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).

At horse race tracks, the favorite wins fewer than 30% of the time!

Lobsters' bladders are in their faces.

It is physically impossible for pigs to look up into the sky.

Cats have 32 muscles in each ear.

The venom of a small scorpion is much more toxic than the venom of a large scorpion.

The dots on dice are called pips.

A broken clock is always right twice a day.

None of the Salem witches were burned - most were hanged or crushed under rocks. Colony law forbade burning.

the horses brain is half the size of a humans

"Q" is the only letter that doesn't appear in the name of an American state.

Babies' eyes do not produce tears until the baby is approximately six to eight weeks old.

Cows don't have upper front teeth.

Australia is the only country that is also a continent.

Strawberries have more vitamin c than oranges.

There are more than one million animal species on Earth!

Elephants are physically incapable of jumping (also the only animal to have two sets of knees).

The original name for the butterfly was 'flutterby'!

You only ever breathe out of one nostril at a time, and your body will regularly switch between the right and left throughout the day (unless one nostril is stuffed up, etc.)

Giraffes are unable to cough.

Horses cannot burp.