Baby born in portable toilet, named John

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In mid-1995, a 22-year-old woman named Staci Medlar — “who says she didn’t know she was pregnant” — gave birth in a portable toilet while at an antique tractor show in Ankeny, Iowa.

It was a baby boy. What did she and her fiancé decide to name him?

John.

(Though I doubt they named him after his birthplace. It’s likely they would have chosen that name regardless. Still, it is a funny coincidence…)

Source: “Baby John born in portable toilet.” Telegraph-Herald 4 Jul. 1995: 1.

Image: Adapted from Custer Johns 2 by mexican 2000 under CC BY-SA 2.0.

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