No Such Thing As A Snake In My Pie is the 31st episode of No Such Thing As A Fish, the 31st episode of the first year, and the 46th 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), Andy (@andrewhunterm) and Anna (#getannaontwitter) discuss urinating prophets, one man and his mushroom, weird wedding customs and who invented the electric pillow.
Facts[]
- In the 17th century there was a prophet called Dorothy Harling who would cure you of your sins by urinating on the offending body part. (Harkin)
- Despite the fact that homosexuality is illegal in South Sudan, a woman can have a female husband and a child can have a female father. (Ptaszynski)
- Tommy Flowers, the designer of the Colossus computer, discovered that the way to prevent the valves from blowing up was not turning it off and on again. (Schreiber)
- Botanists in Kew Gardens checked a £1.29 bag of supermarket mushrooms and found three species of mushroom previously unknown to science. (Murray)
Trivia[]
- TBA