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Street names aside, who comes up with crazy non-words like Zyrtec, tenofovir and Xeljanz?

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e0P0b TIL Amtrak trains that are running on time stop in their tracks during fall daylight savings time and wait an hour before resuming. For spring forward, the trains automatically fall behind schedule at 2 a.m. and just have to do their best to make up the time
b9d9a TIL that the Italian-American Civil Rights League was founded by the mafia to improve the image of mobsters. They forced the producer of the The Godfather to remove all references to the word 'mafia' from the screenplay even though the novel repeatedly uses the word.
GBEG TIL that the actor who played 11 year-old Voldemort (a.k.a. Tom Riddle) in “Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince” is the nephew of Ralph Fiennes, the actor who played the grown-up Voldemort in the final 5 films.
vPBgB TIL that in just 20 months ( three campaigning seasons), the Roman Republic lost one-fifth (150.000) of the entire male population of citizens over 17 years of age during the Second Punic Wars (218 - 201 BC)
EGjw TIL that the Andromeda galaxy is larger than the moon in the sky, but it is usually too dim to see.