10 Things You Didn't Know Were Named After People

it's time to learn the names of things. that were named after people let's talk. about. [Music]. that good mythical morning you've got a. name I've got a name he's got a name his. name is red in case you didn't know some. people's names lead to other things. being named that you ultimately wouldn't. know originated from a person's name. yeah I've got an exercise Nam after me. two of them so here's the deal I've.

amassed a collection of terms that you I. think will be surprised originated from. the name of a person red is not privy to. this information I have it on my laptop. and we are going to play a game you can. play along at home I'm going to just. true faults okay 5050 brother you know I. like it that way I'm going to give you a. turn it's not true faults maybe it's. true faults I'm GNA give you a term and. I'm going to give you the name of the. person that where the term originated.

you're going to learn something. hopefully you're welcome to learn. something as well if you get seven out. of 10 of these right oh 70% that's a c. or a d you you get to. name the fox that's been hanging on the. wall this whole time oh I've been. wanting to name that fox that one right. there Mr Fox get to name him after you. yeah if you lose I get to name him after. me and then every time we look at him. we're going to be reminded of this. episode where you fail we don't talk.

about him that much though we'll start. talk if we name him after me I'll talk. about him all the time okay you guys. ready I got a good name too don't cheat. here I know you won't uh first word. brain that is uh the organ that serves. as the center of this nervous system and. all vertebrate and most invertebrate. animals okay a German doctor alfrick. Brean while studying the inis that's the. Greek term for the thing that's in there. to simplify his Journal notes began.

calling it a shortened version of his. name Brin BR which translated to English. is. brain true or. false that is a very good lifee it's not. true so I'm going to go with my instinct. and say that it's true it is. far uh fun fact brain is in fact derived. from the word Brean which may be what. you were thinking but that's not a. person's name it's just Old English that.

was used to describe the inside of the. head br br oh yeah I should have sorry. sorry guys I'll let you down hey oh for. one yeah you're you're still good man. it's still early you losing I got to get. the first one right. saxophone this is a family of woodwin. instruments uh that make people really. cool name for Adolf. saxs he messed around different kinds of.

horns and wanted to make something like. a horn but that can be controlled like a. woodwind plus thus the saxophone was. made in 1841 I don't believe there was a. got named saxs that would be an. unfortunate last name I'm going to say. that that is f. true the saxophone is named after Adolf. saxs dang I'm over for two these are. hard man his last name was Sachs you. think I'm gonna get seven of. these just learn from your.

mistakes take this class all right next. word shrapnel are you familiar metal. debris that fly at lethal speed from. explosions yes it's named after a guy. named shrapnel okay was it named after a. person who was Major General Henry. shrapnel who designed a spherical case. ammunition Hollow Cannonball filled with. stuff that burst in midair yeah he did. that sounds about right Mr shrapnel it's. true boom major en Henry.

shrapnel all right see if you can. continue your comeback R yeah next term. mhm macademia nuts oh I like those 1857. a white chocolate macadamia nut cookie. 1857 name for a botanist whose name was. macadamia nut no just kidding just. kidding 1857 name for a botanist. Ferdinand Von. Mueller nope ferdinan Von mu I can't.

F Ferdinand Von Mueller discovered them. in Australia and named them after his. famous friend 19th century chemist. politician John. Macadam this sounds totally made up I I. I would say that Macadamia is a place. that they were discovered but maame but. I will say Madame I will say that. macademia I I know my geography very. well and I've never seen macademia on a. map so I'm going to go with your crazy. story about a man who named it after.

friend John Madam true I can't say it I. can't say any one of their names but. it's John. Macadamia I have a nut on my shirt think. about that but I pistachio is that name. I pistachio man all right oh Mesmerize. come back tra are you familiar M to hold. the attention of someone to the. exclusion of all else or so as to. transfix them was it named. after fron. Mesmer a doctor in 18th century who.

advocated a new healing technique he. called animal magnetis magnetism gosh. where he mesmerized a patient believing. he could cure them through natural. magnetic force they poo pooed his. findings but later the term Mesmerize. had Mor into a synonym. for I Cann say I need to name something. after you hypnosis a Lin impediment. okay um Mesmerize sounds like a word. that has Latin roots not the name I I'm.

