Columbian drug-lord Pablo Escobar kept four Hippos in his estate before his death in 1993. Deemed too much hassle to move by authorities, his Hippos were left there and have since bred and escaped becoming an invasive species of Columbia.

Influenza caused over twenty-one million deaths in 1918.

A women from Berlin Germany has had 3,110 gallstones taken out of her gall bladder.

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