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TIL Kaninhoppning (lit. Bunny Hopping) Is the Rabbit Version of Show Jumping

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EgKYX TIL that Alfred Gilman and Louis Goodman wrote 'Goodman & Gilman', the standard pharmacology textbook. AG's son Alfred Goodman Gilman, named for Gilman and his friend LG, was nicknamed "the only person to be named after a textbook". AGG later became editor of 'Goodman & Gilman' and won a Nobel.
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