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Famous Football Coaches Real Names & Birth Date

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1. Alex Ferguson-Alexander Chapman Ferguson (born 31 December 1941)
2. Arsene Wenger-Arsène Wenger (born 22 October 1949)
3. Avram Grant-Avraham Granat (born 4 May 1955)
4. Carlos Alberto Parreira-Carlos Alberto Gomes Parreira (born February 27, 1943)
5. Fabio Cappelo-Fabio Capello (born 18 June 1946)
6. Gianfranco Zola-Gianfranco Zola (born 5 July 1966)
7. Guus Hiddink-Guus Hiddink (born 8 November 1946)
8. Harry Redknapp-Henry James Redknapp (born 2 March 1947)
9. Joachim Löw-Joachim Löw (born 3 February 1960)
10. Joe Kinnear-Joseph Patrick Kinnear (born 27 December 1946)
11. Jose Mourinho-José Mário dos Santos Félix Mourinho (born 26 January 1963)
12. Jürgen Klinsmann-Jürgen Klinsmann (born 30 July 1964 in Göppingen)
13. Luiz Filipe Scolari-Luiz Felipe Scolari (born 9 November 1948)
14. Marcello Lippi-Marcello Romeo Lippi (born April 12, 1948)
15. Marco van Basten-Marcel van Basten (31 October 1964)
16. Rafael Benitez-Rafael Benítez Maudes (born 16 April 1960)
17. Raymond Domenech-Raymond Domenech (born 24 January 1952)
18. Roberto Donadoni-Roberto Donadoni (born September 9, 1963)
19. Sven Goran Eriksson-Sven-Göran Eriksson (born 5 February 1948)

World Currencies

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Country =Currency =Symbol =Sub-divisions

Afghanistan Afghani Af 100 puls
Albania Lek L 100 qindarka (or quintars)
Algeria Dinar DA 100 centimes
Argentina Peso $ 100 centavos
Australia Dollar A$ 100 cents
Austria Euro € 100 cents
Bangladesh Taka Tk 100 paisa (or poisha)
Barbados Dollar Bds$ 100 cents
Belgium Euro € 100 cents
Brazil Real R$ 100 centavos
Brunei Ringgit B$ 100 sen (or cents)
Bulgaria Leva BGN 100 stotinki
Cambodia New Riel CR 100 sen
Canada Dollar CAD 100 cents
China Yuan Renminbi RMB 10 jiao = 100 fen
Colombia Peso Col$ 100 centavos
Congo Franc CFAF 100 centimes
Croatia Kuna HRK 100 lipas
Cyprus Euro € 100 cents
Czech Republic Koruna CZK 100 halers
Denmark Krone DKK 100 cents
Egypt Pound £E 100 piasters or 1,000 milliemes
Estonia Kroon EEK 100 sents
Ethiopia Birr Br 100 cents
Fiji Dollar F$ 100 cents
Finland Euro € 100 cents
France Euro € 100 cents
French Polynesia Franc CFPF 100 centimes
Gambia Dalasi D 100 butut
Germany Euro € 100 cents
Greece Euro € 100 cents
Greenland see Denmark see Denmark
Guatemala Quetzal Q 100 centavos
Hong Kong Dollar HK$ 100 cents
Hungary Forint HUF 100 forint
Iceland Króna IKr 100 aurar (singular: aur)
India Rupee Rs 100 paise
Indonesia Rupiah Rp 100 sen (no longer in use)
Iran Rial Rls 10 rials = 1 toman
Iraq Dinar ID 1,000 fils
Ireland Euro € 100 cents
Israel New shekel NIS 100 new agorot
Italy Euro € 100 cents
Jamaica Dollar J$ 100 cents
Japan Yen ¥ 100 sen (no longer in use)
Jordan Dinar JD 1,000 fils
Kazakhstan Tenge Te 100 tiyn
Kenya Shilling KSh 100 cents
Korea, North Won Wn 100 chon
Korea, South Won W 100 chon
Kuwait Dinar KD 1,000 fils
Kyrgyzstan Som S 100 tyyn
Laos New kip KN 100 at
Latvia Lat LVL 100 santims
Lebanon Pound (Livre) £L 100 piastres
Liberia Dollar $ 100 cents
Libya Dinar LD 1,000 dirhams
Lithuania Euro € 100 cents
Luxembourg Euro € 100 cents
Macedonia Denar Denar/MKD 100 deni
Madagascar Ariayry franc FMG 100 centimes
Malawi Kwacha MK 100 tambala
Malaysia Ringgit RM 100 sen
Maldives Rufiyaa Rf 100 lari
Mali Franc CFAF 100 centimes
Malta Euro € 100 cents
Mauritius Rupee Mau Rs 100 cents
Mexico Peso Mex$ 100 centavos
Mongolia Tugrik T 100 mongos
Montenegro Euro € 100 cents
Morocco Dirham DH 100 centimes
Mozambique Metical Mt 100 centavos
Myanmar Kyat K 100 pyas
Namibia Dollar N$ 100 cents
Nepal Rupee NRs 100 paise
Netherlands Euro € 100 cents
New Caledonia Franc CFPF 100 centimes
New Zealand Dollar NZD 100 cents
Niger Franc CFAF 100 centimes
Nigeria Naira N 100 kobo
Norway Krone NOK 100 øre
Oman Rial RO 1,000 baizas
Pakistan Rupee Rs 100 paisa
Papua New Guinea Kina K 100 toeas
Paraguay Guarani G 100 centimos
Peru New sol S 100 centimos
Philippines Peso PHP 100 centavos
Poland Zloty PLN 100 groszy
Portugal Euro € (100 centavos)
Qatar Riyal QR 100 dirhams
Romania Leu L 100 bani
Russia Ruble RUB 100 kopecks
Rwanda Franc RF 100 centimes
Saudi Arabia Riyal SRls 100 halalat
Serbia Dinar Din 100 paras
Seychelles Rupee SR 100 cents
Singapore Dollars SGD 100 cents
Slovakia Koruna SKK 100 haliers
Slovenia Euro € 100 cents
Solomon Island Dollar SI$ 100 cents
Somalia Somali Shilling Sh 100 centesimi
South Africa Rand R 100 cents
Spain Euro € 100 cents
Sri Lanka Rupee SLRs 100 cents
Sudan Sudanese Dinar Dinar 100 piastres
Sweden Krona SEK 100 öre
Switzerland Swiss Franc CHF 100 rappen
Taiwan New dollar NTD 100 cents
Thailand Baht Bht 100 stang
Turkey Lira TL 100 kurus
Uganda Shilling USh 100 cents
UAE Dirham DH 100 fils
United Kingdom Pound sterling £ 100 pence
USA Dollar US$ 100 cents
Zambia Kwach ZK 100 ngwee
Zimbabwe Dollar ZD 100 cents

Real names of famous Sports Figures

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Abdi Pel (Abdi Ayew)
Akebono Taro (Chad Haaheo Rowan)
Al Bummy Davis (Abraham Davidoff)
Bebeto (Jos Roberto Gama de Oliveira)
Cafu (Marcos Evangelista de Moraes)
Careca (Antonio de Oliveira Filho)
Deco (Anderson Luiz de Sousa)
Dick Tiger (Richard Ihetu)
Eduardo Golding (David Edward Michael Gordon Copleston)
Garrincha (Manuel Francisco dos Santos)
Garry Kasparov (Gari Weinstein)
Raymond Kopa (Raymond Kopaszewski)
He hate me (Rod Smart)
Henri Cornet (Henri Jaudry)
Jim McKay (James Kenneth McManus)
Joe Louis (Joseph Louis Barrow)
Kaka (Ricardo Izecson dos Santos Leite)
Khaosai Galaxy (Sura Saenkham)
Kid McCoy (Norman Selby)
Kline (Roland Lam)
Konishiki Yasokichi (Salevaa Atisanoe)
Lucien Petit-Breton (Lucien Mazan)
Mchel (Jos Miguel Gonzlez Martn)
Muhammad Ali (Cassius Marcellus Clay Jr.)
Musashimaru Koyo (Fiamalu Penitani)
Nen (Maybyner Rodney Hilario; this is now his legal name)
Pel (Edson Arantes do Nascimento)
Rivaldo (Vitor Borba Ferreira)
Rocky Marciano (Rocco Francis Marchegiano)
Ronaldinho (Ronaldo de Assis Moreira)
Stanley Ketchel (Stanislaus Kiecal)
Sugar Ray Robinson (Walker Smith Jr.)
Takanohana Koji (Koji Hanada)
Tony Zale (Anthony Florian Zaleski)
Wakanohana Masaru (Masaru Hanada)
Zico (Arthur Antunes Coimbra)

Source: Did You Know Facts & Trivia

Real names of Religious Figure

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1. Acharya S (D. Murdock)
2. Mata Amritanandamayi (Sudhamani)
3. His Divine Grace Abhay Charana-Aravinda Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada (Abhay Charan De)
4. Buddha (Siddhartha Gautama)
5. Bhakti Vaibhava Puri Maharaj (Nrsimha Chakravarti)
6. Lord Mahavira (Vardhamana)
7. Osho (Rajneesh Chandra Mohan)
8. Sathya Sai Baba (Sathya Narayana Raju)
9. Mother Teresa of Calcutta (Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu)
10. Swami Vivekananda (Narendranath Dutta)
11. Mahatma Gandhi (Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi)

Source: Did You Know Facts & Trivia

Real names of famous Politicians

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1. Abel Djassi (Amlcar Cabral)
2. Anacharsis Cloots (Jean-Baptiste du Val-de-Grce, baron de Cloots)
3. An Craoibhn Aoibhinn (Douglas Hyde)
4. Anthony Garotinho (Anthony William Matheus de Oliveira)
5. Bob Denard (Gilbert Bourgeaud)
6. Che Guevara (Ernesto Rafael Guevara de la Serna)
7. Comandante Gonzalo (Abimael Guzmn)
8. Germain (Ernest Mandel)
9. Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej [Gheorghe Gheorghiu)
10. Gracchus Babeuf (Franois-Nol Babeuf)
11. Grigory Zinoviev (Ovsel Gershon Aronov Radomyslsky)
12. Gus Hall (Arvo Kusta Halberg)
13. Ho Chi Minh (Nguye^~n Sinh Cung)
14. Houari Boumedienne (Mohamed Ben Brahim Boukharouba)
15. H. Rap Brown (Hubert Gerold Brown)
16. Iaki de Rentera (Ignacio Gracia Arregui)
17. Jnos Kdr (Jnos Csermanek)
18. Joseph Estrada (Joseph Marcelo Ejrcito)
19. Joseph Stalin (Iosif Vissarionovich Djugashvili)
20. Josip Tito (Josip Broz)
21. J. Posadas (Homero Cristali)
22. J.R. Johnson (Cyril Lionel Robert James)
23. Kay Rala Xanana Gusmo (Jos Alexandre Gusmo)
24. Kim Il Sung (Kim Song Ju)
25. Kwame Ture (Stokely Carmichael)
26. La Pasionaria (Dolores Ibrruri)
27. Lon Jos de Ramrez Reina (Lon Degrelle)
28. Leon Trotsky (Lev Davidovich Bronstein)
29. Lev Kamenev (Lev Borisovich Rosenfeld)
30. Loulou (Enver Hoxha)
31. Lula (Luiz Incio da Silva)
32. Martin Thembisile Hani (Chris Hani)
33. Michel Pablo (Michel Raptis)
34. Mobutu Sese Seko Kuku Ngbendu wa za Banga (Joseph-Dsir Mobutu)
35. Mother Jones (Mary Harris Jones)
36. Nahuel Moreno (Hugo Bressano)
37. Pol Pot (Saloth Sar)
38. Prachanda (Pushpa Kamal Dahal)
39. Ronwaldo Reyes (Fernando Poe, Jr.)
40. Sad Moustapha Mahdjoub (Gilbert Bourgeaud)
41. Sara Jane Olson (Kathleen Soliah)
42. Screaming Lord Sutch, 3rd Earl of Harrow (David Edward Sutch)
43. Tariq Aziz (Michael Yuhanna)
44. Ted Grant (Isaac Blank)
45. Tony Cliff (Ygael Gluckstein)
46. Tristn Marof (Gustavo Navarro)
47. Vyacheslav Molotov (Vyacheslav Mikhaylovich Skryabin)
48. Vladimir Lenin (Vladimir Ilich Ulyanov)
49. William Rabbit (Katay Don Sasorith)
50. Willy Brandt (Herbert Ernst Karl Frahm)

