Information and Knowledge Trivia

  • One is more likely to vote for whatever is at the top of the list due to a psychological condition called "order effect".
  • That scent that lingers after drizzling is called 'petrichor'.
  • 'Gleek' is a slang term for squirting water out through your teeth, or saliva from under your tongue.
  • No word in English rhymes with month, orange, silver or purple.
  • Bayer, the company that invented aspirin, had also invented heroin originally as a cold medicine.
  • The six official languages of the United Nations are English, French, Arabic, Chinese, Russian and Spanish.
  • A person who hides pain behind a smile is called an 'eccedentesiast'.
  • There are 52 playing cards in a deck to represent the 52 weeks in a year - The four suits represent the 4 seasons.
  • Not caring whether or not there actually is a god is called 'Apatheism'.
  • There are sign language equivalents of tongue-twisters. They are called "finger-fumblers".
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