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No Such Thing As A Kiss is the 5th episode of No Such Thing As A Fish, the 5th episode of the first year, and the 5th 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[]

Episode 5: This week in the QI Office Dan Schreiber (@schreiberland), James Harkin (@eggshaped), Anna Ptaszynski (@nosuchthing) and Andrew Hunter Murray (@andrewhunterm) discuss rats, popes, kissing and moving house.

Facts[]

  1. Rats were once the size of hippos.[1][2] (Ptaszynski)
  2. During his 27-year run as Pope, John Paul II took over a hundred ski vacations.[3][4] (Schreiber)
  3. A hundred years ago, a quarter of the residents of New York would move house every single May 1st at exactly 9 AM.[5] (Harkin)
  4. Nobody knows why we kiss.[6] (Murray)

Notes[]

  1. The Guardian: Found: rat the size of a hippo
  2. Wikipedia: Josephoartigasia monesi
  3. Dan got his fact from the March 2014 issue of Fortean Times.
  4. The New York Sun: Pope Liked to Hit the Slopes
  5. Wikipedia: Moving Day (New York City)
  6. Live Science: Why Do People Kiss?
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