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

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

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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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