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Tarrare: The Weird Medical Mystery of the Spy Who Ate a Toddler
Long before competitive eating was a televised sport, getting kicked out of your parents' house for eating a quarter of a cow in a single day was just the start of the wildest medical mystery in French history.
In this episode, we are tracking the absolutely revolting life of Tarrare, the 18th-century human garbage disposal. We cover:
The Traveling Sideshow: Why eating live puppies, swallowing entire baskets of apples, and chugging literal trash was considered peak entertainment before the internet.
Weaponized Indigestion: The moment the French military looked at a guy who smelled terrible…
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