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).

Garfield was never intended to be funny.  It was a conscious (and very successful) effort to create a comic strip that would be marketable and make money, not laughs.

In geometry, a triacontagon is a thirty-sided polygon.

The largest contiguous ranch, in the United States, is in Hawaii. The Parker Ranch near Kamuela has about 480,000 acres of land.

There are about 1500 potentially active volcanoes worldwide, aside from the continuous belt of volcanoes on the ocean floor. About 500 of these have erupted in historical time.

The shortest passenger flight is 1.5 minutes with actual flying time closer to one minute. - Loganair Westray to Papa Westray, Orkney.

• Male gentoo and Adelie penguins "propose" to females by giving them a pebble.

Pepsi was originally called "Brad's Drink".

Ketchup was sold in the 1930's as medicine. 

There is a stretch of Route 66 that will play America the Beautiful as you drive over the rumble strips at 45mph.

There's a "sea organ" built on the coast of Croatia that plays music like an organ when waves crash in and out of it. 

A Washington Post reviewer stated that the fil Groundhog Day would never be placed in the Library of Congress.  In 2006, it was added to the Library of Congress.

In Japan, Ronald McDonald is called Donald McDonald due to a lack of a clear "r" sound in Japanese.

Safeway was slapped with a lawsuit for not stating how much "Kona Coffee" was in their "Kona Coffee Blend". It was said to be misleading as majority of the coffee was in fact NOT from Kailua-Kona, HI. Home of the famous Kona Coffee beans. Hawaii is known for their coffee. They had to pay out over $5 Million Dollars to consumers. 

In Finland, they have ‘National Sleepy Head Day’, where the last person in a family to wake up is thrown into a lake or the sea by the rest of the family.

There is a herd of wild horses on the Island of Hawaii(Big Island) that live deep in a valley called Waipio Valley. Basiclly a hawaiian mustang xD

http://www.onlyinyourstate.com/hawaii/wild-horses-waipio-valley-hi/

Finland has more heavy metal bands per capita than any other country xD

There is a white oak tree in Georgia that owns itself and the land 8ft around its trunk.

Catatumbo lightning refers to a very intesive thunderstorm in the mouth of Catatumbo, where the Catatumbo River meets Lake Maracaibo in Venezuela. The thunderstorms are there for about 260 days per year, and 10 hours per day! Catatumbo lightning changes its frequency and it is different from year to year. For ages people with ships navigated on these thunderstorms; They are seen from 150 km away!

Venezuela’s Lake Maracaibo earned a place in the Guinness Book of World Records for “highest concentration of lightning” with 250 lightning flashes per square kilometre each year, making it the most electric place on earth!

The phenomenon also has different names such as: "The Beacon of Maracaibo" or the “everlasting storm”.

The lowest ever recorded world temperature was at Vostok Station, Antarctica on the 21 July 1983 at a bitter -89.6°C

common sense is not common lol its   rare -only smart folks have it- so if you have common sence be proud cause your smarter than the adverage bear -not being able to type just proves poor english lol-