The Best Story You'll Ever Read

At the behest of Miss E, a blog update for today.  I stumbled upon a short story that began thus:

In 1987, paleontologist Tom Rich was leading a dig at Dinosaur Cove southwest of Melbourne when student Helen Wilson asked him what reward she’d get if she found a dinosaur jaw. He said he’d give her a kilo (2.2 pounds) of chocolate. She did, and he did.

Encouraged, the students asked Rich what they’d get if they found a mammal bone. These are fairly rare among dinosaur fossils in Australia, so Rich rashly promised a cubic meter of chocolate — 35 cubic feet, or about a ton.

I read the ending and discovered the best story ever. And then I fact-checked it via National Geographic, before I brought it to you.