72: No Such Thing As A Bacon Telescope

No Such Thing As A Fish

Arts, Nature, History, Science, Improv, Comedy

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🗓️ 31 July 2015

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Dan, James, Andy and Anna discuss the first pneumatic tubes, photosynthesising sea slugs, and the worst zoo in North Korea.

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to another episode of No Such Thing as a Fish, a weekly podcast coming
0:16.7	to you from the QI offices in Covert Garden.
0:19.5	My name is Dan Schreiber.
0:20.5	I'm sitting here with Anichezinski, James Harkin and Andy Murray.
0:24.4	And once again, we have gathered around the microphones with our four favorite facts from
0:27.8	the last seven days and in no particular order, here we go.
0:32.6	Starting with you, Chazinski.
0:34.8	My fact is that the first item to be sent via New York's pneumatic tube postal system
0:40.6	was an artificial peach and the second was a live black cat.
0:45.0	An artificial peach, that's the interesting thing.
0:47.6	It was a huge oversized one as well.
0:49.6	It's quite a leap really because you would think you'd go from artificial peach to real
0:53.4	peach to artificial cats.
0:54.4	A real cat.
0:55.4	But they just missed out on stuff.
0:57.2	Yeah, they got overconfident.
0:58.8	But the cat did survive.
1:00.1	Did it.
1:01.1	Pizzali.
1:02.1	This story comes from the reminiscences of a postal worker called Howard Wallace Connolly.
1:07.2	He self-published an autobiography in 1931 and he worked for the postal service where
1:12.0	New York was building its pneumatic postal delivery system, which is a system of pneumatic
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