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Kenophobia is a fear of empty spaces1.
1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenophobia#In_psychology
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What is the phobia of small spaces?
The fear of voids or empty spaces is called Kenophobia.
Phobias that begin with the letter K?
Kainolophobia or Kainophobia- Fear of anything new, novelty. Kakorrhaphiophobia- Fear of failure or defeat. Katagelophobia- Fear of ridicule. Kathisophobia- Fear of sitting down. Kenophobia- Fear of voids or empty spaces. Keraunophobia or Ceraunophobia- Fear of thunder and lightning.(Astraphobia, Astrapophobia) Kinetophobia or Kinesophobia- Fear of movement or motion. Kleptophobia- Fear of stealing. Koinoniphobia- Fear of rooms. Kolpophobia- Fear of genitals, particularly female. Kopophobia- Fear of fatigue. Koniophobia- Fear of dust. (Amathophobia) Kosmikophobia- Fear of cosmic phenomenon. Kymophobia- Fear of waves. (Cymophobia) Kynophobia- Fear of rabies. Kyphophobia- Fear of stooping. Hope I helped.
What is a antonym for claustrophobia?
You are asking for the opposite of claustrophobia which people mistakenly think is agoraphobia which translates, "fear of the marketplace" but it really means that the person is afraid of having a panic attack or being trapped in an embarrassing situation without any escape. I don't believe there is an actual word to describe what the opposite of claustrophobia is. (I googled it and came up with chasmophila which supposedly ment the love of small places but ended up being a fake word)
What uncommon words start with the letter k?
1. kainotophobia - fear of change 2. kakidrosis - body odor 3. kakorrhaphiophobia - fear of failure 4. kalology - study of beauty 5. kantikoy - to dance as an act of worship 6. karabiner - steel link with clip on side used in mountaineering 7. karezza - prolonged sex avoiding orgasm 8. karyokinesis - division of cell nucleus 9. keister - burglar's tool kit 10. keloid - hard scar tissue which grows over injured skin 11. krobylos - a tuft of hair on top of one's head 12. knubble - to beat with the fists 13. kibble - the bucket of a well 14. kenophobia - fear of empty spaces 15. knosp - unopened bud of a flower; any ornament shaped like a bud
Fear of sharks in a swimming pool?
I am not quit sure what the actual phobia is but I do know that it is all psychological, probably having something to do with your past, maybe including, molestation. The fear can come from being confined into a small area with another living thing attacking you and not having the strength to do controll the situation. Look into your past.I know the fear of sharks in a swimming pool is called selachophobia that is how you spell it (said as selac-a-fobia) I know this because i have that fear it isn't something to be ashamed of i can swim in pools with a friend or a relative swimming next to me but otherwise i cry of fear.If you have selachophobia then you will probably see shaded areas in the pool and will dodge them you also see pictures of sharks in your head while swimming for me it started one day when my sister forced me to watch a programme about animals before my swimming lesson and the programme that i watched was on the great white shark the most deadly shark of them all and then I had my lesson and i was so scared i could hardly swim this happened about 4 or 5 years ago and I still can't swim without a friend swimming with me.
What are some sophisticated words that begin with the letter K?
kainotophobia fear of change kaiserin wife of a kaiser kakidrosis body odour kakistocracy government by the worst kakorrhaphiophobia fear of failure kalamkari fabric coloured by repeated dyeing kaleidophone instrument for demonstrating sound waves by lines of light kalology study of beauty kalon beauty that is more than skin deep kalpis a water jar kalyptra veil worn by Greek women kame steep irregular ridge kamelaukion tall cylindrical hat worn by Orthodox priests kamerad to surrender kamik knee-length sealskin boot kaneh Hebrew measure of 6 cubits kantar Turkish unit of weight equal to approximately 100 pounds kantele Finnish zither kantikoy to dance as an act of worship kapnography means of producing designs on smoked glass surfaces karabiner steel link with clip on side used in mountaineering karezza prolonged sex avoiding orgasm karrozzin Maltese horse-drawn carriage karst rough limestone country with underground drainage karyokinesis division of cell nucleus karyology study of cell nuclei karyotype appearance, number and arrangements of chromosomes kasha porridge or gruel-like dish made from crushed buckwheat katabasis going down; military retreat katabothron underground water-channel katathermometer instrument for measuring the cooling power of air katharometer instrument measuring changes in composition of gases kathenotheism polytheism in which each god is considered single and supreme katzenjammer hangover; uproar; clamour kausia Macedonian felt hat with broad brim kava narcotic drink prepared from Polynesian plant kazachoc Slavic fast dance in which dancer squats and kicks out legs alternately kazatzka Slavic folk dance performed by a couple keb ewe that gives birth to stillborn lamb kebbie a shepherd's crook keck to retch; to feel disgust keckle to protect by binding with rope ked wingless fly that feeds on livestock kedge small anchor to keep a ship steady keelhaul to punish by dragging under keel of ship keelson lengthwise wooden or steel beam in ship for bearing stress keeve a large tub kef state of dreamy or drug-induced repose keffel a horse; a nag keister burglar's tool kit keloid hard scar tissue which grows over injured skin kelpie mischievous water spirit kelt coarse fabric made of black and white wool kemb to comb kemp coarse, rough strand of wool kennebecker knapsack kenodoxy the love or study of vain-glory kenophobia fear of empty spaces kenosis Christ's rejection of his divine side upon assuming human form kenotism doctrine that Christ rid himself of divinity in becoming human kenspeckle easily recognizable or distinguishable kent-bugle an obsolete keybugle kente hand-woven African silk fabric kentledge pig-iron used as ballast in ship's hold kep to catch an approaching object or falling liquid kephalonomancy divination using a baked ass's head kerasine horny; made of horn keratogenic causing growth of horn, skin or hair keratometer instrument for measuring curvature of the cornea keraunograph instrument for recording distant thunderstorms keraunoscopia divination using thunder kerf cut, notch or groove; quantity of something cut at the same time kermes brilliant red colour; a red dye derived from insects kermesse cycle race held in an urban area kermis indoor charity fair kern Irish foot-soldier kern part of typeface letter that sticks out beyond its body kern to granulate kersey coarse woollen cloth kerseymere twilled fine wool kerygma preaching of the Christian gospel kerygmatic of, like or pertaining to preaching the Gospel ket carrion; matted wool ketch small two-masted sailing vessel ketjak traditional Balinese dance accompanied by male chorus kettlestitch stitch made at head and tail of section of book to connect sections kex dry hollow plant stalk keybugle bugle with keys keyline outline showing shape and position of an illustration keystone to double the wholesale price for retail khaddar homespun cotton cloth khor a dry watercourse; a ravine kibble the bucket of a well kibble to grind cereal coarsely kibe chapped area of skin kickie-wickie a wife kickshaws a trinket; a cheap, worthless article kidder a forestaller; a huckster kiddle stake-fence set in stream for catching fish kidlet a very little kid kidology study of kidding kier bleaching vat kif drug like marijuana smoked in North Africa kilderkin old unit of capacity equal to 1/2 barrel or 18 gallons kilfud-yoking a fireside disputation killas clay slate killcow a bully; a swaggerer killcrop greedy insatiable baby; a changeling killock small anchor kilobase unit of measure of length of nucleic acid chain equal to 1000 base pairs kinchin a child kincob embroidered silk with gold and silver threads kindergraph photograph of a child kinderspiel a children's cantata or play kine cows kinematics study of motion kinescope cathode ray tube for a television kinesics study of gestural communication kinetheodolite theodolite used in tracking missiles and satellites kinetics study of forces producing or changing motion kinetogenic causing movement kinetoscope instrument for producing curves by combination of circular movements kingpost perpendicular beam in frame of roof kinkle a slight kink kip skin of a young animal kip unit of weight equivalent to 1000 pounds kippage state of displeasure or anger kir drink of black currant syrup and white wine kirking first attendance of a couple at church after marriage kirpan small sword or dagger worn by Sikhs kirsch liqueur made from the wild cherry kirtle man's or woman's tunic or coat kish solid graphite that separates from pig-iron kismet fate; destiny kissel thickened fruit purée dessert kistvaen tomb covered with stone slabs kit a small pocket violin kith knowledge; one's native land; one's friends kitthoge left-handed; awkward klangfarbe tone-colour; timbre klaxon loud mechanical horn klendusic able to withstand disease due to protective mechanism kleptocracy government by thieves klopemania kleptomania knackish cunning; crafty knag knot in wood knarred gnarled; knotty knickerbockers loose breeches gathered in at the knee knick-knackatory collection of knick-knacks knickpoint discontinuity in river profile due to intersection of new erosion curve knissomancy divination using burning incense knitch bundle of wood tied together knobber a stag in its second year knop loop or tuft in yarn knosp unopened bud of a flower; ornament shaped like a bud knout to flog; to scourge knubble to beat with the fists knur knob or knot in wood knurl small excrescence or protuberance; to make knurls on koan nonsensical question given to Buddhist students for contemplation kobold spirit of the mines kohl eye-shadow; mascara kohlrabi variety of cabbage koine dialect that spreads to become common language of a region kolo Central European folk dance having a ring of dancers komatik sled with wooden runners konimeter instrument measuring amount of dust in air koniology study of atmospheric pollutants and dust koniscope instrument for measuring dust in air kop bank of terracing at a football field kora musical instrument similar to a harp kore ancient Greek statue of a draped maiden koto obnoxious-sounding Japanese stringed instrument kouros statue of a nude male kraken legendary sea monster krasis addition of water to sacramental wine kraurosis shrivelling of the skin kreatophagia eating of raw meat kremlin a Russian citadel kreng whale carcass after blubber is removed kriegspiel war-game used to teach strategy krimmer tightly curled grey or black lamb's wool kritarchy government by judges krobylos tuft of hair on the top of the head krummhorn ancient double-reed wind instrument krypsis doctrine that Christ secretly exercised divine powers ktenology science of putting people to death kumiss fermented mare's milk kummel cumin-flavoured liqueur kurgan prehistoric burial mound kurtosis relative degree of sharpness of peak of distribution curve kuru brain disease transmitted by cannibalism kvass Eastern European rye beer kwashiorkor tropical disease of infants due to protein deficiency kyle narrow strait kylin Chinese mythical animal kyllosis club foot kyloe small long-haired cattle kymatology study of wave motion kymograph instrument for recording fluid pressure kyphorrhinos humped nose kyphosis hunchbacked condition kyrie religious petition for mercy kyrielle string of short lines in stanzas all ending with the same word kyriolexy the use of literal expressions
