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TIL the “heart burial” coincided with the Crusades where, rather than sending a whole body back for burial, they just transported the deceased’s heart preserved in lead or ivory boxes, often with spices to keep it from smelling too much.

by whatilearned August 25, 2022, 1:06 am

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Anglo-Saxon burial ground unearthed at HS2 site in Buckinghamshire

by HistoryBuff June 16, 2022, 8:48 am

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TIL of Mt. Zion Cemetery, founded in 1916 in East Los Angeles, as a burial place for Eastern European Jews. Amongst the buried was Lamed Shapiro, noted Yiddish writer who died destitute. Inconclusive county records indicate no legal owner, with the last burial taking place in the late 2000s.

by whatilearned June 5, 2022, 5:12 am

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TIL in 2016 archaeologists discovered the first incidence of cannabis being used as a “shroud” covering in a human burial. The 2,400 year old tomb also contained 13 complete cannabis plants, suggesting that it was locally grown along the Silk Road.

by whatilearned March 19, 2022, 5:29 pm

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TIL That anyone killed by lightening in Rome was denied proper burial, because it was assumed the gods had punished him

by whatilearned March 12, 2022, 1:05 pm

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TIL of an 1830 attempt to steal George Washington’s skull from his tomb at Mount Vernon. It failed and prompted the construction of a new, more secure, burial vault which his remains reside in today.

by whatilearned March 1, 2022, 10:32 pm

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TIL of Minik Wallace, a Greenlandic child brought to New York in 1897 and studied by a museum, who held custody. After many of his companions died of tuberculosis, the museum faked a burial of his father and secretly put his skeleton on display. 20 years later, Minik would die in 1918 of influenza.

by whatilearned February 23, 2022, 12:06 am

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TIL there are twice as many pyramids in Sudan than Egypt. A thousand years after the Giza pyramids were made, many Nubian kings got inspired and made their own pyramids. By that time the Egyptians had already stopped making pyramids because their burial methods had changed.

by whatilearned February 22, 2022, 8:00 am

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TIL A type of eco burial is a mushroom suit, which digests your body after you die, and Luke Perry was buried in one.

by whatilearned December 13, 2021, 4:36 pm

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TIL until the Anatomy Act of 1832 (UK) there weren’t enough corpses for medical schools and body snatching proliferated to a point grieving families had to guard graves after burial. Robbers didn’t steal jewelry/clothes as that was a felony punishable by death/transportation; a body was only a fine.

by whatilearned November 3, 2021, 3:36 pm

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TIL that when the British monarchy was restored in 1660 under Charles II, the body of Oliver Cromwell was dug up, hanged in chains and beheaded as a posthumous execution for the crime of signing Charles I’s death warrant. His head was then owned by various people till its burial in 1960.

by whatilearned October 17, 2021, 6:15 pm

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Google sets burial date for legacy Chrome Extensions, fears for ad-blockers grow

by ProgrammerDude September 28, 2021, 8:54 am

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