A cat can run about 20 kilometres per hour (12 miles per hour) when it grows up. This one is going nowhere today - it is too lazy !.
A cheetah can run 76 kilometres per hour (46 miles per hour) - that's really fast! The fastest human beings runs only about 30 kilometres per hour (18 miles per hour). a cheetah does not roar like a lion - it purrs like a cat (meow).
A Zipper joins two pieces of material together.A zipper is used everywhere, on clothing, pencil cases, boots and suitcases, wallets, and a zillion other things. Everyone thinks it was Whitcomb Judson who invented the zipper but it was really Elias Howe. Elias was so busy inventing the sewing machine that he didn't get around to selling his zipper invention which he called a "clothing closure".
Did you know Sailor, Dead Leaf, Paper Kite, Blue Striped Crow, Julia and Great Egg Fly are all names of BUTTERFLIES The original name for the butterfly was 'flutterby'!
Bears whose brown fur is tipped with lighter-colored hairs are called grizzly bears . The smallest species of bears is called sun or Malayan bears. Male bears are called boars. Bears are native to the continents of North America, Asia, Europe, and South America. Alaskan brown bears, world's largest meat-eating animals that live on land, can weigh as much as 1,700 pounds (771 kilograms)
The largest frog in the world is called Goliath frog. Frogs start their lives as 'eggs' often laid in or near fresh water. Frogs live on all continents except Antarctica. Frogs belong to a group of animals called amphibians.
There are more than 50 different kinds of kangaroos. Kangaroos are native of Australia. A group of kangaroos is called a mob. Young kangaroos are called joeys.
No two zebras have stripes that are exactly alike. Zebras enemies include hyenas, wild dogs, and lions. Male zebras are called stallions. Zebras usually travel in herds.
How do reindeers survive in the extreme cold? Most animals don’t eat moss. It’s hard to digest, and it has little nutritional value. But reindeer fill up with lots of moss. Why? The moss contains a special chemical that helps reindeer keep their body fluids warm. When the reindeer make their yearly journey across the icy Arctic region, the chemical keeps them from freezing—much as antifreeze keeps a car from freezing up in winter
Some scientists believe that the earth began billions of years ago as a huge ball of swirling dust and gases. If you dig in your backyard, don’t worry about running into the earth’s core. You’d have to dig a hole 4,000 miles (6,437 kilometers) deep!
Lightning strikes about 6,000 times per minute on this planet! -A chameleon's tongue is twice the length of its body. -A chimpanzee can learn to recognize itself in a mirror, but monkeys can't. -A rat can last longer without water than a camel can. -About 10% of the world's population is left-handed. -A typical bed usually houses over 6 billion dust mites. -A person afflicted with hexadectylism has six fingers or six toes on one or both hands and feet -A woodpecker can peck twenty times a second. -A zebra is white with black stripes. - Porpoises and dolphins communicate with each other by squeaking, growling, moaning, and whistling. Porpoises and dolphins are mammals. There are about 40 species or kinds of porpoises and dolphins. Most porpoises and dolphins navigate by using "echolocation". The largest member of the dolphin family is called an orca or killer whale. - The hippopotamus gives birth under water and nurses its young in the river as well, though the young hippos do come up periodically for air. -A cow gives nearly 200,000 glasses of milk in her lifetime The world's largest mammal, the blue whale, weighs 50 tons at birth. Fully grown, it weighs as much as 150 tons. The world's largest rodent is the Capybara. An Amazon water hog that looks like a guinea pig, it can weigh more than 100 pounds. The world's smallest mammal is the bumblebee bat of Thailand, weighing less than a penny. -- How the wind blows. As the sun warms the earth’s surface, the atmosphere warms too. Some parts of the earth receive direct rays from the sun all year and are always warm. Other places receive indirect rays, so the climate is colder. Warm air, which weighs less than cool air, rises. Then cool air moves in and replaces the rising warm air. This movement of air is what makes the wind blow. - Dolphins sleep with one eye open! --Why do we might feel warmer wearing a dark-colored jacket than a light-colored one? . Dark colors absorb light energy. Light colors and white reflect light energy. When light shines on your dark jacket, the jacket fabric absorbs light energy. The absorbed light energy causes electrons in the atoms of the jacket to vibrate. This activity releases heat energy, which makes the jacket—and you—warmer. That's why we like to wear more dark colors in winter and more light colors in summer. -While sleeping, one man in eight snores, and one in ten grinds his teeth. -At 188 decibels, the whistle of the blue whale is the loudest sound produced by any animal. --A flute made of bone is the oldest playable musical instrument in the world. It’s a flute carved from a bird’s wing bone more than 9,000 years ago. The flute was discovered with other flutes at an ancient burial site in China. - The fastest dog, the greyhound, can reach speeds of upto 41.7 miles per hour. The breed was known to exist in ancient Egypt 6,000 years ago -- Glue dates back to prehistoric times. Artists once mixed colorings with raw eggs, dried blood, and plant juices to make sticky paints for cave murals. Later, ancient Egyptians and other people learned to make stronger glues by boiling animal bones and hides. Today companies make glues using synthetic substances. -A cat sees about six times better than a human at night because of the tapetum lucidum , a layer of extra reflecting cells which absorb light. -A cat uses whiskers to determine if a space is too small to squeeze through. The whiskers act as antennae, helping the animal to judge the precise width of any passage. -A cat will clean itself with paw and tongue after a dangerous experience or when it has fought with another cat. This is an attempt by the animal to soothe its nerves by doing something natural and instinctive. -The grizzly bear can run as fast as the average horse!! - The female lion does more than 90% of the hunting while the male simply prefers to rest. !! - A jellyfish is 95 percent water! - At birth, a panda is smaller than a mouse and weighs about four ounces. -Fingernails grow nearly 4 times faster than toenails! -You blink over 10,000,000 times a year! - Of all the words in the English language, the word ' set ' has the most definitions! - The sun is 330,330 times larger than the earth!- - Dogs and cats, like humans, are either right or left handed... or is that paws?! - A giraffe can clean its ears with its 21-inch tongue! - A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out. -A cat's jaws cannot move sideways. -More people are killed annually by donkeys than die in air crashes. - "Go." is the shortest complete sentence in the English language The vocabulary of the average person consists of 5,000 to 6,000 words. - No word in the English language rhymes with "month". - An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain. -An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain. The average person laughs about 15 times a day. The average person walks the equivalent of twice around the world in a lifetime. - All polar bears are left handed. -Ants don't sleep. The word "racecar", "kayak", and "radar" are the same
whether they are read left to right or right to left. "a man a plan a canal panama" spelled backwards is still "a man a plan a canal panama"
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The first kind of PENCIL was a bunch of GRAPHITE sticks held together by string. Then someone decided it would be better to push the graphite into the inside of a hollow wooden stick. JOSEPH RECHENDORFER was the first person to think of putting a piece of rubber onto the top of a pencil which makes it real easy to rub out mistakes.
