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No Such Thing As A Fish

Arts, Nature, History, Science, Improv, Comedy

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🗓️ 22 January 2016

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Dan, James, Andy and special guest Helen Arney discuss the length of a jiffy, accidental sonic booms and totally astounding, gobsmacking and singularly amazing discoveries.

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to another episode of No Such Thing as a Fish, a weekly podcast
0:15.9	coming to you from the QI offices in Covent Garden.
0:18.6	My name is Dan Schreiber.
0:19.6	I'm sitting here with Andy Murray, James Harkin, and our friend Helen Arnie of Festival of the
0:24.3	Spoken Nerd.
0:25.3	And once again, we've gathered around the microphones with our four favorite facts from the last
0:29.2	seven days and in no particular order, here we go.
0:32.9	Starting with you, Helen.
0:35.0	My fact is, tomorrow will be the longest day of your life.
0:39.0	What do you know about my life?
0:41.4	That means the tour is going to be so terrible.
0:43.9	It's because I won't be with you, Andy, that's why it's going to be so long.
0:49.0	The days on Earth are getting longer all the time.
0:52.3	On average, right?
0:53.3	This is an on average thing.
0:54.5	So potentially tomorrow could be your longest ever day.
0:57.9	But then the day after that could be even longer.
0:59.8	Oh wow.
1:00.8	We're talking like tiny, tiny amounts, but the Earth is gradually being so-
1:04.8	So it's not like 20 minutes?
1:06.4	Yeah, you don't suddenly wake up tomorrow and you're like, wow, we've got an extra spare
1:09.6	20 minutes.
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