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Every legend has a paper trail. We follow it. Sports, business, heists & cons.

Joined October 2026
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YouTube had more than twice Netflix’s share of U.S. TV viewing in August. That’s just televisions. Not the phone you’re reading this on.
Nielsen’s The Gauge, August 2026, showing shares of total U.S. television viewing: YouTube Main 15.8%, Netflix 7.7%, and streaming overall 49.6%. The original Nielsen chart includes its date, source and copyright.

ALT Nielsen’s The Gauge, August 2026, showing shares of total U.S. television viewing: YouTube Main 15.8%, Netflix 7.7%, and streaming overall 49.6%. The original Nielsen chart includes its date, source and copyright.

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College football's first game was played on November 6, 1869. Nobody was allowed to pick up the ball. 🧵
Original November 1869 page of The Targum, with the article THE FOOT-BALL MATCH describing Rutgers versus Princeton on Saturday, November 6. Rutgers Library scan; no added text or verdict stamp.

ALT Original November 1869 page of The Targum, with the article THE FOOT-BALL MATCH describing Rutgers versus Princeton on Saturday, November 6. Rutgers Library scan; no added text or verdict stamp.

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Nov 6, 1869, New Brunswick, NJ. Rutgers vs Princeton (then the College of New Jersey). 25 guys a side. Round ball. Rutgers rules: no throwing it, no running with it, no tripping or holding. Score by kicking it through the goal. Rutgers won 6-4.
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That's soccer. The pick-it-up-and-get-tackled game came in 1874, when Harvard played McGill from Montreal under rugby-style rules and liked them. So Rutgers-Princeton is college football's Game 1 on paper. On the field it was soccer with 50 dudes. VERDICT: MOSTLY FALSE 🧾
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P.T. Barnum never said "there's a sucker born every minute." The real story is better. He got outbid on a fake giant, so he faked the fake. 🧵
October 1869 archival photograph of a crowd gathered around the Cardiff Giant excavation site, with a wooden lifting frame above the pit.

ALT October 1869 archival photograph of a crowd gathered around the Cardiff Giant excavation site, with a wooden lifting frame above the pit.

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Barnum offers $50,000 for it. They say no. So he has his own copy made, shows it in New York, and says theirs is the fake. Hannum's group sues. Hull confesses. The court basically says you can't sue a guy for calling your fake a fake.
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The "sucker" line? Usually pinned on Hannum, about the crowds at Barnum's copy. No proof he said it either. The saying shows up in print in 1879 with no name on it, and doesn't get stuck on Barnum until around the time he died in 1891. VERDICT: FALSE 🧾
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Baseball's most famous quote is "Say it ain't so, Joe." Shoeless Joe Jackson spent the rest of his life saying it never happened. 🧵
Archival black-and-white portrait of Shoeless Joe Jackson wearing a Chicago White Sox uniform and cap, circa 1915–1920. Chicago Daily News photograph, Library of Congress collection.

ALT Archival black-and-white portrait of Shoeless Joe Jackson wearing a Chicago White Sox uniform and cap, circa 1915–1920. Chicago Daily News photograph, Library of Congress collection.

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Jackson's version, to SPORT magazine in 1949: the only guy who talked to him outside was a deputy sheriff who wanted a ride to the South Side. "Charley Owens just made up a good story." Owens was a Daily News writer. Newsreel from that day shows a rowdy crowd. Barely any kids.
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The Brewers just closed out the Rays, so here's your reminder: the most famous line from the dirtiest World Series ever is probably press-box fan fiction. VERDICT: MOSTLY FALSE 🧾
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The Mary Celeste was never found with warm tea on the table. A newspaper made that up 11 years later. 🧵
1861 watercolor ship portrait of the brigantine Amazon, later renamed Mary Celeste, under full sail with a red ensign. Red stamp: FALSE.

ALT 1861 watercolor ship portrait of the brigantine Amazon, later renamed Mary Celeste, under full sail with a red ensign. Red stamp: FALSE.

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What the boarding crew actually told the court at Gibraltar: about 3.5 feet of water in the hold, the galley stove knocked out of place, nothing to eat or drink on the cabin table. No half-eaten breakfast. No warm tea.
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"Dinner standing untasted and scarcely cold" first ran in the LA Times in 1883. Next year young Arthur Conan Doyle wrote a fake story about the "Marie Celeste." A Boston paper ran it as true. The real mystery's still open. None of the 10 were ever seen again. VERDICT: FALSE 🧾
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131-22. Hostile takeover, no shareholder vote needed.
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COMPLETE DOMINATION IN BATON ROUGE 😱 LSU won 131-22 against Texas Southern, the largest win in Division I history against a D-I opponent.
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First NFL start and it's in primetime. No pressure, Joe.
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@NFLNov 5
QB Joe Fagnano making his first NFL start tonight 🙌 JAXvsBAL – 8:15pm ET on Prime Stream on @NFLPlus
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The curse of King Tut exists because one newspaper had an exclusive and every other paper needed a story. 🧵
Harry Burton's 1922 photo inside Tutankhamun's tomb antechamber: a black-and-gold guardian statue beside a ritual couch and stacked objects with numbered cards. Red stamp: FALSE.

ALT Harry Burton's 1922 photo inside Tutankhamun's tomb antechamber: a black-and-gold guardian statue beside a ritual couch and stacked objects with numbered cards. Red stamp: FALSE.

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So they went to "experts." March 1923, novelist Marie Corelli warns in the Daily Express that whoever breaks into a sealed tomb gets punished. 12 days later Carnarvon is dead. Cause: an infected mosquito bite, then blood poisoning and pneumonia. Curse born.
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No curse was ever found written in the tomb. Carter, the guy who actually opened it, lived until 1939. A 2002 BMJ study tracked 25 Westerners who were there for the openings. Their lives were no shorter than the ones who weren't. VERDICT: FALSE 🧾
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