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TIL William Hare and William Burke ran a boardinghouse where they murdered the tenants and sold the bodies to anatomy schools for dissections. After murdering 16 people and being detained, Hare confessed and was offered immunity. Burke was sentenced to hang and his corpse was publicly dissected.

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