My mom was having complications with a pregnancy in 2000 when I was sitting in a doctor's office in St. Louis reading SI. They re-ran this story, but I know that it could not have been around April Fools (unless the issue was a few months old). I was completely convinced (as a 12-year-old). If I remember correctly it was in a countdown of amazing feats or something like that. The other feats were all true. Clearly I missed something, but I remember telling my dad about it and he just laughed and told me it was an old hoax.