No Such Thing As Notting Mountain is the 116th episode of No Such Thing As A Fish, the 12th episode of the third year, and the 23rd episode of 2016. It features regular presenters James Harkin, Anna Ptaszynski, and Dan Schreiber, and guest QI Elf Alex Bell. It was recorded at the QI Offices in Covent Garden, London.
Description[]
Dan, James, Anna and Alex discuss prehistoric butterflies, secret power stations, and Buddhist robots.
Facts[]
- The first performance-enhancing drug to be used in baseball was pulverised guinea pig testicles. (Ptaszynski)
- There is a power station buried inside a Welsh mountain that is only turned on during TV advert breaks. (Bell)
- 85 million years before butterflies existed, there was another animal that looked and acted exactly the same as butterflies. (Harkin)
- The Longquan Buddhist Temple in China has a monk called Worthy Stupid Robot Monk. (Schreiber)
Trivia[]
- Regular presenter Andrew Hunter Murray is absent.
- Alex Bell guests, making his fifteenth appearance.
- Charles-Édouard Brown-Séquard is first mentioned in this episode, and again in Episode 203: No Such Thing As A Muscular Butterfly.
- Dan mentions Pliny the Elder's unusual recommendations, which were also discussed in Episode 110: No Such Thing As A Dull Post Box.
- Dan is engaged.