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TIL a Canadian town Tisdale used to have a motto "The land of rape and honey" which was changed to "Opportunity grows here" in 2016.(www.theguardian.com)

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can@sh.itjust.works
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The unfortunately named rapeseed

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Skua@kbin.earth
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Oddly enough it’s a total coincidence that they are homonyms. The plant’s name comes from the Latin name for turnip, rapum

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edgemaster72@lemmy.world
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Rapum, I hardly know 'em!

(I’m probably gonna regret posting this)

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Match!!@pawb.social
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wait a fucking second, that’s a Brassica

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YtA4QCam2A9j7EfTgHrH@infosec.pub
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Basically everything is

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MemmingenFan923@feddit.org
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Thanks this explains a lot.

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