English servant Mary Toft managed to convince the most prominent doctors in eighteenth-century Britain, including the personal surgeon to King George I, that she was actively giving birth to litters of rabbits in 1726.

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English servant Mary Toft managed to convince the most prominent doctors in eighteenth-century Britain, including the personal surgeon to King George I, that she was actively giving birth to litters of rabbits in 1726. She achieved this horrifying medical hoax by manually inserting dismembered animal parts into her own body and subsequently delivering them in front of astonished medical professionals who somehow believed her. The entire scientific establishment was publicly humiliated when a porter finally caught her trying to sneak a dead rabbit into her room. It really highlights the stunning gullibility of the era's greatest minds, who threw away all biological logic because a peasant woman put on a good show. We like to think humanity has evolved, but this proves we have always been desperate to believe absolute nonsense!