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 and I'm sitting here with Anna Chazinski,
Andrew Hunter Murray and James Harkin 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, Anna Chazinski.
My fact this week is
that the largest diamond ever found in Russia is called the 26th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
That's its name.
Catchy.
That's its catchy, shiny name.
It's called this because it was mined in 1980 and the 26th Congress of the Communist Party opened in 1981,
in February 1981, so I think the diamond was actually named before the Congress happened.
So the Congress was this big meeting, if all the Soviet delegates are all important.
So was it a complete coincidence?
Do they think, oh, what should we call our meeting?
Let's name it after that lovely big diamond we found last year.
What was that called?
Yeah.
It was that.
Let's quickly have 25 smaller conferences.