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Debunked: Ship captains, on their own authority, can perform marriages. |
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Unknown: Guy dodges draft by eating peanut butter/hotdog from rectum in front of MD. |
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Debunked: US Navy aircraft carrier engages in radio exchange to tell other party to move to avoid collision. Other party was a lighthouse! |
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Debunked: Story involving a page or an elevator operator telling US Rep. Fred "Love Boat" Grandy "Lido Deck, sir?" or "Promenade Deck, sir?" subsequently being fired. |
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Debunked: Mary Baker Eddy (Christian Science) was buried w/a phone so she could [call] her followers from "The Other Side." |
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Debunked: Govt cabbage price memo lots longer than var. patriotic/religious documents. ["The Price of Cabbage Memo" under "Government Legends" in TCD.] |
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Debunked: Queen Victoria so loved Alice in Wonderland she requested copies of all Lewis Carroll's books. Was ticked with copy of Symbolic Logic. |
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Debunked: Adolf Hitler intentionally snubbed Jesse Owens by refusing to shake hands with him in the 1936 Olympics. |
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Unknowable: You can tell if a big op. is happening at US gov't by level of pizza orders. |
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Documented: There were (are?) Japanese soldiers hiding out on isles in Pacific who believed WWII was still on. |
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Documented: Thomas Jefferson made whoopee with his slave Sally Hemings. |
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In Dispute: Germans build a fake airfield; British bomber drops a fake bomb on it. |
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Debunked: One mile in five is straight on American interstate highways to provide emergency airstrips in the event of war. |
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Documented: Highways in other countries (like Sweden, Switzerland, Finland and Singapore) are sometimes used as military airstrips. |
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Debunked: Winston Churchill's dad saves a young Alexander Fleming and pays his way through med school. Fleming returns the favor by discovering penicillin and saving Winston Churchill from a life threatening infection. |
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Debunked: Plane flys by beach, ten thousand penguins turn their heads in unison watching the plane go by. Plane flys back, penguins turn their heads in the opposite direction. Plane flys directly over penguins, heads go up, up, up, and ten thousand penguins fall over gently onto their backs. |
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Documented: Jane Fonda visited North Vietnam during the late unpleasantness. |
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Debunked: Jane Fonda ratted out American POWs during her visit. |
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Documented: Polish cavalry charged German tanks during World War II. |
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Debunked: Falling cow sinks fishing ship. |
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Debunked: Raised hooves on equestrian statues indicates the rider's fate. |
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Debunked: Mr. Fred Rogers was a sniper during one of the US police actions of the 20th century. |
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Unknown: He wears that cardigan to cover up the tatoos. |
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Debunked: Police clock low-flying military plane that breaks their radar, complain to authorities, told that plane was going to launch missile at them. |
