Everyday we learn something new. What we learn might be amazing, useful, boring or even useless. Still, everyone learns something new every single day.
Being an INTP, I don't follow a rigid routine. There are times when I while away time because I don't want to do anything and of course there are times when I work sincerely with massive amount of interest and energy. No matter how I spend my day, I learn something new with each passing day.
'What Did I Learn Today?' comprises of random facts, thoughts and feelings. When I stumble across something interesting I jot it down in my journal.
Today is October 1,2013.What Did I Learn Today?
1) The Top 10 most common Phobias : For those of you who want a formal definition for the word "phobia" : According to the American Psychiatric Association, a phobia is an irrational and excessive fear of an object or situation.
Knowing more than a hundred phobias by name and having a few myself, I wanted to find out what the most common phobias are. Below is a list of the most common phobias that people all over the world suffer from.
This word is often cited as one of the longest 'no-vowels' words in the English language. However, although the five letters a,e,i,o,u, are always exclusively used as vowels, it should be noted that the letters w and y are also sometimes used to represent vowel sounds.
Being an INTP, I don't follow a rigid routine. There are times when I while away time because I don't want to do anything and of course there are times when I work sincerely with massive amount of interest and energy. No matter how I spend my day, I learn something new with each passing day.
'What Did I Learn Today?' comprises of random facts, thoughts and feelings. When I stumble across something interesting I jot it down in my journal.
Today is October 1,2013.What Did I Learn Today?
1) The Top 10 most common Phobias : For those of you who want a formal definition for the word "phobia" : According to the American Psychiatric Association, a phobia is an irrational and excessive fear of an object or situation.
Knowing more than a hundred phobias by name and having a few myself, I wanted to find out what the most common phobias are. Below is a list of the most common phobias that people all over the world suffer from.
- Arachnophobia : The fear of spiders
- Ophidiophobia : The fear of snakes
- Acrophobia : The fear of heights
- Agoraphobia: The fear of open spaces or crowded public places
- Cynophobia: The fear of dogs
- Astraphobia: The fear of thunder & lightning
- Nyctophobia: The fear of darkness
- Social phobia : Fear of being evaluated negatively in social situations.
- Pteromerhanophobia: The fear of flying
- Mysophobia : Fear of being contaminated with dirt or germs.
Out of the ten phobias listed above, the only one that I have is Arachnophobia. What are the phobias that you have?
2) Fun Facts about the number 77: I joined Yahoo! Answers recently and I have mixed opinions about it. There are a huge amount of people out there who use the site effectively and I do find a few trolls.
I came across the following question in YA and being a mathematics graduate I definitely had a few points to give out.
'Question: What is special about the number 77? '
I wanted to make sure if there were any other facts that I did not know already. On doing some internet searching I came across a few.
The compiled answer is given below.
1) If you add up the first 8 prime numbers you get the number 77 (2+3+5+7+11+13+17+19 = 77).
2) The number 77 is the number associated with Jesus Christ
3) 77 is the product of two consecutive primes ( 7 & 11)
4) 77 is the sum of three squares i.e 4^2+5^2+6^2
5) The smallest number with a persistence of 4: 7×7 = 49; 4×9 = 36; 3×6 = 18; 1×8 = 8.
6) 77 is the largest number that cannot be written as a sum of distinct numbers whose reciprocals add up to 1.
7) Any number having a abcabc numeral pattern is divisible by 77 (replace each letter with a digit. E.g. 123123)
2) The number 77 is the number associated with Jesus Christ
3) 77 is the product of two consecutive primes ( 7 & 11)
4) 77 is the sum of three squares i.e 4^2+5^2+6^2
5) The smallest number with a persistence of 4: 7×7 = 49; 4×9 = 36; 3×6 = 18; 1×8 = 8.
6) 77 is the largest number that cannot be written as a sum of distinct numbers whose reciprocals add up to 1.
7) Any number having a abcabc numeral pattern is divisible by 77 (replace each letter with a digit. E.g. 123123)
3) The longest word without vowels ( in English) is : TWYNDYLLYNGS.
Twyndyllyngs is an archaic/obsolete word (of Welsh origin) which means 'twins', or, more accurately, it is a version of 'twinlings,' i.e. twins!
English pronunciation
singular:TWIN-diling
plural: TWIN-dilingz
Welsh pronunciation: TuhWIN-deellings, with the 'double L' pronounced the Welsh way.
This word is often cited as one of the longest 'no-vowels' words in the English language. However, although the five letters a,e,i,o,u, are always exclusively used as vowels, it should be noted that the letters w and y are also sometimes used to represent vowel sounds.
Okay, What did you learn today ?
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