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TIL of Carl Tanzler, a hospital worker who fell in love with a dying patient. When she perished, he hauled her body out of the mausoleum on a “toy wagon”, preserved her, slept with her corpse for 7 years and planned to send her to space to “restore” her with radiation.

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