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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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One my favorite quotes is about Charles Darwin.

You care for nothing but shooting dogs and rat-catching, and you will be a disgrace to yourself and all your family.

-Robert Darwin, speaking to his son, Charles Darwin

[EDIT: I just wanted to note that if you search for this quotation on the internet, it appears that a lot of sites have attempted to alter history by maliciously inserting a comma between shooting and dogs, which makes it look like shooting was one hobby, and dogs were another. No, his hobbies was were not "shooting, dogs". His hobby was "shooting dogs". Just another bit of history they are trying to memory hole.]

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Why would they want to memory hole that?

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Not a good look to have the atheist's God of Evolution and Enlightenment being known for killing puppies as a hobby. It doesn't mesh well with the image they want to convey.