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Yes, the dead are easy to find in war when rocks were no longer available. In fact, corpses and garbage were thrown as a type of biological warfare. The dead and garbage would fester and be swimming in bacteria, maggots, bugs and disease. When they landed on the other side, they would splatter and spread the disease.

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