No Such Thing As Fake Coal is the 479th episode of No Such Thing As A Fish, the 12th episode of the tenth year, and the 20th episode of 2023. It features regular presenters James Harkin, Andrew Hunter Murray, Dan Schreiber, and special guest, QI Elf Alex Bell, and was recorded at the QI Offices in Holborn, London.
Description[]
Dan, James, Andrew and Alex discuss Swiss subduing, supermarket wrong-doing, model choo-chooing and JR Ewing.
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Facts[]
- When the founder of the budget supermarket chain Aldi was kidnapped in the 1970's, he successfully negotiated a discount off his own ransom. (Bell)
- The world's largest collection of model trains doesn't fit on standard model train tracks. (Murray)
- In 1760, a book was publicly burned in Switzerland because it claimed that William Tell did not exist. (Harkin)
- To make sure that no one leaked the answer to “Who shot J.R.?” on the TV show, Dallas, the production team had every main character film a scene of them shooting J.R.—including J.R. (Schreiber)