No Such Thing As A Love Potion For A Vole

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  Hello and welcome to another episode of No Such Thing as a Fish,

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  a weekly podcast coming to you from the QI offices in Covent Garden.

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  My name is Lightning and I'm sitting here with James Harkin, Anna Tijinski and Alex Bell.

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  And once again,

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  we've gathered around the microphones and we've got you our four favourite facts from the last seven days.

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  So in no particular order, here we go.

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  Starting this week with my fact, and that is that early ice skating rinks stank of pig fat.

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  Rank.

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  It's a rank rink.

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  Rank rink.

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  Ice rank.

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  So this is the fact that the very first artificial skating rinks used as kind of ice substitute

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  because they didn't have the technology to make proper fake ice.

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  So instead,

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  they used a substitute which consisted of various salts and hog lard and people would just skate around on it.

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  And they also had mounds of hog lard just at the side to look like fake snow.

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  Yeah.

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  And it didn't last very long.

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  It lasted six or seven months.

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  When did you say that was?

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