Did you know that the average lead pencil can draw a line that is almost 35 miles long or you can write almost 50,000 words in English with just one pencil? Amazing fact! Now imagine an eraser that could match it !!!
The Wright Brothers invented one of the first airplanes. It was called the Kitty Hawk
Did you know the first bicycle that was made in 1817 by Baron von Drais didn't have any pedals? People walked it along
The first metal bicycle was called the High-Wheel or Penny Farthing. People had a hard time keeping their balance on this type of bicycle
Did you know the first toy balloon, made of vulcanized rubber, was thought of by someone in the J.G.Ingram company in London, England in 1847.
9pin bowling was made up in Germany during the Medieval ages
Karl Benz invented the first gas powered car. The car had only three wheels. The first car with four wheels was made in France in 1901 by Panhard et LeVassor.
The first pick-up truck in the world was made by Gottlieb Daimler in 1886. Gottlieb produced the world's first motorcycle in 1885.
Gottlieb Daimler also built the world's first taxi in 1897. It was called the Daimler Victoria and had a taxi meter. On 16 June of that year the taxi was delivered to Stuttgart transportation entrepreneur Friedrich Greiner who used it to start the world's first motorized taxi company
Did you know the largest fish ever caught was the Whale Shark? It was 59ft long. These fish can weigh up to 15 tons.
Did you know fishes cannot live in the Dead Sea because the water has too much salt in it?
A parrotfish makes its own sleeping bag to sleep in. It uses mucous (like spit) to make a see-through bag all around it's body to protect it from attack by other creatures in the ocean.
The blue whale is the largest animal on earth. The heart of a blue whale is as big as a car, and it's tongue is as long as an elephant.
.The heaviest fish ever caught was the OCEAN SUNFISH. It weighed 4,928 lbs.
The pelican uses the funny looking pouch under its lower beak for catching fish. It does this by swooshing into the water and scooping up as many fish as possible.
Did you know pearls are found in oysters? The largest pearl ever found was 620 carats.
The swordtail is the fastest swimmer of all the fish
-Most animals don't eat moss. It's hard to digest, and it has little nutritional value. But reindeer fill up with lots of moss, because the moss contains a special chemical that helps reindeer keep their body fluids warm. When the reindeer make their yearly journey across the icy Arctic region, the chemical keeps them from freezing-much as antifreeze keeps a car from freezing up in winter.
A Cloud forest hosts huge numbers of plants and animals; the cloud forests of Monteverde, Costa Rica, host over 425 bird species and more varieties of insects than anyone knows
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your body is made up of trillions of cells? Different parts of your body are made of different kinds of cells.
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...your brain is like a computer, and controls your entire body?
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...your heart beats about 70 times a minute, and each time it beats, it pumps about about a cupful of blood?
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...an adult human heart weighs about 10 ounces and beats over 100,000 times a day?
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...there are 206 bones in your skeleton?
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...about half of the bones in the human body are located in the hands and feet?
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...everyone has thirty-two teeth?
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...your muscles make up about one-half of your body weight?
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...if you were to remove your skin, it would weigh as much as 5 pounds?
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...about 70 percent of your body weight is water?
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...physics includes the study of light, magnets, electricity, forms of energy, sound, mechanics (studying the action of forces on matter)?
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...objects and people move and obey three basic laws of motion: inertia, mass and force, action and reaction?
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...inertia, the first law of motion, states that objects that are at rest tend to stay at rest unless acted upon by some outside force? A ball will not move unless someone kicks it.
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...the second law of motion deals with the mass (the amount of matter in an object) and force (the action on an object)? A ball does not speed up or slow down all by itself because it takes a force to move it or slow it down. How the ball moves depends upon the the object that is used to move it, the force used to move it, and the direction of the force.
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...the third law of motion, action and reaction, states that for every action their is an equal or opposite reaction? A person on a skateboard pushes back to accelerate, and his push back on the ground sends him forward on his skateboard.
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...Isaac Newton discovered the laws of motion more than 300 years ago?
The only 2 animals that can see behind itself without turning it's head are the rabbit and the parrot.
A zebra is white with black stripes.
A whip makes a cracking sound because its tip moves faster than the speed of sound.
"Almost" is the longest word in the English language with all the letters in alphabetical order.
Snails produce a colorless, sticky discharge that forms a protective carpet under them as they travel along. The discharge is so effective that they can crawl along the edge of a razor without cutting themselves.
The word "listen" contains the same letters as the word "silent".
A hippopotamus can run faster than a man.
The only 15 letter word that can be spelled without repeating a letter is uncopyrightable.
Electricity doesn't move through a wire but through a field around the wire.
Hummingbirds are the only animal that can fly backwards.
It is impossible to lick your elbow.
All the planets in the solar system rotate anticlockwise, except Venus. It is the only planet that rotates clockwise.
Names of the three wise monkeys are: Mizaru (See no evil), Mikazaru (Hear no evil), and Mazaru (Speak no evil).
A 'jiffy' is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second.
India never invaded any country in her last 10000 years of history.
Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia is the fear of long words.
Phobatrivaphobia is a fear of trivia about phobias.
Sanskrit is the mother of all higher languages. Sanskrit is the most precise and therefore suitable language for the computer software - a report in Forbes magazine.
