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18: No Such Thing As A Kilt On The Battl...

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Episode 18: This week in the QI Office Dan Schreiber (@schreiberland), James Harkin (@eggshaped), Anna Ptaszynski (@nosuchthing) & Museum of Curiosity co-producer Richard Turner (@therichturner) discuss James Joyce's tiny underpants dance, a bucket worth starting a war for, fashionable apes, and much more...

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