Except it wasn't inspired by FAIR.

I've always found it interesting how easily loan-shifting is disregarded, however, when it's a very real thing. Marco Polo thought rhinoceroses were unicorns:

Marco Polo mistook some of the animals he saw for mythical creatures.

After his return from Asia, Marco Polo thoroughly documented his encounters with unfamiliar animals such as elephants, monkeys and crocodiles. He described the latter, for instance, as giant, sharp-clawed “serpents” that could “swallow a man … at one time.” But the traveler often confused these strange faunae with creatures from myth and legend. One of the first Europeans to glimpse an Asian rhinoceros, Polo thought the horned beasts were unicorns.

https://www.history.com/news/11-things-you-may-not-know-about-marco-polo