Ugh, in that GDPR notice, collecting data for personalized advertisement and measuring avert performance (tracking behavior for ads) is turned on by default as “legitimate interest” and this data is shared with tens of partners. Legitimate interest is for direct marketing, but this is not.
Not really, if you read the full link. The Snopes felt like it was bending backwards to disprove the story. It gave nuance—but the principle is still the same.
This is an article where I think Snopes does a really bad job.
Pretty much every factual allegation in the original article is false, and to cap it all off, actually trying to track down the key assertion--the effect of rail transportation limitations [implied to be caused by history dating back to Roman times] on booster design--indicates to you that it had no relevance whatsoever.
Snopes is accurate in that the track gauge being slightly less than 5' is somewhat correlated with the width of two horses. But the track gauge being slightly less than 5' isn't even relevant to the main claim!
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/railroad-gauge-chariots/