Today I Learned

That a dog named Stella was taught how to communicate using buttons , while each button serves as a different voice line.

that the technical term for 'butt crack' is the 'intergluteal cleft'.

4-year-olds about 200 to 300 questions every day. Warren Berger, the author of A More Beautiful Question, says kids pose a normal of 40,000 questions between the ages of 2 and 5.

Charlie Lyne was so fed up with BBFC that, he made a 10 hour and 7 minute long film of paint drying to make BBFC watch the whole thing to give it an age rating.

a large milkshake at Burger King contains 199 gram sugar, more than 6 times the recommended daily intake. It contains 1240 calories, half of the recommended daily calorie intake

Like an outsized fossil in the Sahara, the 30-mile diameter Richat Structure in Mauritania, originally interpreted as a meteorite impact, is a circular, eroded dome dating back to the splitting of Pangea.

Turkey Vultures were (and sometimes still are) used by natural gas companies to pinpoint pipeline leaks. (4th paragraph down)

that current King of Norway Harald V once threatened to never marry if he wasn't allowed to marry Sonja Haraldsen, a commoner. The ultimatum would have threatened the end of succession.

that the red-crested tree rat, thought to have gone extinct 119 years ago, showed up out of the blue at a hotel in Colombia where two conservationists were staying and let them photograph him for a few hours before disappearing again.

that the first Architect of the Capitol tried to reanimate George Washington’s corpse by freezing him in cold water and transfusing his blood with that of a lamb.

that spiked collars actually have a functional purpose. Used as far back as ancient Greece, they're worn by livestock dogs to protect against attack by wolves.

the Americas were never named after Christopher Columbus, because Columbus believed he had sailed across the Atlantic to India. Instead, the Americas were named after Amerigo Vespucci, the first person to suggest there was a new world.

The first attempt to make an anti-Nazi film in America was Herman J Mankiewicz's "The Mad Dog of Europe" in 1933. The film floundered in early production and was ultimately never produced because no studio would risk being banned in Germany.

that a 28 year old man from Russia went to the doctor after coughing up blood and having chest pains. The doctors thought he had cancer and performed surgery to remove it, when they removed the "cancer" they found out it was actually a tree growing inside of the man.

that 10% of drinkers consume over 50% of the alcohol.

that Guinness World Records accepts payments (ranging from $12,000 to $500,000) from individuals, organizations and governments to either find a record that they could break or to create an entirely new record category

that Russian scientists managed to grow 32,000-year-old plants from seeds they found encased in ice in Siberia

in 1998 more than half of Icelanders believed in elves.

about Congo's Salonga National Park. The world’s second largest tropical rainforest national park and the largest in Africa. It is considered to be practically virgin, unaffected by human activities and largely unexplored.

The band Heart played in Canada instead of the US for the first part of their career. They couldn't play in the US because their manager was hiding from the Vietnam draft in Canada.