No Such Thing As A Pig In Court

No Such Thing As A Fish

Nature, Science, Comedy, History

4.7 • 18.5K Ratings

🗓️ 2 March 2018

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Dan, James, Anna and Andy discuss Victorian fern mania, why stripes are a fashion crime and ice golf championships.

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to another episode of No Such Thing as a Fish, a weekly podcast coming
0:20.6	to you from the QI offices in Covert Garden.
0:23.5	My name is Dan Schreiber and I am sitting here with James Harkin, Andrew Hunter Murray
0:28.3	and Anich Zinski and once again we have gathered around the microphones with our four favorite
0:33.2	facts from the last seven days and in a particular order, here we go.
0:37.6	Starting with you, Chazinski.
0:39.4	My fact this week is that the dome of the Taj Mahal is held together with sugar, fruit
0:43.7	juice and egg white.
0:45.4	It's actually just a pudding recipe that they accidentally turned into more than a limb.
0:50.8	This is also with bricks.
0:52.8	There are conventional building materials in there as well so it's actually a mixture
0:55.7	of lime which is probably.
0:58.4	It's probably delicious.
0:59.4	Yeah, it's sounding more and more like a caipurine here.
1:01.9	Yeah, sorry, it's the other kind of lime, you know the one they build buildings with.
1:05.7	Lime stone.
1:06.7	Quick lime.
1:07.7	Lime and it's mixed together with fruit juice and sugar and egg and it's called tuna,
1:13.0	C-H-U-N-A.
1:14.0	It's all very food stuffy I know with some shells, bits of shells and some gum and yeah,
1:21.0	this was the plaster that's used on the inside of the dome of the Taj Mahal to hold it
1:24.4	all together and it actually turns out that egg white especially was quite a common building
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