No Such Thing As A Hoverhorse

No Such Thing As A Fish

Nature, Science, Comedy, History

4.7 • 18.5K Ratings

🗓️ 17 April 2015

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Dan, James, Anna and Andy discuss supersmog, horses on treadmills and impossible colours.

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to another episode of No Such Thing as a Fish, a weekly podcast coming
0:16.2	to you from the QI offices in Covert Garden.
0:18.8	My name is Dan Schreiber.
0:19.8	I'm sitting with Anich Zinski, James Harkin and Andy Murray and once again we have gathered
0:24.6	around the microphones with our four favorite facts from the last seven days and in no particular
0:29.1	order, here we go.
0:31.6	Starting with fact number one, that's my fact.
0:33.7	My fact this week is that monorails were originally horse drawn.
0:38.4	That's really great.
0:40.1	It's like the ultra mudden with not very mudden at all.
0:43.6	Yeah, exactly.
0:44.6	It's the future, but there's a horse attack.
0:46.4	It's like everything.
0:48.7	I always want to...
0:49.7	Spaceships of the same thing, I think.
0:51.3	Yeah, exactly.
0:52.3	I've always wanted to know if like back in that period there were books that were just
0:55.0	called like when will I get my hover horse?
0:57.6	Like, they hadn't yet known about the next bit of technology.
1:02.0	Yeah, the thing I really love about it is all the main new inventions coming out of that
1:07.6	time.
1:08.6	Even household stuff that was run on QI that vacuum cleaners used to be horse drawn as
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