I thought it would be fun for everyone to post any random facts they know (or something you Googled or whatever). It can be about anything as long as it's HP-appropriate. One player posts one fact. I'll start:

The Icelandic word for computer is tölva. It was coined in the '60s and is a combination of the words tala (to count) and völva (prophetess).

Sea cucumbers eat with their feet.

Over the course of her sixty-three-year reign, Queen Victoria survived eight assassination attempts.

Humans are the Only Animals That Enjoy Spicy Foods.

Ravens in captivity can learn to talk better than parrots

Candy corn, first produced in the late 1880s, was originally called "Chicken Feed".

The word "witch" comes from the Old English wicce, meaning "wise woman." 

Illinois produces up to five times more pumpkins than any other state.

1 in 5,000 north Atlantic lobsters are born bright blue.

There are 293 ways to make change for a dollar.

Moonflowers unfurl in the evening and stay open until the sun rises. Several varieties of moonflower also give off a lemon fragrance when it's flowers are open.

You can’t hum while holding your nose.

The University of Oxford predates the Aztecs.

Viking men wore makeup.

The world’s oldest surviving piano is at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City. The instrument dates back to 1720, and was made by an Italian man named Bartolomeo Cristofori.

Wisconsin is known as the Badger State because the area’s lead miners used to spend winters in tunnels burrowed into hills. Like badgers.

An Icelandic horse that leaves Iceland may never come back, for fear of bringing back diseases.

In 1917, the Seattle Metropolitans hockey team became the first American team to win the Stanley Cup.

Octopuses have 3 hearts

Horses and Donkeys have different chromosome structures so when they mate, they create a Mule (or Hinny) that is sterile.

“Life is short but also like terribly and insufferably long at the same time.” - Jenna Marbles

Did you know, that only about 1 in 10 million lobsters are natuarally red?