· The first city in modern history to reach 1 million people was London in 1811.
· Toronto was the first city in the world with a computerized traffic signal system.
· King Charles VII, assassinated in 1167, was the first Swedish king with the name of Charles. Charles I, II, III, IV, V, never existed.
· The value of "pi" was first calculated by Budhayana, and he explained the concept of what is known as the Pythagorean Theorem. He discovered this in the 6th century long before the European mathematicians.
· The World's first university was established in Takshila, India in 700BC. More than 10,500 students from all over the world studied more than 60 subjects.
· The first place in the western world to give women the right to vote was an island known as "Man".
· The very first bomb dropped by the Allies on Berlin during World War II killed the only elephant in the Berlin Zoo
· If you are afraid you might die laughing, you are suffering from cherophobia
· Someone with an irrational fear of meat is called a carnophobic.
· Unatractiphobia is the fear of ugliness or ugly people.
· If you are a 'scoptophobic', you have an intense fear of being seen.
· 'Mageiricophobia' is the intense fear of having to cook.
· Syngenesophobia is the fear of relatives
· Automatonophobia is a fear of ventriloquist's dummies, animatronic creatures, wax statues or anything that falsly represents a sentient being
· Paedophobia is a fear of children
· Clinophobia is the fear of beds
· "Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia" is the fear of long words
· Phobatrivaphobia is a fear of trivia about phobias
· Lyssophobia is a morbid fear of insanity
· Hypnophobia is a morbid fear of sleep and falling asleep
· Elizabeth I of England suffered from anthophobia, a fear of roses
· Arachibutyrophobia is a fear of peanut butter sticking to the roof of the mouth
· The fear of vegetables is called Lachanophobia!..
· Taphephobia is the fear of being buried alive!
· Clinophobia is the fear of beds!
· Acrophobia is the fear of heights
· Claustrophobia is the fear of being closed in.
· Arachnophobia is the Fear Of Spiders
· Hemophobia is the fear of blood.
· Hydrophobia/ Aquaphobia is the fear of water.
· Fear of Beautiful women is Caligynephobia.
· Fear of Men is Androphobia.
· Fear of Kissing is Philemaphobia or Philematophobia
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