› added 1 year ago

47

TIL: The rectangular design of today’s modern tennis court began in 1875. Before that, tennis courts had an hourglass shape, wide at the ends and narrow at the net.

Read more wikipedia.org

via reddit.com

oRpmW TIL Daniel Radcliffe was in Bath when he received the news that he had been cast as Harry Potter! and to celebrate, he was permitted to watch Faulty Towers for an additional 30 minutes after going to bed.
LY6m TIL the “Great Attractor” is a gravitational anomaly the earth is being pulled towards at 600km/s
xrXB TIL in 2014, Fox News plagiarized BioShock Infinite’s logo in a segment on immigration titled “Defending the Homeland,” seemingly unaware of the game’s critical exploration of xenophobia.
XByk TIL That the bolt holding the rotor blades onto a helicopter is called a jesus nut. It is a single point of failure which would lead to the helicopter crashing
VnZG TIL two entrepreneurs and ten former Polaroid employees continue to produce and sell instant film for traditional Polaroid cameras.