NSTAAF International Factball: Uruguay v Costa Rica

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🗓️ 14 June 2014

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Uruguay v Costa Rica: The QI Elves in association with www.visitengland.com bring you the third episode of this No Such Thing As A Fish Factball special - the only football podcast that has absolutely nothing to do with football. Today Dan Schreiber (@schreiberland), James Harkin (@eggshaped), Andrew Hunter Murray (@andrewhunterm) and Anna Ptaszynski (@qikipedia) pit Uruguay against Costa Rica to find out which is the most Quite Interesting country.

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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.
0:05.6	This is the only World Cup podcast out there that makes absolutely no mention of football whatsoever.
0:10.8	Brought to you by the QILBs in association with Visitingland.com.
0:14.7	My name is Dan Schreiber and I am joined by James Harkin, Anichesenski, and Andy Murray.
0:19.5	And today's match is Uruguay versus Costa Rica. Let's begin with Uruguay.
0:24.1	I've got a fact it's actually the only fact I've got about football for any country I've researched.
0:29.8	Wait a minute, this is supposed to be a none football football contest.
0:32.8	Okay, if you just heard the intro, I'll dress it up as a newspaper fact.
0:36.4	Okay. The first time that Uruguay won the World Cup in 1930.
0:40.0	1930. The fact was not even reported in the Times.
0:44.4	That is how little esteemed sports news was then.
0:48.2	So they're just really a loof. They might be fantastic of football.
0:51.3	They are actually pretty good aren't they?
0:52.9	Well actually they are very good at football because they've managed to win the World Cup twice.
0:56.9	Despite having a tiny population, what was it Andy?
0:59.3	You were saying it's three and a half million, which is about the same as the West Midlands.
1:02.6	It's very small. We're not doing very well at this being a non football football podcast, are we?
1:07.1	Red cards around, no football chat.
1:10.0	So Uruguay was besieged by the Argentine dictator Juan Manuel Ducrozas in the 1840s
1:17.0	and they'd run out of proper ammunition and they held their own in battle and won
1:22.4	by raiding the gannies of their ships, finding that they had quite a lot of Dutch cheese.
1:26.7	Loaded up their cannons with what they now think, well it was reported as E-down cheese,
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