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

to you from the QI offices in Covert Garden.

My name is Dan Treiber.

I'm sitting with the three regular elves, it's Andy Murray, James Harkin and Anichezinski

and once again we have gathered around the microphones with our four favorite facts from

the last seven days.

In no particular order, here we go.

Starting with you, Chazinski.

My fact this week is that Franz Kafka once convinced his entire family that Einstein's

theory of relativity was going to cure his tuberculosis.

How was that going to work?

It's a good question.

I can't exactly tell you but I can tell you how it was claimed it was going to work.

I'm not sure I understand it but essentially the plan was that you would take a cruise

according to this spoof article that he sent to his family.

You take a cruise heading east in the direction of the earth's rotation and this would

enlarge your body and that would close the cavities and your lungs that were causing

these problems and by enlarging your body and gaining weight by taking this easterly

cruise then you'd be cured.

And he actually said that there was a company in Prague that was fitting out hospital

ships specifically for this purpose.

Oh, unfortunately I think the holes would get bigger as well.

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