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TIL about Famadihana, a funerary tradition of Madagascar. People bring forth the bodies of their ancestors from the family crypts, rewrap them in fresh cloth, and rewrite their names so they will always be remembered. The practice is thought to be connected to pneumonic plague transmission

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