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I heard it for Michael Jackson first (startrek.website)
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[–] 19 points 2 years ago (8 children)

Glad to see the other misinformation classics like Richard Gere's gerbil mentioned.

Anyone remember Jamie Lee Curtis was secretly a hermaphrodite?

It was known. I don't trust anything I learned pre Internet anymore, including the number of planets.

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  • [–] 10 points 2 years ago (4 children)

    When I was a kid in the '70s the big rumor was that Rod Stewart had to go to the hospital once to have a gallon of sperm pumped out of his stomach. I was surprised when I saw a fairly recent interview with Stewart where he mentioned this rumor and he was even aware of where it came from.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago

    Where's the one about Rod Stewart's stomach getting pumped at the hospital? That was a doozy that I heard in two different countries and two different languages, and this was in the late-70s/early-80s, people didn't even have fax machines then. How did this one get around so quickly?

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Anyone remember Jamie Lee Curtis was secretly a hermaphrodite?

    Yes, I remember that one!

    And Catherine the Great really liked horses...

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago

    It wasn't millennials who started that one. I heard it from my genx history teacher. Who honestly I had a lot of respect for at the time, maybe because he told us stories like that, but the more I learn about the world the more I find he was so full of shit and he was like my favorite teacher so its disappointing. One of these days I'm going to find out that the Maginot Line was actually a great idea and if you are France after WW1 you should always build the Maginot Line.

    Re Catherine the Great's horse thing, my understanding is that the stories were contemporaneous with her rule and that all powerful women in europe had similar sorts of things said about them. There as a whole early tabloid industry describing in detail the various imagined exploits of Marie Antoinette.

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