India invented the Number System. Zero was invented by Aryabhatta.
Chess (Shataranja or AshtaPada) was invented in India.
Twenty-Four-Karat Gold is not pure gold; there is a small amount of copper in it. Absolutely pure gold is so soft that it can be molded with the hands.
33.It was the Romans who made the first popsicle. They took some ice and added flavour to it and then licked it. What a great idea! Yummy !
34.The Sumerians, who lived in the Middle East, invented the wheel in about 3450 BC.
The Sumerians also invented writing.
35.A mouse is so small compared to an elephant, that an elephant does not even know that there is a mouse close to it !!
The typical laboratory mouse runs 2.5 miles per night on its treadmill.
A rat can last longer without water than a camel.
The mouse is the most common mammal in the US.
The SIBERIAN TIGER is the largest cat in the world. It weighs up to 300kg (660 lbs) and can eat 27,2 kg (60 lb) of meat at one mealtime.
The elephant is the largest animal on land. But it is much smaller than the blue whale.
Did you know moths are not really attracted to light? Moths fly towards the blackest point which is behind the light.
Did you know Sailor, Dead Leaf, Paper Kite, Blue Striped Crow, Julia and Great Egg Fly are all names of BUTTERFLIES
The rhino is a primitive-looking animal. They have looked the same for thousands of years. There are two species of rhino: the white (or square-lipped rhino) and the black (or hooked-lipped rhino). The black rhino has three toes on each foot. Both the black and white rhino have two horns.
The rhinoceros's horn is made of the same stuff found in our hair and fingernails which is called keratin. It also contains something called gelatin.
Ancients Greeks believed earthquakes were caused by giants fighting underneath the ground. The Ancient Japanese thought there was a giant spider living under the earth, and each time it moved, it caused the earth to quake
There are over 900 different types of bats and they can all fly. The Vampire bat has less teeth than the other bats because it doesn't chew its food. It lives on the blood of mammals. Bats do not need to see when they fly, they use sound to help them figure out where they are going. Bats always turn left when exiting a cave.
Our body has some natural protection for our eyes. Our eyelashes help to keep dirt out of our eyes.
Hundreds of years ago, rockets were invented in China. The first rockets were shaped like arrows and they were not very powerful. The power of early rockets came from gunpowder.
Do you know why people are hooked or addicted to cigarettes? The ANSWER is a chemical called Nicotine (Pronounced as: nih-keh-teen)......This chemical is found in stinky cigarettes and is the reason why people get hooked on the smoking habit. Say no to cigaretes - YUCKS !! it's Horrible! Smoking gives you bad breath, makes you cough, and is responsible for many diseases including cancer.
--If you yelled for 8 years, 7 months and 6 days, you would have produced enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee.
--The human heart creates enough pressure while pumping to squirt blood 30 feet.
--On average people fear spiders more than they do death.
--The strongest muscle in the body is the TONGUE.
--It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.
--Americans on the average eat 18 acres of pizza every day.
--Did you know that you are more likely to be killed by a champagne cork than by a poisonous spider?
--Right-handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left-handed people do.
-In ancient Egypt, Priests plucked EVERY hair from their bodies, including their eyebrows and eyelashes.
-- The act of snapping one's fingers is called a "fillip".
-----The dot on top of the letter 'i' is called a tittle.
-- Skepticisms is the longest word that alternates hands when typing.
---Any number, squared, is equal to one more than the numbers on either side of it -- 4x6 is 24, 5x5 is 25 etc.
--A "hairbreadth away" is 1/48 of an inch.
--The word four has four letters. In the English language there is no other number whose number of letters is equal to its value.
--The king of hearts is the only king without a moustache.
----No piece of square dry paper can be folded more than 7 times in half.
--A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out.
--The ant can lift 50 times its own weight, can pull 30 times its own weight and always falls over on its right side when intoxicated.
--Polar bears are left handed.
--The catfish has over 27,000 taste buds, that makes the catfish rank #1 for animal having the most taste buds.
--The flea can jump 350 times its body length, that is like a human jumping the length of a football field.
--Butterflies taste with their feet.
--. It is impossible to sneeze and keep ones eye's open at the same time.
--Elephants are the only animals that can't jump. ( thankfully !!)
--A cat's urine glows under a black light.
--An ostrich's eye is bigger than it's brain.
--Cockroaches can change course as many as 25 times in one second, making them the most nimble animals known.
--Mosquitoes do not bite. They stab. A mosquito has no jaws, hence when attacking a victim, it pierces it with its long proboscis and sucks the blood up through it's nasal tube.
--Starfishes haven't got brains.
- Ostriches live about 75 years and can reproduce for 50 years.
- Some breeds of vultures can fly at altitudes as high as 36,900 feet.
--The skin of the armpits can harbor up to 516,000 bacteria per square inch, while drier areas, such as the forearms, have only about 13,000 bacteria per square inch on them.
--The most destructive disease is malaria. More than 1.5 million people die from malaria every year
-A light year is 5,865,696,000,000 miles or about 9,460,800,000,000 kilometers.
A light nanosecond is the distance light can travel in a billionth of a second and is 1 foot or about 30 cm.
INTERCHANGEABILITY contains the words THREE, EIGHT, NINE, TEN, THIRTEEN, THIRTY, THIRTY-NINE, EIGHTY, EIGHTY-NINE, NINETY, and NINETY-EIGHT
One thousand contains the letter A, but none of the words from one to nine hundred ninety-nine has an A.
FOUR has four letters; no other number has this property in English such that the number of letters in the name equals the number.
Some words with horizontal symmetry (they reflect themselves across a horizontal line) are: BEDECKED, BOOHOOED, CEBID (a type of monkey), CHECKBOOK, CHOICE, CODEBOOK, COOKBOOK, DECIDED, DIOXIDE, DOBCHICK, EXCEEDED, HIDE, HOODOOED, ICEBOX, KEBOBBED, OBOE, OKEECHOBEE.
