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).

One foot is 12 inches 

Before earning a living as a writer, Octavia E. Butler once worked as a potato chip inspector.

Giraffes are 30 times more likely to get hit by lightning than people.

Lemons float in water but limes sink

Horses have 4 feet.

Octopuses have 3 hearts

Cows have accents depending where they were born. 

Human saliva has a boiling point three times higher than regular water.

Approx 10% of people are left handed

(I'm one of them xP)

In England, in the 1880's, "Pants" was considered a dirty word... 

XD

That's a good one XD

A cloud weights around a million tonnes 

• The human circulatory system is more than 60,000 miles long.

Identical twins have different thumb prints 

Cats can make about 100 different sounds, whereas dogs only make around 10.

In 1835, a horse named Old Billy in England lived to be 62 years old, making him the oldest recorded horse in history. He was a barge horse who spent decades pulling cargo boats along canals, and by the time he died, he had outlived multiple generations of his handlers. His skull is now in a museum, and portraits of him still exist.

No number before 1000 contains an 'A'

While brown eyes are more common, it's possible for two brown-eyed parents to have a blue-eyed child

The pope isn't allowed to be an organ doner 

In the 1800's, candy makers sometimes used arsenic as a food dye (the most popular being "Scheele's green.")

YUM.

extra fact; arsenic wasn't banned in food dyes until well in the 20th century in some places.

Your brain burns 400-500 calories a day