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(the heart is not a muscle)In golf, a 'Bo Derek' is a score of 10.In the U.S, Frisbees outsell footballs, baseballs and basketballs combined.In most watch advertisements the time displayed on a watch is 10:10.If you plant an apple seed, it is almost guaranteed to grow a tree of a different type of apple.Al Capone's business card said he was a used furniture dealer.The only real person to be a PEZ head was Betsy Ross.There are about 450 types of cheese in the world. 240 come from France.A dragonfly has a lifespan of 24 hours.In Iceland, a Big Mac costs $5.50.Broccoli and cauliflower are the only vegetables that are flowers.There is no solid proof of who built the Taj Mahal.In a survey of 200000 ostriches over 80 years, not one tried to bury its head in the sand.A dime has 118 ridges around the edge. A quarter has 119."Judge Judy" has a $25,000,000 salary, while Supreme Court Justice Ginsberg has a $190,100 salary.Andorra, a tiny country between France & Spain, has the longest average lifespan: 83.49 years.Mr. Rogers was an ordained Presbyterian minister.In America you will see an average of 500 advertisements a day.John Lennon's first girlfriend was named Thelma Pickles.You can lead a cow upstairs but not downstairs.The average person falls asleep in seven minutes."The sixth sick sheik's sixth sheep's sick" is said to be the toughest tongue twister in English.There are 336 dimples on a regulation US golf ball. In the UK its 330."Duff" is the decaying organic matter found on a forest floor.The US has more personal computers than the next 7 countries combined.Kuwait is about 60% male (highest in the world). Latvia is about 54% female (highest in the world).The Hawaiian alphabet has only 12 letters.In 10 minutes, a hurricane releases more energy than all the world's nuclear weapons combined.At the height of its power in 400 BC, the Greek city of Sparta had 25,000 citizens and 500,000 slaves.Julius Caesar's autograph is worth about $2,000,000.People say "bless you" when you sneeze because your heart stops for a millisecond.US gold coins used to say "In Gold We Trust".In "Silence of the Lambs", Hannibal Lector (Anthony Hopkins) never blinks.A shrimp's heart is in its head.In the 17th century, the value of pi was known to 35 decimal places. Today, to 1.2411 trillion.Pearls melt in vinegar."Lassie" was played by a group of male dogs; the main one was named Pal.Nepal is the only country that doesn't have a rectangular flag.Switzerland is the only country with a square flag.Antarctica is the only continent on which no Lepidoptera have been found.There are about 24,000 species of butterflies. The moths are even more numerous: about 140,000 species of them were counted all over the world.Gabriel, Michael, and Lucifer are the only angels named in the Bible.Johnny Appleseed planted apples so that people could use apple cider to make alcohol.Abraham Lincoln's ghost is said to haunt the White House.God is not mentioned once in the book of Esther.The odds of being born male are about 51.2%, according to census.Scotland has more redheads than any other part of the world.There is an average of 61,000 people airborne over the US at any given moment.Prince Charles and Prince William never travel on the same airplane in case there is a crash.The most popular first name in the world is Muhammad.The surface of the Earth is about 60% water and 10% ice.For every 230 cars that are made, 1 will be stolen.Jimmy Carter was the first U.S. President to be born in a hospital.Lightning strikes the earth about 8 million times a day.Humans use a total of 72 different muscles in speech.If you feed a seagull Alka-Seltzer, its stomach will explode.Only female mosquitoes bite.The U.S. Post Office handles 43 percent of the world's mail.Venus and Uranus are the only planets that rotate opposite to the direction of their orbit.John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, and James Monroe died on July 4th.Baby Ruth candy bar was named after Grover Cleveland's daughter, Ruth, not the baseball player.Dolphins can look in different directions with each eye. They can sleep with one eye open.The Falkland Isles (pop. about 2000) has over 700000 sheep (350 per person).There are 41,806 different spoken languages in the world today.The city of Venice stands on about 120 small islands.The past-tense of the English word "dare" is "durst"Beetles taste like apples, wasps like pine nuts, and worms like fried bacon.Of all the words in the English language, the word 'set' has the most definitions!What is called a "French kiss" in the English speaking world is known as an "English kiss" in France."Almost" is the longest word in the English language with all the letters in alphabetical order."Rhythm" is the longest English word without a vowel.In 1386, a pig in France was executed by public hanging for the murder of a childA cockroach can live several weeks with its head cut off!Human thigh bones are stronger than concrete.You can't kill yourself by holding your breathThere is a city called Rome on every continent.Your heart beats over 100,000 times a day!The skeleton of Jeremy Bentham is present at all important meetings of the University of LondonRight handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left-handed peopleYour ribs move about 5 million times a year, every time you breathe!One quarter of the bones in your body, are in your feet!Like fingerprints, everyone's tongue print is different!Fingernails grow nearly 4 times faster than toenails!Most dust particles in your house are made from dead skin!Present population of 5 billion plus people of the world is predicted to become 15 billion by 2080.Women blink nearly twice as much as men.Adolf Hitler was a vegetarian, and had only ONE testicle.Honey is the only food that does not spoil.Months that begin on a Sunday will always have a "Friday the 13th."Coca-Cola would be green if coloring weren't added to it.On average a hedgehog's heart beats 300 times a minute.More people are killed each year from bees than from snakes.The average lead pencil will draw a line 35 miles long or write approximately 50,000 English words.More people are allergic to cow's milk than any other food.Camels have three eyelids to protect themselves from blowing sand.The placement of a donkey's eyes in it's' heads enables it to see all four feet at all times!The six official languages of the U.N. are: English, French, Arabic, Chinese, Russian and Spanish.Earth is the only planet not named after a god.It's against the law to burp, or sneeze in a church in Nebraska, USA.You're born with 300 bones, but by the time you become an adult, you only have 206.Some worms will eat themselves if they can't find any food!The world's oldest piece of chewing gum is 9000 years old!The longest recorded flight of a chicken is 13 secondsOwls are the only birds that can see the color blue.A man named Charles Osborne had the hiccups for 69 years!A giraffe can clean its ears with its 21-inch tongue!The average person laughs 10 times a day!The Bible, the world's best-selling book, is also the world's most shoplifted book.Someone paid $14,000 for the bra worn by Marilyn Monroe in the film 'Some Like It Hot'.Your tongue is the only muscle in your body that is attached at only one end.More than 1,000 different languages are spoken on the continent of Africa.Buckingham Palace in England has over six hundred rooms.There was once an undersea post office in the Bahamas.Ninety percent of New York City cabbies are recently arrived immigrants.It's possible to lead a cow upstairs...but not downstairs.A snail can sleep for three years.No word in the English language rhymes with "MONTH".Average life span of a Major League Baseball: 7 pitches.Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing."Go." is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.The "pound" key on your keyboard () is called an octotroph.The only domestic animal not mentioned in the Bible is the cat.Table tennis balls have been known to travel off the paddle at speeds up to 160 km/hr.Pepsi originally contained pepsin, thus the name.The original story from "Tales of 1001 Arabian Nights" begins, "Aladdin was a little Chinese boy."Nutmeg is extremely poisonous if injected intravenously.Honey is the only natural food that is made without destroying any kind of life.The volume of the earth's moon is the same as the volume of the Pacific Ocean.Cephalacaudal recapitulation is the reason our extremities develop faster than the rest of us.Chinese Crested dogs can get acne.Each year there is one ton of cement poured for each man woman and child in the world.The house fly hums in the middle octave key of F.The only capital letter in the Roman alphabet with exactly one end point is P.The giant red star Betelgeuse has a diameter larger than that of the Earth's orbit around the sun.Hummingbirds are the only animals that can fly backwards.A cat's jaw cannot move sideways.The human heart creates enough pressure when it pumps out to the body to squirt blood 30 feet.The flea can jump 350 times its body length. It's like a human jumping the length of a football field.Some lions mate over 50 times a day.Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated.The average person's left hand does 56% of the typing.The longest one-syllable word in the English language is "screeched."All of the clocks in the movie "Pulp Fiction" are stuck on 4:20."Dreamt" is the only English word that ends in the letters "mt."Maine is the only state (in USA) whose name is just one syllable.The giant squid has the largest eyes in the world.In England, the Speaker of the House is not allowed to speak.Mr. Rogers was an ordained minister.A rat can last longer without water than a camel.Your stomach has to produce a new layer of mucus every two weeks or it will digest itself.A female ferret will die if it goes into heat and cannot find a mate.A 2" X 4" is really 1-1/2" by 3-1/2".On average, 12 newborns will be given to the wrong parents daily.There are no words in the dictionary that rhyme with orange, purple, silver and month.The caterpillars of some Snout Moths (Pyralididae) live in or on water-plants.The females of some moth species lack wings, all they can do to move is crawl.If one places a tiny amount of liquor on a scorpion, it will instantly go mad and sting itself to death.The first CD pressed in the US was Bruce Springsteen's "Born in the USA."Sherlock Holmes NEVER said, "Elementary, my dear Watson."California consumes more bottled water than any other product.California has issued 6 drivers licenses to people named "Jesus Christ."In 1980, a Las Vegas hospital suspended workers for betting on when patients would die.Nevada is the driest state in the U.S.. Each year it averages 7.5 inches (19 cm) of rain.In Utah, it is illegal to swear in front of a dead person.Salt Lake City, Utah has a law against carrying an unwrapped ukulele on the street.Arizona was the last of the 48 adjoining continental states to enter the Union.It is illegal to hunt camels in the state of Arizona.Wyoming was the first state to give women the right to vote in 1869.Denver, Colorado lays claim to the invention of the cheeseburger.The first license plate on a car in the United States was issued in Denver, Colorado in 1908.The state of Maryland has no natural Lakes.Illinois has the highest number of personalized license plates than any other state.Residents of Houston, Texas lead the U.S. in eating out - approximately 4.6 times per week.Laredo, Texas is the U.S.'s farthest inland port.Rugby, North Dakota is the geographical center of North America.Butte County, South Dakota is the geographical center of the U.S.Louisiana's capital building is the tallest one of any U.S. state.Hawaii is the only coffee producing state.One in seven workers in Boston, Massachusetts walks to work.The "Dull Men's Hall of Fame" is located in Carroll, Wisconsin.Gary, Indiana is the murder capital of the U.S. - probably the world.Alabama was the first state to recognize Christmas as an official holiday.The largest NFL stadium is the Pontiac Silverdome in Detroit, Michigan.Michigan was the first state to have roadside picnic tables.No matter where you stand in Michigan, you are never more than 85 miles from a Great Lake.The official beverage of Ohio is tomato juice.Georgia's state motto is "Wisdom, Justice and Moderation."The U.S. city with the highest rate of lightning strikes per capita is Clearwater, Florida.It's illegal to spit on the sidewalk in Norfolk, Virginia.The first streetlights in America were installed in Philadelphia around 1757.The highest point in Pennsylvania is lower than the lowest point in Colorado.If you were to take a taxicab from New York City to Los Angeles, it would cost you $8,325.The NY phone book had 22 Hitlers before WWII. The NY phone book had 0 Hitlers after WWII.In New York State, it is illegal to but any alcohol on Sundays before noon.There were 240 pedestrian fatalities in New York City in 1994.Columbia University is the second largest landowner in New York City, after the Catholic Church.Montpelier, Vermont is the only state capital without a McDonalds.Maine is the only state that has borders with only one other state.The first McDonald's restaurant in Canada was in Richmond, British Columbia.In 1984, a Canadian farmer began renting advertising space on his cows.There are more donut shops in Canada per capita than any other country.0.3% of all road accidents in Canada involve a Moose.In the great fire of London in 1666 half of London was burnt down but only 6 people were injured.In Quebec, there is an old law that states margarine must be a different color than butter.The largest taxi fleet in the world is found in Mexico City. The city boasts a fleet of over 60,000 taxis.More than 90% of the Nicaraguan people are Roman Catholic.Cuba is the only island in the Caribbean to have a railroad.Jamaica has the most churches per square mile than any other country in the world.The angel falls in Venezuela are nearly 20 times taller than Niagara Falls.Canada is the only country not to win a gold medal in the summer Olympic games while hosting.The Amazon is the world's largest river, 3,890 miles (6,259 km) long.The town of Calma, Chile in the Atacama Desert has never had rain.The people of France eat more cheese than any other country in the world.King Louis XIX ruled France for 15 minutes.The most common name in Italy is Mario Rossi.Greece's national anthem has 158 verses.In ancient Greece "idiot" meant a private citizen or layman.Bulgarians are known to be the biggest yogurt eaters in