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No Such Thing As A Fish

No Such Thing As A Fish

Arts, Nature, History, Science, Improv, Comedy

4.817.9K Ratings

🗓️ 20 February 2025

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Dan, James, Andy and Anna discuss the London Bears, the Roman Saints, the British Jaguars and the Margate Browns.

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0:00.0

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0:08.0

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0:32.3

You know what I'm going?

0:35.4

Do you know what you have?

0:36.3

Did you know what? Hello and welcome to you from the QI offices in Ho-Hoburn. My name is Dan Schreiber. I'm sitting here with Anna Tashinsky, Andrew Hunter Murray, and James Harkin.

0:55.0

And once again, we have gathered around the microphones with our four favorite facts from

0:58.7

the last seven days.

1:00.0

And in no particular order, here we go.

1:03.6

Starting with fact number one, and that is Anna.

1:06.9

My fact this week is that ancient Rome had a secret name and no one knows what it was to this very day.

1:14.0

To this day.

1:15.0

To this very day.

1:16.0

It's very cool.

1:18.0

It is very cool.

1:19.0

It also, when you're looking into it, it also seems like, did they?

1:22.6

Was there definitely a secret name?

1:24.2

You think they're all making it up?

1:25.4

It seems like it might have been something that was written by historians a bit later.

1:29.5

No, no, it was written at the time.

1:30.7

So there's a bunch of ancient sources that claim it from about the first century onwards.

1:34.8

So it's Pliny and Plutarch are the first.

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