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, and I am sitting here with Anna Chazinski, Alex Bell, and James Harkin, 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, Alex Bell.
My fact this week is that the controls in the world's first combat submarine were lit up with glowing mushrooms.
That is disgusting.
Amazing.
When you say the controls, were the controls themselves the mushrooms?
No, no, no, it would be amazing.
It was actually like in your car at night time when you were driving all the dials, kind of lights up.
Yes.
So, it was literally the little needles on the dials and things that had tiny bits of foxfire,
which is the type of bioluminescent fungi attached to them.
I think foxfire is what Americans call any kind of glowing fungus,
and it comes from fox more like foe, as in fake, fake fire.
It used to call it cold fire, didn't they?
I think maybe Aristotle or someone, so it was cold fire.
When was this, submarine?