Some words with vertical symmetry are MOM, WOW, OTTO, MAAM, MA'AM, TOOT, AHA, AA, AHA, AIA, AMA, AVA, AWA, HAH, HOH, HUH, MAM, MIM, MM, MUM, OHO, OO, OXO, TAT, TIT, TOT, TUT, UTU, VAV, WAW.
R.S.V.P. comes from the French phrase, 'répondez, s'il vous plaît,' which means 'please reply.' According to western etiquette, you should reply promptly if you receive a formal invitation.
A mile on the ocean and a mile on land are not the same distance. On the ocean, a nautical mile measures 6,080 feet. A land or statute mile is 5,280 feet.
A nanosecond (ns or nsec) is one billionth (10-9) of a second and is a common measurement of read or write access time to random access memory
INTESTINES has each of its letters occurring twice. Some other such words: APPEASES, ARRAIGNING, BERIBERI, BILABIAL, CAUCASUS, CHOWCHOW, CONCISIONS, COUSCOUS, ESOPHAGOGRAPHERS, FROUFROU, GENSENGS, GREEGREE, GUITGUIT, HAPPENCHANCE, HORSESHOER, HOTSHOTS, JIPIJAPA, MAHIMAHI, MESOSOME, MILLIEME, MIMETITE, RAPPAREE, REAPPEAR, SCINTILLESCENT, SHAMMASH, SHANGHAIINGS, TEAMMATE, UNSUFFICIENCES, VETITIVE
There are three sets of letters on the standard typewriter and computer keyboards which are in alphabetical order, reading left to right. They are f-g-h, j-k-l, and o-p.
Bird records
- The largest bird in the world today is the Ostrich Struthio camelus. The North African Ostrich subspecies is the tallest of all the Ostriches. Males can be 2.74 m tall. The head and neck can be 1.4 m long. The average height is around 2 m.
- The smallest bird in the world is either the Bee Hummingbird Mellisuga helenae from Cuba and the Isle of Pines or the Little Woodstar Acestrura bombus of Ecuador and northern Peru. The male hummingbird is 57 mm and weighs 1.6 g. Half of its length is taken up by the bill and the tail. Some experts think the Woodstar is even smaller.
- The bird with the largest wingspan is the Wandering Albatross Diomedea exulans which lives in the southern oceans. Its wings average 2.54 - 3.51 m. The largest recorded wingspan was of a very old male whose wings measured 3.63 m.
- The Australian Pelican Pelecanus conspicillatus has the longest bill of any bill measuring 34 - 47 cm.
- The bird with the longest bill to body size is the Sword-billed Hummingbird Ensifera ensifera that lives in the high Andes from Venezuela to Bolivia. Its bill is 10.2 cm long, four times longer than the bird's body, not counting the tail.
- Ostriches Struthio camelus have the longest legs. Their legs can be up to 1.3 m long.
- A number of swifts have the shortest legs. Their family name Apodidae means 'lacking legs'.
- Jacanas (Jacanidae family) have the longest toes relative to body length. Some of the larger Jacanas can have 'toespans' of at least 15 cm.
- The Phoenix Fowl has the longest feathers. The upper tail can grow for six years and one measured 10.6 m. The Phoenix Fowl has been bred as an ornamental bird in Japan since the mid 17th century and is a breed of the Red Jungle Fowl Gallus gallus.
- The longest feathers of a wild bird relative to body size, are the central tail feathers of the male Ribbon-tailed Bird of Paradise Asptrapia mayeri. It lives in the mountain rainforest of New Guinea.
- The most feathers ever counted on one bird was 25 216 on the Tundra Swan Cygnus columbianus. 80 per cent of feathers were on the bird's head.
- The least number of feathers ever counted was 940 on a Ruby-throated Hummingbird Archilochus colubris. But this bird, relative to its body size, has more feathers than most other birds. It measures only 9 cm.
- The Peregrine Falcon Falco peregrinus is the fastest bird and fastest of any kind of animal. It can reach speeds of at least 200 km when diving for prey in the air.
- Hummingbirds have the fastest wingbeat. The Horned Sungem Heliactin cornuta, in tropical South America beats its wings at 90 beats per second.
- Hummingbirds, Family Trochilidae have been recorded in experiments, hovering for 50 minutes.
- The Artic Tern Sterna paradisaea is believed to migrate the furthest. It flies from the shores of the Arctic to the Antarctic. One banded Arctic Tern cover 22 530 km flying from the White Sea Coast of Russia to Fremantle, Western Australia.
- Relative to body size the Long Rufous Humingbird Selasphorus rufus makes the longest migration. It measures 10 cm and flies from as far north as Alaska to Mexico and back again - 10 000 km.
- The highest recorded altitude for any bird was 11 277 m for a Ruppell's Griffon Vulture Gyps Rueppellii. It flew into a plane.
- The largest bird egg is from the Ostrich Sturthio camelus. The egg measures 15 - 20 cm long, 10 - 15 cm in diameter and weighs 1 - 1.78 kg.
- The smallest known egg is the egg of the Vervain Hummingbird Mellisuga minima of Jamacia and nearby islets. The egg is barely the size of a pea and measures less than 10 mm in length and weighs 0.356 g.
- The largest nest was built by a pair of Bald Eagles Haliaeetus leucocephalus was 2.9 m wide and 6 m deep.
- The Mallee Fowl Leipoa ocellata of Australia builds a mound for a nest. These mounds have been measured at 4.57 m high and 10.6 m long. A mound this size means the bird moved 250 cubic metres of vegetation and 300 tonnes of soil.
- The Rhinoceros Auklet Cerorhinca monocerata which measures 35 cm and nests on islands in the North Pacific excavates a burrow of 2 - 3 m in length. Burrows up to 6 m are not uncommon and 8 m burrows have also been found.
- Emperor Penguins Aptenodytes forsteri make the deepest dive of any bird ranging from 444 - 483 m. They also stay under water the longest. The maximum dive time recorded has been 18 minutes.
- The fastest swimmer is probably the Gentoo Penguin Pygoscelis papua at 27 km per hour.
- The fastest runner is the Ostrich Struthio camelus. It can run up to 72 km per hour over short distances.
