'She sells seashells' tongue twister is based on real woman
The tongue-twister 'she sells seashells by the seashore' is known to be based on the life of 19th century fossil hunter Mary Anning. She set up a fossil stand on the Dorset Beach in England and sold fossils to tourists on the seashore. Anning is best known for discovering a 200-million-year-old marine reptile, the first complete ichthyosaurus skeleton.