10 Amazing Facts About Phobias!!

1. There are more than 400 distinct phobias well recognized by psychologists.

2. Phobophobia is the fear of having a phobia.

3. Papaphobia is the fear of the Pope.

4. Hexakosioihexekontahexaphobia is the fear of the number 666.

5. Nomophobia is the fear of being without your mobile phone or losing your signal.

6. Anatidaephobia is the weird fear that somewhere, somehow, a duck is watching you. 

7. Phobias may be memories passed down through generations in DNA, according to a new research. 

8. Alexander the Great, Napoleon, Mussolini and Hitler, all suffered from ailurophobia, the fear of cats. 

9. Didaskaleinophobia is the fear of going to school. 

10. Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia is the fear of long words.