The hippo can run faster than a man.
More people are using blue toothbrushes rather than the red ones.
Heroin was once used as a cough medicine.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart is considered one of the most prolific composers of classical music. By the time he reached thirty-five, he wrote about a thousand compositions.
The shortest war in history was between Zanzibar and England in 1986, but lasted only 38 minutes. The shortest war ended with the capitulation of Zanzibar.
A pearl can be found in one of a thousand oysters, and only in one of three thousand mussels.
