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TIL: Before video game addiction, people were blaming Dungeons and Dragons for suicide and teen satanism.

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dDKK8 TIL that the original job of the coroner was to collect the revenues of the English Crown - legal fines, buried treasure, shipwrecks, and the like. This included the seized estates of suicide victims and murderers, and over time the office of coroner evolved into the modern function.
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