No Such Thing As Terrestrial Sweetcorn is the 29th episode of No Such Thing As A Fish, the 29th episode of the first year, and the 44th episode of 2014. 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 (@schreiberland), James (@eggshaped), Anna (@nosuchthing), and Andy (@andrewhunterm) discuss alien chess, whirling chairs, criminal theme tunes and how to get drunk on a shark.
Facts[]
- In 19th century America you could be committed to a mental asylum for reading a novel. (Ptaszynski)
- The Greenland shark is so slow that it needs all of its food to be asleep in order to eat it. (Schreiber)
- The head of the International Chess Federation, Kirsan Ilyumzhinov, believes chess was brought to Earth by aliens. (Harkin)
- The Yakuza has its own website with a theme tune designed to attract new members. (Murray)
Trivia[]
- The latest QI fact book, 1411 QI Facts to Knock You Sideways is announced.