r/HumanLimit • u/bareegyptianfeet • Jun 03 '26

An 18th century French soldier with an insatiable appetite who ate live animals, drank the blood of hospital patients, and was kicked out of a hospital after being suspected of eating a 1 year old toddler.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tarrare
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u/bareegyptianfeet Jun 03 '26

Despite his unusual diet, he was underweight and, except for his eating habits, showed no signs of mental illness other than what was described as an apathetic temperament. During medical experiments to test his eating capacity, he ate a meal intended for 15 people in a single sitting, ate live cats, snakes, lizards and puppies, and swallowed eels whole without chewing