No Such Thing As Death By Aardvark is the 2nd episode of No Such Thing As A Fish, the 2nd episode of the first year, and the 2nd episode of 2014. It features presenters James Harkin, Andrew Hunter Murray, Anna Ptaszynski, and Dan Schreiber, and was recorded at the QI Offices in Covent Garden, London.
Description[]
Episode 2 - The second episode of the new podcast from the writers of QI, who discuss the best facts they've found that week. This episode features Dan Schreiber (@schreiberland), James Harkin (@eggshaped), Anna Ptaszynski (@nosuchthing) & Andrew Hunter Murray (@andrewhunterm).
Facts[]
- The first ever sandwich that we know about contained wine.[1] (Ptaszynski)
- In 2003, 3 people in Mexico died of acne.[2] (Harkin)
- Amongst the other scientists called Einstein there are M. E. Einstein, who came up with a formula for predicting the composition of a pork carcass, and Rosemarie Einstein, who co-investigated the use of cannabis, alcohol and tobacco on 300 young persons at her university.[3][4] (Schreiber)
- The first contact lenses cost as much as a car.[5] (Murray)
Notes[]
- ↑ What's Cooking America: Sandwich History
- ↑ NationMaster: Acne statistics - countries compared (archived)
- ↑ Dan got his fact from the book This is Improbable Too by Marc Abrahams. (Amazon)
- ↑ The Guardian: Einstein's relative's theories
- ↑ Andy got his fact from a visit to the British Optical Association Museum.