THIS IS CRUEL: Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia is the fear of long words.

There are a lot of interesting and random phopias out there. Dendrophobia is the fear of trees. Blennophobia is the fear of slime. And neophobia is the fear of anything new. However, the fear of long words may have the most ironic (and cruelest name).

Hippopotomonstrosesquipedaliophobia. So let’s say you do have this phobia. You’d be terrify to name your ailment. Kind of a conundrum.

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Arnold Schwarzenegger went AWOL from the military to enter a body building competition!

The former governor of California has lived a very exciting life, as new details of his past keep coming to the public eye. For example, when Arnold was a young boy in Austria, his father was a cop, and he wanted Arnold to become involved with the military. However, after Arnold had seen a bodybuilding magazine for the first time, he knew that he wanted to live a life of body building over military service.

One day, Arnold decided to sneak away from his base and enter in a bodybuilding competition. When he returned, his supervisors were waiting for him. When he explained himself and said he had won the competition, he was given 3 hours a day to workout and train for more bodybuilding competitions.

If his supervisors weren't as understanding, surely Arnold wouldn't have become the internationally recognized super macho action movie star, and later the governor of California.

Click the source to watch a 12 minute video about this experience for Arnold in much more detail!

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The first item sold on eBay was a broken laser pointer!

eBay is a beautiful website because you can find virtually anything you could ever want on the website to buy off of other users. EBay paved the way for other websites such as amazon.com to form and build their own empires.

You would think that the first item ever sold on eBay must have been a magnificent item, something that someone really wanted. Well, allow me to remind you that eBay is a part of the internet - and there are a lot of weirdos that hangout on the internet.

The first item sold on eBay was a broken laser pointer, and it was sold for $14.83. The founder of eBay asked the buyer if he knew that the laser pointer was broken when he bought it. The owner simply responded “I’m a collector of broken laser pointers.”

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Your brain actually lives in the past!

The brain is actually living in the past of things that have already happened, because it takes a few milliseconds for the brain to comprehend what is happening around it. So, everything that you think is happening instantly, actually happened a really really short time ago.

To test this, a research study once had people turn on a lightbulb by pushing a button, with an 80 millisecond delay. Eventually, their brains got used to that delay and assumed that 80ms was instantaneous.After repeating this step multiple times, scientists changed the length of time it took for the light to turn on to 40 milliseconds - half of the original time.

When participants pushed the red button and the light came on, they were in disbelief that they were the ones that caused the light to go on. In fact, the participants believed that the light came on BEFORE they even touched the button - a perfect experiment to show that the brain lives a delayed life.

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JFK's brain wasn't buried with his body!

John F. Kennedy was unfortunately assassinated while doing a tour of America. The famous question 'who REALLY killed Kennedy' has sparked controversy ever since the incident occurred back in the 1960's.

Sometimes, conspiracy theorists often make interesting observations and are able to make connections between JFK's assassination and corruption in the American government that could make one believe the conspiracy theories.

This should make conspiracy theorists a little excited: JFK's brain wasn't buried with his body. In fact, JFK's brain is missing from National Archives. Nobody knows what happened to JFK's brain, which has led theorists to believe that the brain showed remarkable evidence that would be contrary to the official government report.

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