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TIL about a Frenchman named Tarrare, who was a French showman, soldier and spy known for an unusually large appetite. He could eat live animals, quarter of a bullock in a day, he was suspected of eating a one year old toddler while in the hospital. Finally died of exudative diarrhea and tuberculosis

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