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TIL The Popeyes restaurant chain claims it is actually named after Gene Hackman’s character, Jimmy “Popeye” Doyle, in the film “The French Connection,” which was released the year before the chain opened in 1972. The chain did later license the characters from Popeye the Sailor comics in the 2000s.

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