The hippo can run faster than a man.
You are two times more likely to be killed by a vending machine than a shark.
According to statistics, the United States annually spends 500.000.000.000 (500 billion) matches.
In 1666, the fire that destroyed most of the city of London, at the same time has ended the plague. Mostly because the fire killed infected rats who were the carriers of the disease.
Oysters can change their sex from male to female. They can do this countless times.
In the Middle Ages, patients were tended by nuns, who in between themselves called one another sisters. That name was later used for trained nurses.
