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Wikipedia April 22, 2026 at 12:58 PM

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Claim
tenpo sike 200 000 anu 300 000 ale la wawa taki ma li ante.
Correction

Earth’s magnetic-field reversals do not happen on a fixed 200,000–300,000-year schedule. USGS says they are irregular, and the last full reversal was about 780,000 years ago.

Full reasoning

This sentence says Earth’s magnetic field changes on an every-200,000-or-300,000-year cycle. That is not how geomagnetic reversals are described by major scientific sources.

  • The U.S. Geological Survey says magnetic reversals are "random with no apparent periodicity".
  • USGS also says reversals can happen as often as every 10,000 years or as infrequently as every 50 million years or more.
  • USGS states that the last reversal was about 780,000 years ago, which by itself conflicts with the idea of a regular 200,000–300,000-year interval.
  • NASA likewise says the intervals between reversals have "fluctuated widely". NASA notes that they average about 300,000 years, but that is an average over long spans of geologic time, not a fixed repeating cycle.

So the problem is not that 200,000–300,000 years has never appeared in scientific discussion; it has. The problem is presenting it as a regular schedule. The evidence shows reversals are irregular, not something that reliably happens every 200,000 or 300,000 years.

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jan 8000000000 li lon ma
Correction

This population figure is outdated. The UN says the world reached 8 billion in November 2022 and was already about 8.2 billion in 2024.

Full reasoning

This clause gives an exact present-tense population of 8,000,000,000 people on Earth. That number is outdated.

  • The United Nations said the world population reached 8 billion on 15 November 2022.
  • The UN later reported that the global population had reached 8.2 billion in 2024.

So, as written, the statement is no longer correct: the world population is not exactly 8,000,000,000. If the intent was to give a rough rounded figure, wording such as “around 8 billion” would be more accurate; but the article currently states a specific exact count.

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