From wife selling to mummy unwrapping, these Victorian era facts will make you so glad you live in the 21st century.
In the Victorian era, stealing fresh corpses from their graves was an extremely lucrative criminal enterprise. A shortage of cadavers for medical school dissections created an underground trade in dead bodies. Perhaps unsurprisingly, the practice of body snatching caused multiple riots when families found their loved ones missing from the cemetery.
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