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).

Did you know that mountain goats aren't actually goats at all? They're antelope.

Ostriches can run faster than horses, and male ostriches can roar like a lion!

Horse hooves are made from the same protein that comprises human hair and fingernails!

Banging your head against a wall uses 150 calories an hour. 

Lmao Pants, did you figure that one out yourself?

If you laid out an adult human's blood vessels in one line, they would measure about 100,000 miles long.

HAHAHAHA. no. maybe. I mean, no. 

Everyone has a unique tongue print, just like a fingerprint. 

German Shepherds are the second-most registered breed in the AKC, after (you guessed it) the Labrador Retriever.

Hyenas are actually apart of the cat family, not related to dogs.

ALSO PANTS LMAOOOO 

Apparently, the average woman uses her height in lipstick every 5 years.

Hawaiians are actually desendents of Multiple Polynesian ansectors. Meanings Hawaiians(originally can be a mix of samoan, tongan, etc) So the movie Moana was actually on point, The first voyagers came from other pacific islands before calling hawaii home.. :P 

Did you know that a flock of crows is called a murder? 
A group of geese is a gaggle! 

Corgi means ''dwarf dog'' in Welsh. Also, it has been scientifically proven that dogs prefer to poop while in alignment with the Earth's magnetic fields.

https://frontiersinzoology.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/1742-9994-10-80

In 2015 more people were killed from injuries caused by taking a selfie than by shark attacks...

If an Icelandic horse is exported from Iceland, it is never allowed to return. The reason for this is to keep the native stock healthy by keeping foreign illness and disease out of the country.

Did you know? The first Draft Breed to ever come to the Americas was the Percheron in 1839. Their purpose was, originally, to be used as freight and farm horses!

Cats lap liquids four or five times before swallowing.

An individual horse has a peak power output of 14.9 horsepower.

This thread is awesome!

Did you know? Holsteiners were not originally a Sporthorse! They were heavy-draft breeds used as German Marsh horses as far back as 450 A.D. and did not become the breed we know until the 1960's!

A dog named Duke is the mayor of Cormorant, Minnesota. (Apparently we Minnesotans have it figured out lmao)

The caucasian Ovcharka is 6 feet tall on its hind legs.