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🗓️ 8 February 2024
⏱️ 55 minutes
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0:00.0 | Hello. Hello and welcome to another episode of No Such Thing as a Fish, a weekly |
0:19.1 | podcast coming to you from the QI offices in Hoburn. My name is Dan Schreiber. I'm sitting here with Anna Tishinsky, |
0:25.2 | James Harkin, and Andrew Hunter Murray. And once again, we have gathered round the microphones |
0:29.6 | with our four favorite facts from the last seven days, in no particular order here we go starting with |
0:36.1 | fact number one and that is Andy my fact is that thousands of soldiers who died at Waterloo |
0:42.0 | were turned into sugar. |
0:43.4 | Incredible. |
0:44.4 | It's a horrible fact about a horrible battle. |
0:48.0 | Wow. |
0:49.0 | It's incredible. |
0:50.0 | It's really bad this one. |
0:51.0 | Yeah, how do you turn a person into sugar? That seems very unlikely. Well, firstly, |
0:56.1 | you have to lure them to Waterloo in 1815, kill them. |
1:03.0 | Oh, so I have to be French. |
1:05.0 | Well, oh, I'm so glad we got on to this already. |
1:08.0 | There are so many nationalities who fought at Waterloo. |
1:11.0 | Oh yeah, actually. Most of the English army was German. |
1:15.0 | Really? |
1:16.0 | Yeah. |
1:17.0 | Two thirds were German speaking as the first language, lots of Dutch soldiers as well. |
1:21.0 | Belgian, yeah. |
1:22.0 | Yeah, yeah, they were just brought in, weren't they? |
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