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, James Harkin, 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 you, James Harkin.
Okay,
my fact this week is that it used to be thought
that you couldn't testify in court if you'd seen a crime through a window.
This is such an amazing fact.
This is incredible.
But it used to be thought, but it wasn't the case.
Well, it certainly wasn't the case in the late 19th, early 20th century,
when these news reports which were sent to me by a guy on Twitter called Richard Tisdale, at Richie T 1892.
I think people often put the date they were born as their number, don't they, but I don't think he was born in 1892.
This would explain why he knows about court cases from the late 20s.
That's true, but he sent me a few different articles.
One, for instance, was an article entitled Extraordinary Belief in Shrewsbury,
and it was a 1928 report about this person in Shrewsbury who thought they'd seen a crime,
but they thought they couldn't really be sure that they'd definitely seen it because it was through a window.