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

to you from the QI offices in Covent Garden.

My name is Dan Schreiber, I'm sitting here with Annotes at Speed James Harkin and Andy

Murray.

We're also joined by special guest Rufus Hound.

And once again we have gathered around the microphones with our four favorite facts from

the last seven days in an open tickula order, here we go.

Starting with you, Mr Hound.

Well Dan, twice in its history, America has been run by a shepherd.

Wow, really?

So we got that fact through and I have no idea what that means.

Yeah, twice the resident of the White House has also been a keeper of sheep.

The first of them was Thomas Jefferson, who when he lived on his plantation had corn

and wheat and tried to rotate them but found that the soil was rapidly blitzed essentially.

And then realized that sheep were the way forward, that they fertilized the soil they were

super animals.

And so when he was president, he actually bought sheep with him to the White House and

the ram that he was most pleased with in terms of the sheep that he thought would become

America's sheep was a shetland ram.

Now in the early days of America, when we think of the White House, we're obviously thinking

of something behind layers and layers and layers of security, but it used to be a house and

you could walk on those grounds.

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