We run it on QI a few years ago, which was, there's no such thing as a fish.

You did a nice, such thing as a fish.

No, seriously, it's in the Oxford Dictionary of Underwater Life.

He says it, right there, first paragraph, no such thing as a fish.

Hello and welcome to another episode of No Such Thing as a Fish,

a weekly QI podcast coming to you from the QI offices in Covent Garden.

My name is Dan Shriver, I'm sitting here with three other elves,

James Harkin, Alex Bell and Anna Chazinski.

And once again, we're gathering around our microphone

and we're going to share with each other our favorite facts from the last seven days.

So in no particular order, here they are.

Alex, let's start with you.

Okay, my fact is that one of the last things that Nasa had to do before

launching Space Shuttles was detach the inflatable owls.

Wow, why would they have inflatable owls on those Space Shuttles?

Basically, this was at Cape Kennedy.

And they had a bit of a wildlife problem there, just generally,

because the launch pad is actually in the middle of a nature reserve.

So one of the problems they had was with woodpeckers on the fuel,

big fuel tanks on the side of the Space Shuttle, they're sort of bright orange,

and they're covered in foam insulation, which is quite delicate.

And they had this problem with woodpeckers that were just coming up and pecking holes in them.

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