Source: Did You Know Facts & Trivia

Real names of Artists, Sculptors, Architects

2009-01-22T23:20:00.002+08:00

1. Bramantino (Bartolomeo Suardi)
2. Canaletto (Giovanni Antonio Canale)
3. Cigoli (Lodovico Cardi)
4. Ert (Romain de Tirtoff)
5. Le Corbusier (Charles Edouard Jeanneret)
6. El Greco (Dominikos Theotokpulos)
7. Il Garofalo (Benvenuto Tisi)
8. Giorgione (Giorgio Barbarelli da Castelfranco)
9. Giovanni Barbbaro (Arthur Dudley)
10. Il Sodoma (Giovanni Antonio Bazzi)
11. Lo Spagna (Giovanni di Pietro)
12. A.M. Cassandre (Adolphe Jean-Marie Mouron)
13. Man Ray (Emmanuel Radnitzky)
14. Masaccio (Tommaso Cassai or, in some accounts Tommaso di Ser Giovanni di Mone)
15. Parmigianino (Girolamo Francesco Maria Mazzola)
16. Pisanello (Antonio di Puccio Pisano or Antonio di Puccio da Cereto)
17. Il Pordenone (Giovanni Antonio de' Sacchis or Giovanni Antonio Licinio)
18. Tintoretto (Jacopo Robusti)
19. Tom of Finland (Touko Laaksonen)
20. Vecchietta (Francesco di Giorgio e di Lorenzo)

Real names of famous Writers

2008-11-04T01:34:00.002+08:00

Abhishek Kumar Yadav (Annu)
Abigail Van Buren (Pauline Esther Friedman Phillips)
Abram Tertz (Andrei Sinyavsky)
Acton Bell (Anne Bront)
Alain-Fournier (Henri Alban-Fournier)
Alan Smithee (name used by American film directors under certain circumstances)
Alberto Moravia (Alberto Pincherle)
Ann Landers (Esther "Eppie" Pauline Friedman Lederer)
Alcofribas Nasier (Franois Rabelais)
Alexander Barks (Charlie Christensen)
Anatole France (Jacques Anatole Franois Thibault)
Anne Rice (Howard Allen O'Brien)
Anne Knish (Arthur Davison Ficke)
Arkon Daraul (likely Idries Shah)
Ashida Kim (Radford William Davis)
Seiko Legru (Janwillem van de Wetering)
Barbara Michaels (Barbara Mertz)
Blaise Cendrars (Frdric Louis Sauser)
Bob Hart (Al Trace|Albert J. Trace)
Boris Akunin (Grigory Shalvovich Chkhartishvili)
Boz (Charles Dickens)
Branislav Nusic' (Ben Akiba)
Cherry Wilder (Cherry Barbara Grimm)
Cherubina de Gabriak (Elisaveta Ivanovna Dmitrieva)
Christopher Hunter (Radford William Davis)
Clem Watts ([Albert J. Trace)
Cordwainer Smith (Paul Myron Anthony Linebarger)
Currer Bell (Charlotte Bront)
Curzio Malaparte (Kurt Erich Suckert)
Daniel Defoe (Daniel Foe)
Daniil Kharms (Daniil Ivanovich Yuvachev)
Danuta de Rhodes (Dan Rhodes)
David Axton (Dean Koontz)
David Michaels (Raymond Benson)
Dazai Osamu (Shuji Tsushima)
Dear Abby (Pauline Esther Friedman Phillips)
Douglas Spaulding ([Ray Bradbury])
Dr. Seuss (Theodore Geisel)
Edith Van Dyne (L. Frank Baum)
Edogawa Rampo (Hirai Taro-)
Edward Pygge (Ian Hamilton, Clive James, Russell Davies)
Edwin Caskoden (Charles Major)
Elia (Charles Lamb)
Elizabeth Peters (Barbara Mertz)
Ellis Bell (Emily Bront)
Ellis Peters (Edith Pargeter)
Elsa Triolet (Elsa Kagan)
Emanuel Morgan (Witter Bynner)
Erich Maria Remarque (Erich Paul Remark)
Flann O'Brien (Brian O'Nolan)
Francis Bennett (Edwin Keppel Bennett)
Franoise Sagan (Franoise Quoirez)
George Eliot (Mary Ann Evans)
George Orwell (Eric Arthur Blair)
George Sand (Amandine Dupin)
Georges Courteline (Georges Victor Marcel Moinaux)
Grace Greenwood (Sara Jane Lippincott)
Guillaume Apollinaire (Wilhelm Albert Vladimir Apollinaris de Kostrowitzky)
H.N. Turtletaub (Harry Turtledove)
Hard Pan (Geraldine Bonner)
Harold Robbins (Harold Rubin)
Havank (Hans van der Kallen)
Herg (Georges Remi)
Hugh Conway (Frederick John Fargus)
Ilya Ilf (Ilya Arnoldovich Faynzilberg)
Irwin Shaw (Irwin Shamforoff)
Italo Svevo (Ettore Schmitz)
J. K. Rowling (Joanne Rowling)
James Dillinger (James Robert Baker)
James Tiptree, Jr (Alice Sheldon)
Jay Livingston (Jacob Harold Levison)
Jean Paul (Johann Paul Friedrich Richter)
Jean Plaidy (Eleanor Hibbert)
Johann Joachim Sautscheck (Roman Turovsky-Savchuk)
John Beynon (John Wyndham Parkes Lucas Beynon Harris)
John Christopher (Samuel Youd)
John le Carre (David John Moore Cornwell)
John Wyndham (John Wyndham Parkes Lucas Beynon Harris)
Joseph Conrad (Jzef Teodor Na?e;cz Konrad Korzeniowski)
Korney Chukovsky (Nikolay Vasilyevich Korneychukov)
Keno (Eric Killinger)
Lemony Snicket (Daniel Handler)
Lewis Carroll (Charles Lutwidge Dodgson)
Lorenzo da Ponte (Emmanuele Conegliano )
Louis-Ferdinand Cline (Louis-Ferdinand Destouches)
Mark Brandis (Nikolai von Michalewsky)
Mark Twain (Samuel Langhorne Clemens)
Mary Westmacott (Agatha Christie)
Michael Arlen (Dikran Kuyumjian)
Michael Innes (J. I. M. Stewart)
Molire (Jean-Baptiste Poquelin)
Multatuli (Eduard Douwes Dekker)
Murray Leinster (Will F. Jenkins)
Nancy Boyd (Edna St. Vincent Millay)
Natsume Soseki (Natsume Kinnosuke)
Nisa (Nicola Salerno), Italian lyricist Nicolas Bourbaki (a group of 20th-century mathematicians)
Novalis (Friedrich Leopold)
O. Henry (William Sydney Porter)
Ogdred Weary (Edward Gorey)
Onoto Watanna (Winnifred Eaton)
Paul Annixter (Howard Allison Sturtzel)
Paul Celan (Paul Antschel)
Jean Ray (Jean Raymond Marie de Kremer)
Pauline Rage (Anne Desclos)
Peter Gast (Heinrich Kselitz)
Pierre Loti (Louis Marie Julien Viaud)
Piers Anthony (Piers Anthony Dillingham Jacob)
Phillip Guston (Phillip Goldstein)
Publius (Alexander Hamilton, James Madison and John Jay, when writing The Federalist Papers)
Q (Arthur Quiller-Couch)
Richard Bachman (Stephen King)
Richard Leander (Richard von Volkmann)
Robert Jordan (James Oliver Rigney, Jr.)
Robert Markham (Kingsley Amis)
Romain Gary (Romain Kacew)
Rosemary Edghill (eluki bes shahar)
Saint-John Perse (Alexis Saint-Lger Lger)
Saki (Hector Hugh Munro)
Sapper (H. C. McNeile)
Silence Dogood (Benjamin Franklin)
Sister Nivedita (Margaret Elizabeth Noble)
Stash Cairo (Craig Hamilton)
Stefan Brockhoff (Dieter Cunz, Richard Plant, Oskar Seidlin)
Steele Rudd (Arthur Hoey Davis)
Student (William Sealey Gosset, discoverer of Student's t-distribution in statistics)
Sui Sin Far (Edith Maude Eaton)
The Fredman (Karl Mikael Bellman)
Thoinot Arbeau (Jehan Tabourot)
TM Maple (Jim Burke)
Toni Morrison (Chloe Anthony Wofford)
Vercors (Jean Bruller)
Vernon Sullivan (Boris Vian)
Umberto Saba (Umberto Poli)
Voltaire (Franois-Marie Arouet)
Walter (Henry Spencer Ashbee)
Willibald Alexis (Georg Wilhelm Heinrich Haring)
Woody Allen (Allen Stewart Konigsberg)
Yevegny Petrov (Yevgeniy Petrovich Kataev)
Yukio Mishima (Kimitake Hiraoka)

