No Such Thing As A Dragon Walk is the 508th episode of No Such Thing As A Fish, the 41st episode of the tenth year, and the 49th episode of 2023. It features regular presenters James Harkin, Anna Ptaszynski, and Dan Schreiber, and guest QI Elf Alex Bell. It was recorded in the QI Offices in Holborn, London.
Description[]
Dan, James, Anna and Alex Bell discuss Goya, wire, dead bacteria and fax hysteria.
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Facts[]
- The artist Goya, who was famously a deaf man, lived in a house called “The House of the Deaf Man”. It was actually named after a different deaf man who’d lived in that house.[1] (Harkin)
- Before governments experienced cyberattacks, they had to deal with fax attacks.[2] (Schreiber)
- For 200 years, humans made wire by soaking steel in urine before realizing that water works just as well.[3] (Ptaszynski)
- Dragonfly wings are equipped with tiny wings that physically rip bacteria apart.[4] (Bell)
Notes[]
- ↑ MutualArt: Decoding Goya's Black Paintings
- ↑ Wikipedia: Black fax
- ↑ University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign: Steel in Ancient Greece and Rome
- ↑ Phys.org: How deadly dragonfly wings bust up bacteria