No Such Thing As A 15-Hour Working Week is the 294th episode of No Such Thing As A Fish, the 34th episode of the sixth year, and the 45th 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 hand-drawn stockings, raccoon-damaged temples, and the doomsday aircraft destroyed by a single bird.
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Facts[]
- The US Navy's "Doomsday aircraft", which was designed to survive a nuclear attack, was recently taken out by a single bird. (Harkin)
- When Nylon stockings became rationed during World War II, department stores set up leg makeup bars where women could have stockings drawn onto their legs instead. (Schreiber)
- More than 80% of Japan's temples have suffered from raccoon damage. (Ptaszynski)
- The economist John Maynard Keynes once bought a priceless Cézanne painting and then hid it in a hedge. (Murray)
Trivia[]
- The Fish team have won the Heinz Oberhummer Award for science communication.
- The live show in Vienna that is to become Episode 300 is announced.
- Murray refers back to his fact from Episode 165: No Such Thing As A Spider The Size Of A Sheep about the Boeing E-4 having 5-mile-long antenae.
- Harkin refers to Murray's preoccupation with ceiling fans in the previous episode.
- Duncan Hamilton and the Le Mans race were both mentioned in TBA.
- Murray's fact comes from Tim Harford's show Cautionary Tales.
- NOT SURE IF THIS WAS FEATURED BEFORE Schreiber mentions the theory that Walter Sickert was Jack the Ripper, which was brought up in TBA.
- Harkin has not seen Stuart Little.