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'm sitting here with Andy Murray, James Harkin, and Anna Chazinski.
And once again,
we've gathered around the microphones this time with our four favorite winter facts for our winter special
as it's really cold and in no particular order,
here we go.
Starting with you, Anna Chazinski.
My fact this week is that Socrates had a spirit who spoke to him through the medium of sneezing.
And this is one of the great thinkers of Western civilization, just to be clear.
He was guided by sneezes.
No.
Aristotle wrote about sneezing as well.
Did he?
Yeah.
So he said that sneezing was of divine origin, or he said that that was believed at the time.
So coughing wasn't, and if your nose was running, that didn't mean anything.
But he said, why is it that we think sneezing is divine?
Is it because it arises from the most divine part of us, the head, from where reasoning comes?