The word cannibal was coined by a guy named christopher columbus. American museum of natural history biologist bill shutt writes that europeans in the 16 hundreds would attend executions with empty cups to collect the dead's fresh blood, just to use it as a medicine. The author also describes dining on human placenta, which he did an apparently a taste like liver.

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