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How likely is it that I would have gotten away with a murder in Victorian-era England? If there were no witnesses and forensic science didn't exist, how could it be proved I did it?

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The French soldier and performer "Tarrare" was reliably said to have had such a voracious appetite that he ate live cats and dogs, rotten meat found in the street and even a corpse. Is there a modern-day medical explanation for this behavior?

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If South African cricket and rugby teams of the 70s and 80s had not been banned from competing internationally, how dominant would they have been?

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How likely is it that I would have gotten away with a murder in Victorian-era England? If there were no witnesses and forensic science didn't exist, how could it be proved I did it?	169
The French soldier and performer "Tarrare" was reliably said to have had such a voracious appetite that he ate live cats and dogs, rotten meat found in the street and even a corpse. Is there a modern-day medical explanation for this behavior?	33
If South African cricket and rugby teams of the 70s and 80s had not been banned from competing internationally, how dominant would they have been?	1