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25 Mar 2025, 2:34 pm

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He named several anatomical structures including the Fallopian canal, Fallopian hiatus, Fallopian valve, Fallopian muscle, and the Fallopian tube.

Guy just named everything he discovered after himself? I don't like to throw terms like narcissist around but...

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25 Mar 2025, 2:35 pm

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230 litres to grow an avocado

Who knew

Avocado farmers.

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25 Mar 2025, 2:36 pm

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The Subway has been going for 60 years and it's got branches in over 102 countries

It's not The Subway.

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25 Mar 2025, 2:45 pm

Oh yes it is

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25 Mar 2025, 2:46 pm

It was on The Chase so it must be true

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25 Mar 2025, 3:00 pm

Even if it isn't, it's better to call it something that might needle the owners. The Stanley Tools bosses used to get annoyed when people said "Stanley's Tools."

Anyway, I don't know why they brag about how many countries they've got shops in. MuckDonalds has spread all over the world but I only go there to use the toilet, and even that's an unpleasant experience. All those chavs gobbling junk food and getting in my way. And they're not fries, they're chips. Well, they pass off as chips anyway. And chips are crisps and they're full of acrylamide. I always get opinionated after my water's been cut off. Got to let it out somehow haven't you?

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25 Mar 2025, 3:02 pm

DuckHairback wrote:

Cornflake wrote:

He named several anatomical structures including the Fallopian canal, Fallopian hiatus, Fallopian valve, Fallopian muscle, and the Fallopian tube.

Guy just named everything he discovered after himself? I don't like to throw terms like narcissist around but...

lol the anatomical parts he discovered were named after him since he was the first to describe them accurately. He didn't name them after himself; that came posthumously. 12 species of a plant genus also bear his name, as he was also a professor of plant anatomy.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gabriele_Falloppio

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25 Mar 2025, 5:15 pm

:lol: Today I learned ^

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25 Mar 2025, 5:18 pm

I want to know what this guy was doing poking around women's reproductive systems looking for things that didn't already have a name.

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25 Mar 2025, 5:22 pm

:lol: this is why I come here

It's like waiting for a bus innit

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25 Mar 2025, 5:26 pm

It could have been worse - I knew someone who stuck Dymo labels on everything he owned.

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25 Mar 2025, 5:30 pm

Today I learned about a cute little bird hatched in a Zoo, whose name is - yes - Pierogi :mrgreen:

https://www.instagram.com/zooatl/p/DHd- ... mg_index=1

But I do believe his name should be Pieróg instead because Pierogi is the plural form of the name for this Polish dish the birdie got Or Pierożek - a little Pieróg

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25 Mar 2025, 5:31 pm

DuckHairback wrote:

I want to know what this guy was doing poking around women's reproductive systems looking for things that didn't already have a name.

Dude had to earn a living, so he became a master of cadaveric dissection, which is still in use up to this day: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC4582158/

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25 Mar 2025, 11:14 pm

DuckHairback wrote:

I want to know what this guy was doing poking around women's reproductive systems looking for things that didn't already have a name.

E'ryone's gotta pay their bills somehow. :nerdy:

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26 Mar 2025, 3:51 am

^Are you suggesting he collects a fee from everyone with a Fallopian^TM branded body part?

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26 Mar 2025, 12:13 pm

I didn't know there was such a thing as a 4th class degree

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