Real name of famous Musicians

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Alice Cooper (Vincent Damon Furnier)
Alicia Keys (Alicia Augello Cook)
Alla Nazimova (Mariam Edez Adelaida Leventon)
Alpha Blondy (Seydou Kon)
Andr 3000 (Andr Benjamin)
Aphex Twin (Richard David James)
Babyface (Kenneth Edmonds)
Barbara (Monique Serf)
Beck (Bek David Campbell)
Bela Lugosi (Be'la Ferenc Dezso Blasko)
Big Boi (Antwan Andr Patton )
The Big Bopper (Jiles Perry Richardson, Jr.)
Billie Holiday (Eleanora Fagan Gough)
Billy Idol (William Michael Albert Broad)
Billy Ocean (Leslie Charles)
Bobby Darin (Walden Robert Cassotto)
Bob Dylan (Robert Zimmerman)
Bonnie Tyler (Gaynor Hopkins)
Bono (Paul Hewson)
Buddy Clark (Samuel Goldberg)
Buddy Holly (Charles Hardin Holley)
Burning Spear (Winston Rodney)
Cantinflas (Mario Moreno)
Capucine (Germaine Lefebvre)
Cat Stevens (Stephen Demetre Georgiou, later Yusuf Islam)
Cathy Carr (Angelina Helen Catherine Cordovano)
Cher (Cherilyn Sarkisian)
Chespirito (Roberto Gmez Bolanos)
Cilla Black (Priscilla White)
Conway Twitty (Harold Jenkins)
Tr Cool (Frank Edwin Wright III)
Coolio (Artis Ivey, Jr.) Cozy Powell (Colin Flooks)
Damia (Marie-Louise Damien)
D'Angelo (Michael Archer, Sr.)
Danny Kaye (David Daniel Kaminski)
David Bowie (David Robert Jones)
David Seville (Ross Bagdasarian)
Dean Martin (Dino Crocetti)
Dean Ween (Mickey Melchiondo)
Dharmendra (Dharam Singh Deol)
Dilip Kumar (Yusuf Khan)
Donna Summer (LaDonna Andrea Gaines)
Duane Allman (Howard Duange Allman)
Dusty Springfield (Mary Isabel Catherine Bernadette O'Brien)
The Edge (David Evans)
Elton John (Reginald Kenneth Dwight)
Elvis Costello (Declan Patrick Aloysius McManus)
Eminem (Marshall Mathers III)
Engelbert Humperdinck (Arnold Dorsey)
Eric Clapton (Eric Clapp)
Eric Morecambe (John Eric Bartholemew)
Fatboy Slim (Quentin Cook, later Norman Cook )
Flea (Michael Balzary)
Frankie Valli (Francis Castelluccio)
Fred Astaire (Frederick Austerlitz)
Freddie Mercury (Faroukh Bulsara)
Garry Moore (Thomas Garrison Morfit)
Gary Glitter (Paul Francis Gadd)
Geddy Lee (Gary Lee Weinrib)
Gene Simmons (Chaim Witz)
Gene Wilder (Jerome Silberman)
Gene Ween (Aaron Freeman)
Georgious (Georges Guibourg)
Gribouille (Marie-France Gat)
Groucho Marx (Julius Henry Marx)
Guitar Slim (Guitar Slim|Eddie Jones)
Heino (Heinz Georg Kramm)
Howlin' Wolf (Chester Arthur Burnett)
Ice Cube (O'Shea Jackson)
Ice T (Tracy Morrow)
Iggy Pop (James Newell Osterberg Jr.)
Jal (Rahel Krebs) Jem (Jemma Grifftis)
Jerry Lewis (Joseph Levitch)
Jill Corey (Norma Jean Speranza)
J.J. Cale (Johnny Cale)
John Denver (Henry John Deutschendorf, Jr.)
Johnny Rotten (John Joseph Lydon)
Jon Stewart (Jonathon Leibowitz)
Joni Mitchell (Roberta Joan Anderson)
Jos Jos (Jos Sosa)
Judy Garland (Frances Gumm)
Judy Holliday (Judith Tuvim)
Kitty Kallen (Genevieve Agostinello)
Les Paul (Lester Polfuss)
Little Richard (Richard Wayne Penniman)
LL Cool J (James Todd Smith)
Louis Armstrong (Daniel Louis Armstrong)
Lulu (singer) (Marie Lawrie)
Mariah Carey (Maria Nuez)
Marilyn Manson (Brian Warner))
MCA (Adam Yauch)
Meat Loaf (Marvin Lee Aday)
Mike D (Mike Diamond)
Mike Dirnt (Michael Pritchard)
Moby (Richard Melville Hall)
Muddy Waters (McKinley Morganfield)
Musidora (Jeanne Roques)
Natalie Portman (Natalie Hershlag)
Nelly (Cornell Haynes Jr.)
Nico (Christa Pffgen)
Nina Simone (Eunice Kathleen Waymon)
Ozzy Osbourne (John Osbourne)
Patti Page (Clara Ann Fowler)
Paul McCartney (James Paul McCartney)
Paul Muni (Meshilem Meier Weisenfreud)
Paul Stanley (Stanley Harvey Eisen)
Pink (Alecia Moore)
Prince (Prince Rogers Nelson)
Professor Longhair (Henry Roeland Byrd)
Queen Latifah (Dana Owens)
Ray Charles (Ray Charles Robinson)
Richard Clapton (Terry Gonk)
Rikki (Nakano Ritsuki)
Ringo Starr (Richard Starkey)
Ritchie Valens (Ricardo Valenzuela)
Ronnie James Dio (Ronald Padavona)
Sandie Shaw (Sandra Goodrich)
Seal (Sealhenry Samuel)
Shania Twain (Eileen Regina Edwards, later Eileen Regina Twain )
Shirley Strachan (Graeme Strachan)
Sid Vicious (John Simon Ritche; Later John Beverly)
Simone Signoret (Simone Kaminker)
Slash (Saul Hudson)
Slim Harpo (James Moore)
Snoop Dogg (Calvin Broadus)
Spike Jonze (Adam Spiegel)
Stevie Wonder (Steveland Morris)
Sting (Gordon Sumner)
Sugar (Stephanie Beard)
The Notorious B.I.G. (Christopher Wallace)
Timea Margot (Tmea Vgvlgyi)
Tina Turner (Anna Mae Bullock)
Tiny Tim (Herbert Buckingham Khaury)
Tony Bennett (Anthony Dominick Benedetto)
Tot (Antonio de Curtis Gagliardi Griffo Focas Comneno)
Trent Reznor (Michael Trent Reznor)
Tr Cool (Frank Edwin Wright III)
Vangelis (Evangelos Odyssey Papathanassiou)
Vanilla Ice (Robert Van Winkle)
Vic Reeves (Jim Moir)
Willy DeVille [William Borsay)
Ziggy Marley (David Nesta Marley)
2Pac (Tupac Shakur - born Lesane Crooks)
50 Cent (Curtis Jackson

Real Names of Famous Actors/Actresses

2008-10-27T19:30:00.003+08:00

Alan Dale (Aldo Sigismondi)
Albert Brooks (Albert Lawrence Einstein)
Alex Lifeson (Alexander Zivojinovich)
Alla Nazimova (Mariam Edez Adelaida Leventon)
Alpha Blondy (Seydou Kon)
Anne Bancroft (Anna Maria Italiano)
Ashley Judd (Ashley Tyler Ciminella)
Ashok Kumar (Kumudlal Kanjilal Ganguly)
Bela Lugosi (Be'la Ferenc Dezso Blasko)
Betty Hutton (Elizabeth June Thornburg) B
ob Hope (Leslie Townes Hope)
Boris Karloff (William Henry Pratt)
Buddy Clark (Samuel Goldberg)
Burt Holiday (Bonaldo Bonaldi)
Carole Lombard (Jane Alice Peters)
Cary Grant (Archibald Alexander Leach)
Catherine Deneuve (Catherine Dorlac)
Cathy Carr (Angelina Helen Catherine Cordovano)
Charlie Sheen (Carlos Irwin Estevez)
Charlton Heston (John Charles Carter)
Cher (Cherilyn Sarkisian)
Cozy Powell (Colin Flooks)
Damia (Marie-Louise Damien)
David Copperfield (David Seth Kotkin)
David Seville (Ross Bagdasarian)
Dean Martin (Dino Crocetti)
Dean Ween (Mickey Melchiondo)
Del Shannon (Charles Weedon Westover)
Dharmendra (Dharam Singh Deol)
Diane Keaton (Diane Hall)
Dilip Kumar (Yusuf Khan)
Dirk Bogarde (Derek van den Bogaerde)
Doris Day (Doris Mary Ann Von Kappelhoff)
Duane Allman (Howard Duange Allman)
Elton John (Reginald Kenneth Dwight)
Elvis Costello (Declan Patrick Aloysius McManus)
Eminem (Marshall Mathers III)
Eric Morecambe (John Eric Bartholemew)
Ernest Borgnine (Ermes Effron Borgnino)
Ernie Wise (Ernest Wiseman)
Franz Welser-Mst (Franz Mst)
Fred Astaire (Frederick Austerlitz)
Fredric March (Ernest Frederick McIntyre Bickel)
Gale Storm (Josephine Owaissa Cottle)
Geddy Lee (Gary Lee Weinrib)
Gene Simmons (Chaim Witz)
Gene Wilder (Jerome Silberman)
Gene Ween (Aaron Freeman)
Ginger Rogers (Virginia Katherine McMath)
Gogi Grant (Myrtle Audrey Arinsberg)
Greta Garbo (Greta Lovisa Gustafsson)
Gribouille (Marie-France Gat)
Groucho Marx (Julius Henry Marx)
Harry Houdini (Ehrich Weiss)
Hedy Lamarr (Hedwig Eva Maria Kiesler)
Heino (Heinz Georg Kramm)
Henry Rollins (Henry Garfield)
Ice T (Tracy Morrow)
Jamie Foxx (Eric Bishop)
Janet Leigh (Jeanette Helen Morrison)
Jayne Mansfield (Vera Jayne Palmer)
Jean Harlow (Harlean Carpentier)
Jean-Claude Van Damme (Jean-Claude Camille Franois Van Varenberg)
Jennifer Jones (Phyllis Lee Isley)
Jacques Lu Cont (Stuart Price)
Jill Corey (Norma Jean Speranza)
Joan Crawford (Lucille Fay LeSueur)
Joan Fontaine (Joan de Beauvoir de Havilland)
John Ford (Sean Aloysius O'Fearna)
John Denver (Henry John Deutschendorf, Jr.)
John Wayne (Marion Michael Morrison)
Johnny Desmond (Giovanni Alfredo De Simone)
Jon Stewart (Jonathon Leibowitz)
Joni James (Joan Carmella Babbo|Joan (or Giovanna ) Carmella Babbo)
Judy Garland (Frances Gumm)
Judy Holliday (Judith Tuvim)
Kirk Douglas (Issur Danielovitch Demsky)
Kishore Kumar (Abhas Ganguly)
Lale Andersen (Liese-Lotte Helene Berta Bunnenberg)
Lauren Bacall (Betty Joan Perske)
Lionel Barrymore (Lionel Herbert Blythe)
Marilyn Monroe (Norma Jean Mortenson, later Norma Jean Baker)
Marion Hutton (Marion Thornburg)
Marni Nixon (Marni McEathron)
Martin Sheen (Ramn Estvez)
Mary Astor (Lucile Vasconcellos Langhanke)
Mary Ford (Colleen Summers)
Mary Pickford (Gladys Smith)
Meena Kumari (Mahjabeen Bano)
Meg Ryan (Margaret Mary Emily Ann Hyra)
Mel Brooks (Melvin Kaminsky)
Michael J. Fox (Michael Andrew Fox)
Michael Keaton (Michael John Douglas)
Michael Caine (Maurice Micklewhite)
Mike Dirnt (Michael Pritchard)
Natalie Portman (Natalie Hershlag)
Natalie Wood (Natalia Nikolaevna Zakharenko)
Nico (Christa Pffgen)
Patti Page (Clara Ann Fowler)
Paul Muni (Meshilem Meier Weisenfreud)
Paul Stanley (Stanley Harvey Eisen)
Professor Longhair (Henry Roeland Byrd)
Ray Charles (Ray Charles Robinson)
Richard Clapton (Terry Gonk)
Robert Gant (Robert Gonzalez)
The Rock (Dwayne Douglas Johnson)
Rock Hudson (Roy Harold Scherer Jr.)
Roger Vadim (Roger Vladimir Plemiannikov)
Ronnie Gaylord (Ronald L. Fredianelli)
Ronnie James Dio (Ronald Padavona)
Serge Gainsbourg (Lucien Ginzburg)
Shirley Strachan (Graeme Strachan)
Simone Signoret (Simone Kaminker)
Sophia Loren (Sofia Villani Scicolone)
Spike Jonze (Adam Spiegel)
Stanley Donwood (Dan Rickwood)
Stevie Wonder (Steveland Morris)
Stewart Granger (Stewart Granger|James Stewart)
Susan Hayward (Edythe Marrenner)
Susan Sarandon (Susan Abigail Tomalin)
Timea Margot (Tmea Vgvlgyi)
Tom Cruise (Thomas Cruise Mapother IV)
Toni Arden (Antoinette Ardizzone)
Tony Curtis (Bernard Schwartz)
Tony Martin (Alvin Morris)
Tori Amos (Myra Ellen Amos)
Tot (Antonio de Curtis Gagliardi Griffo Focas Comneno)
Trent Reznor (Michael Trent Reznor)
Twiggy (Leslie Hornby)
Vic Reeves (Jim Moir)
Victor Borge (Borge Rosenbaum)
Vivien Leigh (Vivian Mary Hartley)
William Holden (William Franklin Beedle Jr.)
Wilhelm Fink (Billie Joe Armstrong)
Willy DeVille [William Borsay)
Winona Ryder (Winona Laura Horowitz)
Woody Allen (Allen Stewart Konigsberg)

Animal Kingdom Part 5

2008-10-24T00:02:00.003+08:00

Vole - Long-tailed Vole, Meadow Vole, Sagebrush Vole, Southern Red-backed Vole, Townsend's Vole, Woodland Vole

Wallaby
Wallaroo
Walrus
Warthogs
Waterbuck
Weasel - Least Weasel, Long-tailed Weasel, Short-tailed Weasel
Wildebeest
Whales