the world.Czechs are the biggest consumers of beer per male in the world.A Czech man, Jan Honza Zampa, holds the record for drinking one liter of beer in 4.11 seconds.Netherlands is the only country with a national dog.When we think of Big Ben in London, we think of the clock. Actually, it's the bell.The Automated Teller Machine (ATM) was introduced in England in 1965.Buckingham Palace has 602 rooms.Icelanders consume more Coca-Cola per Capita than any other nation.Until 1997, there were more pigs than people in Denmark.There is a hotel in Sweden built entirely out of ice; it is rebuilt every year.Sweden has the least number of murders annually.Lithuania has the highest suicide rate in the world.The country code for Russia is "007".Russians generally answer the phone by saying, "I'm listening".The U.S. bought Alaska for 2 cents an acre from Russia.1 in 5 of the world's doctors are Russian.Antarctica is the only continent that does not have land areas below sea level.The people of Israel consume more turkeys per capita than any other country.Nepal is the only country that has a non-rectangular flag. It is also asymmetrical.1,800 cigarettes are smoked per person each year in China.Respiratory Disease is China's leading cause of death.There are more than 40,000 characters in the Chinese script.More people speak English in China than the United States.The toothbrush was invented in China in 1498.Mongolia is the largest landlocked country.Vatican City is the smallest country in the world, with a population of 1000 and just 108.7 acres.In Japan, watermelons are squared. It's easier to stack them that way.98% of Japanese are cremated.The number "four" is considered unlucky in Japan because it is pronounced the same as "death".The average Japanese household watches more than 10 hours of television a day.The Philippines has about 7,100 islands, of which only about 460 are more than 1 square mile in area.Yo-yos were used as weapons by warriors in the Philippines in the 16th century.Australian soldiers used the song "We're Off to See the Wizard" as a marching song in WWII.The Australian $5 to $100 notes are made of plastic.The Nullarbor Plain of Australia covers 100,000 square miles (160,900 km) without a tree.Tasmania, Australia has the cleanest air in the inhabited world.Greenland is the largest island in the world.The first female guest host of "Saturday Night Live" was Candace Bergen.In 1933, Mickey Mouse, an animated cartoon character, received 800,000 fan letters.The Simpsons is the longest running animated series on TV.The first toilet ever seen on television was on "Leave It to Beaver."In every episode of Seinfeld there is a Superman somewhere.The average human brain has about 100 billion nerve cells.Nerve impulses to and from the brain travel as fast as 170 miles (274 km) per hour.The thyroid cartilage is more commonly known as the adams apple.Your stomach needs to produce a new layer of mucus every two weeks or it would digest itself.The average life of a taste bud is 10 days.The average cough comes out of your mouth at 60 miles (96.5 km) per hour.Relative to size, the strongest muscle in the body is the tongue.When you sneeze, all your bodily functions stop even your heart.Babies are born without knee caps. They don't appear until the child reaches 2-6 years of age.Right handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left handed people do.Children grow faster in the springtime.It takes the stomach an hour to break down cows' milk.Women blink nearly twice as much as men.Blondes have more hair than dark-haired people do.There are 10 human body parts that are only 3 letters long (eye hip arm leg ear toe jaw rib lip gum).If you go blind in one eye you only lose about one fifth of your vision but all your sense of depth.The average human head weighs about 8 pounds.In the average lifetime, a person will walk the equivalent of 5 times around the equator.An average human scalp has 100,000 hairs.The average human blinks their eyes 6,205,000 times each year.Your skull is made up of 29 different bones.Ancient Egyptians shaved off their eyebrows to mourn the deaths of their cats.Hair is made from the same substance as fingernails.The surface of the human skin is 6.5 square feet (2m).15 million blood cells are destroyed in the human body every second.The pancreas produces Insulin.The most sensitive cluster of nerves is at the base of the spine.The human body is comprised of 80% water.The average human will shed 40 pounds of skin in a lifetime.Human thighbones are stronger than concrete.There are 45 miles of nerves in the skin of a human being.Canadian researchers have found that Einstein's brain was 15% wider than normal.While in Alcatraz, Al Capone was inmate 85.Astronaut Neil Armstrong first stepped on the moon with his left foot.Jim Morrison, of the 60's rock group The Doors, was the first rock star to be arrested on stage.Frank Lloyd Wright's son invented Lincoln Logs.Peter Falk, who played "Columbo," has a glass eye.Barbie's full name is "Babara Millicent Roberts."The mother of Michael Nesmith of "The Monkees" invented whiteout.Isaac Asimov is the only author to have a book in every Dewey-decimal category.Shakespeare invented the word "assassination" and "bump."It is believed that Leonardo Da Vinci invented the scissors.Adolf Hitler's mother seriously considered having an abortion but was talked out of it by her doctor.The shortest British monarch was Charles I, who was 4 feet 9 inches.Tina Turner's real name is Annie Mae Bullock.Beethoven dipped his head in cold water before he composed.President John F Kennedy could read 4 newspapers in 20 minutes.Bob Dylan's real name is Robert Zimmerman.Sigmund Freud had a morbid fear of ferns.Anne Boleyn, Queen Elizabeth I's mother, had six fingers on one hand.Orville Wright was involved in the first aircraft accident. His passenger, a Frenchman, was killed.The sound of E.T. walking was made by someone squishing her hands in jelly.Cher's last name was "Sarkissian." She changed it because no one could pronounce it.Sugar was first added to chewing gum in 1869 by a dentist, William Semple.Paper was invented early in the second century by Chinese eunuch.Sir Isaac Newton was only 23 years old when he discovered the law of universal gravitation.Hannibal had only one eye after getting a disease while attacking Rome.A blue whales heart only beats nine times per minute.A cat uses its whiskers to determine if a space is too small to squeeze through.A chameleon's tongue is twice the length of its body.A crocodiles tongue is attached to the roof of its mouth.Rodent's teeth never stop growing.A shark can detect one part of blood in 100 million parts of water.The penguin is the only bird that can swim but can't fly.The cheetah is the only cat that can't retract its claws.A lion's roar can be heard from five miles away.Emus and kangaroos can't walk backwards.Cats have over 100 vocal sounds; dogs only have 10.A mole can dig a tunnel 300 feet (91 m) long in just one night.Insects outnumber humans 100,000,000 to one.Sharkskin has tiny tooth-like scales all over.Chameleons can move their eyes in two directions at the same time.Koalas never drink water. They get fluids from the eucalyptus leaves they eat.A cow gives nearly 200,000 glasses of milk in her lifetime.When sharks take a bite, their eyes roll back and their teeth jut out.Camels chew in a figure 8 pattern.Proportional to their size, cats have the largest eyes of all mammals.Sailfish can leap out of the water and into the air at a speed of 50 miles (81 km) per hour.The catfish has the most taste buds of all animals, having over 27,000 of them.A skunk's smell can be detected by a human a mile away.A lion in the wild usually makes no more than 20 kills a year.In space, astronauts cannot cry, because there is no gravity, so the tears can't flow.The state of Florida is bigger than England.One in every 4 Americans has appeared on television.The average American/Canadian will eat about 11.9 pounds of cereal per year!There are over 58 million dogs in the USDogs and cats consume over $11 billion worth of pet food a yearBaby robins eat 14 feet of earthworms every dayIn Raiders of the Lost Ark there is a wall carving of R2-D2 and C-3P0 behind the ark"I" is the most spoken word in the English language"You" is the second most spoken English wordSpain leads the world in cork productionThere are 1,792 steps in the Eiffel TowerThere is a city in Norway called "Hell"The human feet perspire half a pint of fluid a dayAn Olympic gold medal must contain 92.5 percent silverThere are 240 dots on an arcade Pac-Man gameThe San Francisco Cable cars are the only mobile National MonumentsLee Harvey Oswald's cadaver tag sold at an auction for $6,600 in 1992.A pound of houseflies contains more protein than a pound of beefThe average American works 24,000 hours in their lifetime just to pay their taxes40% of all people who come to a party in your home snoop in your medicine cabinetA duck's quack doesn't echo, and no one knows why.Non-dairy creamer is flammable.Pinocchio is Italian for "pine head."There are more than 10 million bricks in the Empire State Building.
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Butterflies cannot fly if their body temperature is less than 86 degrees.Neurons multiply at a rate 250,000 neurons per minute during early pregnancy.Elephants have the longest pregnancy in the animal kingdom at 22 months. The longest human pregnancy on record is 17 months, 11 days.A female oyster produces 100 million young in her lifetime, the typical hen lays 19 dozen eggs a year, and it is possible for one female cat to be responsible for the birth of 20,736 kittens in four years. Michelle Druggar holds the record for largest human family, having given birth to 17 children.750ml of blood pumps through your brain every minute which is 15-20% of blood flow from the heart.The human brain is about 75% water.Dragonflies are capable of flying sixty miles per hour, making them one of the fastest insects. This is good since they are in a big hurry, as they only live about twenty-four hours.Flies jump backwards during take off.A housefly will regurgitate its food and eat it again.Termites outweigh humans by almost ten to one.A spider's web is not a home, but rather a trap for its food. They are as individual as snowflakes, with no two ever being the same. Some tropical spiders have built webs over eighteen feet across.More people are afraid of spiders than death. Amazingly, few people are afraid of Champagne corks even though you are more likely to be killed by one than by a spider.Your brain consumes 25 watts of power while you're awake. This amount of energy is enough to illuminate a lightbulb.It is impossible to lick your elbow.Intelligent people have more zinc and copper in their hair.In every episode of Seinfeld there is a Superman somewhere.Possums have one of the shortest pregnancies at 16 days. The shortest human pregnancy to produce a healthy baby was 22 weeks, 6 days -- the baby was the length of a ballpoint pen.Wearing headphones for just an hour will increase the bacteria in your ear by 700 times.The most poisonous spider is the black widow. Its venom is more potent than a rattlesnake's.13% of Americans actually believe that some parts of the moon are made of cheese.The world's youngest parents were 8 and 9 and lived in China in 1910.Fish that live more than 800 meters below the ocean surface don't have eyes.Butterflies range in size from a tiny 1/8 inch to a huge almost 12 inches.Some Case Moth caterpillars (Psychidae) build a case around themselves that they always carry with them. It is made of silk and pieces of plants or soil.Most household dust is made of dead skin cells.One in eight million people has progeria, a disease that causes people to grow faster than they age.The male seahorse carries the eggs until they hatch instead of the female.Negative emotions such as anxiety and depression can weaken your immune system.Stephen Hawking was born exactly 300 years after Galileo died.Mercury is the only planet whose orbit is coplanar with its equator.The Morgan's Sphinx Moth from Madagascar has a proboscis (tube mouth) that is 12 to 14 inches long to get the nectar from the bottom of a 12 inch deep orchid discovered by Charles Darwin.Some moths never eat anything as adults because they don't have mouths. They must live on the energy they stored as caterpillars.In 1958 Entomologist W.G. Bruce published a list of Arthropod references in the Bible. The most frequently named bugs from the Bible are: Locust: 24, Moth: 11, Grasshopper: 10, Scorpion: 10, Caterpillar: 9, and Bee: 4.People eat insects - called "Entomophagy"(people eating bugs) - it has been practiced for centuries throughout Africa, Australia, Asia, the Middle East, and North, Central and South America. Why? Because many bugs are both protein-rich and good sources of vitamins, minerals and fats.Grapes explode when you put them in the microwave. Go on, try it thenRamses brand condom is named after the great pharaoh Ramses II who fathered over 160 children.Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite.The average chocolate bar has 8 insects' legs in it.In York, it is perfectly legal to shoot a Scotsman with a bow and arrow (except on Sundays)No piece of square dry paper can be folded in half more than 7 timesThe average human eats 8 spiders in their lifetime at night.The Beetham Tower cost over £150 million to build.The Beetham Tower has 47 floors."Stewardesses" is the longest word typed with only the left hand.An average human loses about 200 head hairs per day.Mexico City sinks about 10 inches a yearIt's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.In France, a five year old child can buy an alcoholic drink in a barDuring the chariot scene in "Ben Hur," a small red car can be seen in the distance.Because metal was scarce, the Oscars given out during World War II were made of wood.By raising your legs slowly and lying on your back, you cannot sink into quicksand.The glue on Israeli postage is certified kosher.In 10 minutes, a hurricane releases more energy than all of the world's nuclear weapons combined.On average, 100 people choke to death on ball-point pens every year.Thirty-five percent of the people who use personal ads for dating are already married.The electric chair was invented by a dentist.The top butterfly flight speed is 12 miles per hour. Some moths can fly 25 miles per hour!The Brimstone butterfly (Gonepterix rhamni) has the longest lifetime of the adult butterflies: 9-10 months.Bruce Lee was so fast that they actually had to s-l-o-w film down so you could see his moves.A Boeing 747s wingspan is longer than the Wright brother's first flight.Representations of butterflies are seen in Egyptian frescoes at Thebes, which are 3,500 years old.Babies are born without knee caps. They don't appear until the child reaches 2-6 years of age.14% of all facts and statistics are made up and 27% of people know that fact.Every time you lick a stamp, you're consuming 1/10 of a calorie.Eskimos have over 15 words for the English word of 'Snow'Butterflies can see red, green, and yellow.Some people say that when the black bands on the Woolybear caterpillar are wide, a cold winter is coming.Americans on the average eat 18 acres of pizza every day.Banging your head against a wall uses 150 calories an hour.Almonds are a member of the peach family.The plastic things on the end of shoelaces are called aglets."Ithyphallophobia" is a morbid fear of seeing, thinking about or having an erect penis.The average shelf-life of a latex condom is about two years.14% of Americans have skinny-dipped with a member of the opposite sex at least once.Male bats have the highest rate of homosexuality of any mammal.A man's beard grows fastest when he anticipates sex.A man will ejaculate approximately 18 quarts of semen in his lifetime.Sex is biochemically no different from eating large quantities of chocolate.Humans and dolphins are the only species that have sex for pleasure.For every 'normal' webpage, there are five porn pages."Venus observa" is the technical term for the "missionary position."Sex is the safest tranquilizer in the world. IT IS 10 TIMES MORE EFFECTIVE THAN VALIUM.Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain) was born on and died on days when Halley's Comet can be seen.US Dollar bills are made out of cotton and linen.The 57 on the Heinz ketchup bottle represents the number of pickle types the company once had.Americans are responsible for about 1/5 of the world's garbage annually.Giraffes and rats can last longer without water than camels.Your stomach produces a new layer of mucus every two weeks so that it doesn't digest itself.98% of all murders and rapes are by a close family member or friend of the victim.A B-25 bomber crashed into the 79th floor of the Empire State Building on July 28, 1945.The Declaration of Independence was written on hemp (marijuana) paper.The dot over the letter "i" is called a tittle.Benjamin Franklin was the fifth in a series of the youngest son of the youngest son.Triskaidekaphobia means fear of the number 13.Paraskevidekatriaphobia means fear of Friday the 13th, which occurs one to three times a year.In Italy, 17 is considered an unlucky number. In Japan, 4 is considered an unlucky number.A female ferret will die if it goes into heat and cannot find a mate.In ancient Rome, when a man testified in court he would swear on his testicles.The ZIP in "ZIP code" means Zoning Improvement Plan.Coca-Cola contained Coca (whose active ingredient is cocaine) from 1885 to 1903.A "2 by 4" is really 1 1/2 by 3 1/2.It's estimated that at any one time around 0.7% of the world's population is drunk.40% of McDonald's profits come from the sales of Happy Meals.Every person, including identical twins, has a unique eye & tongue print along with their finger print.The "spot" on the 7-Up logo comes from its inventor who had red eyes. He was an albino.315 entries in Webster's 1996 dictionary were misspelled.The "save" icon in Microsoft Office programs shows a floppy disk with the shutter on backwards.Albert Einstein and Charles Darwin both married their first cousinsCamel's have three eyelids.On average, 12 newborns will be given to the wrong parents every day.John Wilkes Booth's brother once saved the life of Abraham Lincoln's son.Warren Beatty and Shirley McLaine are brother and sister.Chocolate can kill dogs; it directly affects their heart and nervous system.Daniel Boone hated coonskin caps.55.1% of all US prisoners are in prison for drug offenses.Most lipstick contains fish scales.Dr. Seuss pronounced his name "soyce".Slugs have four noses.Ketchup was sold in the 1830s as medicine.India has a Bill of Rights for cows.American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by taking out an olive from First Class salads.About 200,000,000 M&Ms are sold each day in the United States.Because metal was scarce, the Oscars given out during World War II were made of wood.There are 318,979,564,000 possible combinations of the first four moves in Chess.There are no clocks in Las Vegas gambling casinos.Coconuts kill about 150 people each year. That's more than sharks.Half of all bank robberies take place on a Friday.The name Wendy was made up for the book Peter Pan. There was never a recorded Wendy before it.The international telephone dialing code for Antarctica is 672.The first bomb the Allies dropped on Berlin in WWII killed the only elephant in the Berlin Zoo.The average raindrop falls at 7 miles per hour.If you put a drop of liquor on a scorpion, it will instantly go mad and sting itself to death.Bruce Lee was so fast that they had to slow the film down so you could see his moves.The first CD pressed in the US was Bruce Springsteen's "Born in the USA".IBM's motto is "Think". Apple later made their motto "Think different".The original name for butterfly was flutterby.One in fourteen women in America is a natural blonde. Only one in sixteen men is.The Olympic was the sister ship of the Titanic, and she provided twenty-five years of service.When the Titanic sank, 2228 people were on it. Only 706 survived.Every day, 7% of the US eats at McDonald's.During his entire life, Vincent Van Gogh sold exactly one painting, "Red Vineyard at Arles".By raising your legs slowly and lying on your back, you cannot sink into quicksand.One in ten people live on an island.It takes more calories to eat a piece of celery than the celery has in it to begin with.28% of Africa is classified as wilderness. In North America, its 38%.Charlie Chaplin once won third prize in a Charlie Chaplin look-alike contest.Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying.Sherlock Holmes NEVER said "Elementary, my dear Watson"Humphrey Bogart NEVER said "Play it again, Sam" in CasablancaThey NEVER said "Beam me up, Scotty" on Star Trek.Sharon Stone was the first Star Search spokes model.More people are afraid of open spaces (kenophobia) than of tight spaces (claustrophobia).There is a 1 in 4 chance that New York will have a white Christmas.The Guinness Book of Records holds the record for being the book most often stolen from Libraries.Thirty-five percent of the people who use personal ads for dating are already married.$203,000,000 is spent on barbed wire each year in the U.S.Every US president has worn glasses (just not always in public).Bats always turn left when exiting a cave.Jim Henson first coined the word "Muppet". It is a combination of "marionette" and "puppet."The Michelin man is known as Mr. Bib. His name was Bibendum in the company's first ads in 1896.The word "lethologica" describes the state of not being able to remember the word you want.About 14% of injecting drug users are HIV positive.A word or sentence that is the same front and back (racecar, kayak) is called a "palindrome".A snail can sleep for 3 years.People photocopying their buttocks are the cause of 23% of all photocopier faults worldwide.China has more English speakers than the United States.One in every 9000 people is an albino.There are about a million ants per person. Ants are very social animals and will live in colonies that can contain almost 500,000 ants.The electric chair was invented by a dentist.You share your birthday with at least 9 million other people in the world.Everyday, more money is printed for Monopoly sets than for the U.S. Treasury.Every year 4 people in the UK die putting their trousers on.Cats have over one hundred vocal sounds; dogs only have about ten.Our eyes are always the same size from birth but our nose and ears never stop growing.In every episode of "Seinfeld" there is a Superman picture or reference somewhere.Rats multiply so quickly that in 18 months, two rats could have over million descendants.Wearing headphones for just an hour will increase the bacteria in your ear by 700 times.Each year in America there are about 300,000 deaths that can be attributed to obesity.Many butterflies can taste with their feet to find out whether the leaf they sit on is good to lay eggs on to be their caterpillars' food or not.There are more types of insects in one tropical rain forest tree than there are in the entire state of Vermont.About 55% of all movies are rated R.About 500 movies are made in the US and 800 in India annually.Arabic numerals are not really Arabic; they were created in India.The February of 1865 is the only month in recorded history not to have a full moon.There is actually no danger in swimming right after you eat, though it may feel uncomfortable.The cruise liner Queen Elizabeth II moves only six inches for each gallon of diesel that it burns.More than 50% of the people in the world have never made or received a telephone call.A shark is the only fish that can blink with both eyes.There are about 2 chickens for every human in the world.The word "maverick" came into use after Samuel Maverick, a Texan refused to brand his cattle.Two-thirds of the world's eggplant is grown in New Jersey.Termites have been known to eat food twice as fast when heavy metal music is playing.There are more beetles than any other animal. In fact, one out of every four animals is a beetle.The rhinoceros beetle is the strongest animal and is capable of lifting 850 times its own weight.On a Canadian two-dollar bill, the American flag is flying over the Parliament Building.An American urologist bought Napoleon's penis for $40,000.No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver, or purple.Dreamt is the only English word that ends in the letters "MT".$283,200 is the absolute highest amount of money you can win on Jeopardy.Almonds are members of the peach family.Rats and horses can't vomit.The penguin is the only bird that can't fly but can swim.There are approximately 100 million acts of sexual intercourse each day.Winston Churchill was born in a ladies room during a dance.Maine is the only state whose name is just one syllable.Americans on average eat 18 acres of pizza every day.Venus is the only planet that rotates clockwise.Charlie Chaplin once won third prize in a Charlie Chaplin look-alike contest.Every time you lick a stamp you consume 1/10 of a calorie.You are more likely to be killed by a champagne cork than by a poisonous spider.Hedenophobic means fear of pleasure.Ancient Egyptian priests would pluck every hair from their bodies.A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out.An ant always falls over on its right side when intoxicated.All polar bears are left-handed.The catfish has over 27000 taste buds (more than any other animal)A cockroach will live nine days without its head before it starves to death.Many insects can carry 50 times their own body weight. This would be like an adult person lifting two heavy cars full of people.There are over a million described species of insects. Some people estimate there are actually between 15 and 30 million species.Most insects are beneficial to people because they eat other insects, pollinate crops, are food for other animals, make products we use (like honey and silk) or have medical uses.Butterflies and insects have their skeletons on the outside of their bodies, called the exoskeleton. This protects the insect and keeps water inside their bodies so they don't dry out.Elephants are the only mammals that cannot jump.An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.Starfish have no brains.11% of the world is left-handed.Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated.The national anthem of Greece has 158 verses.There are 293 ways to make change for a dollar.A healthy (non-colorblind) human eye can distinguish between 500 shades of gray.A pregnant goldfish is called a twit.Lizards can self-amputate their tails for protection. It grows back after a few months.Los Angeles' full name is "El Pueblo de Nuestra Senora la Reina de los Angeles de Porciuncula".A cat has 32 muscles in each ear.A honeybee can fly at fifteen miles per hour.Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur.A "jiffy" is the scientific name for 1/100th of a second.The average child recognizes over 200 company logos by the time he enters first grade.The youngest pope ever was 11 years old.The first novel ever written on a typewriter is Tom Sawyer.A rhinoceros horn is made of compacted hair.Elwood Edwards did the voice for the AOL sound files (i.e. "You've got Mail!").A polar bears skin is black. Its fur is actually clear, but like snow it appears white.Elvis had a twin brother named Garon, who died at birth, which is why Elvis middle name was Aron.Dueling is legal in Paraguay as long as both parties are registered blood donors.Donkeys kill more people than plane crashes.Shakespeare invented the words "assassination" and "bump."If you keep a goldfish in the dark room, it will eventually turn white.Women blink nearly twice as much as men.The name Jeep comes from "GP", the army abbreviation for General Purpose.Right handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left handed people do.There are two credit cards for every person in the United States.Cats' urine glows under a black light.A "quidnunc" is a person who is eager to know the latest news and gossip.Leonardo Da Vinci invented the scissors, the helicopter, and many other present day items.In the last 4000 years no new animals have been domesticated.25% of a human's bones are in its feet.On average, 100 people choke to death on ballpoint pens every year."Canada" is an Indian word meaning "Big Village".Only one in two billion people will live to be 116 or older.Rape is reported every six minutes in the U.S.The human heart creates enough pressure in the bloodstream to squirt blood 30 feet.A jellyfish is 95% water.The world's longest snake (by reliable documentation) is the reticulated python, with a maximum length of, perhaps, 30 feet.Common Cobra venom is not on the list of top 10 venoms yet it is still 40 times more toxic than cyanide.The venom of the Australian Brown Snake is so powerful only 1/14,000th of an ounce is enough to kill a human.Truck driving is the most dangerous occupation by accidental deaths (799 in 2001).Banging your head against a wall uses 150 calories an hour.Elephants only sleep for two hours each day.On average people fear spiders more than they do death.The strongest muscle in the human body is the tongue. (the heart is not a muscle)In golf, a 'Bo Derek' is a score of 10.In the U.S, Frisbees outsell footballs, baseballs and basketballs combined.In most watch advertisements the time displayed on a watch is 10:10.If you plant an apple seed, it is almost guaranteed to grow a tree of a different type of apple.Al Capone's business card said he was a used furniture dealer.The only real person to be a PEZ head was Betsy Ross.There are about 450 types of cheese in the world. 240 come from France.A dragonfly has a lifespan of 24 hours.In Iceland, a Big Mac costs $5.50.Broccoli and cauliflower are the only vegetables that are flowers.There is no solid proof of who built the Taj Mahal.In a survey of 200000 ostriches over 80 years, not one tried to bury its head in the sand.A dime has 118 ridges around the edge. A quarter has 119."Judge Judy" has a $25,000,000 salary, while Supreme Court Justice Ginsberg has a $190,100 salary.Andorra, a tiny country between France & Spain, has the longest average lifespan: 83.49 years.Mr. Rogers was an ordained Presbyterian minister.In America you will see an average of 500 advertisements a day.John Lennon's first girlfriend was named Thelma Pickles.You can lead a cow upstairs but not downstairs.The average person falls asleep in seven minutes."The sixth sick sheik's sixth sheep's sick" is said to be the toughest tongue twister in English.There are 336 dimples on a regulation US golf ball. In the UK its 330."Duff" is the decaying organic matter found on a forest floor.The US has more personal computers than the next 7 countries combined.Kuwait is about 60% male (highest in the world). Latvia is about 54% female (highest in the world).The Hawaiian alphabet has only 12 letters.In 10 minutes, a hurricane releases more energy than all the world's nuclear weapons combined.At the height of its power in 400 BC, the Greek city of Sparta had 25,000 citizens and 500,000 slaves.Julius Caesar's autograph is worth about $2,000,000.People say "bless you" when you sneeze because your heart stops for a millisecond.US gold coins used to say "In Gold We Trust".In "Silence of the Lambs", Hannibal Lector (Anthony Hopkins) never blinks.A shrimp's heart is in its head.In the 17th century, the value of pi was known to 35 decimal places. Today, to 1.2411 trillion.Pearls melt in vinegar."Lassie" was played by a group of male dogs; the main one was named Pal.Nepal is the only country that doesn't have a rectangular flag.Switzerland is the only country with a square flag.Antarctica is the only continent on which no Lepidoptera have been found.There are about 24,000 species of butterflies. The moths are even more numerous: about 140,000 species of them were counted all over the world.Gabriel, Michael, and Lucifer are the only angels named in the Bible.Johnny Appleseed planted apples so that people could use apple cider to make alcohol.Abraham Lincoln's ghost is said to haunt the White House.God is not mentioned once in the book of Esther.The odds of being born male are about 51.2%, according to census.Scotland has more redheads than any other part of the world.There is an average of 61,000 people airborne over the US at any given moment.Prince Charles and Prince William never travel on the same airplane in case there is a crash.The most popular first name in the world is Muhammad.The surface of the Earth is about 60% water and 10% ice.For every 230 cars that are made, 1 will be stolen.Jimmy Carter was the first U.S. President to be born in a hospital.Lightning strikes the earth about 8 million times a day.Humans use a total of 72 different muscles in speech.If you feed a seagull Alka-Seltzer, its stomach will explode.Only female mosquitoes bite.The U.S. Post Office handles 43 percent of the world's mail.Venus and Uranus are the only planets that rotate opposite to the direction of their orbit.John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, and James Monroe died on July 4th.Baby Ruth candy bar was named after Grover Cleveland's daughter, Ruth, not the baseball player.Dolphins can look in different directions with each eye. They can sleep with one eye open.The Falkland Isles (pop. about 2000) has over 700000 sheep (350 per person).There are 41,806 different spoken languages in the world today.The city of Venice stands on about 120 small islands.The past-tense of the English word "dare" is "durst"Beetles taste like apples, wasps like pine nuts, and worms like fried bacon.Of all the words in the English language, the word 'set' has the most definitions!What is called a "French kiss" in the English speaking world is known as an "English kiss" in France."Almost" is the longest word in the English language with all the letters in alphabetical order."Rhythm" is the longest English word without a vowel.In 1386, a pig in France was executed by public hanging for the murder of a childA cockroach can live several weeks with its head cut off!Human thigh bones are stronger than concrete.You can't kill yourself by holding your breathThere is a city called Rome on every continent.Your heart beats over 100,000 times a day!The skeleton of Jeremy Bentham is present at all important meetings of the University of LondonRight handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left-handed peopleYour ribs move about 5 million times a year, every time you breathe!One quarter of the bones in your body, are in your feet!Like fingerprints, everyone's tongue print is different!Fingernails grow nearly 4 times faster than toenails!Most dust particles in your house are made from dead skin!Present population of 5 billion plus people of the world is predicted to become 15 billion by 2080.Women blink nearly twice as much as men.Adolf Hitler was a vegetarian, and had only ONE testicle.Honey is the only food that does not spoil.Months that begin on a Sunday will always have a "Friday the 13th."Coca-Cola would be green if coloring weren't added to it.On average a hedgehog's heart beats 300 times a minute.More people are killed each year from bees than from snakes.The average lead pencil will draw a line 35 miles long or write approximately 50,000 English words.More people are allergic to cow's milk than any other food.Camels have three eyelids to protect themselves from blowing sand.The placement of a donkey's eyes in it's' heads enables it to see all four feet at all times!The six official languages of the U.N. are: English, French, Arabic, Chinese, Russian and Spanish.Earth is the only planet not named after a god.It's against the law to burp, or sneeze in a church in Nebraska, USA.You're born with 300 bones, but by the time you become an adult, you only have 206.Some worms will eat themselves if they can't find any food!The world's oldest piece of chewing gum is 9000 years old!The longest recorded flight of a chicken is 13 secondsOwls are the only birds that can see the color blue.A man named Charles Osborne had the hiccups for 69 years!A giraffe can clean its ears with its 21-inch tongue!The average person laughs 10 times a day!The Bible, the world's best-selling book, is also the world's most shoplifted book.Someone paid $14,000 for the bra worn by Marilyn Monroe in the film 'Some Like It Hot'.Your tongue is the only muscle in your body that is attached at only one end.More than 1,000 different languages are spoken on the continent of Africa.Buckingham Palace in England has over six hundred rooms.There was once an undersea post office in the Bahamas.Ninety percent of New York City cabbies are recently arrived immigrants.It's possible to lead a cow upstairs...but not downstairs.A snail can sleep for three years.No word in the English language rhymes with "MONTH".Average life span of a major league baseball: 7 pitches.Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing."Go." is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.The "pound" key on your keyboard () is called an octotroph.The only domestic animal not mentioned in the Bible is the cat.Table tennis balls have been known to travel off the paddle at speeds up to 160 km/hr.Pepsi originally contained pepsin, thus the name.The original story from "Tales of 1001 Arabian Nights" begins, "Aladdin was a little Chinese boy."Nutmeg is extremely poisonous if injected intravenously.Honey is the only natural food that is made without destroying any kind of life.The volume of the earth's moon is the same as the volume of the Pacific Ocean.Cephalacaudal recapitulation is the reason our extremities develop faster than the rest of us.Chinese Crested dogs can get acne.Each year there is one ton of cement poured for each man woman and child in the world.The house fly hums in the middle octave key of F.The only capital letter in the Roman alphabet with exactly one end point is P.The giant red star Betelgeuse has a diameter larger than that of the Earth's orbit around the sun.Hummingbirds are the only animals that can fly backwards.A cat's jaw cannot move sideways.The human heart creates enough pressure when it pumps out to the body to squirt blood 30 feet.The flea can jump 350 times its body length. It's like a human jumping the length of a football field.Some lions mate over 50 times a day.Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated.The average person's left hand does 56% of the typing.The longest one-syllable word in the English language is "screeched."All of the clocks in the movie "Pulp Fiction" are stuck on 4:20."Dreamt" is the only English word that ends in the letters "mt."Maine is the only state (in USA) whose name is just one syllable.The giant squid has the largest eyes in the world.In England, the Speaker of the House is not allowed to speak.Mr. Rogers was an ordained minister.A rat can last longer without water than a camel.Your stomach has to produce a new layer of mucus every two weeks or it will digest itself.A female ferret will die if it goes into heat and cannot find a mate.A 2" X 4" is really 1-1/2" by 3-1/2".On average, 12 newborns will be given to the wrong parents daily.There are no words in the dictionary that rhyme with orange, purple, silver and month.The caterpillars of some Snout Moths (Pyralididae) live in or on water-plants.The females of some moth species lack wings, all they can do to move is crawl.If one places a tiny amount of liquor on a scorpion, it will instantly go mad and sting itself to death.The first CD pressed in the US was Bruce Springsteen's "Born in the USA."Sherlock Holmes NEVER said, "Elementary, my dear Watson."California consumes more bottled water than any other product.California has issued 6 drivers licenses to people named "Jesus Christ."In 1980, a Las Vegas hospital suspended workers for betting on when patients would die.Nevada is the driest state in the U.S.. Each year it averages 7.5 inches (19 cm) of rain.In Utah, it is illegal to swear in front of a dead person.Salt Lake City, Utah has a law against carrying an unwrapped ukulele on the street.Arizona was the last of the 48 adjoining continental states to enter the Union.It is illegal to hunt camels in the state of Arizona.Wyoming was the first state to give women the right to vote in 1869.Denver, Colorado lays claim to the invention of the cheeseburger.The first license plate on a car in the United States was issued in Denver, Colorado in 1908.The state of Maryland has no natural Lakes.Illinois has the highest number of personalized license plates than any other state.Residents of Houston, Texas lead the U.S. in eating out - approximately 4.6 times per week.Laredo, Texas is the U.S.'s farthest inland port.Rugby, North Dakota is the geographical center of North America.Butte County, South Dakota is the geographical center of the U.S.Louisiana's capital building is the tallest one of any U.S. state.Hawaii is the only coffee producing state.One in seven workers in Boston, Massachusetts walks to work.The "Dull Men's Hall of Fame" is located in Carroll, Wisconsin.Gary, Indiana is the murder capital of the U.S. - probably the world.Alabama was the first state to recognize Christmas as an official holiday.The largest NFL stadium is the Pontiac Silverdome in Detroit, Michigan.Michigan was the first state to have roadside picnic tables.No matter where you stand in Michigan, you are never more than 85 miles from a Great Lake.The official beverage of Ohio is tomato juice.Georgia's state motto is "Wisdom, Justice and Moderation."The U.S. city with the highest rate of lightning strikes per capita is Clearwater, Florida.It's illegal to spit on the sidewalk in Norfolk, Virginia.The first streetlights in America were installed in Philadelphia around 1757.The highest point in Pennsylvania is lower than the lowest point in Colorado.If you were to take a taxicab from New York City to Los Angeles, it would cost you $8,325.The NY phone book had 22 Hitlers before WWII. The NY phone book had 0 Hitlers after WWII.In New York State, it is illegal to but any alcohol on Sundays before noon.There were 240 pedestrian fatalities in New York City in 1994.Columbia University is the second largest landowner in New York City, after the Catholic Church.Montpelier, Vermont is the only state capital without a McDonalds.Maine is the only state that has borders with only one other state.The first McDonald's restaurant in Canada was in Richmond, British Columbia.In 1984, a Canadian farmer began renting advertising space on his cows.There are more donut shops in Canada per capita than any other country.0.3% of all road accidents in Canada involve a Moose.In the great fire of London in 1666 half of London was burnt down but only 6 people were injured.In Quebec, there is an old law that states margarine must be a different color than butter.The largest taxi fleet in the world is found in Mexico City. The city boasts a fleet of over 60,000 taxis.More than 90% of the Nicaraguan people are Roman Catholic.Cuba is the only island in the Caribbean to have a railroad.Jamaica has the most churches per square mile than any other country in the world.The angel falls in Venezuela are nearly 20 times taller than Niagara Falls.Canada is the only country not to win a gold medal in the summer Olympic games while hosting.The Amazon is the world's largest river, 3,890 miles (6,259 km) long.The town of Calma, Chile in the Atacama Desert has never had rain.The people of France eat more cheese than any other country in the world.King Louis XIX ruled France for 15 minutes.The most common name in Italy is Mario Rossi.Greece's national anthem has 158 verses.In ancient Greece "idiot" meant a private citizen or layman.Bulgarians are known to be the biggest yogurt eaters in the world.Czechs are the biggest consumers of beer per male in the world.A Czech man, Jan Honza Zampa, holds the record for drinking one liter of beer in 4.11 seconds.Netherlands is the only country with a national dog.When we think of Big Ben in London, we think of the clock. Actually, it's the bell.The Automated Teller Machine (ATM) was introduced in England in 1965.Buckingham Palace has 602 rooms.Icelanders consume more Coca-Cola per Capita than any other nation.Until 1997, there were more pigs than people in Denmark.There is a hotel in Sweden built entirely out of ice; it is rebuilt every year.Sweden has the least number of murders annually.Lithuania has the highest suicide rate in the world.The country code for Russia is "007".Russians generally answer the phone by saying, "I'm listening".The U.S. bought Alaska for 2 cents an acre from Russia.1 in 5 of the world's doctors are Russian.Antarctica is the only continent that does not have land areas below sea level.The people of Israel consume more turkeys per capita than any other country.Nepal is the only country that has a non-rectangular flag. It is also asymmetrical.1,800 cigarettes are smoked per person each year in China.Respiratory Disease is China's leading cause of death.There are more than 40,000 characters in the Chinese script.More people speak English in China than the United States.The toothbrush was invented in China in 1498.Mongolia is the largest landlocked country.Vatican City is the smallest country in the world, with a population of 1000 and just 108.7 acres.In Japan, watermelons are squared. It's easier to stack them that way.98% of Japanese are cremated.The number "four" is considered unlucky in Japan because it is pronounced the same as "death".The average Japanese household watches more than 10 hours of television a day.The Philippines has about 7,100 islands, of which only about 460 are more than 1 square mile in area.Yo-yos were used as weapons by warriors in the Philippines in the 16th century.Australian soldiers used the song "We're Off to See the Wizard" as a marching song in WWII.The Australian $5 to $100 notes are made of plastic.The Nullarbor Plain of Australia covers 100,000 square miles (160,900 km) without a tree.Tasmania, Australia has the cleanest air in the inhabited world.Greenland is the largest island in the world.The first female guest host of "Saturday Night Live" was Candace Bergen.In 1933, Mickey Mouse, an animated cartoon character, received 800,000 fan letters.The Simpsons is the longest running animated series on TV.The first toilet ever seen on television was on "Leave It to Beaver."In every episode of Seinfeld there is a Superman somewhere.The average human brain has about 100 billion nerve cells.Nerve impulses to and from the brain travel as fast as 170 miles (274 km) per hour.The thyroid cartilage is more commonly known as the adams apple.Your stomach needs to produce a new layer of mucus every two weeks or it would digest itself.The average life of a taste bud is 10 days.The average cough comes out of your mouth at 60 miles (96.5 km) per hour.Relative to size, the strongest muscle in the body is the tongue.When you sneeze, all your bodily functions stop even your heart.Babies are born without knee caps. They don't appear until the child reaches 2-6 years of age.Right handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left handed people do.Children grow faster in the springtime.It takes the stomach an hour to break down cows' milk.Women blink nearly twice as much as men.Blondes have more hair than dark-haired people do.There are 10 human body parts that are only 3 letters long (eye hip arm leg ear toe jaw rib lip gum).If you go blind in one eye you only lose about one fifth of your vision but all your sense of depth.The average human head weighs about 8 pounds.In the average lifetime, a person will walk the equivalent of 5 times around the equator.An average human scalp has 100,000 hairs.The average human blinks their eyes 6,205,000 times each year.Your skull is made up of 29 different bones.Ancient Egyptians shaved off their eyebrows to mourn the deaths of their cats.Hair is made from the same substance as fingernails.The surface of the human skin is 6.5 square feet (2m).15 million blood cells are destroyed in the human body every second.The pancreas produces Insulin.The most sensitive cluster of nerves is at the base of the spine.The human body is comprised of 80% water.The average human will shed 40 pounds of skin in a lifetime.Human thighbones are stronger than concrete.There are 45 miles of nerves in the skin of a human being.Canadian researchers have found that Einstein's brain was 15% wider than normal.While in Alcatraz, Al Capone was inmate 85.Astronaut Neil Armstrong first stepped on the moon with his left foot.Jim Morrison, of the 60's rock group The Doors, was the first rock star to be arrested on stage.Frank Lloyd Wright's son invented Lincoln Logs.Peter Falk, who played "Columbo," has a glass eye.Barbie's full name is "Babara Millicent Roberts."The mother of Michael Nesmith of "The Monkees" invented whiteout.Isaac Asimov is the only author to have a book in every Dewey-decimal category.Shakespeare invented the word "assassination" and "bump."It is believed that Leonardo Da Vinci invented the scissors.Adolf Hitler's mother seriously considered having an abortion but was talked out of it by her doctor.The shortest British monarch was Charles I, who was 4 feet 9 inches.Tina Turner's real name is Annie Mae Bullock.Beethoven dipped his head in cold water before he composed.President John F Kennedy could read 4 newspapers in 20 minutes.Bob Dylan's real name is Robert Zimmerman.Sigmund Freud had a morbid fear of ferns.Anne Boleyn, Queen Elizabeth I's mother, had six fingers on one hand.Orville Wright was involved in the first aircraft accident. His passenger, a Frenchman, was killed.The sound of E.T. walking was made by someone squishing her hands in jelly.Cher's last name was "Sarkissian." She changed it because no one could pronounce it.Sugar was first added to chewing gum in 1869 by a dentist, William Semple.Paper was invented early in the second century by Chinese eunuch.Sir Isaac Newton was only 23 years old when he discovered the law of universal gravitation.Hannibal had only one eye after getting a disease while attacking Rome.A blue whales heart only beats nine times per minute.A cat uses its whiskers to determine if a space is too small to squeeze through.A chameleon's tongue is twice the length of its body.A crocodiles tongue is attached to the roof of its mouth.Rodent's teeth never stop growing.A shark can detect one part of blood in 100 million parts of water.The penguin is the only bird that can swim but can't fly.The cheetah is the only cat that can't retract its claws.A lion's roar can be heard from five miles away.Emus and kangaroos can't walk backwards.Cats have over 100 vocal sounds; dogs only have 10.A mole can dig a tunnel 300 feet (91 m) long in just one night.Insects outnumber humans 100,000,000 to one.Sharkskin has tiny tooth-like scales all over.Chameleons can move their eyes in two directions at the same time.Koalas never drink water. They get fluids from the eucalyptus leaves they eat.A cow gives nearly 200,000 glasses of milk in her lifetime.When sharks take a bite, their eyes roll back and their teeth jut out.Camels chew in a figure 8 pattern.Proportional to their size, cats have the largest eyes of all mammals.Sailfish can leap out of the water and into the air at a speed of 50 miles (81 km) per hour.The catfish has the most taste buds of all animals, having over 27,000 of them.A skunk's smell can be detected by a human a mile away.A lion in the wild usually makes no more than 20 kills a year.In space, astronauts cannot cry, because there is no gravity, so the tears can't flow.The state of Florida is bigger than England.One in every 4 Americans has appeared on television.The average American/Canadian will eat about 11.9 pounds of cereal per year!There are over 58 million dogs in the USDogs and cats consume over $11 billion worth of pet food a yearBaby robins eat 14 feet of earthworms every dayIn Raiders of the Lost Ark there is a wall carving of R2-D2 and C-3P0 behind the ark"I" is the most spoken word in the English language"You" is the second most spoken English wordSpain leads the world in cork productionThere are 1,792 steps in the Eiffel TowerThere is a city in Norway called "Hell"The human feet perspire half a pint of fluid a dayAn Olympic gold medal must contain 92.5 percent silverThere are 240 dots on an arcade Pac-Man gameThe San Francisco Cable cars are the only mobile National MonumentsLee Harvey Oswald's cadaver tag sold at an auction for $6,600 in 1992.A pound of houseflies contains more protein than a pound of beefThe average American works 24,000 hours in their lifetime just to pay their taxes40% of all people who come to a party in your home snoop in your medicine cabinetA duck's quack doesn't echo, and no one knows why.Non-dairy creamer is flammable.Pinocchio is Italian for "pine head."There are more than 10 million bricks in the Empire State Building.
What are the complete list of all the phobias?
