★29th May is officially Put a Pillow on Your Fridge Day.★The human brain uses about 20% of the body's total energy.★Sharks existed on Earth before trees did.★Peanuts aren't nuts, they are legumes.★A flock of crows is known as a murder.★Bananas are curved because they grow towards the sun.★Wombat poop is cube-shaped.★A day on Mercury lasts 59 Earth days.★The Statue of Liberty was originally intended to be a lighthouse.★Google processes more than 8.5 billion searches every single day.★Koalas have fingerprints nearly identical to humans.★There's a species of jellyfish that is immortal.★It takes about eight minutes for sunlight to reach Earth.★Bees can recognize individual human faces.★Hot water freezes faster than cold water. This is called the Mpemba effect.★A bolt of lightning is five times hotter than the surface of the sun.★A day on Jupiter lasts only about 10 hours.★The French language has 13 different words for 'kiss'.★Your stomach gets a new lining every 3 to 4 days, otherwise it would digest itself.★Elephants are the only mammals that can't jump.★Avocados are toxic to most animals except humans.★The Dutch were once the tallest people in the world.★Dolphins have names for each other.★The world's oldest known recipe is for beer.★Humans are the only animals that blush.★A shrimp's heart is located in its head.★The Hawaiian alphabet has only 13 letters.★There are more stars in the universe than grains of sand on every beach on Earth.★If you lift a kangaroo's tail off the ground it can't hop.★A crocodile can't stick its tongue out.★The dot over the letter 'i' is called a tittle.★The shortest commercial flight in the world lasts just 57 seconds.★Sloths only poop about once a week.★A lion's roar can be heard from up to 5 miles away.★More than half of all people alive today have never made a phone call.★Pigs can't look up at the sky without rolling over.★Cherophobia is an irrational fear of fun or happiness.★Cleopatra lived closer in time to the Moon landing than to the building of the Great Pyramid.★There are more than 1,000 chemicals in a cup of coffee.★A cloud can weigh more than a million pounds.★Barbie's full name is Barbara Millicent Roberts.★The average person spends six months of their life waiting for red lights to turn green.★The Eiffel Tower can grow up to 6 inches taller during summer.★Antarctica is the only continent without native reptiles or snakes.★Your tongue print is as unique as your fingerprint.★Chewing gum while you chop onions helps keep you from crying.★A rhinoceros' horn is made of keratin, the same stuff as hair.★Most 'silver' spoons are actually made of stainless steel.★Bubble wrap was originally invented as wallpaper.★Crows can recognize human faces and hold grudges for years.★Cows have best friends and get stressed when separated.★A group of porcupines is called a prickle.★The 'new car smell' is made of dozens of chemicals off-gassing from the interior.★The first oranges weren't orange, they were green.★The first item ever sold on eBay was a broken laser pointer.★Ketchup was once sold as medicine in the 1830s.★The Great Wall of China is not visible from space with the naked eye.★Rats laugh when tickled.★A hummingbird's heart can beat up to 1,260 times per minute.★Horses physically cannot vomit.★Starfish can regenerate their lost limbs.★Ostriches can run faster than horses.★A group of pandas is called an embarrassment.★Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur.★The smell of freshly cut grass is actually a plant distress signal.★A 'moment' was medieval unit of time equal to 90 seconds.★You can hear a blue whale's heartbeat from more than two miles away.★A mosquito has 47 teeth.★A group of owls is called a parliament.★A newborn kangaroo is about the size of a jellybean.★Humans blink about 15 to 20 times per minute.★A group of frogs is called an army.★A snail can sleep for three years straight.★It is physically impossible to hum while holding your nose.★Honey never spoils. Archaeologists found 3000-year-old honey in Egyptian tombs that was still edible.★Snakes can help predict earthquakes.★Bananas are berries, but strawberries are not.★A 'jiffy' is one trillionth of a second in physics.★Octopuses can taste with their arms.★Voice actors for Mickey and Minnie Mouse got married in real life.★Cotton candy was co-invented by a dentist.★Ancient Egyptians slept on stone pillows.★7% of American adults believe that chocolate milk comes from brown cows.★Sloths can hold their breath longer than dolphins can.★The moon has moonquakes.★Octopuses have three hearts and blue blood.★Saturn would float if you could find an ocean big enough.★Sea cucumbers breathe through their butts.★Your nose can remember 50,000 different scents.★Pteronophobia is the fear of being tickled by feathers.★Pigeons can recognize themselves in a mirror.★A day on Venus is longer than a year on Venus.★The smell of rain has a name: petrichor.★Scotland's national animal is the unicorn.★A group of crows mobbing a predator is literally called a 'murder patrol'.★Butterflies taste with their feet.★Banging your head against a wall for one hour burns 150 calories.★A newborn panda is smaller than a mouse.★The Mona Lisa has no eyebrows or eyelashes.★The fear of long words is ironically called hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia.★The longest recorded flight of a chicken lasted 13 seconds.★A blue whale's tongue can weigh as much as an elephant.★Dolphins sleep with one eye open.★The inventor of the Pringles can is buried in one.★A blue whale's heart is roughly the size of a small car.★The microwave oven was invented by accident when a researcher noticed a chocolate bar melted in his pocket.★A group of ferrets is called a business.★Cows have regional accents, they moo differently in different areas.★Nintendo was founded in 1889 as a playing card company.★Vincent van Gogh only sold one painting during his lifetime.★A group of jellyfish is called a smack.★There is a village in Norway called 'Hell' that freezes over every winter.★Goldfish can recognize human faces.★There are more possible iterations of a game of chess than atoms in the observable universe.★An octopus has nine brains.★Humans share 60% of their DNA with bananas.★Hippos can't actually swim, they walk along the riverbed.★A snail can have up to 25,000 teeth on its tongue.★The first computer mouse was made of wood.★Pineapples take about two years to grow.★So far, two diseases have successfully been eradicated: smallpox and rinderpest.★The average person walks the equivalent of three times around the world in a lifetime.★We have mapped more of Mars than of our own ocean floor.★Dragonflies have been around for about 300 million years.★In Switzerland it is illegal to own just one guinea pig.★A hippo's sweat is pink.★Cats can't taste sweetness.★A group of flamingos is called a 'flamboyance'.★Sea otters hold hands while sleeping so they don't drift apart.★The oldest 'your mom' joke was discovered on a 3,500 year old Babylonian tablet.★The longest hiccuping spree lasted 68 years.★There are only two countries in the world whose names start with 'The': The Gambia and The Bahamas.★The shortest war in history lasted 38 to 45 minutes between Britain and Zanzibar.★Polar bears have black skin under their white fur.★Cashews grow on the outside of a fruit, not inside a shell.★A jiffy is an actual unit of time: 1/100th of a second.

