No Such Thing As A Robotic Margaret Atwood

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  Hello, and welcome to another episode of No Such Thing as a Fish,

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  a weekly podcast coming to you from the QI offices in Covent Garden, my name is Dan Schreiber,

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  I'm sitting here with Andy Murray, James Harkin and Ann Miller,

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  and once again we have gathered around the microphone with our four favorite facts from the last seven days,

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  and in no particular order here we go.

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  Starting with you, Harkin.

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  My fact this week is that in the 1840s,

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  London buses had straps attached to the driver's arms that you would yank if you wanted to stop.

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  This just seems like the worst idea in the world.

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  In 1839 they invented the bell on buses, and then they decided to go to the strap version afterwards.

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  So these are horse buses of course,

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  and in those days you didn't have to go on the left hand side or the right hand side of the road,

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  and there were no bus stops or anything like that,

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  and so when you wanted to stop you needed to tell the driver which direction you wanted to go,

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  to the right hand side of the road or the left hand side,

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  so if you wanted to stop on the right hand side you would yank his right strap,

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  and that would move his right arm which would move the horse to the side of the road and he would stop.

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  I read that they didn't have to even pull over to stop for 40 years after the horse drawn bus was invented,

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  so 1829 I think was the first one,

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  and there was a new law passed in 1867 which said,

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