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

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9Y4Q7 TIL about the ghost village Epecuén (Argentina) and it's sole inhabitant, Pablo Novak. The once touristic town became uninhabitable after a flood slowly consumed it in 1985. The waters began to recede in 2009 and Novak (now 90 years old) returned to the home of his youth to live alone with his dogs.
9wQ6 TIL that in August 2001 actor James Woods reported to authorities 4 suspicious males on his flight. Those males were the 911 hijackers on a dry run.
6mmw TIL that the Oxford English Dictionary lists words with the suffix ’-ize’ (e.g., realize, organize) over the more popular British English ’-ise’, stating it to be both phonetic and closer to its Greek origin
woXyo TIL the next supercontinent may form in 200 million to 300 million years when the Pacific Ocean disappears.
YpdmB TIL that Lars Larsen, late owner of Jysk (a Dutch furniture company) has sent a free copy of his self-published book to every Danish household, and thus, effectively made it the number one book in Denmark.