I kid, I kid.
I was hoping for a better reaction; I lurked here for a long time and seem to remember someone going totally apeshit on someone who posted that as fact…
I’ll try again later. 
And yet it’s throat is only big enough to fit a grapefruit through (at least, that’s what Stephen Fry told me on QI).
In the late 1960s, Seiko (the watch company) made one of the first compact dot matrix printers, called the EP-101. It sold fantastically well, and Seiko quickly realized that this line of business had enough potential to warrant launching a subsidiary company under a separate name. Because the EP-101 had gained such a following, Seiko wanted to give its new subsidiary a boost by giving it a name that would communicate that it was the “Son of EP”.
Epson
If you bang your head against a brick wall it really hurts. And nobody knows why.
Not exactly. Macadam is named after its inventer, John Loudon McAdam.
Tarmac is short for tarred macadam.
Right Whales were the correct whale to hunt.
Hugenots met under St. Hugo’s gate in Paris, hence the name.
Detroit’s from French D’etroit, “the narrows”.
The original Captain Jinks fed his horse on corn and beans.
I do not have my book “The making of the Atom Bomb” handy-- a wonderful read-- but, according to it, teflon was used in gaskets and seals, and I think as screens, part of the gaseous diffusion enrichment process. Uranuim hexafluoride gas is extremely corrosive. I do not believe teflon was used in the bomb itself.