› added 12 years ago

117

TIL the term ‘love’ in tennis originated from the French word l'oeuf, meaning egg. The zero looks like an egg, l'oeuf, which sounds very much like 'love’.

Read more australianopcom

via reddit.com

mx7Xo TIL "We have the technology to totally fill Twitter, email, and the web up with reasonable-sounding context-appropriate prose, which would drown out all other speech and be impossible to filter." Jeremy Howard
oRkDr TIL the last line of Franz Kafka's "The Judgement" has a sexual double meaning in its original German. Kafka later confessed that when he wrote that final line he was thinking of "a violent ejaculation" instead of "an unending stream of traffic", a play on the German word "Verkehr".
E0NP TIL Texas oil tycoon Jim West used to throw handfuls of silver dollars around just to see people scramble for them.
rdo4 TIL: Cuttlefish are considered one of the ocean’s most intelligent creatures and are an important example of advanced cognitive evolution in animals.
XEbbX TIL Artists Ivan Seal and James Kirby (The Caretaker), released an album named "Everywhere At The End of Time" that uses electronically altered music to explore the advancement and totality of dementia. The album spans six stages with descriptions of each stage as it develops.