Some more fun facts from The Jesters.Wherever do they find all this stuff?
- The opposite of paranoia is pronoia. A person suffering from pronia feels that people or entities around them are plotting to do them good.
The fastest insect on earth is the Australian tiger beetle, Cicindela hudsoni. Clocking in at 5.6 mph, this incredible insect runs so fast, it has to slow down to see anything.
- The black dot on the inside surface of a monarch's wing distinguishes the male monarch butterfly from the female, which has no spot.
- The German word "Kummerspeck" literally translates to "grief bacon" or "sorrow fat." It refers to weight gain due to emotional eating.
- "Wrap rage" is the anger and frustration felt when you are unable to open packages.
Boanthropy is a psychological disorder where people think they're cows.
- In the original Italian version of Cinderella, the benevolent fairy godmother figure was a cat.
- Knitting was initially a male-only occupation. In fact, when the very first knitting union was established in Paris in 1527, no women were allowed.
- The oleander is the official flower of the city of Hiroshima. It was the first to bloom again after the explosion of the atomic bomb in 1945.
- In ancient Greece, the word for "cook" and "priest," was the same: "mageiros," which shares its etymological root with the word "magic."
- New Yorkers bite 10 times more people than sharks do worldwide each year.
- According to legend, cats were created when a lion on Noah’s ark sneezed and two kittens came out.
- Knitting acts as a natural antidepressant and can help ease anxiety, depression, and chronic pain. It can also protect the brain from aging.
Candy Land was created 70 years ago to give kids stuck in polio wards a way to vicariously move freely in the pursuit of delights. The original board featured a boy in a leg brace about to walk through starting gate of the game.
- Just 30 minutes of daily complaining can physically damage your brain. Listening to someone constantly complain also negatively affects brain function.
- A German word for nightmare is "alptraum," which literally means "elf dream." In German folklore, elves were dangerous figures who could control dreams and create nightmares.
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