★29th May is officially Put a Pillow on Your Fridge Day.★The human brain uses about 20% of the body's total energy.★Sharks existed on Earth before trees did.★Peanuts aren't nuts, they are legumes.★A flock of crows is known as a murder.★Bananas are curved because they grow towards the sun.★Wombat poop is cube-shaped.★A day on Mercury lasts 59 Earth days.★The Statue of Liberty was originally intended to be a lighthouse.★Google processes more than 8.5 billion searches every single day.★Koalas have fingerprints nearly identical to humans.★There's a species of jellyfish that is immortal.★It takes about eight minutes for sunlight to reach Earth.★Bees can recognize individual human faces.★Hot water freezes faster than cold water. This is called the Mpemba effect.★A bolt of lightning is five times hotter than the surface of the sun.★A day on Jupiter lasts only about 10 hours.★The French language has 13 different words for 'kiss'.★Your stomach gets a new lining every 3 to 4 days, otherwise it would digest itself.★Elephants are the only mammals that can't jump.★Avocados are toxic to most animals except humans.★The Dutch were once the tallest people in the world.★Dolphins have names for each other.★The world's oldest known recipe is for beer.★Humans are the only animals that blush.★A shrimp's heart is located in its head.★The Hawaiian alphabet has only 13 letters.★There are more stars in the universe than grains of sand on every beach on Earth.★If you lift a kangaroo's tail off the ground it can't hop.★A crocodile can't stick its tongue out.★The dot over the letter 'i' is called a tittle.★The shortest commercial flight in the world lasts just 57 seconds.★Sloths only poop about once a week.★A lion's roar can be heard from up to 5 miles away.★More than half of all people alive today have never made a phone call.★Pigs can't look up at the sky without rolling over.★Cherophobia is an irrational fear of fun or happiness.★Cleopatra lived closer in time to the Moon landing than to the building of the Great Pyramid.★There are more than 1,000 chemicals in a cup of coffee.★A cloud can weigh more than a million pounds.★Barbie's full name is Barbara Millicent Roberts.★The average person spends six months of their life waiting for red lights to turn green.★The Eiffel Tower can grow up to 6 inches taller during summer.★Antarctica is the only continent without native reptiles or snakes.★Your tongue print is as unique as your fingerprint.★Chewing gum while you chop onions helps keep you from crying.★A rhinoceros' horn is made of keratin, the same stuff as hair.★Most 'silver' spoons are actually made of stainless steel.★Bubble wrap was originally invented as wallpaper.★Crows can recognize human faces and hold grudges for years.★Cows have best friends and get stressed when separated.★A group of porcupines is called a prickle.★The 'new car smell' is made of dozens of chemicals off-gassing from the interior.★The first oranges weren't orange, they were green.★The first item ever sold on eBay was a broken laser pointer.★Ketchup was once sold as medicine in the 1830s.★The Great Wall of China is not visible from space with the naked eye.★Rats laugh when tickled.★A hummingbird's heart can beat up to 1,260 times per minute.★Horses physically cannot vomit.★Starfish can regenerate their lost limbs.★Ostriches can run faster than horses.★A group of pandas is called an embarrassment.★Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur.★The smell of freshly cut grass is actually a plant distress signal.★A 'moment' was medieval unit of time equal to 90 seconds.★You can hear a blue whale's heartbeat from more than two miles away.★A mosquito has 47 teeth.★A group of owls is called a parliament.★A newborn kangaroo is about the size of a jellybean.★Humans blink about 15 to 20 times per minute.★A group of frogs is called an army.★A snail can sleep for three years straight.★It is physically impossible to hum while holding your nose.★Honey never spoils. Archaeologists found 3000-year-old honey in Egyptian tombs that was still edible.★Snakes can help predict earthquakes.★Bananas are berries, but strawberries are not.★A 'jiffy' is one trillionth of a second in physics.★Octopuses can taste with their arms.★Voice actors for Mickey and Minnie Mouse got married in real life.★Cotton candy was co-invented by a dentist.