- The only poisonous birds known are the three species of Pitohui from Papua new Guinea - the Hooded Pitohui Pitohui dichrous the Rusty Pitohui P. ferrugineus and the Variable Pitohui P. kirhocephalus. The Hooded Pitohui is the deadliest. The skin and feathers contain almost the same homobatrachotoxin as the Poison Arrow Frogs.
Did you know there are two kinds of pandas? There is the Long-tailed Himalayan carnivore that looks like a raccoon and there is the Giant panda bear that lives in Western China.
The Blue Whale's whistle is the loudest noise made by an animal.
Did you know there are two kinds of camels? One is the Arabian that lives in Western Asia and Northern Africa. It has one hump. And the second kind is called Bactrian which has two humps and lives in Mongolia and Chinese Turkistan.
There are two kinds of elephants: the African that is taller and has larger ears and the Indian that is small and has smaller ears.
The smallest bird in the world is the Hummingbird. It weighs 1oz.
The fastest human swimmer can swim at 6 miles per hour. The fastest mammal - the dolphin - can swim up to 35 miles per hour.
The bird that can fly the fastest is called a White It can fly up to 95 miles per hour.
Did you know fishes talk to each other? Some of them communicate by making noises in their throats by rasping their teeth, others use their swim bladders to make sounds
The bird that can fly the fastest is called a White It can fly up to 95 miles per hour.
Did you know fishes talk to each other? Some of them communicate by making noises in their throats by rasping their teeth, others use their swim bladders to make sounds
Napoleon's christening name was Italian: Napoleone Buonaparte(OR Bonaparte). He was born on the island of Corsica one year after it became French property. As a boy, Napoleon hated the French.
The brain of an average adult male weighs 1,375 gm (55 oz). The brain of Russian novelist Turgenev weighed 2021 gm (81 oz), Bismark's weighed 1807 gm (72 oz), while that of French statesman Gambetta was only 1294 gm (51 oz). Einstein's brain was of average size.
--The the oldest living thing on earth is 12,000 years old. It is the flowering shrubs called creosote bushes in the Mojave Desert.
-- A crocodile can't move its tongue and cannot chew.
Its digestive juices are so strong that it can digest a steel nail.
-The the oldest living thing on earth is 12,000 years old. It is the flowering shrubs called creosote bushes in the Mojave Desert.
-- A crocodile can't move its tongue and cannot chew.
Its digestive juices are so strong that it can digest a steel nail
- Money notes are not made from paper, they are made mostly from a special blend of cotton and linen. In 1932, when a shortage of cash occurred in Tenino, Washington, USA, notes were made out of wood for a brief period.
-- The Grammy Awards were introduced to counter the threat of rock music. In the late 1950s, a group of record executives were alarmed by the explosive success of rock ‘n roll, considering it a threat to "quality" music.
-- Tea is said to have been discovered in 2737 BC by a Chinese emperor when some tea leaves accidentally blew into a pot of boiling water. The tea bag was introduced in 1908 by Thomas Sullivan of New York.
- Over the last 150 years the average height of people in industrialised nations has increased 10 cm (about 4 inches). In the 19th century, American men were the tallest in the world, averaging 1,71m (5'6"). Today, the average height for American men is 1,75m (5'7"), compared to 1,77 (5'8") for Swedes, and 1,78 (5'8.5") for the Dutch. The tallest nation in the world is the Watusis of Burundi.
-- In 1955 the richest woman in the world was Mrs Hetty Green Wilks, who left an estate of $95 million in a will that was found in a tin box with four pieces of soap.
Queen Elizabeth of Britain and Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands count under the 10 wealthiest women in the world
- Joseph Niepce developed the world's first photographic image in 1827. Thomas Edison and W K L Dickson introduced the film camera in 1894. But the first projection of an image on a screen was made by a German priest. In 1646, Athanasius Kircher used a candle or oil lamp to project hand-painted images onto a white screen.
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In 1935 a writer named Dudley Nichols refused to accept the Oscar for his movie The Informer because the Writers Guild was on strike against the movie studios. In 1970 George C. Scott refused the Best Actor Oscar for Patton. In 1972 Marlon Brando refused the Oscar for his role in The Godfather.
- The system of democracy was introduced 2 500 years ago in Athens, Greece. The oldest existing governing body operates in Althing in Iceland. It was established in 930 AD.
-- A person can live without food for about a month, but only about a week without water.
If the amount of water in your body is reduced by just 1%, you'll feel thirsty.
If it's reduced by 10%, you'll die.
-- According to a study by the Economic Research Service, 27% of all food production in Western nations ends up in garbage cans. Yet, 1,2 billion people are underfed - the same number of people who are overweight.
- Camels are called "ships of the desert" because of the way they move, not because of their transport capabilities. A Dromedary camel has one hump and a Bactrian camel two humps. The humps are used as fat storage. Thus, an undernourished camel will not have a hump.
The smallest book in the world is called Chemin de la Cruix. It has 119 pages. It is 2 inches high and 1 1/3 inches wide. The largest book in the world is an atlas which is in the British Museum. It is 5 feet 10 inches high and 3 feet by 6 inches wide
Did you know that books can breathe? People visiting the British Museum complained of getting headaches. This was because books seem to absorb or "breathe" in air and "breathe" out smells of their own. There was so many old books in the Museum that there was no fresh air left which meant people got headaches from breathing in bad air !!
"Book" comes from the word liber. Liber is a Latin name that the Romans used for the thin layer of stuff that is found between the wood and bark of a tree. The Romans used to peel the layer away from the tree and use it as paper to write on.
There are 2 kinds of bookworms.. children and grownups that like to read are often called "bookworms". It's a good thing to be called a bookworm...as long as you read good books !
In the olden days when books were made by hand, a scribe would have to copy out the writings onto parchment. He was not allowed to make any mistakes! All day long he would just sit and copy down words using pen and ink.
The other kind of "bookworm" is a insect that likes to eat the pages of books. They are usually moth or beetle larvae (which are tiny pale worms).
Benjamin Franklin, an American, started the first lending library.
Did you know the Chinese used silk to make their paper?
The fear of animals is called zoophobia, and the fear of numbers is called arithmophobia !!
