2019-03-02
42 分钟Hello, and welcome to another episode of Know Such Thing as a Fish,
a weekly podcast coming to you from the QI offices in Covent Garden.
My name is Dan Schreiber, I'm sitting here next to James Harkin, who is sitting next to Andrew Hunter Murray,
and then rounding off the circle in between Andrew and myself is Anna Chazinski,
and once again we have gathered around the microphones with our four favourite facts from the last seven days,
and in no particular order, here we go, starting with you, the man sitting next to me, James Harkin.
And if at home you can work out, because there's only one man sat next to Dan,
if you remember the situation of us all around the table.
Genius.
So who's it?
Me, sorry.
My fact this week is that animal metabolism was first proven by Antoine Lavoisier in an experiment where he put a guinea pig in a freezer.
Okay, so a couple of caveats to this.
Freezers haven't been invented yet.
It's the first one.
So it was in an ice calorimeter, which is a container inside another container, which is full of ice.
So it's a way that people would keep things cool in those days, but it's not a freezer per se, I wouldn't say.
It's kind of like a thermos flask, but it's got ice instead of a vacuum.
Yes.
Okay.