After James Garfield’s 1881 assassination, a puffin served as US President for 14 hrs until Chester Arthur could be sworn in. (with thanks to @pumpkinsam)

Puffins are often eaten with blueberry jam in Iceland. As a consequence, a puffin will always urinate on every blueberry bush they see.

Puffins feel themselves to be socially superior to less colourful birds, but go to pieces in the presence of parrots. (with thanks to @graskeggur)

If you play The Beatles “Sgt. Pepper” album backwards, you can hear a female puffin mating call. (with thanks to @arisso)

Don’t cut the tag off your new puffin. It voids the warranty. (with thanks to @Matt_Silverman)

Puffins can dive to depths of 200 feet, but these days they can get muffins from local stores, so they don’t have to. (with thanks to @randi_ward)

Puffins are rubbish at Twitter. They never follow back. (With thanks to @graskeggur)

Puffins are so called due to their tendency to hyperventilate and suffer with asthma. The multi-coloured bills are, in fact, oxygen masks. (with thanks to @stevyncolgan)

I am now a proper blogger. I even blog on other peoples blogs. Like this one, at Tiny Iceland. I told you I was a proper blogger.

CERN’s Large Hadron Collider smashes puffins together at 99.99% of light speed in hopes of discovering the elusive anti-puffin. (with thanks to @pumpkinsam)