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No Such Thing As Stare-Boxing is the 179th episode of No Such Thing As A Fish, the 23rd episode of the fourth year, and the 34th episode of 2017. 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 mail-order portraits, the first ever Encyclopaedia Britannica, and the country with only five star hotels.

Facts[]

  • 10% of the UFC is owned by the UAE. (Schreiber)
  • Palau is about to pass a law meaning that every hotel in the country has to be 5*. (Harkin)
  • Every Canadian citizen is entitled to a free government-issue portrait of the Queen. (Bell)
  • The first ever Encyclopaedia Britannica said that humans were divided into five categories: American, European, Asiatic, African, and Monstrous. (Ptaszynski)

Trivia[]

  • Regular presenter Andrew Hunter Murray is absent.
    • Alex Bell guests.
  • James mentions the joke from TBA about how half of the job of an Olympic diver is walking up to the board.
  • The story about humans believing that monsters existed was previously mentioned in TBA.
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