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TIL about the Biological Resource Center in Arizona, that was raided by the FBI in 2014, where agents discovered bodies (which had been donated to "science") "cut up with chainsaws," "a woman's head sewn on a man's torso," and more, being sold for profit. The owner got probation. Agents got therapy.

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