2015-09-25
30 分钟Hello, and welcome to another episode of No Such Thing as a Fish,
a weekly podcast this week coming to you from the Edinburgh Fringe Festival.
My name is Dan Schreiber, and joining me as ever is the three QILs.
Please welcome to the stage Andy Murray, James Harkin, and Anna Chazinski.
And once again, we have gathered round the microphones with our four favourite facts from the last seven days,
and no particular order, here we go, starting with you, Andy Murray.
Andy, my name is Andy.
My fact this week is that the first ever pencils were used to draw on sheep.
That's the fact.
And I found this out last month at the Cumberland Pencil Museum, which is an amazing museum.
If you're ever in the area, you have to go.
It's in Keswick, and it features, among many other things,
a giant collage of Chris Evans made of pencils, which is the most nightmarish thing you could, it's so amazing.
Yeah, so first pencils were used for sheep.
So why?
Well, I mean, the story is, and I'm not sure how much this is sort of half myth,
but the story is that some shepherds found a load of graphite, which had been turfed up in a storm,
a tree had been blown out, and there was this sort of black, shiny stuff in the roots,
and they realised that it made marks and stuff, and so they started using it to draw on their sheep.
And the first ever pencils were just lumps of graphite wrapped in sheepskin.