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I think this cheeky habit of biologists also deserves a mention: naming newly discovered organisms after friends or foes, depending on how they feel about those people at the time. Here is the first of four separate wikipedia pages dedicated to those names:

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



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