Hello and welcome to another episode of No Such Thing as a Fish,
a weekly podcast coming to you from the QI offices in Covert Garden.
My name is Dan Schreiber, I am sitting here with Anna Tyshinski, Andrew Hunter Murray and James Harkin,
and once again we have gathered round the microphones with our four favorite facts from the last seven days and in no particular order,
here we go!
Starting with fact number one, and that is, Andy.
My fact is that,
there's a theory that the Bronte sisters all died young because they spent a lot of their life drinking graveyard water.
You've said graveyard water is though, we're all familiar with it, it's like spring water.
You've all seen it on the shutters, but still, sparkling.
Yeah, well no, you're right, it's not a thing anymore,
but I think graveyard water was a much bigger thing in the 19th century before proper hygiene standards and before proper water piping.
So this is water that has happened to go through a graveyard.
It's filtered, yeah, it's filtered through.
Whenever you buy a bottle of water and it says filtered, that's what it means.
No, so they lived in this town called Howarth, which is in West Yorkshire, and it was an extremely sickly place,
very low life expectancy, running down the streets, I mean, you know, bad ventilation.
You said it was Yorkshire.
Sorry, yeah, okay.
And also, the Bronte family home, the pass nearer to they lived in,