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TIL in 1806 Mary Bateman convinced hundreds of people her hen could predict the world’s end. Bateman sold protective wards for a shilling, but was exposed after a doctor caught her shoving handwritten eggs into her hen. Bateman then practiced medicine and was executed for poisoning her patients.

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