This I know is true

Judge Crater, Jimmy Hoffa, and D.B. Cooper were all the same immortal person, who may even now be living among us as a reasonably high-profile celebrity until he gets bored and goes into seclusion again.

J.D. Salinger didn’t write anything. He was used as the public face of a small team of authors, who abandoned him when they realized he wasn’t attractive or well-spoken enough to be a good public face.

William Shakespeare had serious delusions and believed Christopher Marlowe and Francis Bacon wrote his plays. All of the clues to that effect were planted there by his diseased mind.

Queen Elizabeth I did have the heart and stomach of a king. She also had the gonads of one, in that sadly pre-operative era.

Henry Kissinger controlled both sides of the Vietnam War. He wanted to keep it going at least until 1980 to increase his grasp on world power, and punished Nixon severely when ‘Vietnamization’ meant a reduction in his effective control.

Bravo!

JFK traveled back in time to kill himself, then vanished from the grassy knoll when he succeeded.

You CAN park on a parkway and drive on a driveway. It’s taken a deep conspiracy by both automakers and the mass transit lobby to keep this from us.

We landed on the moon, and it really is made of cheese!

William C. Minor is one of the many names listed in the addendum to the 20 volume *Oxford English Dictionary *set.
He was an asylum patient. I go to the college library, stare at the 20 volumes and know that someone (that we know of) was insane who wrote that dictionary.

Pick up The Professor and The Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity, and The Making of the Oxford English Disctionary if you want to read more about their collaboration… it’s a quick, fun read.

I know that he was a relative of Edward E. Flat Major.

…in turn, the second-cousin once removed of Major Major Major Major-who looked like Henry Fonda and was ashamed to tell people that he wasn’t Henry Fonda.

It strikes me that there’s potentially a really good sci-fi novel here, that someone would read and take for absolute truth.

If you have sex standing up, you can’t get pregnant and your still technically a virgin.

…or a good Red Dwarf episode :wink:

Santa and Satan are actually the same entity, both wear red, and have a cult following, have you ever seen them together?

The hummingbird is not actually a bird, it is in fact, an overgrown mosquito

While a small, mean part of my soul longs to bamboozle a nitwit, the larger, lazy part of my soul is just too tired to bother. :smiley:

Well, if it’s oral and you’re the POTUS.

Melbourne was founded by Batman. He also captured Matthew Brady, the “Gentleman Bushranger”.

Laura Bush killed a man.

Charles Bronson is alive and well and acknowledged to be one of the most violent men in Britain. He once wrote a museum to tell them “Men like me were born to be caged so leave the birds and animals alone or I’ll rip your head clean off your shoulders, OK.”

90% of the posts in the SDMB are made by the same person using several usernames, each one with a different personality.
This one included.

Hey, Mark Serlin has to do something with his spare time.

Definitely true

Drew Barrymore researched her part in “Charlie’s Angels” by becoming a deep cover CIA operative. She killed three Filipino terrorists with a machete before having to return to Hollywood to complete her close-ups for “Never Been Kissed”.