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one of eleven vellum copies of the Gutenberg Bible known to exist
Current library and Library of Congress sources say there are 12 surviving vellum copies, not 11.
Full reasoning
The Huntington’s own current fact sheet describes its Gutenberg Bible as “one of 12 surviving copies on vellum.” The Library of Congress gives the same count, stating that among the 49 extant, more-or-less complete Gutenberg Bibles, 12 are on vellum. That directly contradicts the article’s claim that only eleven vellum copies are known.
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- IN FACT FY 2024 – The Huntington
One of 12 surviving copies on vellum of the Gutenberg Bible, the jewel of the second-largest collection of incunabula (15th-century printed books) in the United States.
- Related Resources - The Gutenberg Bible at the Library of Congress
Of the 49 extant, more-or-less complete copies of the Gutenberg Bible (12 on vellum, 37 on paper)...
the library's holdings contain 7 million manuscript items
The Huntington’s current fact sheet reports 9.2 million manuscripts, so this understates the size of the manuscript holdings.
Full reasoning
The Huntington’s official FY 2024 fact sheet gives a current manuscript count of 9.2 million manuscripts. Its organization page likewise says the library now holds some 12 million items overall. Because the article states, in present tense, that the holdings contain 7 million manuscript items, the figure is materially out of date and incorrect.
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- IN FACT FY 2024 – The Huntington
IN FACT FY 2024 ... 9.2 MILLION MANUSCRIPTS ... 437,000 RARE BOOKS ... 915,000 PRINTS AND EPHEMERA ... 805,000 PHOTOGRAPHS.
- Our Organization | The Huntington
The Huntington Library is one of the world’s great independent research libraries, with some 12 million items spanning the 11th to the 21st century.
Twenty-one corpse flowers have bloomed at Huntington since 1999.
The Huntington itself says it had already exhibited 27 corpse-flower blooms by July 2025, with additional blooms in July 2026.
Full reasoning
This total is too low. In a July 2025 news release, The Huntington said that since 1999, it has exhibited 27 Corpse Flower blooms. Its current Corpse Flower page also says that “Odora” and “Odorysseus” bloomed simultaneously in July 2026, which means the post-1999 total is higher still. So the article’s claim of only 21 blooms is plainly incorrect.
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- Rare Corpse Flower Expected to Bloom at The Huntington
Since 1999, The Huntington has exhibited 27 Corpse Flower blooms—more than any other institution in the western United States.
- Corpse Flower | The Huntington
The Amorphophallus titanum plants "Odora" and "Odorysseus" bloomed simultaneously at The Huntington in July 2026, creating a spectacular double bloom.
the Los Angeles Railway Company (later the Southern California Railway)
This parenthetical is reversed: Los Angeles Railway later became Los Angeles Transit Lines, not Southern California Railway.
Full reasoning
Official Los Angeles transit history identifies the Los Angeles Railway as the system later known as Los Angeles Transit Lines. A separate government transportation history says the Southern California Railway was merged into the Los Angeles Railway Company in 1911. That means the article’s wording has the relationship backwards: the Los Angeles Railway did not later become the Southern California Railway; rather, Southern California Railway was absorbed into Los Angeles Railway.
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- History of Mass Transit in Southern California
The Southern California Railway which supplemented the Pacific Electric system was merged into the Los Angeles Railway Company in 1911.
- Los Angeles Railway (1895-1958) - Metro's Primary Resources
The Los Angeles Railway (also known as Yellow Cars, LARy and later Los Angeles Transit Lines) was a system of streetcars that operated in Central Los Angeles and surrounding neighborhoods between 1895 and 1958.