Ablutophobia- Fear of washing or bathing. Acarophobia- Fear of itching or of the insects that cause itching. Acerophobia- Fear of sourness. Achluophobia- Fear of darkness. Acousticophobia- Fear of noise. Acrophobia- Fear of heights. Aerophobia- Fear of drafts, air swallowing, or airbourne noxious substances. Aeroacrophobia- Fear of open high places. Aeronausiphobia- Fear of vomiting secondary to airsickness. Agateophobia- Fear of insanity. Agliophobia- Fear of pain. Agoraphobia- Fear of open spaces or of being in crowded, public places like markets. Fear of leaving a safe place. Agraphobia- Fear of sexual abuse. Agrizoophobia- Fear of wild animals. Agyrophobia- Fear of streets or crossing the street. Aichmophobia- Fear of needles or pointed objects. Ailurophobia- Fear of cats. Albuminurophobia- Fear of kidney disease. Alektorophobia- Fear of chickens. Algophobia- Fear of pain. Alliumphobia- Fear of garlic. Allodoxaphobia- Fear of opinions. Altophobia- Fear of heights. Amathophobia- Fear of dust. Amaxophobia- Fear of riding in a car. Ambulophobia- Fear of walking. Amnesiphobia- Fear of amnesia. Amychophobia- Fear of scratches or being scratched. Anablephobia- Fear of looking up. Ancraophobia- Fear of wind. (Anemophobia) Androphobia- Fear of men. Anemophobia- Fear of air drafts or wind.(Ancraophobia) Anginophobia- Fear of angina, choking or narrowness. Anglophobia- Fear of England or English culture, etc. Angrophobia - Fear of anger or of becoming angry. Ankylophobia- Fear of immobility of a joint. Anthrophobia or Anthophobia- Fear of flowers. Anthropophobia- Fear of people or society. Antlophobia- Fear of floods. Anuptaphobia- Fear of staying single. Apeirophobia- Fear of infinity. Aphenphosmphobia- Fear of being touched. (Haphephobia) Apiphobia- Fear of bees. Apotemnophobia- Fear of persons with amputations. Arachibutyrophobia- Fear of peanut butter sticking to the roof of the mouth. Arachnephobia or Arachnophobia- Fear of spiders. Arithmophobia- Fear of numbers. Arrhenphobia- Fear of men. Arsonphobia- Fear of fire. Asthenophobia- Fear of fainting or weakness. Astraphobia or Astrapophobia- Fear of thunder and lightning.(Ceraunophobia, Keraunophobia) Astrophobia- Fear of stars or celestial space. Asymmetriphobia- Fear of asymmetrical things. Ataxiophobia- Fear of ataxia. (muscular incoordination) Ataxophobia- Fear of disorder or untidiness. Atelophobia- Fear of imperfection. Atephobia- Fear of ruin or ruins. Athazagoraphobia- Fear of being forgotton or ignored or forgetting. Atomosophobia- Fear of atomic explosions. Atychiphobia- Fear of failure. Aulophobia- Fear of flutes. Aurophobia- Fear of gold. Auroraphobia- Fear of Northern lights. Autodysomophobia- Fear of one that has a vile odor. Automatonophobia- Fear of ventriloquist's dummies, animatronic creatures, wax statues - anything that falsly represents a sentient being. Automysophobia- Fear of being dirty. Autophobia- Fear of being alone or of oneself. Aviophobia or Aviatophobia- Fear of flying. Bacillophobia- Fear of microbes. Bacteriophobia- Fear of bacteria. Ballistophobia- Fear of missiles or bullets. Bolshephobia- Fear of Bolsheviks. Barophobia- Fear of gravity. Basophobia or Basiphobia- Inability to stand. Fear of walking or falling. Bathmophobia- Fear of stairs or steep slopes. Bathophobia- Fear of depth. Batophobia- Fear of heights or being close to high buildings. Batrachophobia- Fear of amphibians, such as frogs, newts, salamanders, etc. Belonephobia- Fear of pins and needles. (Aichmophobia) Bibliophobia- Fear of books. Blennophobia- Fear of slime. Bogyphobia- Fear of bogeys or the bogeyman. Botanophobia- Fear of plants. Bromidrosiphobia or Bromidrophobia- Fear of body smells. Brontophobia- Fear of thunder and lightning. Bufonophobia- Fear of toads. Cacophobia- Fear of ugliness. Cainophobia or Cainotophobia- Fear of newness, novelty. Caligynephobia- Fear of beautiful women. Cancerophobia or Carcinophobia- Fear of cancer. Cardiophobia- Fear of the heart. Carnophobia- Fear of meat. Catagelophobia- Fear of being ridiculed. Catapedaphobia- Fear of jumping from high and low places. Cathisophobia- Fear of sitting. Catoptrophobia- Fear of mirrors. Cenophobia or Centophobia- Fear of new things or ideas. Ceraunophobia or Keraunophobia- Fear of thunder and lightning.(Astraphobia, Astrapophobia) Chaetophobia- Fear of hair. Cheimaphobia or Cheimatophobia- Fear of cold.(Frigophobia, Psychophobia) Chemophobia- Fear of chemicals or working with chemicals. Cherophobia- Fear of gaiety. Chionophobia- Fear of snow. Chiraptophobia- Fear of being touched. Chirophobia- Fear of hands. Cholerophobia- Fear of anger or the fear of cholera. Chorophobia- Fear of dancing. Chrometophobia or Chrematophobia- Fear of money. Chromophobia or Chromatophobia- Fear of colors. Chronophobia- Fear of time. Chronomentrophobia- Fear of clocks. Cibophobia- Fear of food.(Sitophobia, Sitiophobia) Claustrophobia- Fear of confined spaces. Cleithrophobia or Cleisiophobia- Fear of being locked in an enclosed place. Cleptophobia- Fear of stealing. Climacophobia- Fear of stairs, climbing, or of falling downstairs. Clinophobia- Fear of going to bed. Clithrophobia or Cleithrophobia- Fear of being enclosed. Cnidophobia- Fear of stings. Cometophobia- Fear of comets. Coimetrophobia- Fear of cemeteries. Coitophobia- Fear of coitus. Contreltophobia- Fear of sexual abuse. Coprastasophobia- Fear of constipation. Coprophobia- Fear of feces. Consecotaleophobia- Fear of chopsticks. Coulrophobia- Fear of clowns. Counterphobia- The preference by a phobic for fearful situations. Cremnophobia- Fear of precipices. Cryophobia- Fear of extreme cold, ice or frost. Crystallophobia- Fear of crystals or glass. Cyberphobia- Fear of computers or working on a computer. Cyclophobia- Fear of bicycles. Cymophobia or Kymophobia- Fear of waves or wave like motions. Cynophobia- Fear of dogs or rabies. Cypridophobia or Cypriphobia or Cyprianophobia or Cyprinophobia - Fear of prostitutes or venereal disease. Decidophobia- Fear of making decisions. Defecaloesiophobia- Fear of painful bowels movements. Deipnophobia- Fear of dining or dinner conversations. Dementophobia- Fear of insanity. Demonophobia or Daemonophobia- Fear of demons. Demophobia- Fear of crowds. (Agoraphobia) Dendrophobia- Fear of trees. Dentophobia- Fear of dentists. Dermatophobia- Fear of skin lesions. Dermatosiophobia or Dermatophobia or Dermatopathophobia- Fear of skin disease. Dextrophobia- Fear of objects at the right side of the body. Diabetophobia- Fear of diabetes. Didaskaleinophobia- Fear of going to school. Dikephobia- Fear of justice. Dinophobia- Fear of dizziness or whirlpools. Diplophobia- Fear of double vision. Dipsophobia- Fear of drinking. Dishabiliophobia- Fear of undressing in front of someone. Domatophobia- Fear of houses or being in a house.(Eicophobia, Oikophobia) Doraphobia- Fear of fur or skins of animals. Doxophobia- Fear of expressing opinions or of receiving praise. Dromophobia- Fear of crossing streets. Dutchphobia- Fear of the Dutch. Dysmorphophobia- Fear of deformity. Dystychiphobia- Fear of accidents. Ecclesiophobia- Fear of church. Ecophobia- Fear of home. Eicophobia- Fear of home surroundings.(Domatophobia, Oikophobia) Eisoptrophobia- Fear of mirrors or of seeing oneself in a mirror. Electrophobia- Fear of electricity. Eleutherophobia- Fear of freedom. Elurophobia- Fear of cats. (Ailurophobia) Emetophobia- Fear of vomiting. Enetophobia- Fear of pins. Enochlophobia- Fear of crowds. Enosiophobia or Enissophobia- Fear of having committed an unpardonable sin or of criticism. Entomophobia- Fear of insects. Eosophobia- Fear of dawn or daylight. Ephebiphobia- Fear of teenagers. Epistaxiophobia- Fear of nosebleeds. Epistemophobia- Fear of knowledge. Equinophobia- Fear of horses. Eremophobia- Fear of being oneself or of lonliness. Ereuthrophobia- Fear of blushing. Ergasiophobia- 1) Fear of work or functioning. 2) Surgeon's fear of operating. Ergophobia- Fear of work. Erotophobia- Fear of sexual love or sexual questions. Euphobia- Fear of hearing good news. Eurotophobia- Fear of female genitalia. Erythrophobia or Erytophobia or Ereuthophobia- 1) Fear of redlights. 2) Blushing. 3) Red. Febriphobia or Fibriphobia or Fibriophobia- Fear of fever. Felinophobia- Fear of cats. (Ailurophobia, Elurophobia, Galeophobia, Gatophobia) Francophobia- Fear of France or French culture. (Gallophobia, Galiophobia) Frigophobia- Fear of cold or cold things.(Cheimaphobia, Cheimatophobia, Psychrophobia) Galeophobia or Gatophobia- Fear of cats. Gallophobia or Galiophobia- Fear France or French culture. (Francophobia) Gamophobia- Fear of marriage. Geliophobia- Fear of laughter. Geniophobia- Fear of chins. Genophobia- Fear of sex. Genuphobia- Fear of knees. Gephyrophobia or Gephydrophobia or Gephysrophobia- Fear of crossing bridges. Germanophobia- Fear of Germany or German culture. Gerascophobia- Fear of growing old. Gerontophobia- Fear of old people or of growing old. Geumaphobia or Geumophobia- Fear of taste. Glossophobia- Fear of speaking in public or of trying to speak. Gnosiophobia- Fear of knowledge. Graphophobia- Fear of writing or handwriting. Gymnophobia- Fear of nudity. Gynephobia or Gynophobia- Fear of women. Hadephobia- Fear of hell. Hagiophobia- Fear of saints or holy things. Hamartophobia- Fear of sinning. Haphephobia or Haptephobia- Fear of being touched. Harpaxophobia- Fear of being robbed. Hedonophobia- Fear of feeling pleasure. Heliophobia- Fear of the sun. Hellenologophobia- Fear of Greek terms or complex scientific terminology. Helminthophobia- Fear of being infested with worms. Hemophobia or Hemaphobia or Hematophobia- Fear of blood. Heresyphobia or Hereiophobia- Fear of challenges to official doctrine or of radical deviation. Herpetophobia- Fear of reptiles or creepy, crawly things. Heterophobia- Fear of the opposite sex. (Sexophobia) Hexakosioihexekontahexaphobia- Fear of the number 666. Hierophobia- Fear of priests or sacred things. Hippophobia- Fear of horses. Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia- Fear of long words. Hobophobia- Fear of bums or beggars. Hodophobia- Fear of road travel. Hormephobia- Fear of shock. Homichlophobia- Fear of fog. Homilophobia- Fear of sermons. Hominophobia- Fear of men. Homophobia- Fear of sameness, monotony or of homosexuality or of becoming homosexual. Hoplophobia- Fear of firearms. Hydrargyophobia- Fear of mercurial medicines. Hydrophobia- Fear of water or of rabies. Hydrophobophobia- Fear of rabies. Hyelophobia or Hyalophobia- Fear of glass. Hygrophobia- Fear of liquids, dampness, or moisture. Hylephobia- Fear of materialism or the fear of epilepsy. Hylophobia- Fear of forests. Hypengyophobia or Hypegiaphobia- Fear of responsibility. Hypnophobia- Fear of sleep or of being hypnotized. Hypsiphobia- Fear of height. Iatrophobia- Fear of going to the doctor or of doctors. Ichthyophobia- Fear of fish. Ideophobia- Fear of ideas. Illyngophobia- Fear of vertigo or feeling dizzy when looking down. Iophobia- Fear of poison. Insectophobia - Fear of insects. Isolophobia- Fear of solitude, being alone. Isopterophobia- Fear of termites, insects that eat wood. Ithyphallophobia- Fear of seeing, thinking about or having an erect penis. Japanophobia- Fear of Japanese. Judeophobia- Fear of Jews. Kainolophobia or Kainophobia- Fear of anything new, novelty. Kakorrhaphiophobia- Fear of failure or defeat. Katagelophobia- Fear of ridicule. Kathisophobia- Fear of sitting down. Kenophobia- Fear of voids or empty spaces. Keraunophobia or Ceraunophobia- Fear of thunder and lightning.