The Insatiable Tarrare: History's Hungriest Man

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The Insatiable Tarrare: History's Hungriest Man

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This week we flash back to one of history’s most disgusting medical mysteries: the Insatiable Tarrare, an 18th-century French man whose appetite was so extreme he became the fascination of spectators, surgeons, and even the military.

From chowing on garbage and live animals to swallowing secret military documents, Tarrare’s story is part body horror, part history lesson, and part “please don’t listen to this while eating.”

Was he cursed? Sick? Or just the hungriest man who ever lived?

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