gonna say that that is not a true. story it is true gosh bronze Mesmer that. doesn't make curing people with magnets. yeah fun fact in 1774 Mesmer produced an. artificial tide in a patient by having. her swallow a preparation containing. iron and then attaching magnets to. various parts of her body whoa what a. nut all right you've got three you've. got to get all the rest of them right to. rename the fox or to name Fox I'm. mesmerized by this the term wheel are.

you familiar a circular component that. is intended to rotate on an. axle I'm familiar with a wheel though. the wheel was first used around 3500 BC. it wasn't called such until Slovenian. Chariot racer Luana whe became wildly. popular around 2300 VC Chariot racer. Luana wheel nobody became wildly popular. for anything in 2300 BC false that's. false okay it comes from the old English.

word whe go with an H in the front yeah. I'm still on the track still on the. track next term chauvinism or chauvinist. like male chauvinist. Pig ex excessive or I. cannot read words my notes excessive or. prejudiced loyalty or support for a. particular I know what Chism means are. you familiar yeah was it named after. Legendary French soldier n chovin who.

served in Napoleon's Army and was. excessively loyal being wounded in. battle 17. times was he also a chauvinist was he. also just like he was excessively loyal. wounded 17. times that has to be true it doesn't. make it doesn't sound like something. somebody would make up not even me yep. that's true boom Nicholas chauvinist all. right next one sideburns are you. familiar yes you're familiar Nam after. General Burnside you got it okay yeah.

buddy I went to history CLS I I knew you. knew this and I I just like the fact. that someone coined the phrase by having. them and they reversed it side Burns. yeah they right there yeah they revers. they didn't reverse the growth though I. got two more right I got to get both of. them right to to name the fox duvet are. you familiar type of betting a duvet. cover yes we have one at home in the mid. 18th century Elaine constant duvet born. and raised in France resettled in WIS. phalia Germany where she discovered a. need for a more appropriate bed cover. for the dramatic shifts in weather. constructed the duvet and began selling.

them what year you say 18th century 18th. century I. would I'm gonna say that's false it is. false yes no one knows where the term. came from W it all comes down to the. last question not in my notes I love it. when this happens down to the wire Rett. the word is boycott boycott are you. familiar boycott yes to boyot stain from.

her you know is it named for Captain. Charles boycott in 1880 during the Irish. land War when boycott refused his. tenants demands for 25% reduction in. rates he began evicting them politicians. and others began to ostracize him and. his family depriving them of service in. stores mail delivery and other. necessities they boycotted him and his. name was boycott H kind of a circular. thing happening here. true or false rat who gets to name the.

fox. true it is. true boom that fox from now on will be. called I didn't think of MC Rhett MC Fox. Rhett mcf Fox you didn't think of this. ahead of time Rhett MC Fox man that's a. good name about Rett mcf foxlin Rhett. mcf foxlin now I named him after no Rett. MC Fox for short yeah you're like the.

Macadamia guy leave a comment and let. Rhett know what he should name the fox I. guess he can waiver at this point Thanks. for liking this episode and you can. support the show by signing up for a. hassle-free mobile experience at Ting. you did a good job get $25 off credit. you know how it works R link. time you. know what time it is hey y'all this is. whisten Phil from toss Oklahoma it's. time for them to spin the wheel of M. cloud my CL the my the the round greeny. will with the little things that they.

that red and Link do at the end of this. show every time we say or do something. stupid on this show which is quite. often somebody gifs it and we and we. repost that on Tumblr because we just. think it's really great when you make. fun of us click over there and Tumble on. that also click through to good myth. Gore where I've got interesting foods. named after people link gets easily. distracted by shiny objects hey man I'm. I'm kind of glad that you shiny yeah.

it's a it's been there for it's a long. time it's been there that you um that. you got to name the fox cuz I think. that's shiny too is that a camera it's. shiny wow you never this is shiny that's. shiny yeah we talk into this and we look. into that like pretty much every time. your forehead's shiny too oh. yeah uh tootsie rolls are you familiar. Tootsie I don't like the way you say. that Tootsie it's not toot roll it's. Tootsie Roll there's two o in it it's PR.

what what are you laughing at.