TRIVIA: Did you know that eight of the 10 largest statues in the world are of Buddha?

We found that, along with a bunch of other neat facts, on the internet at thefactsite.com.

Some areas of Scotland and Japan switched to blue street lights at night and saw a decrease in crime and suicide rates.

The state of Ohio gives out different colored license plates to those convicted of DUI. The plates, referred to as “party plates” or “scarlet letter” plates, are bright yellow with prominent red letters. The plates must be used for the duration of a license suspension.

How about some movie trivia?

The term “footage” comes from films being measured in feet, when being edited in the early days of filmmaking.

The first film with a more-than $100 million budget was the 1994 film “True Lies” with Jamie Lee Curtis and Arnold Schwarzenegger.

The least financially successful Harry Potter film made $90 million more than the most successful Twilight film.

We’ll move on to some information about animals.

Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur. The stripes are like fingerprints and no two tigers have the same pattern.

Although Australia is home to the largest number of venomous snakes in the world, it averages only one fatal snake bite per year.

In 2002 alone, more people in the U.S. were killed by dogs than in shark attacks in the past 100 years.

Hares are born with fur and can see, while rabbits are born hairless and blind.

This one is our favorite: Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar kept four hippos in his estate before his death in 1993. Deemed too much of a hassle to move, the hippos were left there. They have since bred and escaped, and become an invasive species in Colombia.

The so-called “cocaine hippos” have moved into the country’s main river, the Magdalena. It is estimated there are 40 to 60 of the giant animals.