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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/xxxFeralFoxxx on 2025-02-25 02:57:30+00:00.

Original Title: TIL that in 1838, Edgar Allan Poe wrote a novel about four shipwreck survivors who, after drawing lots, eat a cabin boy named Richard Parker. Forty-six years later, a real ship sank, and the survivors—after drawing lots—ate a cabin boy named Richard Parker.