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

to you from the QI offices in Covern, Darden.

My name is Dan Schreiber, I am sitting here with Anich Zenski, James Harkin and Andrew

Hunter Murray and once again we have gathered around the microphones with our four favorite

facts from the last seven days and in no particular order here we go.

Starting with you, James Harkin.

Okay my fat this week is that it used to be thought that you couldn't testify in court

if you'd seen a crime through a window.

This is such an amazing fact.

This is incredible.

But it used to be thought but it wasn't the case.

Well it certainly wasn't the case in the late 19th, early 20th century when these news

reports which were sent to me by a guy on Twitter called Richard Tisdale at Richie T1892.

I think people often put the date they were born as their number don't they?

But I don't think he was born in 1892.

This would explain why he knows about four cases from the late 20s.

That's true but he sent me a few different articles.

One for instance was an article entitled Extraordinary Belief in Shrewsbury.

And it was a 1928 report about this person in Shrewsbury who thought they'd seen a crime

but they thought they couldn't really be sure that they'd definitely seen it because

it was through a window.

And he sent me some others.

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