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TIL that in the 18th and 19th centuries, cemeteries in Britain used "cemetery guns" to prevent grave robbing. These guns were set up near graves and were designed to discharge when triggered by a tripwire, stopping "body snatchers" who stole corpses to sell to medical schools.

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