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 am sitting here with Anna Cizinski, James Harkin, and Andrew Hunter 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 you, James.
Okay, my fact this week is that Thomas Edison was once almost killed by a flying badger.
Was this one of his inventions that had gone wrong?
You're absolutely right, it was a badger cannon.
And one of the badgers got stuck in it,
and he kind of prodded it to see if the badger would get free, and then it went off in his face.
Wow.
That's not it.
Wait, that's not it?
No, no.
Dan's thinking I've researched the wrong thing.
Oh my God.
Two badger incidents?
No, he was riding on a locomotive on a train, and he got very friendly with people who were engineers on this train,
and they let him sit on the cowcatcher, which is a little bit of metal in the front of the train,