MORE SUCH TYPES OF PHOBIAS :-
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Fear of
(A - L) | Phobia | | Fear of
(M - Z) | Phobia |
| accidents | dystychiphobia | | machinery | mechanophobia |
| ageing | gerascophobia | | madness | maniaphobia (see also insanity) |
| air sickness | aeronausiphobia | | magic | rhabdophobia (see also beaten, being) |
| air (fresh), draughts | aerophobia (see also flying) | | making changes or moving | trophophobia |
| alcohol | methyphobia | | many things | polyphobia |
| alcohol (drinking) | dipsophobia | | marriage | gamophobia |
| alone (being) or oneself or loneliness | autophobia | | materialism | hylephobia (see also woods) |
| amphibians, such a frogs, toads, newts, salamanders, etc | batrachophobia | | meat | carnophobia |
| amnesia | amnesiophobia | | medicine (taking) | pharmacophobia |
| animals | zoophobia | | memories | mnemophobia |
| animals (wild) | agrizoophobia | | men | androphobia |
| angry (becoming) | angrophobia | | meningitis | meningitophobia |
| animal skin, fur | doraphobia | | menstruation | menophobia |
| ants | Pmyrmecophobia | | mercuruial medicines | hydrargyophobia |
| asymmetrical things | asymmetriphobia | | metal | metallophobia |
| ataxia | ataxiophobia | | meteors | meteorophobia |
| atomic energy | nucleomitophobia | | mice | musophobia |
| atomic explosions | atomosophobia | | microbes | microbiophobia |
| attack | scelerophobia | | mind | psychophobia |
| auroral lights | auroraphobia | | mirrors | catoptrophobia |
| automobiles | motorphobia | | missiles | ballistrophobia (see also bullets) |
| bad mens, burglars | scelerophibia | | mites, ticks | acarophobia |
| bacteria | bacillophobia | | mole rat (great) | zemmiphobia |
| bald (becoming) | phalacrophobia | | money (touching) | chrematophobia |
| baldness | peladophobia | | monsters (or giving birth to monster) | teratophobia |
| bathing | bathophobia (see also depth) | | moon | selenophobia |
| beards | pogonophobia | | mother-in-law | pentheraphobia |
| beaten (being) | rhabdophobia (see also magic) | | moths | mottephobia |
| bed (going to) | clinophobia | | motion or movement | kinesophobia |
| bees | apiphobia | | motor vehicles | motophobia |
| beggars | hobophobia | | mushroom (aversion to) | mycophobia |
| bearing a deformed child or deformed people | teratophobia | | music | musicophobia |
| being evaluated negatively in social situations | social phobia | | myths, stories and lying | mythophobia |
| bicycles | ornithophobia | | name (a particular name or word) | onomatophobia |
| birds | melanophobia | | narrowness | anginaphobia |
| black (colour) | scotomaphobia | | needles | enetophobia |
| blindness in visual field | cyclophobia | | needles, pins | belonephobia |
| blood | hemaphobia | | | |
| blushing | erythrophobia (see also red) | | new things or ideas | cenophobia or centophobia |
| body odour | bromhidrosiphobia | | night | noctiphobia |
| bogies or the bogeyman | bogyphobia | | noise | acoustiphobia |
| Bolsheviks | Bolshephobia | | nosebleeds | epistaxiophobia |
| books | bibliophobia | | novelty, newness | cainophobia |
| bound (being) or tied up | merinthophobia | | nuclear weapons | nucleomituphobia |
| bowel movements (painful) | defecaloesiophobia | |
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| brain disease | meningitophobia | | numbers | arithmophobia |
| bridges (crossing) | gephyrophobia | | number 13 | triskaidekaphobia |
| buildings (high) | batophobia | | objects (large) | megalophobia |
| bullets | ballistophobia (see also missiles) | | objects (pointed) | aichmophobia |
| bulls | taurophobia | | objects (sacred) | hierophobia |
| buried alive (being) | taphephobia | | objects (small) | tapinophobia |
| cancer | carcinomophobia | | objects (at the right side of the body) | dextrophobia |
| cats | ailurophobia | | odour (one that has vile) | autodysomophobia |
| Celts, Celtic | Celtophobia | | old (growing) | gerascophobia |
| cemeteries | coimetrophobia | | old (people) | gerontophobia |
| certain places | topophobia (see also performing) | | open spaces, crowded public places like markets, leaving a safe place | agoraphobia |
| challenges to official doctrine or of radical deviation | heresyphobia or hereiophobia | | opinions (others') | allodoxaphobia |
| changes | metathesiophobia | | opposite sex | sexophobia |
| changes (making) | tropophobia | | otters | lutraphobia |
| chemicals or working with chemicals | chemophobia | | outer space | spacephobia |
| chickens | alektorophobia | | overworking | ponophobia |
| childbirth or pregnancy | tocophobia | | pain | algophobia |
| China, Chinese | Sinophobia | | paper | papyrophobia |
| chins | geniophobia | | parasites | parasitophobia |
| choking or of being smothered | pnigophobia | | parents-in-law | soceraphobia |
| cholera | cholerophobia | | peanut butter sticking to the roof of the mouth | arachibutyrophobia |
| clocks | chronomentrophobia | | pellagra | pellagrophobia |
| clothes | vestiophobia | |
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| clouds | nephophobia | |
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| clowns | coulrophobia | | people | anthropophobia (see also society) |
| church | ecclesiophobia | | performing (stagefright) | topophobia (see also places (certain)) |
| coitus | coitophobia | | persons with amputations | apotemnophobia |
| cold | cheimaphobia | | philosophy, philosophers | philosophobia |
| colours | chromophobia | | phobias | phobophobia |
| comets | cometophobia | | physical injury | traumatophobia (see also war) |
| complex scientific or (Greek) terms | Hellenologophobia | | pins, needles | belonephobia |
| computers | computerphobia | | places (certain) | topophobia (see also performing) |
| constipation | coprostasophobia | | places (steep) | cremnophobia |
| contagious (being) | tapinophobia | | plants | botanophobia |
| cooking | mageirocophobia | | pleasure | hedonophobia |
| cosmic | kosmikophobia | | poetry | metrophobia |
