› added 8 years ago

101

TIL Leonhard Euler was the first mathematician to designate the function by writing it f(x).

Read more wikipedia.org

via ift.tt

lR57 TIL Mercury astronaut Gordon Cooper nearly missed out on his Mercury flight because he buzzed the Johnson Space Center in an F-102 and scared some people.
yVow8 TIL: That after watching males succeed at a series of puzzling tasks, female birds traded their simple-minded beaus for more cognitively competent partners.
WkEmX TIL the late Nintendo Executive Gunpei Yokoi who invented and designed the original Control Pad, the Virtual Boy, the Game Boy, Metroid and Kid Icarus was originally hired as a maintenance man in 1965.
YpegB TIL Russia has a military themed park that features international arms dealers, and are building a replica of the Reichstag for kids to invade
wL0pE TIL that the brain is more active while asleep than it is awake. The brain while awake averages 40-60 observations per second, while the subconscious brain averages 11 million!