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Don't these need to be age restricted or something?

*sarcastic voice: Corporates.

In August 1984, a team led by forensic anthropologist Owen Beattie dug through five feet of Arctic permafrost on Beechey Island and opened a coffin that hadn’t been touched in 138 years. Inside, they found the body of John Torrington, a 20-year-old Royal Navy stoker, remarkably well preserved, his skin, hair, and facial features looking almost unchanged from the day he was buried in January 1846. Torrington had died during Sir John Franklin’s ill-fated expedition to find the Northwest Passage, an expedition that would ultimately claim all 129 men aboard the HMS Erebus and HMS Terror without a single survivor.

Analysis of Torrington’s remains revealed extremely elevated lead levels in his hair and tissue, likely from the lead solder used to seal the expedition’s tinned food supplies or from the ships’ water systems, alongside clear evidence of malnutrition despite the expedition having carried years’ worth of provisions. The eerie, open-eyed photographs of his preserved face were published worldwide and named him one of People magazine’s most interesting personalities of 1984, inspiring a song by James Taylor, a track by Iron Maiden, and short fiction by Margaret Atwood, according to Wikipedia’s account of the case. Torrington remains one of three “Beechey Island boys” whose exhumations helped researchers finally piece together what killed Franklin’s crew.

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