TIL that if you die homeless or with no money in New York City, you are buried by prisoners on Hart Island in a mass grave, up to 1000 per grave for children and 50 for adults, with the exception of Special Baby number 1, the first baby to die of AIDS.

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/what-happens-when-a-homeless-new-yorker-dies-808498/