| crossing streets | agiophobia | | pointed objects | aichmophobia |
| crowded rooms | koinoniphobia | | poison or of being accidently poisoned | toxiphobia |
| crowds | demophobia | | poisons | iophobia (see also rust) |
| crucifixes or crosses | staurophobia | | poliomyelitis (contracting) | poliosophobia |
| crystals or glass | crystallophobia | | politicians or abnormal dislike | politicophobia |
| dampness, liquids or moisture | hygrophobia | | pope | papaphobia |
| dancing | chorophobia | | poverty | peniaphobia |
| darkness | nyctophobia | | precipices | cremnophobia |
| dawn | eosophobia | | progress | prosophobia |
| daylight | phengophobia | | property | orthophobia |
| death, corpses | necrophobia | |
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| decaying matter | septophobia | | pseudo-rabies | kynophobia (see also rabies) |
| decisions (making) | decidophobia | | punishment | poinephobia |
| defecation (painful) | defecalgesiophobia | | purple | porphyrophobia |
| deformity | dysmorphophobia | | rabies | hydrophobia (see also pseudo-rabies) |
| demons, goblins | bogyphobia | | radiation, X-rays | radiophobia |
| dentists | dentophobia | | railways | siderodromophobia |
| dependence on others | soteriophobia | | rain | ombrophobia |
| depth | bathophobia (see also bathing) | |
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| devils, evil spirits | demonophobia | | red | erythrophobia (see also blushing) |
| diabetes | diabetophobia | | relatives | syngenesophobia |
| dining, dinner conversation | deipnophobia | | religious ceremonies | teletophobia |
| dirt, germs | mysophobia | | reptiles or creepy, crawly things | herpetophobia |
| dirt (on oneself) | automysophobia | | responsibility | hypengyophobia |
| disease | bisiogibua | | ridicule | katagelophobia |
| disease (hereditary) | patriophobia | | riding in vehicles | amaxophobia |
| disease, illness | pathophobia | | right-hand side of the body (objects on) | dextrophobia |
| disease (particular) | monopathophobia | | rivers or running water | potamophobia |
| disease (rectal or rectum) | proctophobia or rectophobia | | robbers | harpaxophobia |
| disease (skin) | dermatosiophobia | | rooms (empty) | kenophobia |
| dizziness or whirlpools | dinophobia | | rooms (crowded) | koinoniphobia |
| doctors | iatrophobia | | ruin or ruins | atephobia |
| dogs | cynophobia | | Russia, Russian | Russophobia |
| dolls and children | pedophobia | | rust | iophobia (see also poisons) |
| double vision | diplopiaphobia | | sacred objects or priests | hierophobia |
| draughts, fresh air, air swallowing | aerophobia (see also flying) | | saints | hagiophobia |
| draughts, winds | anemophobia | | Satan | Satanophobia |
| dreams | oneirophobia | | scabies | scabiophobia |
| dreams (wet) | oneirogmophobia | | school (of going to) | didaskaleinophobia |
| drink (usually alcohol) | potophobia | | scientific terms (complex) or Greek terms | Hellenologophobia |
| drugs | pharmacophobia | | scratched (being) | amychophobia |
| drugs (new) | neopharmaphobia | | sea | thalassophobia |
| dryness | xerophobia | |
| spermatophobia |
| dust | amathophobia | | sermons | homilophobia |
| Dutch | dutchphobia | |
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| duty or responsibility (neglect of) | paralipophobia | |
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| electricity | electrophobia | |
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| emetics, vomiting | emetophobia | |
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| empty rooms/spaces or voids | kenophobia | |
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| enclosed spaces | clithrophobia | | shadows | sciophobia |
| England, English | Anglophobia | | shellfish | ostraconophobia |
| everything | panophobia | | shock | hormephobia |
| evil spirits, devils | demonophobia | | sin | hamartophobia |
| excrement | coprophobia | | single (staying) | anuptaphobia |
| eyes | ommatophobia | | sitting down | thaasophobia |
| eyes (opening one's) | optophobia | | sitting still | cathisophobia |
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| | skin lesions | dermatophobia |
| fabrics (particular) | textophobia | | skin disease | dermatosiophobia |
| failure or defeat | kakorrhaphiophobia | | Slavs, Slavic | Slavophobia |
| fat (becoming) | obesophobia | | sleep | somniphobia |
| fatigue | kopophobia | | slime | blennophobia |
| fear | phobophobia | | small objects | tapinophobia |
| feathers (tickled by) | pteronophobia | | smells | olfactophobia |
| fecal matter | scatophobia | | snakes | ophidiophobia |
| feces | coprophobia | | snow | chionophobia |
| fever | pyrexiphobia | | society or people in general | anthropophobia |
| figure 8 | octophobia | | solitude | autophobia |
| filth | rhypophobia | | sourness | acerophobia |
| fire | pyrophobia | | space (outer) | spacephobia |
| firearms | hoplophobia | | spaces (enclosed) | clithrophobia |
| fish | chthyphobia | | spaces (open) | agoraphobia |
| flashes of light | selaphobia | | speaking | laliohobia or lalophobia |
| flavours | geumophobia | | speaking aloud | phonophobia |
| floods | antlophobia | | spectres | spectrophobia |
| flowers | anthophobia | | speed | tachophobia |
| flutes | aulophobia | | spiders | arachnophobia |
| flying | aerophobia (see also air (fresh), draughts) | | stage fright | topophobia (see also places (certain)) |
| fog | homichlophobia | | stairs, climbing or of falling down stairs | climacophobia |
| food or eating | cibophobia | | standing | stasiphobia |
| foreigners or strangers | xenophobia | | standing and walking | stasibasiphobia |
| forests | hylophobia | | stars | siderophobia |
| forgotten (being), forgetting | athazagoraphobia (see also ignored) | | staying single | anuptaphobia |
| France, French | Francophobia | | stealing | cleptophobia |
| freedom | eleutherophobia | | stepfather | vitricophobia |
| fresh air, draughts | aerophobia (see also flying) | | stepmother | novercaphobia |
