Arachibutyrophobia

Although it sounds strange to many people, arachibutyrophobia is a devastating fear for some people. The phobia is actually the fear of peanut butter sticking to the roof of one's mouth. The fear is often rooted in a more generalized phobia of choking or of sticky textures, but it can also occur alone.

Like all phobias, arachibutyrophobia varies in severity from sufferer to sufferer. Some people are able to consume small quantities of peanut butter, perhaps as a dip for vegetables, while others are afraid to try peanut butter at all. In some cases, the fear extends to other peanut products, from peanut butter ice cream to peanut sauces.

Cathisophobia

Cathisophobia (sometimes spelled with a ‘k’) is a terror of sitting down. This disorder can be sparked off by a particularly nasty case of hemorrhoids but in some serious cases it can be due to physical abuse relating to sitting on sharp or painful objects. Sometimes, the sitting fear is due to some punishment in the school days, or it may be an indication of some other phobia like sitting in front of elite and influential people. Cathisophobia is characterized by sweating, heavy or short breathe, and anxiety.

Automatonophobia

Automatonophobia is the fear of anything that falsely represents a sentient being. This includes, but is not limited to, ventriloquist dummies, animatronic creatures, and wax statues. This fear can manifest itself in numerous ways; every individual who suffers from the fear being different.Since inanimate objects do not pose any real harm to people, this fear is considered to be irrational.

Killer toys films like Chucky in the Child's Play series, Magic, Devil Doll, Twilight Zone, and Dead of Night are all movies that sufferers of automatonophobia should avoid, especially if their fear is primarily of ventriloquist dummies.

The blood from a human erection

The blood from a human erection has enough blood to keep 3 gerbals alive.

What dead people can get..?

Dead people can get goosebumps.

Giraffe business time

The male giraffe will continuously headbutt the female in the bladder until she urinates. The male then tastes the pee and that helps it determine whether the female is ovulating. If she is, it’s business time.

Kakapo bird problem

The critically endangered Kakapo bird has a strong, pleasant, musty odour which allows predators to easily locate it. Hence, it is critically endangered.

Polar Bear Liver?

If you eat a polar bear liver, you will die. Humans can’t handle that much vitamin A.

Volvo introduced a concept car built for women!

The Volvo YCC was a concept car presented in 2004 at the Geneva Motor Show with the stated goal of meeting the particular needs of female drivers.

In order to do so, Volvo assembled a design team entirely made up of women, some time in the Fall of 2001. It was a major exercise in ergonomics from the perspective of a female driver.

On the outside the car looked, at first glance, like a mildly futuristic four seat coupé. On closer inspection one could see that there was no hood, that is, no access panel permitting access to the car’s engine.

Engine maintenance required taking out the whole front end of the car body, preferably in some establishment with the required space and equipment.

The car was never released; however the whole concept was pretty cool. If you’d like to learn more about it, make sure you check the video in the source link.

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There are more vending machines in Japan than ...

There are more vending machines in Japan than there are people in New Zealand!

The population of New Zealand is around 4.4 million people, which is pretty good considering the small size of the countries land mass.

In Japan, there are over 5.52 million vending machines. Hypothetically, if every single person in New Zealand took a trip to Japan, everyone could have their own personal vending machine with over a million vending machines sitting around as extras!

The reason Japan has so many vending machines, in fact the most in the world, is because vending machines have been in Japan since the late 1800's. The earliest Japanese vending machine sold cigarettes.

Today, Japanese vending machines are some of the most technologically advanced in the world. The machines accept both coins and bills of any Yen size! Furthermore, the machines sell drinks, food, stamps, flowers, magazines, and daily sundries!

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Those stars and colours you see when you rub your eyes are called ...

Have you ever closed your eyes, rubbed them and seen stars? Or at least little pops of light? It turns out that those pops of light have a name: phosphenes.

They are a phenomenon characterized by seeing light without light actually entering the eye. This rubbing mechanically stimulates the cells of the retina causing this effect. Sometimes, these phosphenes can still be seen for moments after you open your eyes.

Meditators have also reported experiencing phosphenes, and they have actually been known since antiquity. Ancient Greeks described them. Other reasons people ‘see stars’ are because of sneezing, coughing, blowing your nose or receiving a blow to the head.

