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TIL until the Anatomy Act of 1832 (UK) there weren't enough corpses for medical schools and body snatching proliferated to a point grieving families had to guard graves after burial. Robbers didn't steal jewelry/clothes as that was a felony punishable by death/transportation; a body was only a fine.

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