The hippo is the third biggest land animals, slightly smaller but heavier than a white rhino - the elephant is the biggest. But no animal has killed more people than the hippo.

Dogs are mentioned 14 times in the Bible, lions 89 times, but domestic cats are not mentioned.

The tails of wild cats almost never lift higher than their backs

Basketball was first played 1,700 years ago!

When Richard Trevithick introduced the steam locomotive in 1804, it achieved a speed of 8 km/h (5 mph). Today, trains can fly down the tracks at 500 km/h (311 mph). And fly they do, not touching the tracks.

On average, a person produces about half a liter of fart gas per day, distributed over an average of about fourteen daily farts.

An unusual eating disorder called tomatophagia - but also known as pica - is blamed on iron deficiency anemia. People with tomatophagia develop unusual cravings for such things as tomatoes, ice, detergent, starch, clay, or even dirt.

Microsoft CEO Bill Gates, launched his business career in 1969, at age 14 by forming a company named Lakeside Programming Group. Gates and his friend Paul Allen signed an agreement with Computer Center Corporation to report bugs in PDP-10 software, in exchange for computer time.

The body’s daily requirement of vitamins and minerals is less than a thimbleful.

A McDonald's straw will hold 7.7 ml, or just over one-and-a-half teaspoons of whatever you are drinking. This means that it would take 17,000 strawfuls of water to fill up a 34 gallon bathtub.

If you were to rub garlic on the heel of your foot, it would be absorbed by the pores and eventually show up on your breath.

Don't use the on/off switch on your personal computer any more than necessary. There's a surge of electricity every time the switch is turned on. For fragile computer chips, it's much like starting the day by jumping into an icy pool. To prolong the life of your home computer, turn it on when you arrive home from work and turn it off again when you go to bed at night.

There is about one quarter-pound of salt in every gallon of seawater.

During World War II, sugar was sent overseas for U.S. troops, which meant there wasn't much sugar left in the States to produce candy. Because of this unusual situation, Americans ate three times as much popcorn as usual.