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 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 if you took all the hedges in Britain and laid them end to end,
they would stretch to the moon and most of the way back.
What are you laughing at?
I'm craffie ending to that.
How far back?
Basically,
figures vary about the exact length but it would definitely get you all the way there and it would definitely not get you all the way back.
All the alien sheep that you're kind of herding into this gap between the earth and the moon,
they'd be able to escape from that last little gap.
I don't think they would because there's one layer of hedging solidly between the two.
Yeah, but the thing is with fences, you need them on both sides of a field.
Yes,
what I stupidly imagined is a sort of double row of hedging that runs out halfway back but you don't actually need that.
Basically the UK has about 700,000 kilometers of hedges.