Fun Facts: I bet you didn't know that.

  • Anatidaephobia is the fear that somewhere in the world, there is a duck watching you. 

  • 'Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia' is the fear of long words.  

  • On average, people fear spiders more than they do death.

  • If you touch your tongue while yawning, it can stop the yawn.

  • Women speak about 7000 words a day. The average man averages just over 2000. 

  • You're more likely to die on your way to buy a lottery ticket than you are to actually win the lottery.

  • No word in the English language rhymes with purple, orange, month or silver.

  • 'Dreamt' is the ONLY WORD in the entire English language that ends in the letters 'mt'.

  • When a person is tickled, the response is actually a form of panic, as the brain interprets the tickling sensation as produced by spiders or other creepy crawlies on your skin - the uncontrollable laughter is a response to panic.

  • The total weight of all the ants on Earth is about the same as the weight of all the humans on earth.

  • In Japan they have square watermelons. They get square watermelons by growing them inside of square glass cases. That way they can fit easily into a refrigerator, and you can stack things on them. Square watermelons are expensive though (10,000 yen or about $82). Compare that to regular round watermelons which cost about $15-20 in Japan.

  • It cost 7 million dollars to build the Titanic and 200 million to make a film about it.

  • 'racecar' is spelled the same forwards and backwards.

  •  2% of Earth's people have red hair.

  • India has MORE cellphones than TOILETS.

  • When you put a seashell next to your ear, it's the sound of your blood surging in your veins, not the ocean.

  • Only 55% of all Americans know that the sun is a star.

  • Did you know that "ough" can be pronounced TEN DIFFERENT WAYS? There's "cough" (which rhymes with "off"), "enough" (which rhymes with "stuff"), "dough" (which rhymes with "no"), "through" (which rhymes with "do"), "thought" (which sounds like "awe"), "plough" (an alternative spelling of "plow"), "hiccough" (an alternative spelling of "hiccup"), "hough" (an alternative spelling of "hock"), "lough" (an alternative spelling of "loch"), and "thorough" (which has a different pronunciation in the UK than it does in American English). Try this sentence: "A rough-coated, dough-faced, thoughtful ploughman strode through the streets of Scarborough; after falling into a slough, he coughed and hiccoughed."

  • According to suicide statistics, Monday is the favored day for self-destruction.

  • There are more plastic flamingos in America than real ones.

  • Blueberries are purple!


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