Telegraph obituaries

This is the true spirit of the form. Sentence three is the punch, but you need the others to make it work:

Patrick Michael Leigh Fermor was born in London on February 11 1915. He was of Anglo-Irish stock and the son of Sir Lewis Leigh Fermor, director of the Geological Survey of India and a naturalist after whom the mineral fermorite was named. He also discovered a worm with eight hairs on its back and a particular formation of snowflake.

"a worm with eight hairs on its back..." Genius.