Hi everyone, welcome to this week's episode of No Such Thing as a Fish, hope you're all very well.
I have a little bit of news here and it is of particular interest to people in the UK and a particular interest to people who love our mothership of a TV show QI.
Now you all know QI, it's facts, it's funny,
it's just like fish but it's been going for a full 20 years and the big news is
that all 20 series of QI are now available on BBC iPlayer.
So as you probably know each series of QI is represented by a letter of the alphabet and so you can go back and watch facts about astronomy,
about bees, about campanology, about dog, well you get the idea.
It's 20 series of QI, so many facts,
so many amazing moments from over the years and it is all as I said available on BBC iPlayer.
And of course it wouldn't be a top of the show announcement
if I didn't remind you all that we are going back on the road in autumn,
if you live in Scotland or in Wales or indeed I think we have one show coming up also in London then do go to qi.com slash fish events and get your tickets fast
because I know for a fact that some of those dates are just on the verge of selling out.
Anyway before you go to iPlayer to binge on all the episodes of QI we better get on with this week's show so on with the podcast.
Hello and welcome to another episode of no such thing as a fish,
a weekly podcast coming to you from the QI offices in Covent Garden.
My name is Dan Schreiber, I am sitting here with James Harkin,
Anna Tyshinski and Andrew Hunter Murray and once again we have gathered round the microphones with our four favourite facts from the last seven days and in no particular order here we go.
Starting with fact number one that is Andy.
My fact is that in 1944 the book The Great Gatsby sold 120 copies, in 1945 the number of copies printed was 155,000.