- Acrophobia is the fear of heights.
- The word fortnight is a contraction of the 2 words 'fourteen nights'.
- There are only 4 words in the English language which end in 'dous' (they are: hazardous, horrendous, stupendous and tremendous).
- Not a single number has the letter "b" in it until you reach a billion.
- Bill Gates began programming computers at the of age 13.
- It takes 1 week to make a jelly bean.
- Americas top selling ice cream flavour is vanilla.
- Butterflies taste with their back feet.
- The makers of the board game Monopoly print over 50 billion dollars worth of Monopoly money every year.
- The tea bag was invented in 1908.
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