Things we've learned: a perfume called vulva, Prince William and world

“You learn something new every day,” was the popular catch cry from our parents.

But it had me constantly thinking. Like what? I felt guilty if I hadn’t thought about a lesson I’d learned or a new fact I’d picked up.

I knew that honey badgers were DANGEROUS but I’d learned that years before. And I never picked up anything in math class.

So, we thought we’d make things easy for you. The Internet has helped us find 19 things you can learn today. Which should technically tide you over for almost three weeks.

Awesome.

Oh, and add your own in the comments: what have you learned today?

Prince William's nickname during college was 'P-Willy'.

The world will reach 7 billion in March 2012.

Cork trees can only be harvested every 10 years otherwise they are irreparably damaged.

Facebook stores 4% of ALL the photos that have EVER been taken.

Gandhi once wrote to Hitler imploring him to stop a war.

Great Pacific Garbage Patch is a giant patch of rubbish and pollution trapped by currents in a 'vortex' in the middle of the ocean. Some estimates say it is twice the size of Texas, others say it is smaller. In any case, it is big.

Hong Kong allows corporations to vote. Not just people.

One man is working on illustrating the entire Bible using Lego constructions.

A rubber band in a stripped screw can help the screw driver gain grip.

Apart from the capital Pyongyang, there are no towns, cities or roads featured on the Google map of North Korea.

You can skip 10%, 20%, 30% into YouTube videos just by pressing 1, 2, 3 and so on.

After parcel post service was introduced in the United States in 1913, at least two children were sent by the service. With stamps attached to their clothing, the children rode with railway and city carriers to their destination. The Postmaster General quickly issued a regulation forbidding the sending of children in the mail after hearing of those examples.

Goat pupils are rectangular.

The age of consent for sexual relations in Japan is 13.

The largest known body of water in the universe is not on Earth. It's in space and it contains 140 trillion times all the water we have on this planet.

Some research estimates that 90% of all the data in the world was created in the past 2 years.

Sea otters hold hands to stop themselves drifting apart when they fall asleep.

If you place the tilde symbol ( ~ ) in front of words in a Google search, it includes synonyms of that word.

There is a perfume that smells like a vulva. Because we needed that.

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