No Such Thing As A Bacon Telescope is the seventy-second episode ofNo Such Thing As A Fish, the twentieth episode of the second year, and the thirty-first episode of 2015. 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, Andy and Anna discuss the first pneumatic tubes, photosynthesising sea slugs, and the worst zoo in North Korea.
Facts[]
- The first item to be sent by New York's pneumatic post system was an artificial peach. The second thing to be sent was an alive black cat. (Ptaszynski)
- Scientists have made a form of algae that tastes like bacon. (Harkin)
- Telescopes have a "new telescope smell" that can break them. (Murray)
- There is a museum in North Korea that has a scaled-down replica of the world's largest table. (Schreiber)
Trivia[]
- The first show of the No Such Thing As A Fish Live tour, which was broadcast as Episode 82, is first plugged here.
- Dan's fact was sent in by a listener, off the back of the "Anna Ptaszynski's favourite table" joke in Episode 50: No Such Thing As Doing It Dinosaur-Style.
- Dan again mentions the Elvis Presley museum in Georgia from Episode TBA.