Xantus

Yaks

Zebra

Source: Did You Know Facts & Trivia

Animal Kingdom Part 4

2008-10-23T01:36:00.003+08:00

Pademelon
Pandas
Pangolin
Panther - Black Panther, Florida Panther, Puma
Peccary - Collared Peccary
Penguin
Pika - American Pika, Collared Pika
Pipistelle - Eastern Pipistrelle, Western Pipistrelle
Platypus
Porcupine - Common Porcupine
Prairie Dog - Black-tailed Prairie Dog, Gunnison's Prairie Dog, Utah Prairie Dog, White-tailed Prairie Dog
Pronghorn

Quokka
Quoll

Rabbit - Brush Rabbit, Marsh Rabbit, Riparian Brush Rabbit, Swamp Rabbit
Raccoon - Common Raccoon
Rat - Banner-tailed Kangaroo Rat, Black Rat Bushy-tailed Woodrat, Desert Kangaroo Rat, Desert Woodrat, Dusky-footed Woodrat, Florida Woodrat, Fresno Kangaroo Rat, Heermann's Kangaroo Rat, Hispid Cotton Rat, Hoary Bat Marsh Rice Rat, Merriam's Kangaroo Rat, Norway Rat, Ord's Kangaroo Rat ,Southern Plains Woodrat, Stephen's Kangaroo Rat, White-throated Woodrat
Rhino
Ringtail

Sable
Salamander - Jemez Mountains Salamander, Jordan's Salamander, Jefferson Salamander, Limestone Salamander, Marbled Salamander, Ouachita Dusky Salamander, Pacific Giant Salamander, Pygmy Salamander, Seal Salamander, Seepage Salamander, Santa Cruz Long-toed Salamander, Sacramento Mountains Salamander, Western Red-backed Salamander, Wehrle's Salamander
Sea Lion - California Sea Lion, Steller Sea Lion
Seal - Bearded Seal, Gray Seal, Guadalupe Fur Seal, Harbor Seal, Northern Elephant Seal, Northern Fur Seal, Ribbon Seal
Serval
Sharks
Sheep -Dall's Sheep, Barbary Sheep, Bighorn Sheep
Siren - Greater Siren
Shrew - Desert Shrew, Elephant Shrew, Least Shrew, Masked Shrew, Northern Short-tailed Shrew, Ornate Shrew, Pacific Water Shrew, Smoky Shrew, Southeastern Shrew, Southern Short-tailed Shrew, Trowbridge's Shrew, Vagrant Shrew, Water Shrew
Sitatunga
Skink - Broad-headed Skink, Blue-tailed Mole Skink, Coal Skink, Five-lined Skink, Gilbert's Skink, Ground Skink, Many-lined Skink, Prairie Skink
Skunk - Common Hog-nosed Skunk, Eastern Spotted Skunk, Hooded Skunk, Striped Skunk, Western Spotted Skunk
Snakes
Sloth
Squirrel - Arctic Ground Squirrel, Arizona Gray Squirrel, Abert's Squirrel, Belding's Ground Squirrel, California Ground Squirrel, Delmarva Peninsula Fox Squirrel, Douglas' Squirrel, Eastern Fox Squirrel, Eastern Gray Squirrel, Golden-mantled Ground Squirrel, Harris's Antelope Squirrel, Mexican Ground Squirrel, Mojave Ground Squirrel, Nelson's Antelope Squirrel, Northern Flying Squirrel, Red Squirrel, Richardson's Ground Squirrel, Rock Squirrel, Round-tailed Ground Squirrel, Southern Flying Squirrel, Spotted Ground Squirrel, Thirteen-lined Ground Squirrel,Townsend's Ground Squirrel, Uinta Ground Squirrel, Western Gray Squirrel, White-tailed Antelope Squirrel, Wyoming Ground Squirrel
Snow Leopard

Tamaraw
Tapir
Tasmanian Devil
Thomson's Gazelle
Tiger
Toads
Topis
Turtle - Bog Turtle, Chicken Turtle, Common Map Turtle, Flattened Musk Turtle, Loggerhead Ornate Box Turtle, Ouachita Map Turtle, Painted Turtle, Snapping Turtle, Striped Mud Turtle, Western Pond Turtle, Wood Turtle

Source: Did You Know Facts & Trivia

Free-IQTest.net

2008-10-23T00:06:00.001+08:00

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Animal Kingdom Part 3

2008-10-21T23:34:00.002+08:00

Jackal
Jackrabbit - Antelope Jackrabbit, Black-tailed Jackrabbit, White-tailed Jackrabbit
Jaguar
Jungle Cat

Koalas
Kobs
Kodkod
Kudu

Lemming - Southern Bog Lemming
Leopard Cat
Lion
Lizzard - Black-collared Lizard, Eastern Fence Lizard, Island Glass Lizard, Mesquite Lizard, Panamint Alligator Lizard, Slender Glass Lizard, Striped Plateau Lizard, Texas Horned Lizard, Texas Rose-bellied Lizard, Texas Spiny Lizard, Western Fence Lizard, Zebra-tailed Lizard

Manatee
Margay
Marmot - Hoary Marmot, Olympic Marmot, Yellow-bellied Marmot
Marten - American Marten
Massasauga
Meerkat
Moose
Mouse - Alabama Beach Mouse, Arizona Pocket Mouse, Bailey's Pocket Mouse, Brush Mouse, Cactus Mouse, Deer Mouse, Desert Pocket Mouse, Cotton Mouse, Eastern Harvest Mouse, Florida Mouse, Fulvous Harvest Mouse, Golden Mouse, Great Basin Pocket Mouse, House Mouse, Little Pocket Mouse, Meadow Jumping Mouse, Mearns' Grasshopper Mouse, Northern Grasshopper Mouse, Oldfield Mouse, Pacific Jumping Mouse, Pacific Pocket Mouse, Pale Kangaroo Mouse, Perdido Key Beach Mouse, Pinyon Mouse, Preble's Meadow Jumping Mouse, Salt Marsh Harvest Mouse, San Diego Pocket Mouse, Silky Pocket Mouse, Southern Grasshopper Mouse, Western Harvest Mouse, Western Jumping Mouse, White-footed Mouse
Muskox
Muskrat - Common Muskrat
Myotis - California Myotis, Cave Myotis, Eastern Small-footed Myotis

Newt - Black-spotted Newt, California Newt, Red-bellied Newt, Rough-skinned Newt, Striped Newt
Nutria

Ocelot
Octopus
Opossum - Virginia Opossum

Source : Did You Know Facts & Trivia

Animal Kingdom Part 2

2008-10-20T21:04:00.002+08:00

Deer - Fallow Deer, Key Deer, Mule Deer, Sika Deer, White-tailed Deer
Dogs - more than 700 types
Dolphins - Atlantic Spotted Dolphin, Bottle-nosed Dolphin ,Dall's Porpoise Killer Whale, Northern Right-whale Dolphin, Pacific White-sided Dolphin ,Saddle-backed Dolphin, Striped Dolphin

Elephant - African elephant

Feral - Horse Feral, Pig Ferret, Black-footed Ferret
Fishing Cat
Fox - Fisher Fox, Arctic Fox, Common Gray Fox, Kit Fox, Red Fox, San Joaquin Kit Fox
Frogs

Gecko - Mediterranean Gecko, Reef Gecko
Gerenuk the "giraffe gazelle"
Gila Monster
Goat - African Pygmy Goat, Mountain Goat
Gopher - Botta's Pocket Gopher, Northern Pocket Gopher, Plains Pocket Gopher, Southeastern Pocket Gopher, Western Pocket Gopher, Yellow-faced Pocket Gopher
Gorilla

Hare - European Hare, Snowshoe Hare, Spring Hare
Hartebeest
Hippopotamus
Horse Lipizzaner
Hydra
Hyrax

Iguana -Desert Iguana, Green Iguana
Impala
Insects
Iriomote Cat

Source: Did You Know Facts & Trivia

Animal Kingdom Part 1

2008-10-19T00:30:00.002+08:00

Different types of animals

A

Aardvark
African Golden Cat
Andean Mountain Cat
Anole = Brown Anole, Green Anole
Ants
Armadillo = Nine-banded Armadillo

Badger = American Badger
Bat = Allen's Big-eared Bat, Big Brown Bat, Big Free-tailed Bat, Brazilian Free-tailed Bat, California Leaf-nosed Bat, Evening Bat, Ghost-faced Bat, Giant Kangaroo Rat Hoary Bat, Jamaican Fruit-eating Bat, Little Brown Bat, Mexican Long-nosed Bat, Mexican Long-tongued Bat, Northern Yellow Bat, Pallid Bat, Rafinesque's Big-eared Bat, Red Bat, Seminole Bat, Silver-haired Bat, Southern Long-nosed Bat, Spotted Bat, Townsend's Big-eared Bat, Western Mastiff Bat
Bear = The Polar Bear, Black Bear, Grizzly Bear
Beaver = American Beaver, Mountain Beaver
Bee
Beetles
Bettongs
Bilby
Birds
Bison = American Bison
Bobcat
Bongo
Buffalo

Caracal
Caribou
Cats
Cheetah
Chimpanzee
Chipmunk = Allen's Chipmunk, California Chipmunk, Cliff Chipmunk, Eastern Chipmunk, Gray-collared Chipmunk, Least Chipmunk, Lodgepole Chipmunk, Merriam's Chipmunk, Panamint Chipmunk, Red-tailed Chipmunk, Townsend's Chipmunk, Uinta Chipmunk, Yellow-pine Chipmunk
Chuckwalla
White-nosed Coati
Cooter = Peninsula Cooter, River Cooter
Cottontail = Eastern Cottontail, Desert Cottontail, Mountain Cottontail
Cow
Crocodile = American Alligator, American Crocodile
Coyote
Cuscus

Source: Did You Know Facts & Trivia

Phobias 1001 Part 8

2008-10-18T00:41:00.003+08:00

FEAR OF = PHOBIA

U

ugliness = cacophobia
undressing (in front of someone) = dishabillophobia
untidiness = ataxiophobia
urine or urinating = urophobia

vaccination, vaccines = vaccinophobia
vegetables = lachanophobia
vehicles, riding in = amaxophobia
venereal disease = cypridophobia
ventriloquist's dummies, animatronic creatures, wax statues: anything that falsely represents a sentient being = automatonophobia
vertigo or feeling dizzy when looking down = illyngophobia
virginity, losing one's = primeisodophobia
vision (double) = diplophobia
vomiting, emetics = emetophobia

walking = basiphobia
walking and standing = stasibasiphobia
walloons = walloonphobia
war = traumatophobia (see also injury (physical))
washing oneself = ablutophobia
wasps =spheksophobia
wasting sickness = tabophobia
water = hydrophobia
waves (sea), of wavelike motion = cymophobia
weakness or fainting = asthenophobia
weight (gaining) = obesophobia or pocrescophobia
wealth = plutophobia
white (colour) = leukophobia
wine = oenophobia
witches and witchcraft = wiccaphobia
women = gynaephobia
women (beautiful) = venustaphobia
woods = hylephobia (see also materialism)
wooden objects = xylophobia
work or functioning/surgeon's fear of operating = ergasiophobia
worms = scoleciphobia
worms (being infested with) = helminthophobia
wrinkles (getting) = rhytiphobia
writing = graphophobia
writing (in public) = scriptophobia
wrongdoing = peccatiphobia

