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,
Andrew Huntamari and Anna Chizinski and once again we have gathered around the microphones only this time not with our four favorite facts from the last seven days but with the best four facts sent in by you,
the listener.
And so in no particular order, here we go.
Starting with fact number one and that is you, Chizinski.
Yeah, my fact was tweeted into us by someone called Owen Nelligan, so thanks for this Owen,
this fact is that the person who invented the lie detector married the first person he interrogated with it.
Did he say, will you eventually marry me?
And she said no and then it came up as a lie.
Well, it's so close to that.
According to a book about the history of lie detection and polygraphs,
so this was a guy called John Augustus Larson and he was using a lie detector to interrogate Margaret Taylor and it was about a diamond ring
that she'd had stolen and so the result of the interrogation was
that her diamond ring was found and returned to her and she was so grateful
that she volunteered her services to him to play criminal in other lie detection tests and then after about a year,
apparently he had her on the lie detection test and he said, do you love me?
And she said no and it came up as a lie and it's bullshit.
It sounds bullshit.