Hi everyone just before we start this show I wanted to let you know that James and I are going to be doing a talk chat a lecture at the hay festival in hay on Y next Wednesday the 29th of May and we are

going to be chatting about our new release of the paperback a load of old balls which

is all the most interesting facts and things we learned about

sports. It's for sports lovers. It's for sports haters. It's for sports skeptics.

You've got Mary Queen of Scots football in there, you've got Michael Palin's Conquer Tournament,

you've got Lacrosse Games involving over 100,000 players.

There's something for everyone.

Do come and listen to us.

Hey, it's such a fun festival anyway, so to get tickets for that, go to no such thing as a fish.

dot com slash live and while you're there, obviously buy tickets for our tour if you haven't already,

which you should have.

On with the show! Hello and welcome to another episode of No Such Thing as a Fish, a weekly

podcast coming to you from the QI offices in Hoburn. My name is Dan Schreiber.

I am sitting here with Andrew Hunter Murray, James Harkin, and Anna Tashinsky, and once again we have gathered around the microphones with our four favorite facts from the last seven days, and in a particular order, here we go.

Starting with fact number one that is James okay my fact this week is

that the coroner who did the autopsy of president McKinley injected part of him

into a dog.

So he was autopsied by two doctors called Harvey Gaylord and Herman Matzinger.

And Matzinger wanted to find out whether the bullet that had killed McKinley had been

poisoned or had some bacteria on it like a biological weapon and so the way he did it was he took samples from the wound

and he injected parts of it into some rabbits and a dog

and wanted to see how the rabbits and dogs reacted

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