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TIL that among ‘Things Unexpectedly Named After People’, you have PageRank (after Larry Page), German chocolate cake, Price Club, Shrapnel, Main Street, (San Francisco), and Baker’s chocolate

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wL4QJ Today I learned that “blue” didn’t exist in ancient times (e.g. it’s rarely used in the Bible, not used in the Iliad), and that in most languages “blue” is typically the last color word that evolves (red is usually first).
NXnXe TIL that George Miller, creator of the Mad Max films, was educated as a doctor and finished his residency before becoming a filmmaker
PYEXL TIL a wife was convicted of a murder due to testimony of a pet parrot that repeated “don’t (expletive) shoot” in the dead husband’s voice
DQEkJ TIL 1 in 8 adults in the US has taken Ozempic or another GLP-1 drug
KORka TIL Though Dreamworks won't comment, many believe that Shrek was inspired by a French wrestler from the 1930s and '40s named Maurice Tillet.