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).

Sony created the first PlayStation out of revenge on Nintendo for dropping a partnership with them 

Something I recently learned: Gnarls Barkley isn't one artist, but a duo consisting of singer-songwriter CeeLo Green and producer Danger Mouse.

Benoit Sokal, playwrite and scriptwriter, and I share a birthday! I found this out last week and he's my favorite it was actually very exciting.

Niantic is a location in Massachussetts, and not just the name of the software development company best known for augmented reality games, Ingress and Pokemon Go.

1. The Spice Girls were originally a band called Touch. "When we first started [with the name Touch], we were pretty bland," Mel C told The Guardian in 2018. "We felt like we had to fit into a mould."

Atlus video game company forfeited its name in 2010, only to be re-named (legally) back to Atlus on April 1st.

Toblerone is a portmanteau of the candy’s inventor, Theodor Tobler, and torrone, a word for various Italian nougats.

90% of Australians live on the coast. 

Andy Warhol' swig sold for over 10800$ and was the most expensive wig ever sold at auction 

Australia has over 60 separate wine regions. (We love our drink)

The "twinning rate" has increased by one-third since the '80s—up from 9 to 12 twins per 1,000 deliveries. 

On average, the human heart beats 100,000 times a day.

• Mars can have huge dust storms which last for months and can cover the entire planet.

A shrimp's heart is in its head.

The temperature at the polar ice caps—which are cold, arid deserts similar to Antarctica—can reach frigid temperatures of −189.67 degrees Fahrenheit.

When snakes are born with two heads, they fight each other for food.

Norway introduced salmon sushi to Japan.

The human heart creates enough pressure to squirt blood 30 feet (9 m).

Venus is the only planet to spin clockwise.

Only about 2 percent of people in the world have naturally green eyes.