Hello and welcome to another episode of No Such Thing as a Fish,
a weekly podcast coming to you from four undisclosed locations in the UK.
My name is Dan Schreiber, I am sitting here with Anna Tyshinski,
Andrew Hunter Murray and James Harkin and once again we have gathered round the microphones with our four favourite facts from the last seven days and in no particular order,
here we go, starting with you, Andy.
My fact is that museums need visitors' breath in order to preserve their exhibits properly.
Museums rely on the moisture from our bodies to keep their things nice because when you breathe out,
it's more moist than when you breathe in.
You breathe in normal air and it takes a bit of your internal juice and it transports it to the outside.
Don't say internal juice, that's horrible.
Sorry, Andy, can I just ask, at the moment with Covid happening and not many people going to museums,
is there a way that we can donate our internal juice?
Yeah, the British Museum is taking donations,
you just say free post British Museum and you slap that on a big bag of juice and they'll release it among us.
Yeah,
so this is according to a curator at the British Museum which has been closed for the longest time in its history and normally they would get about 17,000 visitors a day and all those people and their breath help keep the right level of humidity in the air
because they've got so many objects which require certain levels of humidity,
things that can dry out easily,
maybe they're objects made of bone which might crack if it gets too low and this is a problem,
objects have been at risk of cracking out.