Posted by LenNH on February 20, 2011 at 08:57:20 from (24.128.163.35):
Out there on the net, there are a number of stories going around, usually about why something or other is the way it is. An example is an e-mail I got recently, containing a story which says that railroad track gauge in the U. S. is what it is because Americans borrowed it from the British who got it from....and they got it from.... and eventually, we end up with the track width of Roman chariots, which were as wide as the combined backsides of two Roman horses hitched together. In other words, our trains run on tracks that are as wide as two horses' a(....)s. Well, lately when I get these things, I go directly to snopes.com, a website that has people who do research and try to find out if these stories are true. Highly recommended.
This story is not true, as best snopes.com could find out.
If somebody sent you the one about the pictures of Pearl Harbor found just recently in a Brownie camera that had not been opened since 1941, well, that one is not true, either. Too good to be true, actually. The pictures came from U. S. Navy archives, and had been published before they started making the rounds of the internet.
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