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TIL that in the Middle Ages, the bodies of aristocrats who died in far-off lands would sometimes be boiled to remove the flesh from the bone, in order to make it possible to hygenically transport ... (en.wikipedia.org)

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Original Title: TIL that in the Middle Ages, the bodies of aristocrats who died in far-off lands would sometimes be boiled to remove the flesh from the bone, in order to make it possible to hygenically transport their bones to their homelands for burial

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