Cool facts about Charles Darwin
Posted on Nov 24, 2025 / Celebs
- He originally trained to become a doctor but couldn’t stand seeing surgery.
- Darwin waited more than 20 years to publish his big theory because he feared backlash.
- His five-year voyage on the HMS Beagle included only about five weeks on the Galápagos.
- He married his first cousin, Emma Wedgwood, and they had ten kids.
- Darwin loved beetle collecting — at one point he held three beetles at once using his mouth.
- He did a lot of experiments in his own garden to study plants and worms.
- He is buried in Westminster Abbey near Newton, which is an incredible scientific honour.
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