All facts and illustrations are a courtesy of Learn Something Every Day .
Learn Something Every Day has run since August 2009, when Young's founders Pete Jarvis and Geth Vaughan, began posting up a doodle each day illustrating a lesser known fact about something or other. Within two weeks of its inception the site was recording 10,000 unique hits a day and in May 2011 they released Learn Something Every Day book (published by Penguin) compiling dozens of the illustrated facts.
