Things England has been historically amazing at, in order:
1. Colonizing
2. Creating sports that the rest of the world eventually becomes much better at
3. Polite rudeness
4. Telling the phonetic sound of 't' to bugger off
Cicadas have a 98% mortality rate prior to maturity, yet there are still billions of them that will reach adulthood in Brood X. Imagine if they all lived to maturity...we're talking something like 500 trillion cicadas. Earth would be the planet of the cicadas for like a month.