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TIL of the Donner Party who were a group of pioneers including women and children who had to resort to cannibalism after an early snowfall cut off their destination, just one mountain pass over. (en.wikipedia.org)

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[–] [email protected] 49 points 4 days ago (2 children)

I was once stuck on a train near Donner pass for 6 or 8 hours. The train had a whole car that had been booked by a girlscout group, so I got to spend a chunk of that time listening to a few tweens debate what order to eat everyone in.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 4 days ago (1 children)

That’s just girls being girls tbh

[–] [email protected] 15 points 4 days ago

god forbid girls have hobbies

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

I would have broken out in this song:

https://youtube.com/watch?v=0CizU8aB3c8

From this musical:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cannibal!_The_Musical

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago

It was been way too long since I've watched that.