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

to you from the QI offices in Covenant Garden.

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

Bell and once again we have gathered around the microphones with our four favourite

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

Starting with my fact this week, my fact is that a message in a bottle that was thrown

off the Titanic as it was sinking was found one year later washed up on a shore in Ireland,

only a few miles from the home of the man who threw it.

It's pretty extraordinary so this could be that he just dropped it on his way to the Titanic.

So this was a 19 year old, he was called Jeremiah Burke, he was from Glennmire County

Cork in Ireland and the way that they were able to verify the bottle because there's been a lot

of forgery bottles that were claimed to be so people trying to make money.

This bottle was a bottle of holy water that his mother had given to him a sort of good luck

thing and he used one of his own shoelaces to tie it up as he threw the letter and the bottle

overboard. Saying this didn't fucking work mum.

Yeah so the message has a date on it, it's slightly unclear so it could be the 10th, 12th, 13th.

We know that it's sunk on the morning of the 15th but so I don't know why he would have.

Yeah that doesn't make sense. It's very odd.

I think at the best of times I don't necessarily know what data is straight away.

I think as you're going down with the Titanic maybe you're going,

what's the, what date is it guys? What date is it?

Oh yeah, seeing the person next to you he's clean of dear life.

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