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- ... that legend has it that anyone who spends a night at Tinkinswood on the evenings before May Day, St John's Day (23 June), or Midwinter Day would either die, go mad, or become a poet?
- ... that the Kačák Event caused widespread marine anoxia, forming black shales such as those that generate gas in the Marcellus Shale?
- ... that according to legend, geologist John Marley discovered the Cleveland Ironstone by tripping on a rabbit hole?
- ... that the University of Cambridge's West Cambridge site includes the site of an ancient Roman settlement?
- ...that the extinct species of Edaphodon, a type of rabbitfish related to the shark, grazed along the bottom of the ocean like land-dwelling herbivores do now?
- ...that the Tarxien Temples (pictured) in Malta were discovered when the owner of a field figured that the large stones his workers kept hitting while ploughing may have some archaeological significance?
- ... that lice from mummified guinea pigs and mites preserved in amber while feeding on spiders have provided evidence for researchers in the field of paleoparasitology?
- ... that the extinct ant-like stone beetle Kachinus, found in Cretaceous amber, is similar in appearance to the modern genus Paraneseuthia?
- ... that Baker's Hole, near Dartford, Kent, England, contains a site at which Neanderthals made blades?
- ... that the Devil's Jumps, on the South Downs of West Sussex in southern England, are considered to be the best preserved Bronze Age barrow group in Sussex?