Hey guys just a quick announcement before we begin this week's show,
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We're gonna nodding him We're gonna Manchester London Leicester Dunstable Birmingham Coventry.
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it's gonna be so much fun We're putting together this whole fantastic first half full of stupid games and extra bits and interactive bits And in the second half,
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Okay on with the show 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 Shriver and I'm sitting here with James Harkin,
Anna Chazinski and Andrew Hunter Murray And once again,
we have gathered around 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 in 1966 the Chinese press reported
that a 73 year old chairman Mao had swum 15 kilometers of the Yangtze River in 65 minutes That's twice the speed that Michael Phelps has ever swum 75?
Imagine what he could do at 40 73 73 It's amazing
that you're given a number and you just remember a different number No,
I confused it with 65 minutes Got it So I took the seven from the year and I took the five from the minutes Maybe I'm 73 kilometers in 15 minutes That doesn't sound cool No,
he swam 1966 kilometers in 65 seconds Okay, wow Can you say the numbers again?
Yes, year 1966, age 73, distance 15 kilometers and time 65 minutes And the thing is,
I've read about this and it's possible