TIL Mount Everest is named after British surveyor George Everest who never visited or saw it

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Everest#:~:text=George%20Everest%20had%20no%20direct,Sikdar%2C%20who%20calculated%20its%20height.

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