Schreiber (@schreiberland), James Harkin (@eggshaped), Anna Ptaszynski (@nosuchthing) and Andrew Hunter Murray (@andrewhunterm) discuss cavemen, spiders, fictitious mountains and immortal souls.

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0:00.0	We run it on QI a few years ago, which was, there's no such thing as a fish.
0:06.0	Yeah, there's no such thing as a fish.
0:08.0	No, seriously, it's in the Oxford Dictionary of Underwater Life.
0:11.0	He says it right there, first paragraph, no such thing as a fish.
0:14.0	Hello, and welcome to another edition of no such thing as a fish coming to you from the QI offices in Covert Garden.
0:33.0	My name is Dan. I'm sitting here with the regular 3Ls, James, Anna and Andy.
0:38.0	And once again, we are going to go over our favorite facts from the last seven days.
0:45.0	Fact number one, this is my fact.
0:48.0	And the fact is that 30 million Chinese people live in caves.
0:54.0	Whoa, really?
0:55.0	I've been reading a Paul Theroux book called Riding the Iron Rooster.
0:59.0	I was initially reading it because of a fact I'd read a long time ago.
1:02.0	He was talking about all the great Chinese inventions.
1:05.0	He said, you know, the Chinese invented paper and, you know, gunpowder and wheelbarrows.
1:09.0	And the guy who was telling it to him in the book, ended by saying,
1:13.0	we even have wheelbarrows in China that you and the West don't yet know about.
1:18.0	What?
1:19.0	Yeah, that was the most exciting sentence.
1:20.0	Wait a minute. What could this be?
1:22.0	That's different.
1:23.0	I know what great innovations have happened to the wheelbarrow that we don't know about.
1:26.0	It's a wheelbarrow.
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