QI S12E04 - Levity

[@paulgrieger8182]

Fun fact: Chicago wasn't the only city built on a swamp. So was Milwaukee. After the war, my parents lived in a cold water flat on 13th & McKinley. The house was so crooked that you couldn't fill up the bath much more than half way. The landlord decided that he was going to put in a cement basement floor. He dug down and struck the corner of a coffin. Turns out, the whole area was built upon a cemetery for those who had perished in a typhus epidemic. If one were to google the location today, they would find that the area is mysteriously devoid of newer homes.

[@PianoKwanMan]

That's an awful find. The house price must have plummeted, If you owned that house

[@deborahchasteen3206]

So was Columbia, South Carolina. It was put in the exact center of the state because Charleston in the south and Greenville in the north both deemed themselves the only worthy site for the capital. So building it on the hottest, most humid, swampy patch available showed them both.

[@Nimbubuful]

How to leave someone in suspense, with these dying words. I have nothi........

[@dennybm]

“I have nothing, I owe great deal, and the rest I leave to the poor”.

[@judepower4425]

@@dennybmThank you!

[@VLind-uk6mb]

Actually, his dying words were reputed to be “I go to seek the Great Perhaps.”

[@artrickard4494]

That is not Grants tumb. That is the Washington monument.

[@jeffdroog]

It's actually my dong!

[@starksandrecreation]

It’s not Grant’s tomb, either 😉

[@billneo]

What a buffoon, Stephen!

[@JayM409]

I'm curious as to what tool the British use when they go Ice fishing? What lakes and rivers freeze over to a depth of more than 3 feet?

[@momotaro37]

All the Americans losing their figs at the Washington Monument gaff in a non-US show, go on, tell me about Hadrian's Wall. I'll wait...

[@jimmyholloway8527]

Built in the time of the Roman Emperor Hadrian. Sort of divides Scotland from England but runs the width of Britain. Parts of it remain to this day. It is far older than the Washington Monument so knowing less about it might be excused.

[@gabrielgreenwoodschannel]

at least we’d know to show a picture of it, rather than a picture of the Shard

[@keithpadbury9818]

Hadrian's Wall? Its to keep the rabbits out.

[@bontragerjones]

@@keithpadbury9818 Ahh yes, good old Emperor Nasi Goreng. What a bloke

[@davidconnell1959]

GRANT’S TOMB??? Grant’s Tomb!?!?!? He snowed a lot of people, good old thing.

[@SherylThompson-m8f]

Walker Kenneth Lewis Carol Jackson Jeffrey

[@dcbsmt]

I don't understand why the rending of cloth is forbidden. Seems very random.

[@markneedham752]

That ice berg was French.😮

[@johanneskarlsson3859]

30:08 I think it is a Iron man competition she is talking about

[@FayeJordan-y1m]

Lee Paul Rodriguez Jose Robinson Michelle

[@RachaelMorgan-om4xw]

Luigi, I'm new to your site...Love it, man! 😊

[@ingredpaulson4530]

The dye used to color the Chicago River is a 60-year-old secret recipe, which is a low-impact orange powder. The powder is spread by two motorboats (one for dumping, one for stirring the water). It takes a crew of six about 40 pounds of powder and two hours to turn the Chicago River into a shamrock-hued paradise. This process leaves the Chicago River green for four to five hours.

[@wizardofoz1390]

Fry looks cooked on coke

[@superchickenlips1]

The wish is the father of that thought.

[@DerEchteBold]

I'm pretty sure those days where far behind him at that point.

[@zapkvr]

Lightning goes up, not down

[@mannie7028]

Indeed! 4th grade physics 😂

[@Kim-gv5bw]

😂not Down Under it doesn't!!Nothing like a summer storm in the outback😊

[@zapkvr]

That's Cleopatra's needle

[@zetetick395]

A few _seriously_ quibbling answers in this one, not one of the better episodes imho, comedy-wise - Although the 'anti-gravity' stuff at the end was _fascinating_ ......I do love it when they go practical on QI 👍

[@sgtmajvimy]

Bad cut, bad edit, need to block these, sorry.

[@charlesb7019]

Stephen has a bit of a nerve talking about people’s stomachs expanding….

[@jeffdroog]

How did the British manage to conquer so many places,when they can't even figure out what's funny?

[@zapkvr]

You cant be serious. Have you heard "I'm sorry I haven't a clue"? Or any of the great British radio panel shows? The fault isnt your stars. It is you

[@RachaelMorgan-om4xw]

Ohh the British know what's funny, Droog...... and how to recognise the difference between 'funny-ha-ha!' and 'funny-are you out of your tiny, ignorant, deluded, pea-sized brain?' You have to be American.

[@jeffdroog]

@@zapkvr And they're fucking terrible lol

[@stejer211]

Americans can't handle surprises, which is why every funny story starts with the punchline. Don't believe it? Watch American sitcoms.

[@RobespierreThePoof]

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