No Such Thing As A Somersaulting Long Jumper
No Such Thing As A Fish
No Such Thing As A Fish
4.7 • 18.5K Ratings
🗓️ 24 July 2015
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Dan, James, Andy and Anna discuss humans versus horses, where to get new eyelids, and why you should never drink with Alfred Hitchcock.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to another episode of No Such Thing as a Fish this week coming |
| 0:24.5 | to you from the literary arena in the latitude festival my name is Dan Schreiber I'm sitting |
| 0:30.2 | here with three other QILs its Aniches Innski Andy Murray and James Harkin and once again |
| 0:35.6 | we've gathered around the microphones with our four favorite facts from the last seven |
| 0:39.0 | days and in a particular order here we go and we're going to start with my fact this week |
| 0:44.3 | my fact this week is that the world record for horse long jump is shorter than the world |
| 0:50.6 | record for human long jump that just can't even be true that just is so obviously not true |
| 0:57.4 | it's unbelievable no it's absolutely true but here's the weird thing horse long jump did anyone |
| 1:02.8 | know that existed it was an Olympic sport for one year I have a question about the horse long |
| 1:08.1 | jump yeah did they have to do it with a human on their back yes well then of course they're gonna |
| 1:12.6 | like if you put a if you put a horse on a human's eye that's not a fair comparison though you |
| 1:18.2 | need to put so it'd be like strapping a child to your back maybe or okay which wouldn't be allowed |
| 1:23.8 | I guess no but listen horses okay how many how many people here just by show a hand a surprise |
| 1:28.5 | that humans can jump further than horses yeah pretty much everyone yeah and when you say |
| 1:33.8 | surprised none of them believe you okay so this is absolutely true you can go online to Wikipedia |
| 1:40.2 | so this was in the 1900s so you're niche sources for these so 1900 at the Olympics they did the |
| 1:50.3 | horse drum the guy riding the horse was called constant van Langhendonk and his horse was called |
| 1:57.9 | extra dry and he jumped as far as he jumped about six meters and that's not actually the horse |
| 2:05.0 | record so that was just their first ever attempt at the Olympics everyone said let's not do that |
| 2:09.4 | again let's move on let's never speak about this but the world record as it stands was set in |
| 2:13.3 | 1975 by horse the horse was called something no what was it called something the horse was actually |
| 2:20.6 | called something that was the actual name of the horse by mr. Andre Ferreira and they jumped |
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