Automatonophobia is a fear of ventriloquist s dummies animatronic creatures wax statues or anything that falsly represents a sentient being

The word trivia comes from the Latin word trivium a place where 3 roads meet The perfect opportunity to exchange stories gossip and information

Jellyfish range from the size of a thimble or the eraser tip of a pencil to approximately 8 feet in diameter with tentacles that reach 200 feet

Dolphins don t have a sense of smell but they do have a sense of taste and like humans can distinguish between sweet sour bitter and salty tastes

The longest non-medical word in the English language is floccipausinihilipilification (29 letters) which means the act of estimating as worthless

Cheetahs are extremely fast however they tire quickly and can only keep up their top speed for a few minutes before they are too tired to continue

When a female horse and male donkey mate the offspring is called a mule but when a male horse and female donkey mate the offspring is called a hinny

When a female horse and male donkey mate the offspring is called a mule but when a male horse and female donkey mate the offspring is called a hinny

The expression tying the knot dates to Roman times when the bride wore a girdle that was tied in knots - which the groom then had the fun of untying

In the fifteenth century mess came to refer to a group of people Those who usually sat together were messmates; the room was often called a mess-room

Unlike most birds that sing a woodpecker will drum its beak against a tree Other woodpeckers can identify which bird it is by the sound of the drumming

The bird with the most feathers is the whistling swan with up to 25 000 feathers Hummingbirds on the other hand are so small that they have fewer than 1 000

The U S is the largest country named after a person - Amerigo Vespucci The term America derived its name from Americus the Latin version of Vespucci s first name

Sanskrit is the mother of all higher languages Sanskrit is the most precise and therefore suitable language for the computer software - a report in Forbes magazine

Sanskrit is the mother of all higher languages Sanskrit is the most precise and therefore suitable language for the computer software - a report in Forbes magazine