{"id":42434,"date":"2015-07-31T22:53:45","date_gmt":"2015-08-01T05:53:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/?p=42434"},"modified":"2015-07-31T22:53:45","modified_gmt":"2015-08-01T05:53:45","slug":"weekly-wrap-volume-91","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/2015\/07\/weekly-wrap-volume-91\/","title":{"rendered":"Weekly Wrap Volume 91"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"bull-on-roof\"<\/a>The Mystery of the Kentucky Meat Shower<\/a><\/p>\n

On March 3, 1876, one Mrs. Crouch was working in her yard in Bath County, Kentucky, making soap, when suddenly \u201cmeat which looked like beef began to fall all around her. The sky was perfectly clear at the time.\u201d Falling like large snowflakes and settling all around the 5000 square foot yard, pieces of flesh ranging in size from about two inches square to four, dotted the ground and were even stuck on the fences. When it first appeared, the meat was said to be fresh, and, accordingly, two unidentified (but brave) men even sampled it. They claimed it tasted a bit gamey \u2013 like mutton or even venison. The story was published in the New York Times on March 9th, and it caught the attention of Leopold Brandeis who was able to get his hands on a sample that had been preserved in glycerine. After examining it… (more<\/a>)<\/p>\n

\"robert-campbell\"<\/a>The Curious Case of Captain Robert Campbell<\/a><\/p>\n

Captain Robert Campbell began his British Army career in 1903 at the age of 18. Shortly after WWI started, in July of 1914 Campbell and the soldiers he was leading, the First Battalion East Surrey Regiment, were sent to Mons-Cond\u00e9 canal in the north west of France. One week later, after an attack by German forces, Captain Campbell was seriously injured and ultimately captured. He was then treated in a German military hospital in Cologne, and, once healed up a bit, sent to the prisoner-of-war (POW) camp in Magdeburg, Germany. None of this makes Captain Campbell particularly unique in the \u201cWar to End All Wars.\u201d Between… (more<\/a>)<\/p>\n

\"paul-mccartney\"<\/a>How the Rumor That Paul McCartney Died in 1966 and Was Secretly Replaced by a Look-Alike Got Started<\/a><\/p>\n

For a couple of months in the fall of 1969, a persistent rumor that Paul McCartney had been killed two years earlier and replaced with a look-alike captured the imaginations of Beatles fans and the general public. The rumor began in the winter of 1967 when, after a particularly icy night, reports were flying among Britain\u2019s national press that Paul had been killed in a car crash on January 7, 1967. The tale was reported in the February issue of The Beatles Monthly Book (#43) under the heading of \u201cFalse Rumour,\u201d and with a denial from the Beatles\u2019 press office. In fact, it claimed that neither Paul nor his black Mini Cooper had even left the house that day. Fast-forward to September… (more<\/a>)<\/p>\n

\"plane\"<\/a>Hold My Beer- The Story of Tommy Fitz\u2019 and His Drunken Bet<\/a><\/p>\n

Thomas Fitzpatrick, known to his friends as Tommy Fitz, was a native of Washington Heights, Manhattan, who, although he had moved to New Jersey, still hung out with his old friends from the neighborhood. A \u201cwild bunch,\u201d Tommy\u2019s crew were adventurous and enjoyed frequenting area bars. Late in evening (or rather early in the morning) of September 30, 1956, as he was leaving a tavern on St. Nicholas Avenue in Manhattan to return home, Tommy bet one of his buddies he could make it back to the bar from New Jersey in a mere 15 minutes. This, of course, is impossible by car. So after leaving the bar on that September night, Tommy traveled to the Teterboro School of Aeronautics in New Jersey… (more<\/a>)<\/p>\n

\"LondonStone\"<\/a>The Ancient Stone in London That Is Supposed to Be Important But No One Remembers Why<\/a><\/p>\n

Sitting in the heart of London since long before anyone can remember, theories regarding the London Stone range from Roman ruin, to Druidic icon to a talisman of good fortune. Although many point to John Stow\u2019s Survey of London (1598), where he sets the 10th century as the first mention of the stone in print (he claims he found a mention of the stone in a document from the 900s AD), others feel more comfortable citing a list of Canterbury Cathedral\u2019s properties from somewhere around the turn of the 12th centuries, where it lists Eadwaker \u00e6t lundene stane. Regardless, by medieval times, the London Stone was a fixture in the city, so much so that residents even incorporated it into their names, such as Ailwin of London Stone. Clearly important, by the 15th… (more<\/a>)<\/p>\n

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