kottke.org pointed out this egregious abuse of regular expressions some time ago, but the page he referenced never made it into my post, and I can't find Kottke's post in his archives. In the course of trying to track down the page, I found several variations and amplifications of /^(11+)\1+$/ as a regular expression to find prime numbers in Perl, Python, or what have you.
See posts from Brontosaurus, Peteris Krumins, Neil Kandalgaonkar, Avinash Meetoo, and this Stack Overflow thread. There is a Perl one-liner by Abigail (last name?) from a 1997 Perl Journal that perhaps takes historical priority.
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