Remember those two man-eating lions at the Field Museum in Chicago? Turns out they really did eat men -- plenty of them too.

Two researchers analyzed the hair and teeth of the two so-called Tsavo lions to figure out their favorite meals.

The male lions became the stuff of legend in 1898 when they terrorized workers building the Ugandan Railway line over the Tsavo River in Kenya.

British officer John Henry Patterson shot them in December of that year and maintained they'd gobbled 135 people between them.

Not so, says a researcher at the Field Museum and another at UC-Santa Cruz. They put the number at 35 victims based on the probability of humans in their diets, but it could be as few as four or as many as 75 people.

Patterson sold the hides to the Field Museum in 1925 and the "Tsavo maneaters" have been a popular display ever since.