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  3. I find it interesting that the UK and the US both took artists' names to define overly complicated contraptions.

I find it interesting that the UK and the US both took artists' names to define overly complicated contraptions.

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    I find it interesting that the UK and the US both took artists' names to define overly complicated contraptions. Both independently decided that the shorthand was one specific dude's name instead of any other way of naming something, but they just happened to pick different guys. In the US it was Rube Goldberg, in the UK it was Heath Robinson...
    https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ce3gqe0elx3o

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