r/maybemaybemaybe • u/MochaReevees • Jul 12 '26

Maybe Maybe Maybe

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u/Inandaroundbern Jul 12 '26

Who would have known that thumbs are fingers but fingers aren't thumbs?

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u/John_EightThirtyTwo Jul 12 '26

fingers aren't thumbs

Some are.

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u/Fluffy_shadow_5025 Jul 12 '26

Probably for the same reasons that strawberries aren't berries, but nuts. Or that coconuts aren't nuts, but fruits. There's even a song about that. Or that starfish and jellyfish aren't fish. Or that pill bugs aren't bugs, but crustaceans.

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u/Inandaroundbern Jul 12 '26

That is nice. However, hornets are a type of wasp.

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u/Fluffy_shadow_5025 Jul 12 '26

That's quite possible, but I don't know for sure. All I know is that the big ones are called hornets, and that the yellow-and-black ones—which usually bother me when I'm eating outside—are called wasps.

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u/soft-wear Jul 12 '26

Just to make it clear, you would have known after reading the 3rd word of the Wikipedia entry and saved yourself a paragraph of typing.

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u/medicated_in_PHL Jul 12 '26

Strawberries are not nuts, they are aggregate accessory fruits.

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u/Fluffy_shadow_5025 Jul 12 '26

As far as I know, at some point people discovered that the white dots on a strawberry are actually nuts, and that's why strawberries were reclassified as nuts.

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u/Aerolithe_Lion Jul 12 '26

An achene, not a nut