hippopotamuses are really big animals, right? like, they look all funny with their huge mouths, but did you know some people ridicule them for that? but we're not going to do that because it's not nice. so, let's commence from the outset, learning all fun facts about hippopotamuses, but in order to truly understand them, we need to look at pre-introductory facts that most books won't tell you because they contain forbidden secrets about what hippos really do when nobody is watching.