Official List of the Hopscotch Loading Screens
This has been in the back of my mind for quite a while now
Let’s make a list! :D I wonder how many there are
Remember to keep it alphabetized
Also post them below in case 2 people Edit at the same time
Number of entries: 107
• 11% of the world is left handed.
• A full head of human hair is strong enough to support 12 tonnes.
• A full moon is nine times brighter than a half moon
• A grizzly bear’s bite could crush a bowling ball.
• A group of pugs is called a grumble.
• A group of turkeys is called a “rafter”.
• A hippopotamus may seem huge but it can still run faster than a man.
• Alexander the Great is said to have camped under a Banyan tree that was big enough to shelter his whole army of 7,000 men.
• Although the Stegosaurus dinosaur was over 9 metres long, its brain was only the size of a walnut.
• An average fly buzzes in the key of F
• Another way to write repeat forever is to set “When” 7 = 7!
• A project cannot be in Trending and Featured at the same time. (OOP)
• Around 90% of the cells that make humans aren’t “human” in origin. We’re mostly fungi and bacteria.
• Astronauts can grow up to 2 inches because of the lack of pressure put on their spine.
• At Hopscotch we like to give our dead batteries away … free of charge.
• A wildebeest can run away from predators 5 minutes after being born.
• Beethoven dipped his head in cold water before he composed.
• Chillanna is from Yukon. Her wheeled snowboard is the only one of its kind, able to ride on both snow and land.
• Cupcake and Mr. Mustache used to date.
• Cupcake was originally baked in a bakery in San Diego.
• Did you hear about the two guys who stole the calendar? They each got six months.
• Did you hear about the mathematician who hates negative numbers? He’ll stop at nothing to avoid them.
• Did you know a cat has 32 muscles in each ear?
• Did You Know: Emoji is actually the long lost language from the island of Emoja.
• Don’t trust an atom, they make up everything.
• Earth’s axis has a wobble that takes 26,000 years.
• Footprints and tyre tracks left behind by astronauts on the moon will stay there - there is no wind to blow them away.
• Ghost ants become the color of the food they are eating.
• Gorilla’s coloring is due to an accidental swim in a vat of grape soda.
• Go to your iPad settings >> keyboard >> languages to enable emojis.
• Hedy Lamarr was a beautiful movie star AND she invented the technology that lead to cell phones.
• Hopscotch submitted ten puns to a joke contest hoping one would win. Sadly, no pun in ten did.
• Human fingers are so sensitive, that if your fingers were the size of the Earth, you could feel the difference between a house and a car.
• Humans share 50% of their DNA with bananas.
• Humans shed 40 pounds of skin in their lifetime, completely replacing their outer skin every month.
• If the human brain were a computer, it could perform 38 thousand-trillion operations per second. The most powerful supercomputers, manage only 0.002% of that!
• If you want followers to make your username easy to read; use a normal font and no emojis until the end!
• If you want to change the ordering of blocks, you “Send to Back” of “Bring to Front” blocks
• If you want your character to face left use the “Flip” function in the “Movement” menu.
• I just came up with a new word: plagiarism!
• In 30 minutes, the human body gives off enough heat to bring a gallon of water to the boil.
• I read a book about anti-gravity. It was impossible to put down!
• It’s hard to explain puns to kleptomaniacs because they are always taking things literally.
• I used to hate facial hair. But then it grew on me.
• I was going to tell a sodium hydrogen pun … but NaH
• I wondered why the baseball was getting bigger. Then it hit me.
• Japanese cop cars fire paintballs at speeding cars to find them later in case they get away.
• King Tut was 10 when he became king of Egypt.
• LASER is an acronym that stands for Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation
• Like fingerprints, everyone’s tongue print is different.
• Make your object invisible by setting invisibility to 100%
• More than 80% of the world’s population lives in the northern hemisphere.
• Mosquito is half the size of the human characters because he is prehistoric. She was excavated from amber in 1993.
• Mr. Mustache used magic to escape the illuminati a couple years ago.
• Octopuses and Elephants have been observed to have funerals for their fallen comrades.
• On average the Atlantic Ocean is the saltiest of Earth’s major oceans.
• Otters sleep holding hands.
• Palindromes are spelled the same way forward and backward! Some examples are “race car” or “taco cat”
• Parallel lines have so much in common it’s a shame they’ll never meet.
• Polar bears have black skin under their fur.
• Raccoon escaped from a fur factory when he was a cub.
• Sign up for notifications to know when someone remixes your project!
• Sneezing with your eyes open is impossible.
• Someone stole my mood ring. i don’t know how I feel about it.
• Some women see more colors than everyone else. They have 4 or 5 color receptors, while most people have only 3.
• Star a Girl was a pop star in Europe but stopped touring so she could build worlds in Hopscotch.
• There are enough veins in the human circulatory system to circle the earth 2.5 times!
• The default speed of any character before you change it is 400!
• The default value for any new variable you create is 0 before you change it.
• The Earth isn’t perfectly round, it is slightly flattened at the north and south poles.
• The first coins were minted (made) around 2500 years ago.
• The sun’s closest neighbor, Proxima Centauri, is 4.24 lightyears away.
• The last object Sent to Back will be at the very back. The last object Brought to Front will be in the very front.
• The length of the squares in the editor grid is 50!
• The redness of a sunburn is chased by groups of burst blood vessels near the surface of the skin.
• The world’s largest desert (outside of the polar regions) is the Sahara, it covers about one third of Africa.
• The world’s largest volcano is sleeping underneath Yellowstone National Park.
• The volcanic rock known as pumice is the only rock that can float in water.
• This app is called Hopscotch because, like the street game, you have to make it before you can play it.
• Though seemingly exotic to Americans, the Venus flytrap originated in the wetlands of North and South Carolina.
• To paint the entire screen a color Leave a Trail of Width bigger than 3000 and Move forward 1.
• Two mice were chewing on a film roll. One of them goes: “I think the book was better.”
• We humans are the best long-distance runners on the planet. Better than any four-legged animal. In fact, thousands of years ago we used to run after our prey until they died of exhaustion.
• We think this dancing bear will entertain you while your project is loading.
• We were going to do a joke about time travel but you didn’t like it.
• What did the ocean say to the sand? Nothing, it just waved
• What does an angry pepper do? It gets jalapeño face.
• What do you call a fake noodle. An impasta.
• What do you call a fish with no eye? A fsh.
• What do you get when you cross a bridge with a car? To the other side.
• When life gives you lemons, make orange juice and let them wonder how you did it.
• When smiley emojis die, they become the ghost emoji.
• When swimming, elephants use their trunk to breathe like a snorkel.
• Why are mountains so funny? Because they are hill areas!
• Why did the bear cross the road? Someone changed his X.
• Why did the can crusher quit his job? Because it was soda-pressing.
• Why is Yoda afraid of seven? Because six seven eight!
• Why was Pavlov’s hair so soft? Classical conditioning!
• With 3 quarters, 4 dimes, and 4 pennies, you would have $1.19 but not able to make change for a dollar.
• You are born with 300 bones, by the time you are an adult you will have 206.
• You breathe on average about 5 million times per year.
• You can create custom blocks if you want to reuse your code!
• You can delete or rename custom blocks by holding down on the keyboard hey.
• You can get more information about each block by holding down the key!
• You have 2 meters of DNA per cell.
• Your body produces 25 million new cells each second. Every 13 seconds, you produce more cells than there are people in the United States.
• You’re a little richer than you might think, inside all of us is around 0.2 milligrams of gold, most of which is in our blood.
