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What's the big deal about railroad tracks?
- ColinWright 7y agoHere's pretty much the same text dating back from 2000: http://www.astrodigital.org/space/stshorse.html http://www.astrodigital.org/space/stshorse.html Snopes wrote about it: https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/railroad-gauge-chariots/ https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/railroad-gauge-chariots/ It was also discussed at length here on HN 3 months ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20239682 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20239682 And another debunking: https://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/2538/was-standard-railroad-gauge-48-determined-by-roman-chariot-ruts/ https://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/2538/was-standard-... So, nice story. Not true.
- ziofill 7y agowhoah, nice find, thanks