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Jellyfish evaporate in the sun

When jellyfish are in the water, they can be a bit intimidating. Their tentacles can pack a painful electrical shock. However, once they wash up on shore, they are anything but intimidating.It turns out that jellyfish are 98% water. Most are transparent and bell-shaped. If they end up on the beach, they will most likely evaporate in a few hours and mostly disappear.Jellyfish also don’t have brains, bones or a heart. They do have rudimentary sensory nerves though.

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The fear of long words

There are a lot of interesting and random phopias out there. Dendrophobia is the fear of trees. Blennophobia is the fear of slime. And neophobia is the fear of anything new. However, the fear of long words may have the most ironic (and cruelest name).Hippopotomonstrosesquipedaliophobia. So let’s say you do have this phobia. You’d be terrify to name your ailment. Kind of a conundrum.
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Anatidaephobia

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

Anatidaephobia is the pervasive, irrational fear that, somewhere in the world, a duck is watching you. The person believes that no matter where they are or what they are doing, a duck is watching them.

The people who suffer from this phobia have suffered some sort of trauma in their lives, likely when he or she was a child. This trauma probably had to do with a duck or some sort of related water fowl, like a goose. Perhaps the person was attacked by one of these animals.

Some of the symptoms of this phobia include an anxiety or panic attack. This results in a dry mouth, shortness of breath, muscle tension, hyperventilation, etc.

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A street cleaner found a £21,000 Rolex

A street cleaner found a £21,000 Rolex, was honest enough to give it back. He then found 3 more in the same place!

The British street cleaner found the expensive Rolex while washing a roadside drain.

He was honest enough to give it to the police. They told him that he could keep it if no one claimed it within 30 days.

Soon after, he found an identical watch in a drain 100 yards from the first one. He then found 2 more in the same place!

The four watches could be worth up to £60,000 total! The police said that the watches have not been reported stolen.

They're on the lookout that they could have been criminally obtained in some other way.

If no one claims them and if no criminal activity is detected, the man will get to keep all those expensive watches!

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Ever wonder why keys are in the order they’re in on the keyboard?

The keyboard we most commonly use today is called the "qwerty" keyboard for obvious reasons, but did you ever wonder why the letters are in that order?

It's actually because the original keyboards would jam if letters that were next to each other were pressed in too rapid succession.

In 1874 Christopher Sholes, who developed the layout, was aiming to slow typists down by putting the most common letters in the most hard to reach places, and thus reduce jamming.

Although modern technology has no issue with jamming, the keyboard stuck and is still the one we use today!

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The world’s smallest guitar is the size of a red blood cell!

Developed by Cornell University researchers, this guitar is only ten micrometers long! How big is that?

It would take one million micrometers to make one meter! The guitar has six strings, and each string is only about one hundred atoms thick.

Made out of crystalline silicon it demonstrates new technology for a new generation of electromechanical devices.

The guitar can actually be played, but it's so small the sounds produced would be inaudible to the human ear.
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The Sun is About to Turn Upside Down (Sort Of)

Every 11 years, the Sun's magnetic poles reverse themselves. That has big implications for satellites, global communications and even astronaut safety.

Big changes are about to occur on the Sun. Anything that happens on the Sun is big of course—especially to the pipsqueak planets that orbit it and, at least in the case of Earth, depend on it for life. But this time the changes are big even by solar standards: The Sun’s magnetic field is about to flip upside down, its opposing magnetic poles switching places—north to south, top to bottom. It’s as though you took a bar magnet and rotated it 180°, except it’s the magnetism that rotates, not the magnet—and the magnet in this case is a million miles (1.6 million km) across, has a surface temperature of about 11,000°F (6,000°F) and weighs about 2,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 tons, give or take. So definitely big.

The world's fluffiest rabbit

Cute alert, this rabbit is scientifically proven to be the world's fluffiest.
Well, maybe not scientifically but have you ever seen such a fluffy creature? I really, really doubt it.
We can't stop squealing about this giant fluff ball, otherwise known as the Angora Rabbit.
The Angora Rabbit originates from Turkey, it is one of the oldest varieties of domestic rabbits and they are bred mostly for their long and silky wool.

India has more cell phones than ...

The issue of toilets in India is of huge concern- there is a problem with public defecation and urination.. Actually there are many houses that are just not fortunate enough to have a toilet.

But this new stat is fairly sad- There are more cellphones in India, than there are toilets. Both are incredibly necessary in today's day and age.. Maybe there is a toilet app out there that will relieve the Indian people of this stat.