I was reading a post about unique things you wouldn’t want, such as a nasty medical condition named after you.

That got me thinking.

What is the most unique thing.

Being the tallest person doesn’t count, because there is always a tallest person…

I thought maybe units of measure, there are not really that many units named after people. Newton, Pascal, ampere etc… Turns out there are quite a few.

Next thought was atomic elements, there are 19 named after 20 people. That is fairly unique 20 people out of the ~110 billion to have ever lived, have an element named after them.

  • Tiefling IRL
    4·
    2 months ago

    There’s a whole series of books about this lol

    (Referring to Guinness)

    • absGeekNZ@lemmy.nzOPEnglish
      1·
      2 months ago

      True.

      I haven’t looked at one since I was a kid.

      I know they do, tallest/fastest/biggest etc… But they are all things that always exist.

      E.g. the biggest pizza in the world, well before that there was also a biggest pizza it was just smaller than the current one, and before that etc…

      I guess anything with a single record, not just the latest in a long string should count.