No Such Thing As A Travelator In Ancient Rome

古罗马没有自动人行道这样的东西

No Such Thing As A Fish

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2015-01-31

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Episode 45: Anna, James, Andy and special guest Greg Jenner discuss Von Humboldt's electrifying anal experiments, migrating limpets, and a time travelling bus service.
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  • Hello and welcome to another episode of No Such Thing as a Fish,

  • a weekly podcast brought to you from the QI offices in Covent Garden.

  • My name's Anna, I'm joined today by fellow QI elves James Harkin and Andrew Hunter Murray,

  • and also a special guest today, historian and horrible histories writer Greg Jenner, who has a book to plug, correct?

  • Yes, plug, plug, plug, plug.

  • It's called A Million Years in a Day and it's out, like, now, and it's quite good.

  • It's quite good.

  • Yeah, it is good.

  • Some of us have read at least bits of it.

  • It's amazing.

  • I wouldn't go that far, but it's all right.

  • It's above average.

  • I would say it's definitely sort of top 70 percentile, you know, like, you know, it's a two one.

  • Okay, a high two one book, buy it.

  • Okay, let's get on with the show.

  • And for fact number one, let's go to you, Greg.

  • Okay, so my fact is from my book because I am that unimaginative.

  • And my fact is, in the 1960s in America, there was one particular bus route that was only 35 miles long.

  • But during that time, passengers passed through seven different time zones.

  • Wow.