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No Such Thing As A Fish

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🗓️ 19 June 2015

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Dan, James, Andy and Anne discuss the fate of London's bendy buses, lifts with toilets, and century-long book deals.

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to another episode of no such thing as a fish, a weekly podcast coming
0:18.7	to you from the QI offices in Covron Garden.
0:21.1	My name is Dad Shriver, I'm sitting here with Andy Murray, James Harkin and Ann Miller,
0:25.6	and once again we have gathered around the microphone with our four favorite facts from
0:29.0	the last seven days and in no particular order here we go.
0:33.3	Starting with you, Harkin.
0:35.6	My fact this week is that in the 1840s London buses had straps attached to the driver's
0:41.4	arms that you would yank if you wanted to stop.
0:44.5	It just seems like the worst idea in the world.
0:47.6	In 1839 they invented the bell on buses and then they decided to go to the strap version
0:53.8	afterwards.
0:54.8	Oh wow.
0:55.8	But these are horse buses of course and in those days you didn't have to go on the
1:00.8	left hand side of the right hand side of the road and there were no bus stops or anything
1:04.0	like that.
1:05.5	When you wanted to stop you needed to tell the driver which direction you wanted to go
1:09.5	to the right hand side of the road or the left hand side.
1:11.5	So if you wanted to stop on the right hand side you would yank his right strap and that
1:15.6	would move his right arm which would move the horse to the side of the road and then he
1:18.9	would stop.
1:19.9	I read that they didn't have to even pull over to stop for 40 years after the whole
1:25.1	storm bus was invented.
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