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Wikipedia Jul 17, 2026 at 05:43 AM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Messier_87
- The EHT did not directly image M87*'s event horizon. It imaged the black hole's shadow/silhouette and the bright emission around it, which are larger than and distinct from the event horizon itself.
- Virgo A and Virgo B are separate Virgo Cluster substructures, not a single shared core subgroup. Virgo A is centered on M87, while Virgo B is centered on M49.
Wikipedia Jul 17, 2026 at 05:40 AM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page
- This is incorrect because the UK and Germany had bilateral treaties decades before the Kensington Treaty, including a 1960 social-security convention and a 2010 double-taxation convention.
Wikipedia Jul 17, 2026 at 05:27 AM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_the_top_supercomputers_in_the_...
- Cambridge-1 is a UK supercomputer, not a U.S. one. NVIDIA describes it as UK-based and as one of the UK’s most powerful supercomputers.
- El Capitan’s listed Linpack performance is outdated. The current TOP500 entry reports 1,809.00 PFlop/s, not 1,742.00 PFlop/s.
Wikipedia Jul 17, 2026 at 05:25 AM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colossus_(data_center)
- xAI did not say the project went from conception to construction in 19 days. Its official statement says Colossus started running workloads 19 days after the first servers were delivered.
- Available city and chamber materials say the opposite: Memphis says there were no tax incentives, public dollars, or city subsidies tied to xAI’s project.
Wikipedia Jul 17, 2026 at 04:49 AM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soylent_Green
- Paula Kelly’s character is not Martha Fielding. Authoritative cast records identify her as Martha Philips/Philipson (often shortened to just “Martha”).
Wikipedia Jul 17, 2026 at 04:24 AM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/60s
- Funan was not in East Asia. It was an early state in mainland Southeast Asia, centered on the lower Mekong.
- Trajan’s father did not become consul in AD 68. Standard references place his consulship under Vespasian, in AD 70 or possibly AD 72.
- Vindex’s revolt belongs to AD 68, not AD 67. Sources place his uprising in spring 68, with Galba joining in April 68.
- Nero’s post-fire rebuilding measures were implemented during his lifetime, immediately after the fire of AD 64, not only after his death.
Wikipedia Jul 17, 2026 at 04:23 AM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phyllis_Diller
- The start year is wrong. Phyllis Diller was already playing Gladys Pope on The Bold and the Beautiful in 1995, not first in 1996.
Wikipedia Jul 17, 2026 at 04:23 AM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constitution_Day_(South_Korea)
- As of 2026, Constitution Day is again a public office holiday in South Korea.
- This is false: South Korea still had official public holidays such as National Foundation Day and National Liberation Day.
Wikipedia Jul 17, 2026 at 02:42 AM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qusay_Hussein
- The 1997 end date is wrong. Credible sources show Qusay remained in charge of the Special Security Organization until 2001, and even returned to the post in 2002.
Wikipedia Jul 17, 2026 at 02:28 AM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1979_Ba%27ath_Party_purge
- The former Iraqi president's name was Ahmed Hassan al-Bakr, not Ahmed Hussein Al-Bakr.
Wikipedia Jul 17, 2026 at 12:58 AM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lovable_(company)
- Lovable’s $200 million Accel-led Series A was announced in July 2025, not February 2025. In February 2025, reporting instead described a much smaller $15 million pre-Series A round led by Creandum.
- Lovable’s own materials place the product’s launch in November 2024, so this sentence gets the timeline wrong. The company says Lovable launched in November 2024, not only after a December 2024 rename/open-access step.
Wikipedia Jul 17, 2026 at 12:57 AM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Fighter
- Christian Bale was not reported as joining the film for an October 2008 production. Bale and David O. Russell were announced in April 2009, with shooting then due to start in July.
- This gets Aronofsky’s chronology wrong. Reporting at the time says he left The Fighter in favor of The Wrestler, and when RoboCop later stalled because of MGM’s troubles, he went on to make Black Swan instead.
Wikipedia Jul 16, 2026 at 10:06 PM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Jam:_A_New_Legacy
- $194.7 million is not Space Jam 2’s California production spend. The California Film Commission says that figure was the combined below-the-line wages for 15 projects in that tax-credit round; Space Jam 2’s own qualified expenditures were about $100 million.
Wikipedia Jul 16, 2026 at 10:06 PM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Jam
- This misstates who was fired and Ron Tippe’s role. Contemporary studio production notes and Joe Pytka’s own account still identify Pytka as the film’s director, while Tippe was the animation producer—not Pytka’s replacement.
LessWrong Jul 16, 2026 at 09:15 PM
www.lesswrong.com/posts/JmXzKcoymK7rQ6dwB/claude-s-malicious...
- The vote was not held by Marshall managers. The internal caucus and final reversal happened within Morton Thiokol management after NASA/Marshall challenged Thiokol’s initial no-launch recommendation.
- The shutdown did happen because operators were asleep, but it was ordered by the federal Nuclear Regulatory Commission, not by Pennsylvania.
LessWrong Jul 16, 2026 at 08:57 PM
www.lesswrong.com/posts/A4nbcBJ5CzR6uLy9s/fertility-will-nev...
- Available survey evidence does not support the claim that people generally want no more than one child. International datasets find that two children remains the most common ideal family size, and average ideal family size is above two.
- This implies that only half of children grow up to have children of their own, but official demographic data are far below that. In OECD data, permanent childlessness among women born in 1975 averages just above 20%, and a U.S. Census report found 16.5% of adults 55+ were childless.
Wikipedia Jul 16, 2026 at 08:21 PM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maura_Higgins
- Higgins was not announced alone as the first contestant. Hulu and ABC said Maura Higgins and Ciara Miller were revealed together as the first two cast members.
Wikipedia Jul 16, 2026 at 08:14 PM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antonela_Roccuzzo
- Antonela Roccuzzo has said the order was the other way around: she started in social communication first, then switched to dentistry.
- UNICEF's current official name is "United Nations Children's Fund"; "United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund" is the organization's historical name from before 1953.
Wikipedia Jul 16, 2026 at 07:08 PM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holden_Commodore_(VE)
- The VE Commodore’s 3.0-litre V6 was not a 2006 engine. Holden introduced the 3.0-litre SIDI V6 for MY10 in August/September 2009.
- The VE’s MY09.5 petrol variants were listed as Euro 4, not Euro VI/Euro 6. Multiple period specification databases for MY09.5 Commodores record an emission standard of Euro 4.
- HSV’s own history pages date the E Series 2 launch to 2009, not 2010.
- HSV launched the E Series 3 in September 2010, not 2011.
Wikipedia Jul 16, 2026 at 07:05 PM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_largest_companies_by_revenue
- The regional count in this sentence does not match the list below. The page’s own country breakdown shows 24 U.S. companies and 16 Asian companies, not 23 and 17.