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Useless Facts, Badly Drawn #487: Torpedo.
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The Torpedo fish wasn't named after the torpedo, but the other way round. The underwater missile was named after the fish, which are now called electric rays (genus Torpedo, family Torpedinidae). The name, in turn, comes from the Latin torpēdo, meaning lethargy or sluggish-ness. The name was fitting because the original design was more like a sea mine than today's self-propelled device.

Useless Facts, Badly Drawn #487: Torpedo.
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.
#torpedo #torpedofish #electricrays #nomenclature #whatsinaname #fish #submarines #missiles #explosives #strangebuttrue #didyouknow #funfacts #facts #webcomics #comics #uselessfacts #uselessfactsbadlydrawn

The Torpedo fish wasn't named after the torpedo, but the other way round. The underwater missile was named after the fish, which are now called electric rays (genus Torpedo, family Torpedinidae). The name, in turn, comes from the Latin torpēdo, meaning lethargy or sluggish-ness. The name was fitting because the original design was more like a sea mine than today's self-propelled device.

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