TIL that, technically, corn and rice are both "fruits". This is bullshit. Science is canceled.
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Maybe we should just do more shit like Jerusalem artichoke(or Jerusalem cricket), which is neither an artichoke(I mean, sunflower/thistle are related but still), or from Jerusalem. Just spin a wheel, boom, you got a name
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Also, looking up in the superfamily Jerusalem crickets are from, I didn't think it was possible, but these assholes are uglier and freakier https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cooloola_(insect) …
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I was gonna look up and link "Child Of The Earth" but apparently that's actually the same thing, and frankly "Child Of The Earth" is a much more ominous name than "Jerusalem Cricket".
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Totally! For me growing up I think they were more commonly 'potato bug' That cooloola monster looks like the tank version of them, that bastard stacked armor at character creation
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When I hear "potato bug" I think of these, though we always called them Roly Polys https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armadillidium_vulgare …
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For me those were pillbug (mostly?) and roly poly secondarily I think Oh wow, the UK/Australia names for them are great https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woodlouse Butcher boy and cheesey bobs
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Australia is fake.
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Fake until one of the poisonous things BITES YOU Oh, I also occasionally heard sowbug growing up, but that was pretty rare Some maps: https://www4.uwm.edu/FLL/linguistics/dialect/staticmaps/q_74.html …
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