* This is cruel: Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia is the fear of long words.

There are a lot of interesting and random phobias out there. Dendrophobia is the fear of trees. Blennophobia is the fear of slime. And neophobia is the fear of anything new. However, the fear of long words may have the most ironic name-Hippopotomonstrosesquipedaliophobia. So let’s say you do have this phobia. You’d be terrified to name your ailment, Kind of a conundrum.
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* A shrimp’s heart is in its head.
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* People say “Bless you” when you sneeze because when that happensyour heart stops for a millisecond.
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* It is physically impossible for pigs to look up into the sky.
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* Like fingerprints, everyone’s tongue print is different.
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* Joseph Niepce developed the world’s first photographic image in 1827. Thomas Edison and W K L Dickson introduced the film camera in 1894. But the first projection of an image on a screen was made by a German priest. In 1646, Athanasius Kircher used a candle or oil lamp to project hand-painted images onto a white screen.
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* Hot water is heavier than cold.
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* Keep your toothbrush away from toilet: Just to avoid some bad germs and keep a safety of your health, it’s a medical fact and recommendation from the dentists that your toothbrush should be 6 feet away from the toilet.
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* Fingernails grow nearly four times faster than toenails!
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* All the Disney princesses are thought to be teenagers.

Snow White – 14 years old; Cinderella – 16-19; an age is not specified, but getting married at a young age was common during her time and she was still living with her stepmother and two unmarried stepsisters at the time; Ariel – 16; at the beginning of the film her father is holding a celebration for her 16th birthday; Belle – 17-21; her age is also not specified, but she lives at home with her father and the Beast is known to be 21, since his cursed rose only blooms until his 21st birthday;
Mulan–16. Young Chinese women were sent to matchmakers around this age; Jasmine – almost 18; in the movie she is to be married by her 18th birthday; Pocahontas – 17ish; in reality, Pocahontas was only 12 when she was said to have met John Smith. The filmmakers made her older to allow for a romantic connection; however, she can’t be too old considering the film’s sequel and the fact that the real Pocahontas only lived until the age of 21; Tiana – 19. The film opens in 1912 with Tiana at age five, 14 years later; she is a 19-year-old waitress; Rapunzel – 18; her 18th birthday occurs during the film.
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35% of the people using personal ads for dating are already married!
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40% of women have hurled footwear at a man.
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85% of all Valentine’s Day cards are purchased by women!
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90 percent of women who walk into a department store immediately turn to the right.
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A baboon called Jackie became a private in the South African army in World War I.
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A broken clock is always right twice a day.
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A Citroen 2CV with an oil leak once travelled 500 miles through Italy after its gearbox was filled with bananas!
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80% of 10-year old girls in the U.S go on a diet.
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A baby octopus is about the size of a flea at birth.
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A fully loaded supertanker traveling at normal speed takes at least 20 minutes to stop.
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A group of unicorns is called a blessing.
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A jiffy is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second. Thus the saying, I will be there in a jiffy.
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A shrimp’s heart is in its head.
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A single cup of gasoline, when ignited, has the same explosive power as five sticks of dynamite.
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A survey reported that 12% of Americans think that Joan of Arc was Noah’s wife.
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A toaster uses almost half as much energy as a full-sized oven.
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Actor Val Kilmer grew up on Roy Rogers’ ranch.
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Alfred Hitchcock didn’t have a belly button.
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All clams start out as males; some decide to become females at some point in their lives.
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All the platinum ever mined would fit into an average-sized living-room!
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Among older men, vanilla is the most erotic smell.
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An American urologist once bought Napoleon’s penis for $40,000.
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An iceberg contains more heat than a lit match.
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7,000 new insect species are discovered every year.
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85% of movie actors earn less than $5,000 a year from acting!
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9 out of 10 lightning strike victims survive!
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A ball of glass will bounce higher than a ball made of rubber.
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A bird ‘chews’ with its stomach.
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A car operates at maximum economy, gas-wise, at speeds between 25 and 35 miles per hour.
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A cesium atom in an atomic clock beats over nine billion times a second.
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A man once sued his doctor because he survived his cancer longer than the doctor predicted.
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A violin contains about 70 separate pieces of wood!
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Actor John Wayne made more than 200 movies.
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25% of all the retail establishments in the U.S. are for eating or drinking.
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50% of U.S. pizzas are sold with pepperoni on them.
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68 percent of a Hostess Twinkie is air!
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A coffee tree yields about one pound of coffee in a year.
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A company in Taiwan makes dinnerware out of wheat, so you can eat your plate!
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A hardboiled egg will spin. An uncooked or soft boiled egg will not.
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A peanut is not a nut. It is a legume.
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A pound of potato chips costs 200 times more than a pound of potatoes.
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According to the National Onion Association, onion consumption in the U.S. has increased approximately 50% over the past 20 years.

Compiled by Rebecca Ganesh-Ally