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).

^ Tron my bff had an orange female cat and she didn't realize that was really rare and why I thought that was so cool haha

The Ernest Hemingway Home and Museum in Key West, FL is home to approximately 40-50 polydactyl (six-toed) cats.

A Nile crocodile can hold its breath underwater for up to 30 minutes if threatened, but if they remain inactive, they can be underwater for 2 hours.

Scientists in Dallas, Texas fed a saltwater/peanut butter mix to jellyfish, who unexpectedly ate and even thrived on it.  "We just wanted to make peanut butter and jellyfish simply to see if it could be done," the researchers write.  Turns out it can.

Unlike all other Panthera species, jaguars very rarely attack humans. (You're welcome.)

Halley's comet will next appear in the night sky in the year 2062.

Mount Everest, the world’s tallest mountain, can fit inside the Marianas Trench, the deepest part of the ocean.

Messages in the brain can travel at speeds up to 268 miles/hour.

Death Valley recorded the hottest surface temperature on earth on july 10, 1913. On the peek of that day, the temperature was 134 degrees Fahrenheit (or 56.7 degrees Celsius)! The Mojave Desert, where Death Valley is part of, along with the Sonoran desert, form the hottest deserts in the world. Yikes!

Then there is another record in Iran. A NASA satellite recorded a temperature of 70.7 Celsius (159.3 Farenheit) The Lut Desert broke in 2005 the highest recorded temperature on earth, measured by infrared 'radiation' energy from the satelite.

The Mall of America in Bloomington, MN is the size of 78 football fields - 9.5 million square feet.

Over 1 million known species of plants and animals live in the oceans, and scientists say there may be as many as 9 million species we haven't discovered yet.

The Amazon River pushes so much water into the Atlantic Ocean that, more than one hundred miles at sea off the mouth of the river, one can dip fresh water out of the ocean.

Pope Francis and Pope John Paul the Second are honorary members of the Harlem Globetrotters.

The term moose comes from the Algonquin Indian word meaning "eater of twigs."

Your heart beats 100,000 times a day.

Mt. Everest is not actually the tallest mountian on the planet, but simply the tallest above water. The Mauna Kea is actually the tallest when measured base to summit which puts it at about 33,500 feet, where as Mt. Everest is only 29,029 feet. 

Auroras can be seen on other planets.

The oldest known surviving pair of socks (300-500 AD) were intended to be worn with sandals.

On January 24, 1556, the Shaanxi Earthquake kills 830,000 in Shensi Province, China, making it the deadliest earthquake ever recorded.

Vitaminwater is basically sugar water, to which about a penny's worth of synthetic vitamins have been added.  A bottle of Vitaminwater contains 33 grams of sugar, making it more akin to a soft drink than to a healthy beverage.

I KNEW IT!

Oklahoma City has been hit by the most tornadoes: 100.