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).

Sheep outnumber humans in New Zealand 15 to 1.

There is not a single state in the United States of America with the letter Q in it.

The Blue Whale's tongue weighs more than an adult elephant!

A blue whale's fart bubble is big enough to fit a horse inside.

Jupiter's moon Ganymede, is larger than the planet Mercury!

Huda Kattan, the creator of Huda Beauty Cosmetics, was born in Oklahoma City, on October 2, 1983.

A giraffe can clean its ears with its 21-inch tongue!

Lake Superior is the largest lake in the world by surface area, and is also the deepest of all the Great Lakes. 

More boys than girls are born during the day; more girls are born at night.

1n 1999, Astronomers focusing on a star at the center of the Milky Way measured precisely for the first time how long it takes the sun to complete one orbit (a galactic year) of our home galaxy: 226 million years.

Avocados are technically berries.

Apples are actually part of the rose family.

New York drifts away from London 1 inch every year

The earth is .02 degrees hotter during a full moon.

Dust from Africa can reach as far as Florida

McDonald's started serving breakfast in 1972.

An eagle can attack, kill, and carry away an animal as large as a small deer.

The Transsiberian Railway in Russia crosses 3901 bridges along its way.

There are more than 10 million bricks in the Empire State Building!

There are five types of bones in the human body: long, short, flat, irregular, and sesamoid.