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No Such Thing As An Elephant In The Airport is the 288th episode of No Such Thing As A Fish, the 28th episode of the sixth year, and the 39th episode of 2019. It features regular presenters James Harkin, Andrew Hunter Murray, Anna Ptaszynski, and Dan Schreiber, and was recorded at the QI Offices in Covent Garden, London.

Description[]

Dan, James, Anna and Andrew discuss elephantine super-sniffing, Thomas Jefferson's version of the Bible, and André the Giant's all-night bender.

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Facts[]

  • Elephants can tell how much of something is in a closed bucket by smell alone. (Harkin)
  • Thomas Jefferson cut his Bible to pieces and glued it back together in the order he thought it should be written. (Ptaszynski)
  • In 19th century America, caviar was a free bar snack. (Murray)
  • Wrestling star André the Giant was so massive that once when he drunkenly passed out in a hotel lobby, staff couldn't move him and had to cordon him off with velvet ropes until he woke up. (Schreiber)

 Trivia[]

  • Another item in the Smithsonian is TBA.
  • It is very difficult to tell the sex of a Sturgeon. The same problem is mentioned in TBA and TBA with eels.
  • Ptaszynski talks about not understanding professional wrestling, which was previously discussed in TBA.
  • Harkin hasn't seen The Princess Bride.
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