X-rays, radiation = radiophobia

yellow (colour or the word) = xanthophobia
young girls = parthenophobia

Source: Did You Know Facts & Trivia

Phobias 1001 Part 7

2008-10-17T02:26:00.002+08:00

FEAR OF = PHOBIA

S

sacred objects or priests = hierophobia
saints = hagiophobia
Satan = Satanophobia
scabies = scabiophobia
school (of going to) = didaskaleinophobia
scientific terms (complex) or Greek terms = Hellenologophobia
scratched (being) = amychophobia
sea = thalassophoba
semen = spermatophobia
sermons = homilophobia
sex (opposite) = sexophobia
sexual abuse = agraphobia
sexual feelings = erotophobia
sexual intercourse = coitophobia
sexual perversion = paraphobia
shadows = sciophobia
shellfish = ostraconophobia
shock = hormephobia
sin = hamartophobia
single (staying) = anuptaphobia
sitting down = thaasophobia
sitting still = cathisophobia
skin lesions = dermatophobia
skin disease = dermatosiophobia
Slavs, Slavic = Slavophobia
sleep = somniphobia
slime = blennophobia
small objects = tapinophobia
smells = olfactophobia
snakes = ophidiophobia
snow = chionophobia s
ociety or people in general = anthropophobia
solitude = autophobia
sourness = acerophobia
space (outer) = spacephobia
spaces (enclosed) = clithrophobia
spaces (open) = agoraphobia
speaking = laliohobia or lalophobia
speaking aloud = phonophobia
spectres = spectrophobia
speed = tachophobia
spiders = arachnophobia
stage fright = topophobia (see also places (certain))
stairs, climbing or of falling down stairs = climacophobia
standing = stasiphobia
standing and walking = stasibasiphobia
stars = siderophobia
staying single = anuptaphobia
stealing = cleptophobia
stepfather = vitricophobia
stepmother = novercaphobia
stooping = kyphophobia
stories, myths and lying = mythophobia
streets (crossing) = agiophobia
strings = cnidophobia
stuttering = psellismophobia
sunlight = heliophobia
surgery = tomophobia
swallowing or of eating or of being eaten = phagophobia
symbols = symbolophobia
symmetry = symmetrophobia
syphilis = syphiliphobia

taking tests = testophobia
talking = laliophobia
tapeworms = taeniophobia
taste = geumaphobia or geumophobia
technology = technophobia
teeth and dental surgery = odontophobia
teleology = teleophobia
telephones = telephonophobia
termites, insects that eat wood = isopterophobia
tests (taking) = testophobia
tetanus (lockjaw) = tetanophobia
theatres = theatrophobia
theology = theologicophobia
thieves = kleptophobia
thinking = phronemophobia
thunder and lightning = keraunophobia
ticks, mites = acarophobia
time = chronophobia
toads, frogs = batrachophobia
tombstones = placophobia
touching, being touched = aphephobia
touching money = chrematophobia
trains, railroads or train travel = siderodromophobia
travel = hodophobia
trembling = tremophobia
trees = dendrophobia
trichinosis = trichinohobia
tuberculosis = phthisiophobia
tyrants = tyrannophobia

Source: Did You Know Facts & Trivia

Phobias 1001 Part 6

2008-10-16T01:40:00.003+08:00

FEAR OF = PHOBIA

O

objects (large) = megalophobia
objects (pointed) = aichmophobia
objects (sacred) = hierophobia
objects (small) = tapinophobia
objects (at the right side of the body) = dextrophobia
odour (one that has vile) = autodysomophobia
old (growing) = gerascophobia
old (people) = gerontophobia
open spaces, crowded public places like markets, leaving a safe place = agoraphobia
opinions (others') = allodoxaphobia
opposite sex = sexophobia
otters = lutraphobia
outer space = spacephobia
overworking = ponophobia

pain = algophobia
paper = papyrophobia
parasites = parasitophobia
parents-in-law = soceraphobia
peanut butter sticking to the roof of the mouth = arachibutyrophobia
pellagra = pellagrophobia
penis (contour of, visible through clothes) = medectophobia
penis (seeing, thinking about or having an erect) = ithyphallophobia
people = anthropophobia (see also society)
performing (stagefright) = topophobia (see also places (certain))
persons with amputations = apotemnophobia
philosophy, philosophers = philosophobia
phobias = phobophobia
physical injury = traumatophobia (see also war)
pins, needles = belonephobia
places (certain) = topophobia (see also performing)
places (steep) = cremnophobia
plants = botanophobia
pleasure = hedonophobia
poetry = metrophobia
pointed objects = aichmophobia
poison or of being accidently poisoned = toxiphobia
poisons = iophobia (see also rust)
poliomyelitis (contracting) = poliosophobia
politicians or abnormal dislike = politicophobia
pope = papaphobia
poverty = peniaphobia
precipices = cremnophobia
progress = prosophobia
property = orthophobia
prostitutes = cyprianophobia
pseudo-rabies = kynophobia (see also rabies)
punishment = poinephobia
purple = porphyrophobia

rabies = hydrophobia (see also pseudo-rabies)
radiation, X-rays = radiophobia
railways = siderodromophobia
rain = ombrophobia
rape = virginitiphobia
red = erythrophobia (see also blushing)
relatives = syngenesophobia
religious ceremonies = teletophobia
reptiles or creepy, crawly things = herpetophobia
responsibility = hypengyophobia
ridicule = katagelophobia
riding in vehicles = amaxophobia
right-hand side of the body (objects on) = dextrophobia
rivers or running water = potamophobia
robbers = harpaxophobia
rooms (empty) = kenophobia
rooms (crowded) = koinoniphobia
ruin or ruins = atephobia
Russia, Russian = Russophobia
rust = iophobia (see also poisons)

Source: Did You Know Facts & Trivia

Phobias 1001 Part 5

2008-10-15T00:18:00.002+08:00

Fear of = Phobia

K

kissing = philemaphobia
knees = genuphobia
kidney desease = albuminurophobia
knowledge = epistemophobia

lakes = limnophobia
large objects = megalophobia
laughter = gelophobia
lawsuits = liticaphobia
learning = sophophobia
lefthanded, things to the left = sinistrophobia
left hand side of the body (objects on) = levophobia
leprosy = leprophobia
lice = pediculophobia
light = photophobia
light (flashes of) = selaphobia
lightning = astraphobia
lights (glaring) = photaugiophobia
lights (northern) = auroraphobia
locked in (being), confined spaces = claustrophobia
long waits = macrophobia
looked at (being) = scopophobia
love (falling or being in) = philophobia
love play = malaxophobia (sarmassophobia)
lying, myths and stories = mythophobia

machinery = mechanophobia
madness = maniaphobia (see also insanity)
magic = rhabdophobia (see also beaten, being)
making changes or moving = trophophobia
many things = polyphobia
marriage = gamophobia
materialism = hylephobia (see also woods)
meat = carnophobia
medicine (taking) = pharmacophobia
memories = mnemophobia
men = androphobia
meningitis = meningitophobia
menstruation = menophobia
mercuruial medicines = hydrargyophobia
metal = metallophobia
meteors = meteorophobia
mice = musophobia
microbes = microbiophobia
mind = psychophobia
mirrors = catoptrophobia
missiles = ballistrophobia (see also bullets)
mites, ticks = acarophobia
mole rat (great) = zemmiphobia
money (touching) = chrematophobia
monsters (or giving birth to monster) = teratophobia
moon = selenophobia
mother-in-law = pentheraphobia
moths = mottephobia
motion or movement = kinesophobia
motor vehicles = motophobia
mushroom (aversion to) = mycophobia
music = musicophobia
myths, stories and lying = mythophobia

name (a particular name or word) = onomatophobia
narrowness = anginaphobia
needles = enetophobia
needles, pins = belonephobia
Negroes = negrophobia
new things or ideas = cenophobia or centophobia
night = noctiphobia
noise = acoustiphobia
nosebleeds = epistaxiophobia
novelty, newness = cainophobia
nuclear weapons = nucleomituphobia
nudity = gymnophobia
numbers = arithmophobia
number 13 = triskaidekaphobia

Phobias 1001 Part 4

2008-10-14T01:25:00.002+08:00

FEAR OF = PHOBIA

G

gaiety = cherohobia
garlic = alliumphobia
genitals (female) = eurotophobia
germs = spermatophobia or spermophobia
Germany, Germans = Germanophobia
ghosts = phasmophobia
girls (young) or virgins = parthenophobia
glass = hyelophobia or hyalophobia
goblins, demons = bogyphobia
God or religion = theophobia
gold = aurophobia
good news (hearing) = euphobia
gravity = barophobia
Greek (or complex scientific) terms = Hellenologophobia

hair = chaetophobia
hair disease = trichinophobia
halloween = samhainophobia
heart attack = angionophobia
heart disease = cardiophobia
heat = thermophobia
heaven = uranophobia
heights = acrophobia
hell = hadephobia
high buildings = batophobia
high places (looking up at) = anablephobia
high places (open) = aeroacrophobia
home, house or being in a house = domatophobia
home (returning to) = nostophobia
homosexuality, of becoming homosexual, sameness or of monotony = homophobia
horses = hippophobia
hospitals = nosocomephobia
hurricanes & tornadoes = lilapsophobia
hypnotized = hypnophobia

ice, frost = cryophobia
ideas = ideophobia
ignored (being) = athazagoraphobia
illness, disease = pathophobia
immobility (of a joint) = ankylophobia
imperfection = atelophobia
infection = molysomophobia
infinity = apeirophobia
injections = trypanophobia
injury (physical) = traumatophobia (see also war)
insanity = lyssophobia (see also madness)
insects = entomophobia
insect stings = cnidophobia
itching or of the insects that cause itching = acarophobia

Japan, Japanese = Japanophobia
jealousy = zelophobia
Jews, Judaism = Judaeophobia
jumping (from both high and low places) = catapedaphobia
justice = dikephobia

Phobias 1001 Part 3

2008-10-12T23:22:00.002+08:00

FEAR OF = PHOBIA

D

dampness, liquids or moisture = hygrophobia
dancing = chorophobia
darkness = nyctophobia
dawn = eosophobia
daylight = phengophobia
death, corpses = necrophobia
decaying matter = septophobia
decisions (making) = decidophobia
defecation (painful)= defecalgesiophobia
deformity = dysmorphophobia
demons, goblins = bogyphobia
dentists = dentophobia
dependence on others = soteriophobia
depth = bathophobia (see also bathing)
devils, evil spirits = demonophobia
diabetes = diabetophobia
dining, dinner conversation = deipnophobia
dirt, germs = mysophobia
dirt (on oneself) = automysophobia
disease = bisiogibua
disease (hereditary) = patriophobia
disease, illness = pathophobia
disease (particular) = monopathophobia
disease (rectal or rectum) = proctophobia or rectophobia
disease (skin) = dermatosiophobia
dizziness or whirlpools = dinophobia
doctors = iatrophobia
dogs = cynophobia
dolls and children = pedophobia
double vision = diplopiaphobia
draughts, fresh air, air swallowing = aerophobia (see also flying)
draughts, winds = anemophobia
dreams = oneirophobia
dreams (wet) = oneirogmophobia
drink (usually alcohol) = potophobia
drugs = pharmacophobia
drugs (new) = neopharmaphobia
dryness = xerophobia
dust = amathophobia
Dutch = dutchphobia
duty or responsibility (neglect of) = paralipophobia

electricity = electrophobia
emetics, vomiting = emetophobia
empty rooms/spaces or voids = kenophobia
enclosed spaces = clithrophobia
England, English = Anglophobia
everything = panophobia
evil spirits, devils = demonophobia
excrement = coprophobia
eyes = ommatophobia
eyes (opening one's) = optophobia
erection (losing one) = medomalacuphobia

fabrics (particular) = textophobia
failure or defeat = kakorrhaphiophobia
falling man-made satellites = keraunothnetophobia
fat (becoming) = obesophobia
fatigue = kopophobia
fear = phobophobia
feathers (tickled by) = pteronophobia
fecal matter = scatophobia
feces = coprophobia
fever = pyrexiphobia
figure 8 = octophobia
filth = rhypophobia
fire = pyrophobia
firearms = hoplophobia
fish = chthyphobia
flashes of light = selaphobia
flavours = geumophobia
floods = antlophobia
flowers = anthophobia
flutes = aulophobia
flying = aerophobia (see also air (fresh), draughts)
fog = homichlophobia
food or eating = cibophobia
foreigners or strangers = xenophobia
forests = hylophobia
forgotten (being), forgetting = athazagoraphobia (see also ignored)
France, French = Francophobia
freedom = eleutherophobia
fresh air, draughts = aerophobia (see also flying)
Friday the 13th = paraskavedekatriaphobia
frost, ice, extreme cold = cryophobia
fur, animal skin = doraphobia

