The hippos that outlived a drug lord and other #FridayFunFacts

This just in - The two parts to the word “helicopter” are NOT “heli” and “copter”!  They're actually “helico” meaning spiral, and “pter” meaning one with wings, like pterodactyl. Putting that together, a helicopter is a spiral one with wings.

Wow, after that breaking news, we all need to calm down.

There is a song called Weightless, by Marconi union, that was designed to slow your heart rate down. It has been proven to reduce anxiety by 65%! You can all go listen to it here, just don't listen to it while driving!

In other news, sex is banned aboard the international space station. How much would you have to be paid not to give anti-grav sex a sneaky try?

And the ever so sexy Bruno Mars was actually born Peter Gene Bayot Hernandez. He styled his first name after the Wrestler, Bruno Samartino, and his last after, well, all the girls who told him "you're out of this world!" when he was a kid. 

Pablo Escobar, the famed Colombian drug-lord, kept 4 hippos on his estate, as you do. Since his death in 1993, they bred and escaped to the point of now being an invasive species in Colombia. Long live Escobar's legacy, apparently.