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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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Y7BBZ TIL that an 84-year-old man named Park Byeong-gu has eaten nothing but instant ramen for over 41 years
RZbQ TIL Johnny Cash and his first wife Vivian named their daughter, Roseanne, after Johnny’s nickname for Vivian’s boobs: Rose and Anne
kEKm TIL Apollo Mission astronauts have nearly five times higher mortality from cardiovascular disease than other astronauts due to exposure to deep-space radiation.
g084 TIL that there are “lone planets” that roam endlessly through space without ever going into orbit. They are actually predicted to be more common than stars.
6RP8 TIL that during WW2 two polish doctors saved the lives of 8,000 Jews by faking a typhus epidemic that stopped the Nazis entering their town.