/u/schuj1's posts in /r/TwoSentenceHorror
Being buried alive was so common in the Victorian era they tied one end of a string to the corpse and the other to a bell, so the "corpse" could ring it if they woke up, hence the saying "saved by the bell".
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Antarctica survived 1.5million years before humans came along, and not one person cared when they warned us it was melting.
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"'Please help me...my baby was playing with a knife thinking it was a toy, she's cut real bad there's blood everywhere please send an ambulance!"
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