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Once he stripped bark from a dead tree and caught a ground beetle in each hand, then saw the rare Crucifix Ground Beetle, Panagaeus cruxmajor. With the habits of an egg-collector, he popped one ground beetle in his mouth to free his hand, but it ejected some intensely acrid fluid which burnt his tongue and Darwin was forced to spit it out. He lost all three.

https://archive.ph/RZrd1

Puts a new perspective on "Darwin's Awards".

>Once he stripped bark from a dead tree and caught a ground beetle in each hand, then saw the rare Crucifix Ground Beetle, Panagaeus cruxmajor. With the habits of an egg-collector, he popped one ground beetle in his mouth to free his hand, but it ejected some intensely acrid fluid which burnt his tongue and Darwin was forced to spit it out. He lost all three. https://archive.ph/RZrd1 Puts a new perspective on "Darwin's Awards".

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Did you know that The Origin of Species was published incomplete? Darwin was told that another researcher was close to publishing and he needed to get his book out or he would be overshadowed.