Today I learned on Nostr: TIL that in 1838, Edgar Allan Poe wrote a novel about four shipwreck survivors who, ...

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.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edgar_Allan_Poe
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