"TIL in 1921 there were 14 million telephones in the US & Canada. On August 4th all of them were simultaneously silenced by the telephone companies for one minute. This was done as a mark of respect for the telephone inventor Alexander Graham-Bell on the day of his funeral."
...and he begged his doctors to let him die the whole time. They rejected it because they could "learn something". Sometimes doctors are nothing more as sociopathic egoists.
As I remember it they rejected because of the wishes of the family.
A certain Fauci comes to mind...
At least it wasn't named for the conception.
"Look, Ma! I can see The Splooge Way!"
IIRC, one of the African creation myths is exactly that.
Gala means Milk in Greek. Hence Galaxy.