5: No Such Thing As A Kiss

No Such Thing As A Fish

Arts, Nature, History, Science, Improv, Comedy

4.8 • 17.9K Ratings

🗓️ 4 April 2014

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Episode 5: This week in the QI Office Dan Schreiber (@schreiberland), James Harkin (@eggshaped), Anna Ptaszynski (@nosuchthing) and Andrew Hunter Murray (@andrewhunterm) discuss rats, popes, kissing and moving house.

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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.
0:04.4	You did a nice such thing as a fish.
0:05.6	No, seriously, it's in the Oxford Dictionary of Underwater Life.
0:09.9	It says it, right there, first paragraph, no such thing as a fish.
0:19.2	Hello and welcome to another episode of No Such Thing as a Fish, a new weekly podcast
0:24.4	coming to you from the QI offices in Covent Garden.
0:27.2	My name is Dan Schreiber. I'm sitting here with three elves, James, Andy and Anna.
0:32.3	And once again, we just got around the microphone and we're going to share our favorite facts
0:36.0	from the last seven days. So in no particular order, here they are.
0:44.8	All right, so let's begin with you, Anna. What's your fact?
0:48.0	So this week, I discovered that rats were once the size of hippos.
0:52.4	That is humongous.
0:53.3	Yeah, it's pretty big. Well, basically, it's not all rats.
0:56.0	It was discovered in 2008.
0:57.9	It's called the Josepho Artigasia Monacy. We'll put that on the website.
1:01.9	So you're going to look it up.
1:02.9	And they think they could have grown up to 2.5 tonnes.
1:08.0	So that's like the average hippo, I think, is about 1.5 tonnes.
1:11.6	It's the largest known snake in history.
1:14.5	This was called titanaboa carogenesis.
1:18.4	It was about the length of about three or four cars.
1:22.0	What length would that be?
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