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TIL that in the 19th century some people were buried with "coffin torpedoes", explosive devices intended to deter body-snatchers that dug up the body to sell to medical schools for anatomy study.

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Victorian 'Coffin Torpedoes' Blasted Would-Be Body Snatchers

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