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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/scarlettredditt on 2024-10-07 14:55:55+00:00.

Original Title: TIL that Tarrare, a man living in the 18th century, had a bizarre endless appetite. He ate a meal made for 15 people in one sitting, live puppies, cats and snakes and it got so bad while hospitalised he attempted to eat corpses from the morgue, patient’s blood and a suspected one year old toddler