2014-06-28
27 分钟We ran it on QI a few years ago, which was there's no such thing as a fish.
There's no such thing as a fish.
No, seriously, it's in the Oxford Dictionary of Underwater Life.
It says it right there, first paragraph, no such thing as a fish.
Hello and welcome to season two of No Such Thing as a Fish.
This is the QI podcast coming to you from our offices in Covent Garden.
My name is Dan Shriver.
I'm sitting here with Anna Chazinski, James Harkin and Andy Murray.
And these are our favorite facts from the last seven days.
So in no particular order, here we go.
James.
Okay, my fact is the Aztecs wore necklaces made from popcorn.
Was it done like, you know, the necklaces, the candy necklaces that you have?
Yeah, kind of like that on a string.
Yeah, on a string.
Was it like that?
But yeah, was it there so that they could eat the popcorn?
No, it was there because they used popcorn as like an offering to the gods because it was an important crop.
Did it wait?
Did the Aztecs actually pop the corn?