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).

"Rock You Like a Hurricane" reached number 25 in the USA Billboard Hot 100.

At any one time about 0.7% of the world’s population is drunk.

Buffalo wings were invented in 1964 by mistake.

(Most amazing inventions were haha)

Because metal was scarce, the Oscars given out during World War II were made of wood.

A person's fingerprints are formed when they are a tiny developing baby in their mother's womb. Pressure on the fingers from the baby touching, and their surroundings create what are called "friction ridges", the faint lines you see on your fingers and toes.

Sherlock Holmes NEVER actually said, “Elementary, my dear Watson.”

If you were standing on the Moon, you would always see the Earth in exactly the same position, while the stars and the Sun moved around in the sky. The Moon takes 27.3 days to complete an orbit around the Earth. And this is the same amount of time that it takes to turn once on its axis.

M&M’s actually stands for “Mars & Murrie’s,” the last names of the candy’s founders.

When the mummy of Ramses II was shipped to France in the mid-1970s, it was issued a passport. Ramses' occupation? "King (deceased)."

Due to the lack of an "r" sound in Japanese, Ronald McDonald is called Donald McDonald

The tallest man in medical history for whom there is irrefutable evidence is Robert Pershing Wadlow (USA) (born 6:30 a.m. at Alton, Illinois, USA on 22 February 1918), who when last measured on 27 June 1940, was found to be 2.72 m (8 ft 11.1 in) tall.

The scientific name for the western lowland gorilla is "gorilla gorilla gorilla"

"The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" is an English-language pangram—a phrase that contains all of the letters of the alphabet. It is used to show fonts and to test typewriters and computer keyboards, and in other applications involving all of the letters in the English alphabet.

Viruses can get infected by other viruses.

Cattle are ruminants, meaning their digestive system is highly specialized to allow the use of poorly digestible plants as food. Cattle have one stomach with four compartments, the rumen, reticulum, omasum, and abomasum, with the rumen being the largest compartment.

Nobody knows who invented the first fire hydrant because its patent was burned in a fire...

The toyger is a breed of domestic cat, the result of breeding domestic shorthaired tabbies to make them resemble a "toy tiger", as its striped coat is reminiscent of the tiger's.

Alaska is both the westernmost and easternmost state.

Alaska is the largest state in the United States in land area at 586,412 square miles (1,518,800 km2), over twice the size of Texas, the next largest state. Alaska is larger than all but 18 sovereign countries.

Water Makes Different Pouring Sounds Depending on its Temperature