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[-] SkunkWorkz@lemmy.world 28 points 2 weeks ago

Imogen is from a Shakespeare play, but it’s actually supposed to be Innogen but the first prints had a printing mistake and the name Imogen came into existence and the script with the error was reprinted for centuries. So everyone who is named Imogen is named after a typo.

[-] sxan@midwest.social 12 points 2 weeks ago

I love this fact. I'm going to accept it without doing any verification!

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