TIL
- that placebo, or the “make-believe medicine,” got its name from Latin placēbō, which means “I shall please,” and has nothing to do with places or time
- that Iced Earth’s album Something Wicked This Way Comes got its name from “something wicked this way comes,” part of a line from Shakespeare’s Macbeth
- that the name Iced Earth was suggested to Jon Schaffer (guitarist) by his childhood best friend Bill Blackmon, who would later die in a motorbike accident, which then went on to inspire the song Watching Over Me