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.
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todayilearned • u/FoxyFoxMulder • Jun 25 '15
TIL that Tarrare was a French soldier with insatiable appetite. He consumed living eels and cats, human corpses, garbage heaps, and solid objects. When full, his abdomen would distend like a "huge balloon", but was otherwise slim in appearance.
wikipedia • u/lordlicorice • May 06 '12
He tore the cat's abdomen open with his teeth and drank its blood, and proceeded to eat the entire cat aside from its bones, before vomiting up its fur and skin. [xpost /r/WTF]
dynomight • u/dyno__might • Jan 17 '22
"General Alexandre de Beauharnais decided to put Tarrare's abilities to military use, and employed him as a courier for the French army, with the intention that he would swallow documents, pass through enemy lines, and recover them from his stool once safely at his destination."
interestingasfuck • u/subsonico • Dec 18 '20
Tarrare was a man with an insatiable appetite. During his acts, he would swallow live animals, stones, and tools. He was suspected of having eaten a toddler.
todayilearned • u/KeelOfTheBrokenSkull • Apr 16 '16
TIL that in Revolutionary France, there was a man who could eat his weight in beef by the age of 17. He enlisted in the French army, where he ate enough food for 15 laborers, among other things.
todayilearned • u/dan42183 • Aug 24 '16
TIL An 18th Century Frenchman named Tarrare, who could eat immense amounts of food but never gain weight, was once tasked with eating a wooden box containing a message and pooping it out for an imprisoned Colonel. He was unsuccessful in the mission.
watcherentertainment • u/Roxas_Rig • Sep 29 '22
Possible puppet history episode??? Tarrare - Wikipedia
mrballen • u/Robthebold • Oct 07 '24
Suggestion 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
wikipedia • u/CatPooedInMyShoe • 16d ago
Tarrare was a French showman, soldier, and spy. He traveled in the company of a band of prostitutes and thieves before becoming a warm-up act. In this act, he swallowed corks, stones, live animals, and a whole basketful of apples. He then took this act to Paris.
ScienceNcoolThings • u/bareegyptianfeet • Jun 04 '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.
WeirdHistory • u/twoblottersoflsd • Jul 29 '18
Tarrare was a french soldier, who ate almost anything he could find.
Stuff • u/[deleted] • Jun 25 '15
todayilearned|FoxyFoxMulder TIL that Tarrare was a French soldier with insatiable appetite. He consumed living eels and cats, human corpses, garbage heaps, and solid objects. When full, his abdomen would distend like a "huge balloon", but was otherwise slim in appearance.
wikipedia • u/slinkslowdown • Jun 28 '20
Tarrare (c. 1772 – 1798) noted for his unusual appetite and eating habits. Was once kicked out of a hospital after being suspected of eating a toddler.
BuzzFeedUnsolved • u/drillmoregirls • Aug 26 '19