No Such Thing As A Trapezium-Shaped Hankie

No Such Thing As A Fish

Comedy, Nature, Science, History

4.7 • 18.5K Ratings

🗓️ 18 May 2018

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Live from Liverpool, Dan, James, Anna and Andy discuss bob.com, how to eat an avocado, and what the Ancient Greeks used for toilet paper.

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0:00.0	aurais
0:23.2	My name is Dan Schreiber and I'm sitting here with Anishis Isis,
0:28.2	the Andrew Hunter Marie and James Harkin.
0:30.2	And once again, we have gathered around the microphones
0:33.2	with our four favorite facts from the last seven days.
0:36.2	And in no particular order, here we go, starting with you, Andy.
0:40.2	My fact is that the ancient Greeks wiped their bottoms with pebbles.
0:47.2	Well, I heard off the flip-stops.
0:49.2	I did.
0:51.2	How would that even work?
0:53.2	So this is true.
0:56.2	They had pebbles which they used.
0:58.2	They're things called pestoi.
0:59.2	And we keep discovering them in archaeological digs.
1:01.2	And we know that these were used because...
1:04.2	The cupboard in shithead.
1:05.2	Well, kind of.
1:08.2	Yeah, so there was fishborne, Roman palace,
1:11.2	which is a Roman site in England, had bits of pottery
1:14.2	which had partly mineralised excrement on them.
1:17.2	And until they discovered the excrement,
1:19.2	they were board game counters.
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