Information and Knowledge Trivia

  • People who suffer from "Imposter Syndrome" are often unhappy with their accomplishments and credit it all towards luck.
  • The word 'Swastika' literally means "being happy" in Sanskrit.
  • The word "nightmare" is derived from "Mare", a Germanic folklore goblin who rode on people's chests as they slept.
  • "False Awakening" is the state in which a person dreams that they're waking up, while they are really in deep sleep.
  • The word opposite of 'reverse' is actually 'obverse'.
  • 'Goosebumps' are technically called 'piloerections'.
  • The bagpipe was originally made from the whole skin of a dead sheep.
  • Scottish people have a word for that awkward hesitation before you have to introduce someone whose name you can't remember. It's 'Tartle'.
  • 'Jay' used to be slang for 'foolish person.' So when a pedestrian ignored street signs, he was referred to as a 'jaywalker.'
  • The most used Alphabet 'A' doesn't appear in the spellings of digits from 1 to 999.
ADVERTISEMENT
ADVERTISEMENT