| Friday the 13th | paraskavedekatriaphobia | | stooping | kyphophobia |
| frost, ice, extreme cold | cryophobia | | stories, myths and lying | mythophobia |
| fur, animal skin | doraphobia | | streets (crossing) | agiophobia |
| gaiety | cherohobia | | strings | cnidophobia |
| garlic | alliumphobia | | stuttering | psellismophobia |
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| | sunlight | heliophobia |
| germs | spermatophobia or spermophobia | | surgery | tomophobia |
| Germany, Germans | Germanophobia | | swallowing or of eating or of being eaten | phagophobia |
| ghosts | phasmophobia | | symbols | symbolophobia |
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| | symmetry | symmetrophobia |
| glass | hyelophobia or hyalophobia | | syphilis | syphiliphobia |
| goblins, demons | bogyphobia | | taking tests | testophobia |
| God or religion | theophobia | | talking | laliophobia |
| gold | aurophobia | | tapeworms | taeniophobia |
| good news (hearing) | euphobia | | taste | geumaphobia or geumophobia |
| gravity | barophobia | | technology | technophobia |
| Greek (or complex scientific) terms | Hellenologophobia | | teeth and dental surgery | odontophobia |
| hair | chaetophobia | | teleology | teleophobia |
| hair disease | trichinophobia | | telephones | telephonophobia |
| halloween | samhainophobia | | termites, insects that eat wood | isopterophobia |
| heart attack | angionophobia | | tests (taking) | testophobia |
| heart disease | cardiophobia | | tetanus (lockjaw) | tetanophobia |
| heat | thermophobia | | theatres | theatrophobia |
| heaven | uranophobia | | theology | theologicophobia |
| heights | acrophobia | | thieves | kleptophobia |
| hell | hadephobia | | thinking | phronemophobia |
| high buildings | batophobia | | thunder and lightning | keraunophobia |
| high places (looking up at) | anablephobia | | ticks, mites | acarophobia |
| high places (open) | aeroacrophobia | | time | chronophobia |
| home, house or being in a house | domatophobia | | toads, frogs | batrachophobia |
| home (returning to) | nostophobia | | tombstones | placophobia |
| homophobia | | touching, being touched | aphephobia |
| horses | hippophobia | | touching money | chrematophobia |
| hospitals | nosocomephobia | | trains, railroads or train travel | siderodromophobia |
| hurricanes & tornadoes | lilapsophobia | | travel | hodophobia |
| hypnotized | hypnophobia | | trembling | tremophobia |
| ice, frost | cryophobia | | trees | dendrophobia |
| ideas | ideophobia | | trichinosis | trichinohobia |
| ignored (being) | athazagoraphobia | | tuberculosis | phthisiophobia |
| illness, disease | pathophobia | | tyrants | tyrannophobia |
| immobility (of a joint) | ankylophobia | | ugliness | cacophobia |
| imperfection | atelophobia | | undressing (in front of someone) | dishabillophobia |
| infection | molysomophobia | | untidiness | ataxiophobia |
| infinity | apeirophobia | | urine or urinating | urophobia |
| injections | trypanophobia | | vaccination, vaccines | vaccinophobia |
| injury (physical) | traumatophobia (see also war) | | vegetables | lachanophobia |
| insanity | lyssophobia (see also madness) | | vehicles, riding in | amaxophobia |
| insects | entomophobia | | venereal disease | cypridophobia |
| insect stings | cnidophobia | | ventriloquist's dummies, animatronic creatures, wax statues : anything that falsely represents a sentient being | automatonophobia |
| itching or of the insects that cause itching | acarophobia | | vertigo or feeling dizzy when looking down | illyngophobia |
| Japan, Japanese | Japanophobia | |
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| jealousy | zelophobia | | vision (double) | diplophobia |
| Jews, Judaism | Judaeophobia | | vomiting, emetics | emetophobia |
| jumping (from both high and low places) | jcatapedaphobia | | walking | basiphobia |
| justice | dikephobia | | walking and standing | stasibasiphobia |
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| | walloons | walloonphobia |
| knees | genuphobia | | war | traumatophobia (see also injury (physical)) ablutophobia |
| kidney desease | albuminurophobia | | washing oneself | ablutophobia |
| knowledge | epistemophobia | | wasps | spheksophobia |
| lakes | limnophobia | | wasting sickness | tabophobia |
| large objects | megalophobia | | water | hydrophobia |
| laughter | gelophobia | | waves (sea), of wavelike motion | cymophobia |
| lawsuits | liticaphobia | | weakness or fainting | asthenophobia |
| learning | sophophobia | | weight (gaining) | obesophobia or pocrescophobia |
| lefthanded, things to the left | sinistrophobia | | wealth | plutophobia |
| left hand side of the body (objects on) | levophobia | | white (colour) | leukophobia |
| leprosy | leprophobia | | wine | oenophobia |
| lice | pediculophobia | | witches and witchcraft | wiccaphobia |
| light | photophobia | | women | gynaephobia |
| light (flashes of) | selaphobia | | women (beautiful) | venustaphobia |
| lightning | astraphobia | | woods | hylephobia (see also materialism) |
| lights (glaring) | photaugiophobia | | wooden objects | xylophobia |
| lights (northern) | auroraphobia | | work or functioning/surgeon's fear of operating | ergasiophobia |
| locked in (being), confined spaces | claustrophobia | | worms | scoleciphobia |
| long waits | macrophobia | | worms (being infested with) | helminthophobia |
| looked at (being) | scopophobia | | wrinkles (getting) | rhytiphobia |
| love (falling or being in) | philophobia | | writing | graphophobia |
| love play | malaxophobia (sarmassophobia) | | writing (in public) | scriptophobia |
| lying, myths and stories | mythophobia | | wrongdoing | peccatiphobia |
| | | X-rays, radiation | radiophobia |
| | | yellow (colour or the word) | xanthophobia |
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After seeing this list you may have developed a fear of words! Which is called logophobia. Or perhaps you developed a fear of a particular word or name, which is onomatophobia.
