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Phobias...true or false?

Ornithophobia - fear of Birds

Verbophobia – Fear of words

Spectrophobia – Fear of mirrors and reflection

Pupaphobia - Fear of Puppets

Luposlipaphobia – The fear of being chased by wolves while 

wearing socks on a recently waxed floor.

Venustraphobia – The fear of beautiful women.

Hippopotomonstrosesquipedaliophobia – The fear of long words.

Barophobia – Fear of gravity

Pentheraphobia - Fear of Mother in Law

Riddle:

I have one, you have one.
If you remove the first letter, a bit remains.
If you remove the second, bit still remains.
After much trying, you might be able to remove the third one also, but it remains.
It dies hard!

Riddle:

This thing all things devours:
Birds, beasts, trees, flowers;
Gnaws iron, bites steel;
Grinds hard stones to meal;
Slays king, ruins town,
And beats high mountain down.

Riddle: 

Three guests check into a hotel room. The clerk says the bill is $30, so each guest pays $10. Later the clerk realizes the bill should only be $25. To rectify this, he gives the bellhop $5 to return to the guests. On the way to the room, the bellhop realizes that he cannot divide the money equally. As the guests didn’t know the total of the revised bill, the bellhop decides to just give each guest $1 and keep $2 for himself.

Now that each of the guests has been given $1 back, each has paid $9, bringing the total paid to $27. The bellhop has $2. If the guests originally handed over $30, what happened to the remaining $1?