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TIL Victorian London was frantically looking for a solution for what to do with all their dead, and Architect Thomas Wilson proposed the Metropolitan Sepulchre, a 94 story "Death Pyramid." It would have dominated London's skyline and housed up to 5 million bodies, and even received financial support

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