We ran it on QI a few years ago, which was, there's no such thing as a fish.
There's no such thing as a fish.
No, seriously, it's in the Oxford Dictionary of Underwater Life.
It says it right there, first paragraph, no such thing as a fish.
Hello, 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, Anna Chazinski and Alex Bell.
And once again,
we've gathered around the microphone with our favorite facts from the last seven days and in no particular order,
here we go.
OK, let's start with fact number one, Anna Chazinski.
So my fact is that Alexander the Great banned beards in battle to combat beard pulling.
How long were the beards?
I'm not sure, actually.
I do know they were fashionable before that.
So he actually was a proponent of beards before one battle where he was leading the Macedonians and it was his troops versus the Persians.
And the Persians started grabbing his troops,
beards and pulling them off their horses and killing them or taking them prisoner.
And there's one anecdote of one of the opposing troops grabs a guy's beard and holds it there while he decapitates him,