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4Xn8o TIL Mt. Everest was involuntarily named after George Everest, the surveyor-general of India. Andrew Waugh hoped to honor his predessor. When Everest found out, he hated the idea because the Sherpa people couldn't pronounce his name, and it didn't translate to Hindi. Waugh did it anyway.
VMB4m TIL Mount Everest was named by Andrew Waugh, George Everest sucessor. George Everest protested that the natives couldn't pronounce it and that it couldn't be written in Hindi, but the Royal Geographical Society named it Everest anyway despite his objections