Inspired in part by
Triviabot
and the fabulous success of
Leon-the-Professional's Fun Fact thread,
I have decided to impart my own fun facts and trivia to the forums,
but one free of esoteric wording and hopefully aiming to amuse or inform the general population.

I'll post in here regularly, so get ready to be mind-blown.

Fun fact, I was the first one to reply to this thread.

Anatidaephobia is the fear of constantly being watched by ducks

Hawaiian pizza is not from Hawaii; the creator, a Greek-born Canadian, and invented it in Ontario, Canada whilst mixing combinations of sweet and sour flavors. Sam Panopoulos, the inventor of the controversial dish, used the brand of canned pineapple from the Hawaiian Pineapple Company, and dubbed his pizza "the Hawaiian pizza".

Some of the ancient Viking swords were made of steel, but the invention of steel was an accident. Viking smiths would grind up the bones of their ancestors or animals (chiefly bears) and mix it with the iron during the smithing process of their blades, and the high carbon content in their swords would make a crude form of steel, leading to better quality and longer lasting weapons.

Most cinnamon we consume today is not actually cinnamon. True cinnamon can only be harvested from Sri Lanka, and it's a tedious process that is extremely difficult to do properly, so China began distributing their Cassia evergreen as a substitute. So most of us have never tasted true cinnamon.

The Black Death ravaged the entirety of Europe in the 1300's, effectively killing over 50% of the European population. But the fleas that spread the disease whilst riding on rats came not from Europe, but from trade ships returning from East Asia during the prolific trading during that time.

The flavor of the classic pink bubblegum is derived from a mix of cloves, wintergreen and cinnamon, not your typical fruit and berry blend.

Fear of long words: Hippopotomonstrosesquipedaliophobia

Not a single letter less or more.

how about this one, 

Arachibutyrophobia is the Fear of peanut butter sticking to the roof of your mouth

The nursery rhyme "Humpty Dumpty" was about neither an egg nor a man: Humpty Dumpty was a cannon used in the English Civil War that raged from 1642 to 1649; Humpty was stationed in June of 1648 on the walls of Colchester, but the Parliamentary forces damaged the wall on which the cannon was stationed, resulting in the famous fall of Humpty Dumpty.

Every single US president (excluding one), from George Washington to Donald Trump, is related to each other. With the exception of Martin Van Buren, every single US president shares a single common ancestor: John Lackland, King of England and signer of the Magna Carta in 1215.

If you shuffled a deck of 52 playing cards properly, the exact order you’re holding has almost certainly never existed before in the entire history of the universe.

Pizza is not actually an original Italian dish. It comes from the word "pita", which our friends from Greece would tell you is absolutely not an Italian word. That being said, the Greeks failed to capitalize on the idea and so we have delivery places called "Luigi's Pizza" rather than Euripede's pizza.

Transformers consist of primary and secondary coils that are wrapped around a magnetic core. Alternating current (AC) passes through the primary coil and creates a magnetic field that induces an electrical voltage in the secondary coil.

These transformers are critical to our electrical systems. Electricity is generated at relatively low levels, and have to be transferred through long networks of cables, which result in a massive loss of energy. Step-up transformers take those weak charges of electricity (in the form of AC) and creates a stronger voltage via electromagnetism and carries it to the step-down transformer, which reduces the voltage for house-use and end-users.

Transformers can "blow" (explode or catch fire) when they get overcharged by lightning or equipment failure, an internal fault like a short circuit, or external damage like a tree limb falling on it. When it fails, transformers disrupt the flow of electricity in that power grid, and could possibly disable power for thousands of people in the case that it is a major transformer or one at a substation.

The American flag has had 26 revisions since it was first designed in 1777, with the current version designed in 1959 with 50 stars and 13 stripes.

George Washington did not have wooden teeth; he had a combination of animal teeth, teeth of his slaves, and some made from various metals including brass and gold.

In Spanish, the suffix - ITO means - small.

Which may be a hint at the existence of something bigger and greater than mosquito, which is El Mosco. One single entity of what we know as an insect called mosquito has a primordial ancestors, El Mosco, which is just a huge big-ass insect.