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TIL of the Guangxi Massacre in China, where local Communist Party offices sponsored mass cannibalism to promote political factions. Up to 150,000 people died, some bodies were retained as after-dinner snacks, and there was even a social hierarchy created of who was allowed to eat which body parts.

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