If there is a statue of a person on horseback in the park, and the horse has both front legs in the air, the person died in battle. If the horse has one front leg raised, the person died of wounds sustained in battle. If the horse has all of its legs on the ground, the person died of natural causes.
The hippo can run faster than a man.
Electric eels can regenerate their muscles and fins.
Every year swallows fly 38.000 kilometers from the northern to the southern hemisphere and back.
The first woman ambassador was Russia's Aleksandra Kollontai (1872-1952) who was elected in 1923 to be the Soviet ambassador to Norway.
The Syrian city of Damascus is the oldest continuously inhabited city in the world. It reached its peak 2000 years before Rome was founded in 753 BC.