★Ancient Egyptians slept on stone pillows.★7% of American adults believe that chocolate milk comes from brown cows.★Sloths can hold their breath longer than dolphins can.★The moon has moonquakes.★Octopuses have three hearts and blue blood.★Saturn would float if you could find an ocean big enough.★Sea cucumbers breathe through their butts.★Your nose can remember 50,000 different scents.★Pteronophobia is the fear of being tickled by feathers.★Pigeons can recognize themselves in a mirror.★A day on Venus is longer than a year on Venus.★The smell of rain has a name: petrichor.★Scotland's national animal is the unicorn.★A group of crows mobbing a predator is literally called a 'murder patrol'.★Butterflies taste with their feet.★Banging your head against a wall for one hour burns 150 calories.★A newborn panda is smaller than a mouse.★The Mona Lisa has no eyebrows or eyelashes.★The fear of long words is ironically called hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia.★The longest recorded flight of a chicken lasted 13 seconds.★A blue whale's tongue can weigh as much as an elephant.★Dolphins sleep with one eye open.★The inventor of the Pringles can is buried in one.★A blue whale's heart is roughly the size of a small car.★The microwave oven was invented by accident when a researcher noticed a chocolate bar melted in his pocket.★A group of ferrets is called a business.★Cows have regional accents, they moo differently in different areas.★Nintendo was founded in 1889 as a playing card company.★Vincent van Gogh only sold one painting during his lifetime.★A group of jellyfish is called a smack.★There is a village in Norway called 'Hell' that freezes over every winter.★Goldfish can recognize human faces.★There are more possible iterations of a game of chess than atoms in the observable universe.★An octopus has nine brains.★Humans share 60% of their DNA with bananas.★Hippos can't actually swim, they walk along the riverbed.★A snail can have up to 25,000 teeth on its tongue.★The first computer mouse was made of wood.★Pineapples take about two years to grow.★So far, two diseases have successfully been eradicated: smallpox and rinderpest.★The average person walks the equivalent of three times around the world in a lifetime.★We have mapped more of Mars than of our own ocean floor.★Dragonflies have been around for about 300 million years.★In Switzerland it is illegal to own just one guinea pig.★A hippo's sweat is pink.★Cats can't taste sweetness.★A group of flamingos is called a 'flamboyance'.★Sea otters hold hands while sleeping so they don't drift apart.★The oldest 'your mom' joke was discovered on a 3,500 year old Babylonian tablet.★The longest hiccuping spree lasted 68 years.★There are only two countries in the world whose names start with 'The': The Gambia and The Bahamas.★The shortest war in history lasted 38 to 45 minutes between Britain and Zanzibar.★Polar bears have black skin under their white fur.★Cashews grow on the outside of a fruit, not inside a shell.★A jiffy is an actual unit of time: 1/100th of a second.

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Block volley

Keep the ball off your half. First to 5 points wins.

P1 uses A, D and W. P2 uses the arrow keys.

How to play Block volley

Block volley is a two-player beach volleyball duel with blocky players. Each side has one player who can move, jump and spike. Use your keys to run along your half of the court and jump to meet the ball. Aim your hits to drop the ball onto your rival half, and jump up near the net to spike it down hard. If the ball lands on your side, your rival scores. Play one versus one on a single keyboard or against a bot solo. First to five points wins the match.

Tips

Jump at the net to spike the ball steeply down, hard to return
Watch the ball arc and move under it early instead of reaching late
Aim for the back corners where your rival has the most ground to cover
Do not overcommit forward, leave room to chase a deep ball

About Block volley

Block volley is pick-up-and-play beach volleyball with a blocky retro look. One player a side, a bouncing ball and a net to spike over, it captures the simple back and forth of two-button sports games. Play a friend on one keyboard or a bot solo, free and in the browser.

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