No Such Thing As A Phantasmic Foot is the 304th episode of No Such Thing As A Fish, the 44th episode of the sixth year, and the 3rd episode of 2020. 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 parachuting beavers, why hotdogs are called hotdogs, and how your emails are warming the planet.
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Facts[]
- In Britain alone, unnecessary emails create nearly 24,000 tons of carbon every year. (Murray)
- Hot dogs are called hot dogs because people used to think they contained dog. (Harkin)
- The oldest recording we have of a poet reading his own poem is of Robert Browning, who forgets the words to the poem halfway through and ends the recording with an apology. (Schreiber)
- In 1948 in Idaho, leftover World War II parachutes were used to drop beavers out of aeroplanes. (Ptaszynski)
Trivia[]
- Tim Berners-Lee's brother is mentioned. Tim was part of a headline fact in Episode 286: No Such Thing As A Banana With Wifi.
- Schreiber mentions the headline fact about Melbourne's trees having email addresses from Episode 167: No Such Thing As Milk From A Yak.
- Arthur Conan Doyle's belief in seances was a headline fact in Episode 130: No Such Thing As Train Jam.
- Harkin mentions working on the second series of QI with Molly Oldfield.