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🗓️ 15 June 2014
⏱️ 12 minutes
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0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to another episode of No Such Thing as a Fish Presents the World Cup of Facts. |
0:05.2 | This is the only World Cup podcast out there that makes absolutely no mention of football whatsoever. |
0:09.8 | Brought to you by the QI Elves in association with Visitingland.com. |
0:13.5 | My name is Dan Schreiber. I'm sitting here with James Harkin, Anarchus Ensky, and Andy Murray. |
0:18.0 | And today's match is France vs Honduras. |
0:21.9 | France. |
0:22.5 | Okay. I've found a nice number of silly named places. |
0:26.9 | Oh, France. |
0:27.7 | Always love a silly name place. |
0:29.6 | So there are six places in France called Silly, 13 called Billy, |
0:34.8 | and a place called Pratt, which is great. |
0:37.2 | There's also Pissie, Corny, Punchy, Misery, Messy, and Pussy. |
0:41.5 | French Seven Dwarfs. |
0:44.8 | Potatoes were illegal in France between 1748 and 1772. |
0:49.2 | What happened? |
0:50.0 | You weren't allowed to grow them. |
0:51.1 | People thought that they were very bad for your health. |
0:52.8 | And then a great hero chemist called Antoine Augustin, |
0:57.0 | Parmentier is the man who rehabilitated them and said, |
1:00.9 | actually, they are okay. |
1:02.1 | He said, this is nonsense. |
1:03.3 | Yeah, this is fine. |
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