Hello and welcome to another episode of No Such Thing as a Fish,
a weekly podcast coming to you from the QI offices in Covent Garden.
My name is Dan Schreiber, I'm sitting here with James Harkin,
Anna Tyshinski and Andrew Hunt and Murray and once again we have gathered round the microphones with our four favorite facts from the last seven days and in no particular order,
here we go.
Starting with fact number one and that is James.
Okay my fact this week is that in the 1930 World Cup semi-final between the USA and Argentina,
the American medic accidentally chlorophoned himself and had to be carried off.
It's very funny and it raises for me a lot of other questions like who was he trying to chlorophore?
Is that legitimate tactic?
Was it like a classic like movie where the bank robber or whoever is trying to steal someone puts the rag over them,
was he like holding his face?
There is so much wrong with this fact I think and we might go into all of it but it's basically it's on the FIFA website so I think it counts as a fact for us but I can't see it mentioned in any contemporary part and chloroform doesn't really work like that.
It's an incredible self-drive-by on your own face.
So he was called Jack Cole, is that right?
And there are a few versions of events on there so one is
that he ran on the pitch trying to help another player and then his thing broke in his bag and he had chloroform in his bag and then that broke and then the fumes raised and knocked him out.
That's one version,
another version is
that he went on to the pitch to argue with the referee about something and threw a bottle of chloroform onto the ground in anger and then it came up and a fume stopped him out.