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TIL that in 1945, a bulldozer in Liverpool uncovered a narrow metal cylinder containing the skeleton of a man. Diaries and other personal effects on the remains strongly suggest that the man died in 1885, but the exact circumstances of how he ended up in the cylinder remain unknown

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