Columbian drug-lord Pablo Escobar kept four Hippos in his estate before his death in 1993. Deemed too much hassle to move by authorities, his Hippos were left there and have since bred and escaped becoming an invasive species of Columbia.

The average life span of a single red blood cell is 120 days.

Thomas Edison was afraid of the dark. (Hence, the light bulb?).

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