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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

They're from Guinea!

(Actually it's apparently because they were a food animal that cost about a guinea...)

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

There's a whole section about it on Wikipedia with a lot of speculation but the tl;dr is we have no clue why they're called that