Information and Knowledge Trivia

  • Someone who collects teddy bears is technically called an 'Arctophile'.
  • A "lexical gap" is when there should be a word for something, but there isn't.
  • A person who is strongly attracted to someone's intelligence is called a Sapiosexual'.
  • The rumbling sound your stomach makes when hungry is called 'borborygmus'.
  • The scientific term for being left-handed is sinistrality; for being right-handed it's dextrality.
  • A group of goats is called a 'trip'.
  • A group of antelope is called a 'tribe'.
  • "Grammar Pedantry Syndrome" is a form of OCD in which sufferers need to correct every grammatical error.
  • That indentation above your top lip is known as 'Philtrum'.
  • The act of stretching and yawning simultaneously is called 'Pandiculation'.
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