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138: Snappy the T. rex

Dear Hank & John

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Can Dead Bodies Get Sunburned?

John, you might be surprised to learn that i did a bunch or research on whether dead bodies get sunburned. I was just in the british museum where i saw a heavily sunburned dead body just sitting there in the middle of the museum. And they were like, look at this mummy. He dried out in the sun, and we know how he died. But it is not just the damage that is done. In fact, like, basically what happens is, your cells get damaged by the sun,. Then your body has a reaction and inflames that area to do the repair work. It's actually the inflammation, a of the repair rather than the damage itself.

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