Arctic Explorers Ate Their Friends to Survive

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[00:00:00]Did you know that 129 elite British sailors turned to eating each other to survive in the Arctic? In 1845, Sir John Franklin led the Royal Navy's best men to find the Northwest Passage. They vanished completely. [music] For over a century, nobody knew what happened. Then scientists found their bones. Cut marks showed they systematically [music] butchered their own shipmates. Lead poisoning from their canned food likely drove them insane during that final winter. The ice preserved evidence [music] of their desperate cannibalism for generations.