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452: No Such Thing As Lemming Atlantis

No Such Thing As A Fish

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The History of the Airports

In the 16th century hundreds of lives in Portugal were saved by a special sausage. This is according to a book called Gastro-obscura and they wrote about this thing called an alhira sausage. It was made to look exactly like one of these pork sausages but it was actually made of chicken and bread. So it was a fake pork sausage and it saved people's lives because the Inquisition couldn't find them. James: I've been waiting before getting on a plane before. Yes, small planes I think. Have I ever said this on this?

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