stackyFACTSLong before intermittent fasting became a tech bro personality trait, the Victorians made starving a spectator sport. 'Hunger artists' would lock themselves in cages for weeks with nothing but water, while paying audiences gathered to watch them slowly waste away for entertainment.
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