Here's a page about the hippo. The fact is at the bottom of the article. It's not an authoritative source by any means, but I'm sure you can find one if you Google it.
What does that say about you if all you can come up with for a mascot is a giant slug? Were cockroaches already taken?
I've got one worse than that. In Ohio there is the Wilmington College Fighting Quakers. Quakers are pacifist.
There are two movies that Keanu Reeves plays an ex-college quarterback from The Ohio State University. One is easy, one is not: Spoiler: Two movies Point Break and The Replacements
For all those who seek inspiration in dreams (or the ones who like dreaming): Drinking apple juice before sleep gives you more vivid dreams. I Haven't tried it yet, though.
A study of women's preferences for a man's body features rated the butt as the number one attraction. You-know-what was ninth, and hair was fourth.
Mason and Dixon were both Englishmen. Jeremiah Dixon was from Durham, around where I'm living now (I'm about 30 miles from where he was born) and Charles Mason was from Gloucestershire. (Maybe it's just me, for a long time I thought they were both born in America.)
What is the middle name of President Harry Truman? The letter 'S'. Literally that letter. He didn't have a full middle name.
The two largest families of big cats are separated by two abilities, ones that can purr, and ones that can roar.
Cats' scapulae are attached to the rest of the skeleton by muscle only giving them extra flexibility and that slinky walk.