(Astraphobia, Astrapophobia) Kinetophobia or Kinesophobia- Fear of movement or motion. Kleptophobia- Fear of stealing. Koinoniphobia- Fear of rooms. Kolpophobia- Fear of genitals, particularly female. Kopophobia- Fear of fatigue. Koniophobia- Fear of dust. (Amathophobia) Kosmikophobia- Fear of cosmic phenomenon. Kymophobia- Fear of waves. (Cymophobia) Kynophobia- Fear of rabies. Kyphophobia- Fear of stooping. Lachanophobia- Fear of vegetables. Laliophobia or Lalophobia- Fear of speaking. Leprophobia or Lepraphobia- Fear of leprosy. Leukophobia- Fear of the color white. Levophobia- Fear of things to the left side of the body. Ligyrophobia- Fear of loud noises. Lilapsophobia- Fear of tornadoes and hurricanes. Limnophobia- Fear of lakes. Linonophobia- Fear of string. Liticaphobia- Fear of lawsuits. Lockiophobia- Fear of childbirth. Logizomechanophobia- Fear of computers. Logophobia- Fear of words. Luiphobia- Fear of lues, syphillis. Lutraphobia- Fear of otters. Lygophobia- Fear of darkness. Lyssophobia- Fear of rabies or of becoming mad. Macrophobia- Fear of long waits. Mageirocophobia- Fear of cooking. Maieusiophobia- Fear of childbirth. Malaxophobia- Fear of love play. (Sarmassophobia) Maniaphobia- Fear of insanity. Mastigophobia- Fear of punishment. Mechanophobia- Fear of machines. Medomalacuphobia- Fear of losing an erection. Medorthophobia- Fear of an erect penis. Megalophobia- Fear of large things. Melissophobia- Fear of bees. Melanophobia- Fear of the color black. Melophobia- Fear or hatred of music. Meningitophobia- Fear of brain disease. Menophobia- Fear of menstruation. Merinthophobia- Fear of being bound or tied up. Metallophobia- Fear of metal. Metathesiophobia- Fear of changes. Meteorophobia- Fear of meteors. Methyphobia- Fear of alcohol. Metrophobia- Fear or hatred of poetry. Microbiophobia- Fear of microbes. (Bacillophobia) Microphobia- Fear of small things. Misophobia or Mysophobia- Fear of being contaminated with dirt or germs. Mnemophobia- Fear of memories. Molysmophobia or Molysomophobia- Fear of dirt or contamination. Monophobia- Fear of solitude or being alone. Monopathophobia- Fear of definite disease. Motorphobia- Fear of automobiles. Mottephobia- Fear of moths. Musophobia or Muriphobia- Fear of mice. Mycophobia- Fear or aversion to mushrooms. Mycrophobia- Fear of small things. Myctophobia- Fear of darkness. Myrmecophobia- Fear of ants. Mythophobia- Fear of myths or stories or false statements. Myxophobia- Fear of slime. (Blennophobia) Nebulaphobia- Fear of fog. (Homichlophobia) Necrophobia- Fear of death or dead things. Nelophobia- Fear of glass. Neopharmaphobia- Fear of new drugs. Neophobia- Fear of anything new. Nephophobia- Fear of clouds. Noctiphobia- Fear of the night. Nomatophobia- Fear of names. Nosocomephobia- Fear of hospitals. Nosophobia or Nosemaphobia- Fear of becoming ill. Nostophobia- Fear of returning home. Novercaphobia- Fear of your step-mother. Nucleomituphobia- Fear of nuclear weapons. Nudophobia- Fear of nudity. Numerophobia- Fear of numbers. Nyctohylophobia- Fear of dark wooded areas or of forests at night Nyctophobia- Fear of the dark or of night. Obesophobia- Fear of gaining weight.(Pocrescophobia) Ochlophobia- Fear of crowds or mobs. Ochophobia- Fear of vehicles. Octophobia - Fear of the figure 8. Odontophobia- Fear of teeth or dental surgery. Odynophobia or Odynephobia- Fear of pain. (Algophobia) Oenophobia- Fear of wines. Oikophobia- Fear of home surroundings, house.(Domatophobia, Eicophobia) Olfactophobia- Fear of smells. Ombrophobia- Fear of rain or of being rained on. Ommetaphobia or Ommatophobia- Fear of eyes. Oneirophobia- Fear of dreams. Oneirogmophobia- Fear of wet dreams. Onomatophobia- Fear of hearing a certain word or of names. Ophidiophobia- Fear of snakes. (Snakephobia) Ophthalmophobia- Fear of being stared at. Opiophobia- Fear medical doctors experience of prescribing needed pain medications for patients. Optophobia- Fear of opening one's eyes. Ornithophobia- Fear of birds. Orthophobia- Fear of property. Osmophobia or Osphresiophobia- Fear of smells or odors. Ostraconophobia- Fear of shellfish. Ouranophobia or Uranophobia- Fear of heaven. Pagophobia- Fear of ice or frost. Panthophobia- Fear of suffering and disease. Panophobia or Pantophobia- Fear of everything. Papaphobia- Fear of the Pope. Papyrophobia- Fear of paper. Paralipophobia- Fear of neglecting duty or responsibility. Paraphobia- Fear of sexual perversion. Parasitophobia- Fear of parasites. Paraskavedekatriaphobia- Fear of Friday the 13th. Parthenophobia- Fear of virgins or young girls. Pathophobia- Fear of disease. Patroiophobia- Fear of heredity. Parturiphobia- Fear of childbirth. Peccatophobia- Fear of sinning or imaginary crimes. Pediculophobia- Fear of lice. Pediophobia- Fear of dolls. Pedophobia- Fear of children. Peladophobia- Fear of bald people. Pellagrophobia- Fear of pellagra. Peniaphobia- Fear of poverty. Pentheraphobia- Fear of mother-in-law. (Novercaphobia) Phagophobia- Fear of swallowing or of eating or of being eaten. Phalacrophobia- Fear of becoming bald. Phallophobia- Fear of a penis, esp erect. Pharmacophobia- Fear of taking medicine. Phasmophobia- Fear of ghosts. Phengophobia- Fear of daylight or sunshine. Philemaphobia or Philematophobia- Fear of kissing. Philophobia- Fear of falling in love or being in love. Philosophobia- Fear of philosophy. Phobophobia- Fear of phobias. Photoaugliaphobia- Fear of glaring lights. Photophobia- Fear of light. Phonophobia- Fear of noises or voices or one's own voice; of telephones. Phronemophobia- Fear of thinking. Phthiriophobia- Fear of lice. (Pediculophobia) Phthisiophobia- Fear of tuberculosis. Placophobia- Fear of tombstones. Plutophobia- Fear of wealth. Pluviophobia- Fear of rain or of being rained on. Pneumatiphobia- Fear of spirits. Pnigophobia or Pnigerophobia- Fear of choking of being smothered. Pocrescophobia- Fear of gaining weight. (Obesophobia) Pogonophobia- Fear of beards. Poliosophobia- Fear of contracting poliomyelitis. Politicophobia- Fear or abnormal dislike of politicians. Polyphobia- Fear of many things. Poinephobia- Fear of punishment. Ponophobia- Fear of overworking or of pain. Porphyrophobia- Fear of the color purple. Potamophobia- Fear of rivers or running water. Potophobia- Fear of alcohol. Pharmacophobia- Fear of drugs. Proctophobia- Fear of rectums. Prosophobia- Fear of progress. Psellismophobia- Fear of stuttering. Psychophobia- Fear of mind. Psychrophobia- Fear of cold. Pteromerhanophobia- Fear of flying. Pteronophobia- Fear of being tickled by feathers. Pupaphobia - Fear of puppets. Pyrexiophobia- Fear of Fever. Pyrophobia- Fear of fire. Radiophobia- Fear of radiation, x-rays. Ranidaphobia- Fear of frogs. Rectophobia- Fear of rectum or rectal diseases. Rhabdophobia- Fear of being severely punished or beaten by a rod, or of being severely criticized. Also fear of magic.(wand) Rhypophobia- Fear of defecation. Rhytiphobia- Fear of getting wrinkles. Rupophobia- Fear of dirt. Russophobia- Fear of Russians. Samhainophobia: Fear of Halloween. Sarmassophobia- Fear of love play. (Malaxophobia) Satanophobia- Fear of Satan. Scabiophobia- Fear of scabies. Scatophobia- Fear of fecal matter. Scelerophibia- Fear of bad men, burglars. Sciophobia Sciaphobia- Fear of shadows. Scoleciphobia- Fear of worms. Scolionophobia- Fear of school. Scopophobia or Scoptophobia- Fear of being seen or stared at. Scotomaphobia- Fear of blindness in visual field. Scotophobia- Fear of darkness. (Achluophobia) Scriptophobia- Fear of writing in public. Selachophobia- Fear of sharks. Selaphobia- Fear of light flashes. Selenophobia- Fear of the moon. Seplophobia- Fear of decaying matter. Sesquipedalophobia- Fear of long words. Sexophobia- Fear of the opposite sex. (Heterophobia) Siderodromophobia- Fear of trains, railroads or train travel. Siderophobia- Fear of stars. Sinistrophobia- Fear of things to the left or left-handed. Sinophobia- Fear of Chinese, Chinese culture. Sitophobia or Sitiophobia- Fear of food or eating. (Cibophobia) Snakephobia- Fear of snakes. (Ophidiophobia) Soceraphobia- Fear of parents-in-law. Social Phobia- Fear of being evaluated negatively in social situations. Sociophobia- Fear of society or people in general. Somniphobia- Fear of sleep. Sophophobia- Fear of learning. Soteriophobia - Fear of dependence on others. Spacephobia- Fear of outer space. Spectrophobia- Fear of specters or ghosts. Spermatophobia or Spermophobia- Fear of germs. Spheksophobia- Fear of wasps. Stasibasiphobia or Stasiphobia- Fear of standing or walking. (Ambulophobia) Staurophobia- Fear of crosses or the crucifix. Stenophobia- Fear of narrow things or places. Stygiophobia or Stigiophobia- Fear of hell. Suriphobia- Fear of mice. Symbolophobia- Fear of symbolism. Symmetrophobia- Fear of symmetry. Syngenesophobia- Fear of relatives. Syphilophobia- Fear of syphilis. Tachophobia- Fear of speed. Taeniophobia or Teniophobia- Fear of tapeworms. Taphephobia Taphophobia- Fear of being buried alive or of cemeteries. Tapinophobia- Fear of being contagious. Taurophobia- Fear of bulls. Technophobia- Fear of technology. Teleophobia- 1) Fear of definite plans. 2) Religious ceremony. Telephonophobia- Fear of telephones. Teratophobia- Fear of bearing a deformed child or fear of monsters or deformed people. Testophobia- Fear of taking tests. Tetanophobia- Fear of lockjaw, tetanus. Teutophobia- Fear of German or German things. Textophobia- Fear of certain fabrics. Thaasophobia- Fear of sitting. Thalassophobia- Fear of the sea. Thanatophobia or Thantophobia- Fear of death or dying. Theatrophobia- Fear of theatres. Theologicophobia- Fear of theology. Theophobia- Fear of gods or religion. Thermophobia- Fear of heat. Tocophobia- Fear of pregnancy or childbirth. Tomophobia- Fear of surgical operations. Tonitrophobia- Fear of thunder. Topophobia- Fear of certain places or situations, such as stage fright. Toxiphobia or Toxophobia or Toxicophobia- Fear of poison or of being accidently poisoned. Traumatophobia- Fear of injury. Tremophobia- Fear of trembling. Trichinophobia- Fear of trichinosis. Trichopathophobia or Trichophobia- Fear of hair. (Chaetophobia, Hypertrichophobia) Triskaidekaphobia- Fear of the number 13. Tropophobia- Fear of moving or making changes. Trypanophobia- Fear of injections. Tuberculophobia- Fear of tuberculosis. Tyrannophobia- Fear of tyrants. Uranophobia or Ouranophobia- Fear of heaven. Urophobia- Fear of urine or urinating. Vaccinophobia- Fear of vaccination. Venustraphobia- Fear of beautiful women. Verbophobia- Fear of words. Verminophobia- Fear of germs. Vestiphobia- Fear of clothing. Virginitiphobia- Fear of rape. Vitricophobia- Fear of step-father. Walloonphobia- Fear of the Walloons. Wiccaphobia: Fear of witches and witchcraft. Xanthophobia- Fear of the color yellow or the word yellow. Xenoglossophobia- Fear of foreign languages. Xenophobia- Fear of strangers or foreigners. Xerophobia- Fear of dryness. Xylophobia- 1) Fear of wooden objects. 2) Forests. Xyrophobia-Fear of razors. === === Zelophobia- Fear of jealousy. Zeusophobia- Fear of God or gods. Zemmiphobia- Fear of the great mole rat. Zoophobia- Fear of animals.
