Hello, and welcome to another episode of No Such Thing as a Fish, coming to you from the QI Elves in Covent Garden.
My name's Anna Tyshinski, I'm sitting here with Andy Murray, Alex Bell, and James Harkin, and once again,
we have gathered around the microphones with our four favourite facts from the last seven days in no particular order,
here they are.
And that's starting with you, Andy.
My fact this week is that Czech deer still avoid crossing the Iron Curtain between Germany and the Czech Republic.
So they used to be the Iron Curtain, which was a very,
very long electrified fence in between the two countries during the Cold War.
And at the end of the Cold War, the Czech and the German authorities,
they established a nature reserve going across the country.
They thought this is a really nice idea, it will have this huge habitat,
all sorts of species will have lots of them to play in,
and there'll be more animals as a result, and it'll all be good for biodiversity.
It turns out 20 years later that deer on the Czech side just will not cross that border.
So what you're saying is that all deer are communist?
These are red deer, very nice things.
And the headline from the Wall Street Journal, when this study was reported,
was, Deep in the Forest, Bambi remains the Cold War's last prisoner.
She's a good headline.
There's a strip through Germany, which was called the Death Strip, I think, because it was that strip,