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Crime 10 Incredible Big-Time Art Fraudsters
Movies and TV 10 Most Influential Fictional Objects in Cinema History
Our World Top 10 Real Almost‑Cities That Never Materialized
Technology 10 Unsettling Ways Big Brother Is (Likely) Spying on You
Music 10 Chance Encounters That Formed Legendary Bands
Space 10 Asteroids That Sneaked Closer Than Our Satellites
Sport The 10 Least Credible Superstars in Professional Sports
Animals 10 Strange Times When Species Evolved Backward
Facts Ten Unexpectedly Fascinating Facts About Rain
Misconceptions 10 Widespread Historical Myths and the Texts That Started Them
Crime 10 Incredible Big-Time Art Fraudsters
Movies and TV 10 Most Influential Fictional Objects in Cinema History
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Jamie Frater
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Jamie founded Listverse due to an insatiable desire to share fascinating, obscure, and bizarre facts. He has been a guest speaker on numerous national radio and television stations and is a five time published author.
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Our World Top 10 Real Almost‑Cities That Never Materialized
Technology 10 Unsettling Ways Big Brother Is (Likely) Spying on You
Music 10 Chance Encounters That Formed Legendary Bands
Space 10 Asteroids That Sneaked Closer Than Our Satellites
Sport The 10 Least Credible Superstars in Professional Sports
Animals 10 Strange Times When Species Evolved Backward
Facts Ten Unexpectedly Fascinating Facts About Rain
Another 25 Words you Don’t Know
Following on from our first list of words you don’t know, we present another 25. Learn one a day and impress your friends!
Words 25 – 21
25. Girn – To bare your teeth in anger and sadness
24. Yerd – To beat with a stick.
23. Dendrofilous – Loving trees enough to live in them.
22. Wamfle – To walk around with flapping clothes.
21. Ribazuba – Ivory from a walrus.
Words 20 – 16
20. Franch – To eat greedily.
19. Nazzard – A lowly or weak person.
18. Cachinnate – To laugh noisily.
17. Sesamoid – Having the size and shape of a sesame seed.
16. Bedight – To adorn or deck out.
Words 15 – 11
15. Mullion – A vertical dividing piece between window lights or panels.
14. Labrose – Thick-lipped.
13. Misodoctakleidist – Someone who dislikes practicing the piano.
12. Hesternal – Having to do with yesterday.
11. Crurophilous – Liking legs.
Words 10 – 6
10. Glabella – The space on your forehead between your eyebrows.
9. Fample – To feed a child.
8. Coprolalomaniac – Someone who compulsively uses foul language.
7. Onychotillomaniac – Someone who constantly picks his or her nails.
6. Glossolalia – Gibberish; babble
Words 5 – 1
5. Gash-gabbit – Having a protruding chin.
4. Sneckdraw – A sneaky or mean person.
3. Hircine – Something that smells like a goat.
2. Wallydrag – A completely useless person.
1. Onygophagist – A person who bites his or her nails.