Phobias 1001 Part 2

2008-10-12T01:11:00.003+08:00

FEAR OF = PHOBIA

1. bad mens, burglars = scelerophibia
2. bacteria = bacillophobia
3. bald (becoming) = phalacrophobia
4. baldness = peladophobia
5. bathing = bathophobia or ablutophobia
6. beards = pogonophobia
7. beaten (being) = rhabdophobia (see also magic)
8. bed (going to) = clinophobia
9. bees = apiphobia
10. beggars = hobophobia
11. bearing a deformed child or deformed people = teratophobia
12. being evaluated negatively in social situations = social phobia
13. bicycles = cyclophobia
14. birds = ornithophobia
15. black (colour) = melanophobia
16. blindness in visual field = scotomaphobia
17. blood = hemaphobia
18. blushing = erythrophobia (see also red)
19. body odour = bromhidrosiphobia
20. bogies or the bogeyman = bogyphobia
21. Bolsheviks = Bolshephobia
22. books = bibliophobia
23. bound (being) or tied up = merinthophobia
24. bowel movements (painful) = defecaloesiophobia
25. brain disease = meningitophobia
26. bridges (crossing) = gephyrophobia
27. buildings (high) = batophobia
28. bullets = ballistophobia (see also missiles)
29. bulls = taurophobia
30. buried alive (being) = taphephobia

1. cancer = carcinomophobia
2. cats = ailurophobia
3. Celts, Celtic = Celtophobia
4. cemeteries = coimetrophobia
5. certain places = topophobia (see also performing)
6. challenges to official doctrine or of radical deviation = heresyphobia or hereiophobia
7. changes = metathesiophobia
8. changes (making) = tropophobia
9. chemicals or working with chemicals = chemophobia
10. chickens = alektorophobia
11. childbirth or pregnancy = tocophobia
12. China, Chinese = Sinophobia
13. chins = geniophobia
14. choking or of being smothered = pnigophobia
15. cholera = cholerophobia
16. clocks = chronomentrophobia
17. clothes = vestiophobia
18. clouds = nephophobia
19. clowns = coulrophobia
20. church = ecclesiophobia
21. coitus = coitophobia
22. cold = cheimaphobia
23. colours = chromophobia
24. comets = cometophobia
25. complex scientific or (Greek) terms = Hellenologophobia
26. computers = computerphobia
27. constipation = coprostasophobia
28. contagious (being) = tapinophobia
29. cooking = mageirocophobia
30. cosmic = kosmikophobia
31. crossing streets = agiophobia
32. crowded rooms = koinoniphobia
33. crowds = demophobia
34. crucifixes or crosses = staurophobia
35. crystals or glass = crystallophobia

Phobias 1001 Part 1

2008-10-10T23:41:00.003+08:00

FEAR OF = PHOBIA

accidents = dystychiphobia
ageing = gerascophobia
air sickness = aeronausiphobia
air (fresh), draughts = aerophobia (see also flying)
alcohol = methyphobia
alcohol (drinking) = dipsophobia
alone (being) or oneself or loneliness = autophobia
amphibians, such a frogs,toads, newts,salamanders, etc = batrachophobia
amnesia = amnesiophobia
animals = zoophobia
animals (wild) = agrizoophobia
angry (becoming) = angrophobia
animal skin, fur = doraphobia
ants = Pmyrmecophobia
asymmetrical things = asymmetriphobia
ataxia = ataxiophobia
atomic energy = nucleomitophobia
atomic explosions = atomosophobia
attack = scelerophobia
auroral lights = auroraphobia
automobiles = motorphobia

Source: Did You Know Facts & Trivia

Animals Facts Part 2

2008-10-10T00:06:00.002+08:00

Antelope - calf
Bear - cub
Beasts of prey - whelp
Beaver - kit
Birds - fledgling, nestling
Cat - kitten
Codfish - codling, sprat
Cow - calf
Deer - fawn, yearling
Dog - pup, puppy
Duck - duckling
Eagle - eaglet
Eel - elver
Elephant - calf
Elephant seal - weaner
Fish - fry
Fowl - chick, chicken
Fox - cub, pup
Frog - polliwog, tadpole
Goat - kid
Goose - gosling
Grouse - cheeper
Guinea fowl - keet
Hawk - eyas
Hen - pullet
Hippo - calf
Horse - foal, yearling, or colt (male), filly (female)
Kangaroo - joey
Lion - cub
Owl - owlet
Pig - piglet, shoat, farrow, suckling
Partridge - cheeper
Pigeon - squab, squeaker
Quail - cheeper
Rabbit - bunny, kit
Rat - pup
Rhino - calf
Rooster - cockerel
Salmon - parr, smolt, grilse
Seal - pup
Shark - cub
Sheep - lamb, lambkins
Swan - cygnet
Tiger - cub, whelp
Turkey - poult
Whale - calf
Zebra - foal

Source: Did You Know Facts & Trivia

Celebrities, Entertainments & Funs Part 2

2008-10-09T00:00:00.000+08:00

9.5 million tennis balls would be needed to fill just one of the tennis ball cans at Disney's All-Star Sports Resort Centre Court Hotel in Florida.

Annually, approximately 46 millions Cokes, five million pounds of french fries, and seven million hamburgers are consumed at Walt Disney World Resort.

At the 1960 Winter Olympic Games, Walt Disney was head of the committee that organized the opening day ceremonies.

Cinderella is known as Rashin Coatie in Scotland, Zezolla in Italy, and Yeh-hsien in China.

In 1933, Mickey Mouse is believed to have received 800,000 fan letters.

In 1992, when EuroDisney first opened in France, the public beat some of the park characters because at the time most people had been against the park being built.

In the original movie "101 Dalmatians," there are exactly 6,469,952 spots on all 101 Dalmatians as they are shown in 113,760 frames of the film combined.

Mickey Mouse is known as "Topolino" in Italy.

Some of the other names that were thought of for the dwarfs in the Disney movie "Snow White" were Awful, Dirty, Shifty, Hotsy, and Jumpy.

The Disney Magic cruise ship is almost as long as the Eiffel Tower's height.

The Lion King is the top grossing Disney movie of all-time with domestic gross intake of $312 million.

The United Parcel Service shipped the killer whale Keiko (star of Disney movie "Free Willy") from Mexico City to Newport, Oregon in 1998.

The Walt Disney character Donald Duck's middle name is Fauntleroy.

The first animated film to be nominated for an Oscar for best picture was Disney's "Beauty and the Beast" in 1991.

The largest employer in Central Florida is Walt Disney World. There are approximately 50,000 people working there.

The most reproduced image in the world is Mickey Mouse, which can be found on over 7,500 different items.

The story of Mulan had been told in China for almost 1,500 years before Disney decided to make it into an animated movie.

The woman who did the voice of Disney's Snow White was the daughter of Disney's casting director.

There were more than 750 artists that worked on Walt Disney's "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs."

Until the 1960's men with long hair were not allowed to enter Disneyland.

Walt Disney had a fear of mice.

Walt Disney had originally suggested using the name Mortimer Mouse instead of Mickey Mouse.

Walt Disney holds the record for the most Oscar nominations with sixty-four.

Atari had to bury millions of unsold "E.T." game cartridges in a New Mexico desert landfill in 1982.

Canadians Scott Abbott and Chris Haney invented Trivial Pursuit. They were planning on playing Scrabble and realized that some of the pieces were missing so they came up with the idea of making their own game; Trivial Pursuit.

In 1902, the game table tennis was brought to the U.S. from Europe by Parker Brothers.

In 1968, Abbie Hoffman played with a yo-yo while testifying before a congressional committee. He was found in contempt.

In a five card poker game there are 2,598,960 possible hands.

In the United Kingdom, three million people play bingo every year.

In the game of Monopoly, the most landed on properties are B&O Railroad, Illinois Avenue, and "Go."

Milton Bradley originally wanted to name the game Twister, Pretzel; but he could not since the name was copyrighted.

Monopoly is the best-selling board game in the world.

Mr. Butts invented the game SCRABBLE. The game was originally called "Criss Cross Words."

Namco, who are the manufacturers of Pac Man the video game, has estimated that the original arcade game has been played over 10 billion times by individuals.

Since its introduction in February 1935, more than two hundred million Monopoly board games have been sold worldwide.

The best selling game in history for coin-operated machines is Pac-Man.

The game Monopoly has been played by approximately 500 million people in the world, and the game is available in 26 languages.

The game Monopoly was once very popular in Cuba; however, Fidel Castro ordered that all games be destroyed.

Source: Amusing Facts

Places, Buildings & Monuments Part 2

2008-10-08T09:58:00.000+08:00

The first ice hotel was built in Swedish Lapland.

The largest ketchup bottle in the world is a 170 feet tall and is located in Collinsville, Illinois, USA. It was built in 1949 by the W.E. Caldwell Company as a water tower.

The largest school in the world is City Montessori School in India and has over 25,000 students in grade levels ranging from kindergarten to college.

The largest wedding chapel in Las Vegas is the Viva Las Vegas Chapel, which can seat 100 people.

The most famous movie theatre is the "Chinese Theatre" located in Los Angeles, USA.

The most popular vacation destinations for Americans in 1956 was Niagara Falls.

The names of the two stone lions in front of the New York Public Library are Patience and Fortitude. They were named by then-mayor Fiorello LaGuardia.

The oldest inhabited house in Scotland is the Traquair Castle. The castle has had 27 kings as visitors.

The only flying saucer launch pad in the world is located in St. Paul, Alberta, Canada.

The steepest street in the world is Baldwin Street located in Dunedin, New Zealand. It has an incline of 38%.

The tallest freestanding sculpture in the world is Chief Crazy Horse in South Dakota, USA.

The term "the Big Apple" came into common usage in the 1930s when touring jazz musicians referred to a town or city as an apple, making New York the Big Apple.

The world's largest bullfighting ring is in Mexico City. The "Plaza de Toros" opened in 1946 and has a seating capacity of about fifty thousand people.

The world's only museum of Phallology is in Reykjavik, Iceland. Phallology is the the science of the penis.

The world's tallest roller coaster is located in England and reaches a peak height of 72 meters.

The worlds tallest free fall rollercoaster is The Giant Drop located in Australia. The drops is 120 meters which is equivalent to a 39 storey building.

There are places in Saskatchewan called Elbow, Eyebrow, and Drinkwater.

There is enough concrete in the Hoover Dam to pave a two lane highway from San Francisco to New York.

There was a post office on the Russian space station Mir. Visiting cosmonauts would use unique postal "markers" to stamp envelopes and other items as having flown aboard the Mir space station.

Tomatina is the legendary Spanish tomato-throwing festival held in Bunol, Spain.

It takes 72 minutes for the restaurant at the top of the CN Tower to make one revolution.

The CN Tower located in Toronto, Ontario Canada took a total construction time of 40 months to complete at an original cost of $63 million.

The CN Tower, in Toronto, is the tallest freestanding structure in the world with a height of about 553 metres(as of 2002).

After the Eiffel Tower was built, one person was killed during the installation of the lifts. No one was killed during the actual construction of the tower.

As part of the original design, the names of 72 French scientists and other famous people is imprinted on the sides of the Eiffel tower.

The Eiffel Tower was the tallest structure in the world before the construction of the Empire State Building in 1930(as of 2002).

The Eiffel Tower weight is approximately 9441 tons.

The total number of steps in the Eiffel Tower are 1665.

