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![A collection of large, empty barnacle shells.](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/69/Megabalanus_tintinnabulum_fossils_speciemen1.png/120px-Megabalanus_tintinnabulum_fossils_speciemen1.png)
- ... that the barnacle Megabalanus tintinnabulum (empty shells pictured) travelled from the tropics to the Netherlands by ship in 1764 and reached Western Australia in 1949?
- ... that Polybius henslowii has more swimming legs than other swimming crabs?
- ... that the boxer crabs Lybia tessellata and Lybia edmondsoni carry a sea anemone such as Triactis producta in each claw for protection from predators?
- ... that carcinologist Isabel Pérez Farfante and her family were blacklisted by the Cuban government because her husband refused to travel with Che Guevara?