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 Anna Chazinski, James Harkin, and Andy Murray,
and once again we have gathered around the microphones with our four favorite facts from the last seven days,
and in no particular order, here we go.
Starting with you, Chazinski.
My fact is that Kaiser Wilhelm once lost a valuable arms contract for Germany
because he slapped the King of Bulgaria on the bottom.
This was a thing he did, he liked to slap people on the ass,
and so the King of Bulgaria was furtunned at the time,
and he visited, and apparently he was wearing his Colonel's uniform,
which had been made when he was a bit slimmer, so he'd put on some extra weight,
and he was leaning out of the palace window in Germany,
and Kaiser Wilhelm noticed that his unmentionables were tight, and so he slapped him on the arms.
So his unmentionables are another word for trousers, aren't they?
Well, I think it was, so the historian says, he noticed that his unmentionables were tight,
so when he leaned out of the window he presented a mark so tempting
that the Emperor of Minnesota resounding spank on the sacred seat of the King.
Anyway, he was very, very angry,
and he then awarded an arms contract to someone else that had been going to go to Germany as a result,