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Apparently CERN's full name is *Organisation* Européenne pour la Recherche Nucléaire. Can't have one normal acronym ever.
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Originally Conseil Européen, the name was changed within a year of its founding, but they just kept CERN because OERN sucks.
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@chjara did the name change and they kept the abbreviation?
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