No Such Thing As The Ken Ages is the 425th episode of No Such Thing As A Fish, the 9th episode of the ninth year, and the 18th episode of 2022. 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 the hedges of England, the river of Mississippi and the snowflake early universe.
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Facts[]
- In If you took all the hedges in Britain and laid them end to end, they would stretch to the moon and most of the way back. (Murray)
- In the 1940's, POWs in the U.S. helped build a model of the Mississippi Basin that was about twice the size of the Vatican." (Ptaszynski)
- One of the few historians to use the term 'Dark Ages' is Professor Ken Dark." (Harkin)
- The metal used to make Grammy award trophies is called grammium. (Schreiber)