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 Chazinski, 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 you, James.
Okay, my fact this week is that using too much red lipstick can make your urine turn red.
That's weird, so it gets into your, um, your kidney somehow.
Yeah, I reckon.
How do you wear lipstick?
I must have worn it wrong the other times I've worn it.
What, you're not wearing it on the outside, are you?
I screwed it up, you put it on your tongue, didn't you?
So I found this on the website of improbable research, our friends, who also make the Ignobel Prizes,
and this was a case for a 28-year-old woman who turned up at a nephrology clinic with a five-day history of passing red-colored urine,
but she didn't have any other symptoms.
She had no pain, she didn't have chills,
she didn't have anything else that could have caused this, like, blood in your urine,
for instance, and the doctor said that the only noticeable feature was her bright red lipstick,
which I think it sounds a bit harsh, actually.
I'm sure she had lots of other great features, but anyway,