The bug
If the statistics screen is small enough (no scrollbar), the tooltips of the column headers are shown in the empty space below the columns.
Example
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It's not a matter of moving the mouse too fast.
If the statistics is small enough (no scrollbar) the tooltips of the icons of the column headers are shown in the empty space below the columns.
Confirmed for 1.7.9:
The reason is not the one you mentioned I guess, the bug is that the whole column shows the title