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This might be the most wild thing I've ever read.
by yroc92 8y ago
This might be the most wild thing I've ever read.
- LyndsySimon 8y agoThere was a reported case of a virgin birth during the US Civil War, where a bullet passed through a soldier’s testes and ended up in a young lady. https://en.m.wikisource.org/wiki/Attention_Gynaecologists!_—_Notes_from_the_Diary_of_a_Field_and_Hospital_Surgeon,_C._S._A https://en.m.wikisource.org/wiki/Attention_Gynaecologists!_—.... It’s generally considered to be farcical, but I’ve seen it passed off as real.
- dbasedweeb 8y agoIIRC Mythbusters had an episode about this “son of a gun” myth and concluded that it was essentially impossible. It still makes an amazing story. Like all virgin births I expect the truth was either that it was entirely fabricated, or it was real insofar as the woman in question didn’t want to publically give up her “virtue” (which given the periods involved, is understandable). Plus you as a bonus you get long odds on starting a religion.