GORILLA "First used in a Greek translation of 5th century BC Carthaginian explorer Hanno's account of a voyage to West Africa. He reported encountering a tribe of wild hairy people, whose females were, according to a lo...

1. Naaktgeboren When Napoleon seized the Nether...  ...in 1810, he demanded that all Dutchmen take last names , just as the French had done decades prior. Probl...  ...Dutch had lived full and happy lives with single names , so they took absurd surnames in a show of spirit...  ...k, and all of these remain pe...

Something tells me that these guys aren't at a...  ...I say "creatively-named"? It's possible these bar names were pulled out of a hat! Link

You know them, you love them (at least some of the...  ...the patient in the game Operation all have given names . It's true! Mental_floss dug them up, along with...  ...with lots of other fictional characters with full names , just so you'll know. Link

In many TV shows, you know someone by their nickname, and you only know their given name if you pay close attention. In this Lunchtime Quiz from mental_floss, you'll have to match up characters' nicknames with the ch...

It's easy to see how some nicknames came to be. &q...  ...early 90s it no longer appeared in the top 1,000 names

I've always thought that P.F.Chang would turn out...  ...se, along with fourteen other abbreviated company names , have interesting origins. AT&T and 3M are pr...

Randall Munroe of xkcd conducted an online color...  ...are ready. The aim of the survey was to find what names people associate with colors. As you can see, no...  ...he floor at the "disproportionally popular" color names by gender section. Link -via reddit

How well do you know your world leaders, or NF...  ...may need some real luck to identify these twelve names

Well, you may have heard of at least some of these, but you can expand your color vocabulary. Now you'll be able to say "malachite" instead of "kind of a dusky teal green" or "sort of like that Ford van color but a tiny...