Source: Amusing Facts

Foods & Beverages Part 2

2008-10-07T15:41:00.001+08:00

Approximately 850 peanuts make a 18 oz jar of peanut butter.

Approximately three jars of peanut butter are sold every second.

Approximately two gallons of water are used to brush your teeth.

Back in 1953, it took 27 hours to make one Marshmallow Peep. Now it takes only six minutes.

Bananas trees are not really trees. They are considered to be giant herb plants.

Better wine can be produced by the soil being of poor quality. This is because the vines have to "work" harder.

Black pepper is the most popular spice in the world.

Blueberries have more antioxidents than any other fruit or vegetables.

Bourbon was first made by a Baptist minsister from Bourbon County in Kentucky in 1789. That is where it got its name.

Britons eat over 22,000 tonnes of french fries a week.

Budweiser beer is named after a town in Czechoslovakia.

Buffalo wings, got their name because the spicy chicken wings originated in Buffalo, New York.

Buttermilk does not contain any butter, but is a cultured milk product which is usually made from fat free milk.

By federal law, for a noodle to actually be a noodle it must have 5.5 percent egg solids in it, otherwise it cannot be called a noodle.

Caffeine is the world's most popular stimulant.

Canada has more donut shops per capita than the United States.

Canadians eat more Kraft Dinner (Macaroni and Cheese) per capita than any other country in the world.

Canola oil is actually rapeseed oil but the name was changed in Canada for marketing reasons.

Cashew nuts contain oil in the shell that is very irritating to the skin.

Chedder cheese is the best selling cheese in the USA.

Chewing on gum while cutting onions can help a person from producing tears.

Chili Powder was invented in the 19th century in the American Southwest.

Chocolate contains a very small amount of caffeine. A cup of decaffeinated coffee has approximately the same amount of caffeine as in 50 M&M's.

Chocolate maker Cadbury uses more than sixty thousand tonnes of cocoa each year, in the United Kingdom alone.

Contrary to popular beliefs, chocolate does not cause acne.

Corned beef got its name because this beef was preserved with pellets of salt that were the size of corn kernels, which was also referred to as "corns" of salt.

Dandelion root can be roasted and ground as a coffee substitute.

Dill seeds are so small that approximately 10,000 dill seeds would be required to make an ounce.

Doctor's believe 1 in 7 people can't digest milk.

Due to sugar shortages to make candy during World War II, movie theatre owners turned to popcorn, which is now the best selling snack at movie theatres today.

Source: Amusing Facts

Human Health & Body Part 2

2008-05-18T00:06:00.000+08:00

Approximately 1-2 calorie are burned a minute while watching T.V.

Approximately 25,000 workers died during the building of the Panama Canal and approximately 20,000 of them contracted malaria and yellow fever.

Asthma affects one in fifteen children under the age of eighteen.

At least 7% of all health care costs in the United States are attributed to smoking.

At one time it was thought that the heart controlled a person's emotions.

Babies that are exposed to cats and dogs in their first year of life have a lower chance of developing allergies when they grow older.

Babies' eyes do not produce tears until the baby is approximately six to eight weeks old.

Being lactose intolerant can cause chronic flatulence.

Between 12%-15% of the population is left-handed.

Between 1997-2002, there was an increase of 228% in cosmetic procedures in the United States.

Bile produced by the liver is responsible for making your feces a brownish, green colour.

Brain damage will only occur if a fever goes above 107.6 degrees farenheit.

By walking an extra 20 minutes every day, an average person will burn off seven pounds of body fat in an year.

Carbon monoxide can kill a person in less than 15 minutes.

Children grow faster in the springtime than any other season during the year.

Children who are breast fed tend to have an IQ seven points higher than children who are not.

Close to fifty percent of the bacteria in the mouth lives on the surface of our tongue.

Constipation is caused when too much water is absorbed in the large intestine and poops become dry.

Dead cells in the body ultimately go to the kidneys for excretion.

Each nostril of a human being register smell in a different way. Smells that are made from the right nostril are more pleasant than the left. However, smells can be detected more accurately when made by the left nostril.

Each year in America there are about 300,000 deaths that can be attributed to obesity.

Eating about twenty tart cherries a day could reduce inflammatory pain and headache pain.

Eating chocolate three times a month helps people live longer as opposed to people who overeat chocolate or do not eat chocolate at all.

Eating dandelions can make you urinate more.

Eighty percent of 10 year old girls in the USA go on a diet.

English sailors were referred to as "limeys" because sailors added lime juice to their diet to combat scurvy.

Even if you eat food standing on your head, the food will still end up in your stomach.

Every day the human stomach produces about 2 liters of hydrochloric acid.

Every day, the average person swallows about a quart of snot.

Every hour one billion cells in the body must be replaced.

Source: Amusing facts website

Celebrities, Entertainments & Funs Part 1

2008-05-07T00:55:00.003+08:00

Anti-American demonstrators protesting in Bangladesh after the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks carried posters of Osama bin Laden sitting alongside Bert, a beloved Sesame Street Muppet character.

Aerosmith's "Dude Looks Like a Lady" was written about Vince Neil of Motley Crue.

Barney, the famous dinosaur that entertains kids is from Dallas.

Belle from the Disney movie "Beauty and the Beast" makes a cameo appearance in Disney's "Hunchback of Notre Dame."

Close to 3 billion movie tickets are sold in India every year.

In 1888, Hollywood was founded by Harvey and Daeida Wilcox, who named the city after their summer home in Chicago.

In 1894, the carnival made its debut in North America.

In 1982, a high school student from Los Angeles, California unscrambled the Rubik's Cube in 22.95 seconds.

In Greece, the climate is so warm that many of the cinemas do not even have roofs.

In the movie "The Matrix Reloaded" a 17 minute battle scene cost over $40 million to produce.

Kermit the Frog was named after Kermit Scott, a childhood friend of creator Jim Henson, who became a professor of philosophy at Purdue University.

Kermit the frog delivered the commencement address at Southampton College located in the state of New York in 1996.

Superman The Escape roller coaster, located in California at Six Flags Magic Mountain, goes from 0 to 100 miles per hour in only 7 seconds.

The "naked recreation and travel" industry has grown by 233% in the past decade.

The TV show Doctor Who, when it was popular, had an audience of 110 million people.

The accent that Mike Myers used for the character Shrek came from the accent that his mother would use when she was telling him bedtime stories when he was a child.

The are six fictional characters that have stars on Hollywood's "Walk of Fame."

The first restaurant to open in Hollywood was the Musso & Frank Grill in 1919.

The longest Hollywood kiss was from the 1941 film, "You're in the Army Now." It lasted for three minutes and three seconds.

The name "Muppet" was coined by Jim Henson. The word was made from a combination of the word "marionette" and "puppet."

Actor John Ritter was the voice of Clifford, from "Clifford The Big Red Dog."

Amongst pre-schoolers, Caillou is the fastest-ever-growing television show and is seen in close to 97% of U.S. households.

Bugs Bunny was originally called "Happy Rabbit."

Casey Kasem is the voice of Shaggy on the cartoon show "Scooby-Doo." Casey Kasem, being a strict vegetarian, also requested that Shaggy follow the same diet on the show.

From the T.V. show "The Simpsons" Marge Simpson's maiden name is Bouvier.

In 1999, All Nippon Airlines, had one of its jets fully decorated with Pokemon characters from nose to tail on its exterior.

In an episode of the 1962 cartoon The Jestons, Jane Jetson is talking through a video phone. The phone number of The Jetsons was VENUS-1234.

Missy is the name of Snoopy's mother from the Peanuts cartoon strip.

Popeye is 34 years old, weighs 158 lbs, and is 5 feet 6 inches tall.

Popeye's hometown was Sweethaven.

Quackmore Duck is the name of Donald Duck's father.

Shaggy from Scooby-Doo's real name is Norville Rogers. His home address is 224 Maple Street, Coolsville.

The A.A. Milne character of Winnie the Pooh made his animated film debut in 1966 in Winnie the Pooh and the Honey Tree.

The Flintstones cartoon was the first thirty-minute cartoon to be aired during prime time.

The Simpsons is the longest running prime-time animated series on television history.

The cartoon character Popeye was actually based on a real person named Frank "Rocky" Fiegel who was a tough guy who was quite similar to Popeye physically.

The names of Popeye's nephews are Peepeye, Poopeye, Pipeye, Pupeye.

Source: Amusing Facts

Places, Monuments & Buildings Part 1

2008-05-05T17:23:00.001+08:00

Buckingham Palace has over six hundred rooms.

Central Park located in New York has 125 drinking fountains.

Cimeti?re du P?re Lachaise located in Paris is the most visited cemetery in the world. The cemetery opened in 1805 and has over one million people buried there, including rock star Jim Morrison.

Every year, an igloo hotel is built in Sweden that has the capacity to sleep 100 people.

Frank Wathernam was the last prisoner to leave Alcatraz prison on March 21, 1963.

From 1939 to 1942, there was an undersea post office in the Bahamas.

Hawaii's Mount Waialeale is the wettest place in the world - it rains throughout the year and about 460 inches per annum.

Ho-Ho-Kus, a small town in New Jersey, is the only town in the United States of America that has two dashes in its name.

Honolulu, Hawaii boasts the only royal palace in the United States of America.

In 1785, the city of Paris removed bones from cemeteries to ease the overflow of dead people. They took these bones and stacked them in tunnels now known as the Catacombs. You can visit these tunnel attractions and work your way along long corridors, which are stacked with skulls and bones.

In Czechoslovakia, there is a church that has a chandelier made out of human bones.

In Las Vegas, casinos do not have any clocks.

In Las Vegas, the busiest and two most popular days chosen for couples to get married are St. Valentine's Day and New Year's Eve.

Levan, which is located in Utah, got its name from "navel" which is levan spelt backwards. It was named this because it is in the center of Utah.

One of the steepest main streets in Canada is located in Saint John, New Brunswick. Over a distance of two blocks the street rises about 80 feet.

Tacoma Narrows Bridge which was located in Washington was nicknamed "Galloping Gertie" because of the unusual way it twisted and swayed with even with the slightest winds when people would drive on it. The bridge collapsed on November 7, 1940, fortunately no humans died, except for a dog.

The American Airlines Center in Dallas has more toilets per capita than any other sports and entertainment venue in the country.

The Golden Gate Bridge was first opened in 1937.

The Great Wall stretches for about 4,500 miles across North China.

The Hollywood sign was first erected in 1923. It was first erected as "Hollywoodland."

The Library of Congress, located in Washington D.C., is the largest library in the world.

The Mall of America, located in Bloomington, Minnesota is so big that it can hold 24,336 school buses.

The Mount Horeb Mustard Museum which is located in Wisconsin has the biggest collection of prepared mustards. They have approximately 4,000 different jars and tubes from all over the world.

The North of Scotland's oldest inhabited castle is Dunvegan Castle on the Isle of Skye.

The Sears Tower consists of nine framed tubes, which connects nine skyscrapers as one building.

The Sears Tower in Chicago contains enough steel to build 50,000 automobiles. The Sears Tower is made up 76,000 tons of steel.

The average stay for a prisoner on Alcatraz, when it was used as a prison, was five years.

The city of Chicago has the only post office in the world where you can drive your car through.

The deepest cave in the world is the "Lamprechtsofen-Vogelshacht" cave which can be found in Salzburg, Austria. The cave is 5,354 feet deep.

Source: Amusing Facts

Foods & Beverages Part 1

2008-05-04T15:38:00.000+08:00

A piece of French toast that was partially eaten by Justin Timberlake sold on eBay.

Many years ago, a fish was caught that was 33 inches long and seemed to be heavier than it should. When they cut the fish, fishermen found a full of bottle of ale inside it.

38% of Americans eat breakfast everyday.

850 peanuts are needed to make an 18 oz. jar of peanut butter.

95% of the entire lemon crop produced in the U.S. is from California and Arizona.

A common custom in Spain is to eat one grape for each of the last 12 seconds of every year for good luck.

