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The Weirdest Thing I Learned This Week

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The Green Flash

The green flash is a phenomenon that like a lot of people try to take pictures of. European nobles incorporated human remains including stolen Egyptian mummies and grave-frobed Irish burial remains into medicine for hundreds of years. A Smithsonian magazine article by Maria Dolan references recent books, Medicinal Cannibalism in Early Modern English Literature and Culture.

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