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).

Humans are the only animals that blush.

When feeding, a hummingbird can lick 10 to 15 times per second.

Jeannette Rankin became the first female member of Congress in 1916, four years before the 19th Amendment was ratified.

Australia is wider than the moon.

Fredric Baur invented the Pringles can. When he passed away in 2008, his ashes were buried in one.

Women tend to have low iron.

There's a library in Ankara, Turkey, that's filled with discarded books trash collectors rescued from landfills.

90% of the world's population lives in the Northern Hemisphere.

LEGO is an abbreviation of the Danish phrase leg godt which means “play well.” The company was originally called Billund Maskinsnedkeri.

Sharks lived on earth before trees.

Paraskavedekatriaphobia is the fear of Friday the 13th.

Hicham El Guerrouj is the current men's record holder with his time of 3:43.13, while Svetlana Masterkova has the women's record of 4:12.56. 

Belly button lint is caused by hairs on the abdomen funneling fibers into the belly button.

Measurement is performed by instruments called sunshine recorders. For the specific purpose of sunshine duration recording, Campbell–Stokes recorders are used, which use a spherical glass lens to focus the sun rays on a specially designed tape.

According to NASA, it possibly rains glass on the planet known as HD 189733b.

A US liquid gallon of water weighs about 8.34 pounds 

The majority of your brain is made up of fat.

Nobel Prize winner Niels Bohr was given a perpetual supply of beer piped into his house.

The wandering albatross has the largest wingspan of any living bird