darwinWe all like to keep something to read in the bathroom. Maybe a copy of Good Housekeeping, Redbook, or Cosmopolitan. Or maybe a a three day old copy of the Daily News. Whatever it is, it’s usually something you can pick up and browse through while you are… thinking. Anyway, it is fairly unlikely that you keep a copy of Charles Darwin’s, “On the Origin of Species” in your bathroom and I’ll bet it is really unlikely that you keep a first edition of that book worth $100,000 in there. But that is what a family in England has been keeping in their bathroom for the last 40 years. The owners had purchased it in the late 60′s for a “a few shillings” and only recently discovered that it was a first edition. But the real question is, did they ever read it or was it just there to impress visitors?

h/t – Reuters