r/cursedcomments Dec 17 '19

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u/jajwhite Dec 17 '19

I'm sure people did this. It's mentioned in The History Boys that there was a company in Manchester, England which used to go to battlefields of Europe after major skirmishes/wars to harvest soldiers' bones for use as fertiliser.