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).

Chickens can continue to move for up to two minutes after being beheaded.

Americans eat, on average, 23 lbs of cheese per year. EACH.

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Canada consumes more Mac n Cheese than any other country.

"So Close" is a song written by composer Alan Menken and lyricist Stephen Schwartz for Walt Disney Pictures' Enchanted. Performed by Jon McLaughlin, the song was released on November 20, 2007 in the United States as part of the soundtrack for Enchanted.

Redheads produce their own vitamin D.

Venice Island was built on a foundation of tree trunks. 1200 years later, those same trunks still support almost all of central Venice.

Pollen can travel up to 500 miles in a day.

Every year Alaska has about 5,000 earthquakes

It takes about 540 peanuts to make a 12-ounce jar of peanut butter. There are enough peanuts in one acre to make 30,000 peanut butter sandwiches.

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

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the word lesbian derives from lesbos, a greek island where the poet sapphos was born and lived. she worshipped aphrodite and wrote about loving women.

i'm only looking into this because i want to visit and see her statue since im a wlw, it's just been on my mind haha

On November 28, 1963 President Lyndon B. Johnson announced in a televised address that Cape Canaveral would be renamed Cape Kennedy in memory of President John F. Kennedy, who was assassinated six days earlier. President Johnson said the name change had been sanctioned by the U.S. Board of Geographic Names.

The Dallas/Ft. Worth airport is larger than New York City's Manhattan Island.

Orcas (formerly known as killer whales - Orcinus orca),are actually dolphins. They are the largest of the dolphin family (Family Delphinidae ~ 32 species, including what we normally consider dolphins, pygmy killer whales, Feresa attenuata, and false killer whales, Pseudorca crassiddens).

"Jellyfish" is a misnomer - they really should be referred to simply as "jellies" since they are very much not fish.

Although the actual atmospheric lapse rate varies, under normal atmospheric conditions the average atmospheric lapse rate results in a temperature decrease of 6.4C°/km (3.5F°/1,000 ft) of altitude above ground level. The measurable lapse rate is affected by the moisture content of the air (humidity).

The warmest temperature ever recorded in Antarctica was 3* F. 

Bumblebees were nicknamed foggy-toddlers in 18th century England.

The state with the longest coastline in the Continental U.S. is Michigan.

The ridged pattern on a cats nose is as unique as the humans fingerprint no two are the same :)