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TIL: The Sedlec Ossuary contains the skeletons of between 40,000 and 70,000 people, whose bones have been artistically arranged to form decorations and furnishings such as a bone chandelier. Some arrangements were by a half blind monk in 1511. It is now a tourist attraction and featured in movies.

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