In 1806, the end of the world predicted chicken

People love to predict the end of the world. During the history of mankind such prophecies appeared, probably several hundred, but the most fun is probably the case occurred in 1806. It's one thing when the source of such prophecies are recognized authorities as Maya or Nostradamus, but at that time it was a chicken.

In 1806 chicken in the English town of Leeds suddenly started to lay eggs, which was a wonderful inscription, "Christ is near." The news quickly spread through the entire country, and people are afraid that the world is about to collapse. In the end it turned out that the owner of the chicken itself is etched to advance pending eggs acid that phrase, and then pushes them back into the unfortunate chicken. The incident was called "Prophetic chicken Leeds».

via factroom.ru