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🗓️ 18 March 2022
⏱️ 49 minutes
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0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to another episode. |
0:17.7 | A no such thing as a fish, a weekly podcast this week coming to you live from Dublin. |
0:25.4 | My name is Dan Schreiber, I am sitting here with Anna Tishinsky, Andrew Hunter Murray |
0:35.7 | and James Harkin and once again we have gathered around the microphones with our four favorite |
0:41.6 | facts from the last seven days and in no particular order here we go. |
0:48.6 | Starting with fact number one and that is my fact. |
0:52.2 | My fact this week is that there is a town in Russia that hosts an annual festival to celebrate |
0:58.6 | mosquitoes. |
1:00.2 | The main event is the most delicious competition in which girls compete to see how many times |
1:06.2 | they can get bitten by a mosquito after standing around for 20 minutes. |
1:10.2 | Now I should say it's not one mosquito that's in the fighting. |
1:15.6 | In actual fact sometimes it's no mosquitoes. |
1:18.7 | So in 2014 this was the second version of this festival. |
1:23.4 | They did it next to the city pond but it was so cold that all the mosquitoes died. |
1:27.7 | And so it was a no scar draw in the end. |
1:32.3 | Everyone got no bites. |
1:33.4 | Oh well there you go. |
1:34.4 | Can you lure mosquitoes to you? |
1:37.3 | No. |
1:38.3 | There are kind of strict rules about this. |
1:39.9 | So this is in Berezniki which is in the Ural Mountains, this is in Russia and you would |
1:45.4 | send out these girls with their parents into a forest and they would go picking berries. |
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