The name for having a fear of long words: Hippopotomonstroses­quippedaliophobia. Ironic, isn't it? See more

"Skepticisms" is the longest word that alternates hands when typing. See more

"Almost" is the longest word in the English language with all the letters in alphabetical order. See more

If you take a pencil, you can draw a 50 kilometer (31 mile) long line. See more

The animal that lived longest of all was a turtle. It lived to become the respectable age of 188 years. See more

Stewardesses is the longest word typed with only the left hand. See more

The telescope on Mount Palomar, California, can see a distance of 7,038,835,200,000,000 million miles. See more

Typewriter, is one of the longest words that can be made using the letters on only one row of the keyboard. See more

The longest recorded flight of a chicken is 13 seconds. See more