Oddly Specific History
This U.S. President got stuck in a White House bathtub and had to be extracted by multiple aides.
William Howard Taft
Bananas are technically this type of item in botanical terms.
Berry
this planet smells like rotten eggs due to high levels of hydrogen sulfide in its atmosphere.
Uranus
This is the first spell Harry ever casts intentionally, and it's used during a Quidditch match.
Lumos
The word "nightmare" originally referred not to a bad dream, but to this mythical creature that sat on your chest while you slept.
Mare
Napoleon wasn’t actually short for his time—he was about this many feet tall, but British propaganda shrank his reputation.
Octopuses have three of these, and they stop working when the creature swims.
Hearts
The Moon is slowly drifting away from Earth at this approximate rate per year.
This is the vault number at Gringotts where the Philosopher’s Stone was kept.
Vault 713
This common word for money comes from a temple to the Roman goddess Juno, where coins were minted.
money
During WWII, British soldiers were issued this unusual item to help them spot enemy aircraft while laying on their backs.
A mirror attached to a shovel
The inventor of the Pringles can is buried in one — specifically, this flavor.
Original
Neutron stars are so dense that a single teaspoon of their material would weigh about this much on Earth.
6 Billion Tons
According to the books, this is the make and model of Arthur Weasley’s enchanted flying car.
Ford Anglia
The word “quarantine” comes from the Italian for this number of days ships had to remain isolated to prevent the spread of plague.
40
Pope Gregory IX declared war on these animals in the 13th century, believing them to be agents of the devil.
Cats
A group of flamingos is called this fabulously flamboyant term.
Flamboyance
This planet has a moon that’s so large it’s over half the diameter of the planet itself.
Pluto
This character’s full name is revealed to be Newton Artemis Fido Scamander.
Newt Scamander
The word “candidate” comes from the Latin candidatus, referring to this unusual detail about Roman political hopefuls.
Wearing white togas
In 532 A.D., this deadly riot at the Hippodrome of Constantinople killed over 30,000 people and started over a dispute involving chariot racing teams.
Nika Riots
In Switzerland, it is illegal to own just one of these pets because they’re considered social animals.
Guinea Pig
This spacecraft has been traveling for over 45 years and is now in interstellar space, still transmitting weak signals back to Earth.
Voyager 1
The number on Sirius Black’s Azkaban prison placard matches this date on the Muggle calendar.
7-11-92
The word “sarcasm” comes from the Greek sarkazein, which literally means this mildly horrifying action.
to tear flesh