A common drink for Tibetans is Butter Tea which is made out of butter, salt, and brick tea.

A drink used to be made by the Aztecs for the gods which had the ingredients of ground cocoa mixed in with spices and corn.

A one kilogram packet of sugar will have about 5 million grains of sugar.

A one ounce milk chocolate bar has 6 mg of caffeine.

According to Scandinavian traditions, if a boy and girl eat from the same loaf of bread, they are bound to fall in love.

According to legend, tea originated in China when tea leaves accidentally blew into a pot of boiling water.

Acorns were used as a coffee substitute during the American Civil War.

After chocolate and vanilla, orange is considered the world's most favorite flavour.

Alcohol beverages have all 13 minerals necessary for human life.

All the Krispy Kreme donut stores collectively could make a doughnut stack as high as the Empire State Building in only 2 minutes.

Although white wine can be produced from both red and white grapes, red wine can only be created from red grapes.

Americans consume the most peanut butter in the world.

Americans consumed more than twenty billion hot dogs in 2000.

Americans eat approximately 20 pounds of pasta per person each year.

An American chews an average of 300 sticks of gum in a year.

An apple, potato, and onion all taste the same if you eat them with your nose plugged. They all taste sweet.

An average American eats approximately 60 hot dogs per year.

An average person consumes the equivalent of 26 gallons of milk a year, including almost 28 pounds of cheese.

An egg shell can have up to 17,000 tiny pores on its surface.

An egg that is fresh will sink in water, but a stale one won't.

Annually, British people eat more than 15 pounds of beans.

Annually, an Australian eats 15 kg of bananas, which comes out to 27 meters of bananas.

Another name for licorice is "Sweet Wood" or "Spanish Juice."

Approximately 125 people die in the United States from an anaphylaxis to foods each year.

Source: Amusing Facts

Human Health & Body Part 1

2008-05-02T23:30:00.000+08:00

A man named Charles Osborne had the hiccups for approximately sixty-nine years.

1 out of every 4 kids in the USA is overweight.

41% of women apply body or hand moisturizer a minimum three times a day.

75-90% of primary physician visits are due to stress.

A Russian man who wore a beard during the time of Peter the Great had to pay a special tax.

A blink lasts approximately 0.3 seconds.

A ear trumpet was used before the hearing aid was invented by people who had difficulty hearing.

A fetus develops fingerprints at eighteen weeks.

A fetus that is four months old, will becomes startled and turn away if a light is flashed on the mother's stomach.

A headache and inflammatory pain can be reduced by eating 20 tart cherries.

A human embryo is smaller than a grain of rice at four weeks old.

A little under one quarter of the people in the world are vegetarians.

A person infected with the SARS virus, has a 95-98% chance of recovery.

A person who smokes a pack of cigarettes a day will on average lose two teeth every ten years.

A person will burn 7 percent more calories if they walk on hard dirt compared to pavement.

A sneeze can travel as fast as one hundred miles per hour.

A study concludes that kids who snore do poorly in school.

A study indicates that smokers are likely to die on average six and a half years earlier than non-smokers.

A women from Berlin Germany has had 3,110 gallstones taken out of her gall bladder.

A world record 328 pound ovarian cyst was removed from a woman in Galveston, Texas, in 1905.

A yawn usually lasts for approximately six seconds.

About twenty-five percent of the population sneeze when they are exposed to light.

According to the American Institute of Stress, job stress approximately costs the U.S. industry over $300 billion dollars per year.

After twenty-seven years, Betty Rubble made her debut as a Flintstones Vitamin in 1996.

Alexander the Great and Julius Caesar were both epileptic.

An adult esophagus can range from 10 to 14 inches in length and is one inch in diameter.

An average adult produces about half a litre of flatulent gas per day, resulting in an average of about fourteen occurrences of flatulence a day.

Source: Amusing Facts Website

Celebrations, Festivals & Religions: Part 1

2008-05-01T02:20:00.000+08:00

The word " Christmas " means "Mass of Christ," later shortened to " Christ-Mass ." The even shorter form " Xmas " - first used in Europe in the 1500s - is derived from the Greek alphabet, in which X is the first letter of Christ's name: Xristos, therefore " X-Mass ."

7 out of 10 people believe in life after death.

Franklin Pierce was the first U.S. President to have a Christmas tree in the White House

German immigrant, Louis Prang was the first to bring Christmas cards to America.

In 1893, the first mosque in the United States was built.

In New Mexico, over eleven thousand people have visited a tortilla chip that appeared to have the face of Jesus Christ burned into it.

John Bunyan, who was a popular writer from the 1700's, was put in prison for twelve years for preaching.

Parts of the Dead Sea Scrolls appeared for sale in the June 1, 1954 issue of the Wall Street Journal.

The name Santa Claus came from Saint Nicholas who was a bishop in the town of Myra, and was known to be very nice to children.

An artificial Christmas tree last up to six years in a home.

Camel is considered unclean meat in the Bible.

In 1631, two London bible printers accidentally left the word "not" out of the seventh commandment, which then read, "Thou shalt commit adultery." This legendary book is now known as the "Wicked Bible."

In 1747, the first American mention of the Christmas tree occurred. However, it was a not a tree but instead a pyramid made out of wood and decorated with apples and evergreen boughs.

The Bible was written by over 40 authors over a period of 1500 years.

The Shroud of Turin is the single most studied artifact in human history.

The biggest selling Christmas single of all time is Bing Crosby's "White Christmas."

The famous Christmas song "Jingle Bells" was written for a Thanksgiving program in 1857 by James Pierpont. At the time, the song was called "The One-Horse Open Sleigh."

The first translation of the Bible into English was in 1382 A.D., by John Wycliff.

The longest chapter in the Bible is Psalm 119, which is 176 verses.

The world's largest church is located in Yamoussoukro, which is the capital of Cote d'Ivoire, Africa.

Ukrainian people celebrate Christmas on January 7th, which is the Orthodox Christmas Day.

It was believed by Ancient Hindus that the world was a sphere and rested on the back of four elephants, which stood on a turtle.

The biggest religious building in the world is a Hindu Temple, Angkor Wat, located in Cambodia. It was built at the end of the 11th century.

There's a temple in Sri Lanka dedicated to a tooth of the Buddha. The name of the temple is "Temple of the Tooth."

It is widely proclaimed that April Fool's day originated in France in 1562, or thereabouts, when Pope Gregory replaced the Julian calender with the Gregorian calender in the Julian calender month of April. The day of introduction of the Gregorian calender was made the first day of January. Some people hadn't heard about the change in the date, so they continued to celebrate the New Year's Day, but it being 1st April. Thus they are called "April fools".

Easter bunny originates from ancient Anglo-Saxon carnival. The ancient Anglo-Saxons celebrated the return of spring with a carnival commemorating their goddess of offspring and of springtime, Eostre. The offerings were rabbits and coloured eggs, bidding an end to winter. As it happened, the pagan festival of Eostre occurred at the same time of year as the Christian observance of the Resurrection of Christ and it didn't take the Christian missionaries long to convert the Anglo-Saxons.

Valentine's Day originates from the ancient Roman fertility festival of Lupercalia, which was celebrated on 15 February in honour of the gods Lupercus and Faunus, as well as the legendary founders of Rome, Romulus and Remus. During the festival, young men would draw the names of women from a box, and each couple would be paired until next year's celebration. Often they would fall in love and marry. At around 270AD Rome was facing battles and civil uprising. The men were not keen to join the army. Emperor Claudius II believed that the men did not want to leave their loved ones and summarily cancelled all marriages and engagements. Two priests, Valentine and Marius, disobeyed the decree and secretly performed marriage ceremonies. Valentine was caught on 14 February and dragged to jail. Later in the day he was clubbed to death and beheaded. It is said that, before his execution, Valentine himself had fallen in love with the jailer's daughter. He signed his final note to her, "From your Valentine."

Sources: Did you Know? Facts & Trivia & Amusing Facts

Animal Facts

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A cat can run about 20km/h when it grows up. While a cheetah can run 76km/h, and cheetah can't roar, it just purrs like cats.

Sailor, Dead Leaf, Paper Kite, Blue Striped Crow, Julia and Great Egg Fly are names of butterflies.

Butterfly original name is "flutterby".

The largest frog on earth is called Goliath frog. And there's no frog in Antartica.

There are 50 different kinds of kangaroos. A group of kangaroos is called mob.

No two zebras have stripes that are exactly the same.

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.

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. 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.

A cow gives nearly 200,000 glasses of milk in her lifetime.

The world's largest rodent is the Capybara.

The world's smallest mammal is the bumblebee bat of Thailand, weighing less than a penny. While the largest mammal is the Blue Whale.

Dolphins sleep with one eye open.

At 188 decibels, the whistle of the blue whale is the loudest sound produced by any animal.

The fastest dog, the greyhound, can reach speeds of up to 41.7 miles per hour.

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.

Dogs and cats, like humans, are either right or left handed.

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.

An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.

Ants don't sleep.

Source: www.indianchild.com

Our World 101

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The guy on the US ten-dollar bill, Alexander Hamilton, was killed in a duel by Vice President Aaron Burr.

The word "dollar" has its origins in the Roman Empire, while the $ symbol was designed by Oliver Pollock, a New Orleans businessman, in 1788.

Budweiser beer was named after a Czech town.

70% of earth is affected by desertification.

It is estimated that there are several million earthquakes in the world each year. Many of these earthquakes go undetected because they occur in remote areas or have very small magnitudes. There are at least 19 major earthquakes each year. The largest earthquake ever recorded occurred in Chile in 1960 with a magnitude of 9.5.

More than 5 billion crayons are produced every year.

Credit was first used in Assyria, Babylon and Egypt 3000 years ago. The first credit card was issued in 1951.

There are 365 different languages spoken in Indonesia(Hey, that's 1 language per day for one year). Indonesia is the 4th most populous country in the world with 216 million people, 300 ethnic groups & 500 tribes.

There are 92 known cases of nuclear bombs lost at sea(I wonder what happened to the unexploded nuclear bombs? What if it suddenly blew off?)

The third millennium started at about 21h00 on 31st December 2000 and the year 2000 is celebrated 1 year earlier because the year 0 was not calculated. That means we're in the 3rd millennium now.

The first decimal system was introduced in the 4th Century BC by the Sumerians of Mesopotamia.

The symbol for zero was introduced by the Arabians at the end of the 1st millennium BC.

Human heads contains 22 bones. We're born with 300 bones but when we become an adult, we only have 206 bones.

Average male adult's brain weighs about 1400 gram while female adult's brain are slightly lighter. An elephants brain weighs 5000 gram, a whale's 10000 gram. One quarter of our brain is used to control the eye.

Johann Vaaler invented paperclip in 1899, but only manage to get it patented in year 1901.

Sources from the Did You Know? Facts and Trivia website.

Predictions

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In 1894, Lord Kelvin(presidents of the Royal Society) predicted that RADIO had no future. But up to date, there are more than 1billion radio sets in the world.

Nobody agreed with Greek Mathematician, Pythagoras when(in 6th century BC) he said that the earth is round.

In the 3rd century BC, Greek Astronomer Aristarchos said that the earth revolves around the sun - but his idea is not accepted.

Erastosthenes, a Greek Astronomer, in 2nd century BC measured the distance around the earth accurately, that is about 40,000km - but nobody believes him.

In the 2nd century AD, Greek Astronomer stated that Earth was the centre of universe - and most people believes him for almost 1400 years.

The TELEPHONE was not appreciated for the first 15 years because people didn't see its importance.

Irish scientist, Dr. Dionysius Lardner didn't believes that TRAIN can contribute to speedy transport and made a remark that people would die of suffocation if travels to fast. Nowadays trains can move as fast as 500KM/H - no one has die yet because of this speed.

In 1899, the commissioner of US office of Patent, Charles H Duell, assured President McKinley that "all the things can be invented has been invented" and yet lots of things are still invented now.

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