Talk:Richard Owen (geologist)

A fact from Richard Owen (geologist) appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 27 June 2012 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that geologist Richard Owen died of accidental poisoning after his grocer mistook a bottle of embalming fluid for mineral water?

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