5 Amazing facts about crickets

1. Disney got in a lot of trouble because of the character "Jiminy Cricket" in the 1940 animated movie "Pinocchio" after animal rights activists complained that crickets were unfairly represented in the movie. They claimed that, at the start of the movie, the fact that he is in tatty clothes that are poorly patched up perpetuates the negative stereotype that all crickets are lazy and refuse to work, thus resulting in their shabby looking appearance. In 1986 Disney offered a full apology but decided to keep the scene in the movie as a way to educate future generations on species-ism during the early 1900's.

2. Crickets  have an incredibly poor sense of humor, this explains why their trademark chirping laughter can be heard when ever someday tells a bad joke.

3. Before the Great aphid war of 1872, crickets and grasshoppers were nearly inseparable, however after several devastating battles stemming from a disagreement about over hunting their prey their populations were decimated. Whilst the UN has regularly tried to hold peace talks between the two species no agreement has been reached and the conflicts still continue to this day (67 years after the war officially ended).

4. Crickets have wings and are able to fly but the vast majority are scared of heights and instead choose to jump around, which can also be terrifying for them if they misjudge the jump and go a little higher than expected. On a side note, this is also the reason crickets don't choose the window seat on a plane.

5. There is a lot of controversy then it comes the JFK assassination in 1963, with theories such as a "second shooter" and "the babushka lady" but none are as confusing as "the grassy knoll cricket theory". In late 2009 after studying some of the few video tapes of the assassination, Kodak engineer John Loghammer made a potentially earth shattering discovery. After using the patented zoom and enhance technique that he created in the early 2000's he noticed what appeared to be a small insect of somekind lurking in the grass. After countless hours of zooming and enhancing he finally realised just what it was he was looking at, a cricket.

This raises so many questions. Who was the cricket? What was he doing there? Why hasn't he come forward? Where is he now? We may never know the answers to these questions, and perhaps that's what makes it so damn intriguing.