Hans von Pillow

[marnanel]

Today we remember Hans von Pillow (1784-1860) who was the first to say "Mein Gott! People are lying on their beds without anything to rest their heads on. Let me invent a bag filled with duck feathers. Jawohl!" (None of this is actually true.)

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(None of this is actually true.)

Except for the bit that “von Pillow” is a completely plausible surname for a German speaker. (Presumably one from the north-east somewhere, since that’s probably where the Slavic placenames in -ow tend to be.)