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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/jon_stout on 2024-11-26 06:42:39+00:00.

Original Title: TIL that the word “shrapnel” comes from Lieutenant-General Henry Scrope Shrapnel, inventor of the first Shrapnel shell, whose name eventually came to be associated with the metal fragments his creation produced.