Phobias...
I ran across an interesting list of phobias a while back, some that I never knew existed. Here's a few of the more interesting ones:
Alliumphobia - fear of garlic
Allodoxaphobia - fear of opinions
Automatonophobia - fear of ventriloquists' dummies
Coulrophobia - fear of clowns
Geniophobia - fear of chins
Hedonophobia - fear of pleasure
Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia - fear of long words
Lachanophobia - fear of vegetables
Novercaphobia - fear of your step-mother
Paraskavedekatriaphobia - fear of Friday 13
Peladophobia - fear of bald people
Xanthophobia - fear of the colour yellow