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Today you learn about a famed female fossil hunter history almost forgot, why sad people seek out sad music and how you can get History Almost Forgot, Why Sad People Seek Out Sad Music,

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May 21st is the birthday of a famous female fossil hunter that history almost forgot.

And that's why we're celebrating her birthday by sharing the story of Mary Annning.

She was born on this day in 1799 in a town on the southern coast of Great Britain called Lyme Regis.

The cliffs near her family home are known as the Jurassic Coast because they're so full of ocean fossils from the Jurassic period.

And she used to go fossil hunting with her dad, who was an amateur collector.

He taught her how to clean fossils for display, and they sold a lot of what they found in his

shop where he worked as a cabinetmaker.

But in 1810, when Mary was just 10 years old, her father suddenly passed away,

which left the family in debt and with no formal way to make money.

That's when Mary's mom helped her turn their fossil collecting hobby

into a full-blown business.

Mary didn't have much of a formal education,

but she could read, so she taught herself geology and anatomy to help with

fossil identification. When Mary was 12, her brother Joseph came across a peculiar fossilized

skull. Mary went back to the source and found its fossilized body, a

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