TIL during the age of sail if a group was stranded without food it was customary to kill and eat a member of the group, with the victim determined by lot. The practice was largely ended via a legal decision in 1884.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Custom_of_the_sea?wprov=sfti1#End_of_the_cannibal_custom
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