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A French illusionist is widely credited with first pulling a live rabbit from a top hat

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The most incredibly cliché trick in existence actually has a specific starting point. A famous French illusionist is widely credited with being the very first to successfully yank a live rabbit completely out of an apparently empty top hat in the eighteen hundreds. Before this, hats were entirely meant strictly for heads, not rodents.

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