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Wikipedia May 14, 2026 at 01:08 AM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ashlee_Vance
- Hello World’s Emmy nomination was announced in 2017, not 2016. The 38th News & Documentary Emmy Awards honored 2016 programming, which likely caused the mix-up.
Wikipedia May 14, 2026 at 01:04 AM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_Person_of_the_Year
- TIME’s 1950 selection was “the American Fighting-man,” not “The American Soldier.” Only the 2003 choice used “American soldier.”
- TIME did not list the 1966 choice as “The Inheritor” in its official cover/archive listings. The official label was “Twenty-Five and Under,” i.e. Americans under 25.
- In 1993, Arafat was not president of the Palestinian Authority. The Palestinian Authority was established in 1994, and Arafat was elected its president in 1996.
Wikipedia May 14, 2026 at 01:02 AM
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- This misidentifies the institution. The official National Academies source lists Musk on the Aeronautics and Space Engineering Board of the National Research Council/National Academies, not as a member of the National Academy of Sciences itself.
Wikipedia May 14, 2026 at 01:02 AM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oligarchy
- Citizens United did not remove campaign contribution limits. It struck down restrictions on certain independent expenditures, while contribution limits remained in place.
- Official records did not identify Elon Musk as DOGE’s formal head. The executive order put the DOGE temporary organization under the USDS Administrator, and the White House later said Musk was not the DOGE administrator.
Wikipedia May 13, 2026 at 10:22 PM
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- To zbyt szerokie uogólnienie. Teatyni nie powstali jako zakon edukacyjny, lecz dla odnowy życia kościelnego i dyscypliny kleru; również jezuici podają, że pierwotnie nie zamierzali zakładać szkół.
LessWrong May 13, 2026 at 09:15 PM
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- This overstates the history of face recognition. Computers were recognizing faces decades before deep learning, using classical methods such as geometric-feature systems and eigenfaces/PCA-based approaches.
X May 13, 2026 at 09:06 PM
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- This universal claim is false. Meta/Facebook — one of the world's largest apps — has publicly documented that it stores photos in its own Haystack object-storage system, not Amazon S3.
Wikipedia May 13, 2026 at 12:16 PM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazi_gold#Disposal
- This overstates Portugal’s role. Contemporary and archival sources say Portugal supplied roughly 50–60% of Germany’s wolfram requirement, with Spain supplying much of the rest.
- The amount said to have been returned is far too low. Official U.S. and Swiss sources say the 1946 Washington Agreement required Switzerland to transfer 250 million Swiss francs—about $58 million—in gold to the Allies, which is roughly 52 metric tonnes, not 3.6 tonnes.
Wikipedia May 13, 2026 at 12:15 PM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finlandization
- The quote is real, but the date is wrong. Biden made that remark at the NATO summit in Madrid on June 30, 2022, not on June 16, 2022.
- In December 2014, Poroshenko did not submit legislation for Ukraine to join NATO outright. He backed a law ending Ukraine's non-bloc status, which only removed a legal barrier and allowed a future NATO bid.
Wikipedia May 13, 2026 at 12:14 PM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ratlines_(World_War_II)
- This is incorrect: U-530 plainly had officers aboard, including its commanding officer, Otto Wermuth.
- This is incorrect: interrogation records show that Wermuth did explain both the long voyage and the missing documents.
Wikipedia May 13, 2026 at 12:09 PM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swiss_neutrality#Criticism
- This overstates Switzerland’s WWII mobilization. Official Swiss sources say the 1939 general mobilization brought 430,000 soldiers into service, plus about 200,000 men in complementary services—not 850,000 soldiers.
- This is incorrect: Swiss troops had already been deployed abroad long before Afghanistan, including in Korea from 1953 and in multiple peace-support missions from 1990 onward.
- This lists the wrong bodies. Switzerland’s Embargo Act refers to sanctions ordered by the UN, the OSCE, or Switzerland’s most important trading partners—not the OECD.
- This is outdated/incorrect. The initiative was certified in 2024, but the parliamentary process was still ongoing in March 2026, and Swiss media reported the vote was expected in 2026, not 2025.
- This misstates what the authority handled. The official report says it reviewed about 300 declarations by private security companies in 2015–2016, not 300 ‘approval requests’ in 2016 alone.
Wikipedia May 13, 2026 at 12:08 PM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fondue
- This reverses the timeline. Swiss official sources say the earliest records of fondue date to 1699, while the word “fondue” in culinary use is first attested later, in 1735.
- The date is off by a year. Swiss official sources identify the earliest known modern cheese-fondue recipe as coming from a 1699 Zurich book, not a 1698 one.
Wikipedia May 13, 2026 at 11:59 AM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacques_Piccard
- This date is wrong. Bertrand Piccard’s solar-powered around-the-world flight was completed on July 26, 2016; in 2009 Solar Impulse was only making its first test flights.
Wikipedia May 13, 2026 at 11:55 AM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firearms_regulation_in_Switzerland
- Swiss law does not exempt all hunting rifles from permits, and exempt firearms are acquired with a written contract/notification process, not merely a criminal-record extract.
- Ordinary Swiss weapons-acquisition permits for handguns and other permit-required firearms do not generally require the buyer to state a special reason; that requirement applies to special permits for banned weapons.
- Swiss fedpol says a transported firearm must be unloaded and magazines empty, but the gun and ammunition may be carried in the same bag; physical separation is not required.
- This is outdated: Switzerland later held a 19 May 2019 referendum on tighter firearms rules, and voters approved the stricter law.
- The article misstates the follow-up requirement for sport shooters: fedpol says "regular" use means five shooting sessions in five years, not once every year.
Wikipedia May 13, 2026 at 11:54 AM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taxation_in_Switzerland
- This is outdated. Switzerland abolished the cantonal preferential regimes for holding, domiciliary and similar "status companies" when the TRAF reform entered into force on 1 January 2020.
- The start date is wrong. Switzerland introduced the OECD minimum corporate tax on 1 January 2024, not in 2023.
- The threshold is no longer 20%. Current federal tax guidance says the participation deduction applies from a qualifying stake of at least 10% (or certain CHF 1 million holdings).
- The current count is wrong. Switzerland's Federal Gaming Board says there are 11 Category B casinos, not 13.
Wikipedia May 13, 2026 at 11:50 AM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voting_in_Switzerland
- Swiss federal constitutional votes do not have a 40% turnout quorum. At the federal level, constitutional amendments and popular initiatives require a majority of voters and a majority of cantons, not a minimum participation rate.
- Single-seat cantons do not use 'apparentment' in National Council elections. They use the majority system, where the candidate with the most votes wins.
- For federal votes and elections, Swiss voting materials are generally sent about three to four weeks before polling day, not 'approximately two months' before.
Wikipedia May 13, 2026 at 11:49 AM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aerial_incidents_in_Switzerland_in_Wor...
- The $14.4 million figure was the value of the October 21, 1949 settlement, not a 1944/45-dollar amount.
Wikipedia May 13, 2026 at 11:43 AM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grimm%E2%80%93Hoffmann_affair
- This office title is wrong. The Swiss parliament's lower chamber is the National Council, and Robert Grimm served as its president in 1945/46.
Wikipedia May 13, 2026 at 11:38 AM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_wealth_per_adult
- The current revision of this page does not actually contain any World Inequality Database table farther down. Its contents only show the UBS section, followed by See also, References, and External links.
Wikipedia May 13, 2026 at 11:35 AM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_wealth_per_adult
- The current page does not contain any World Inequality Database table farther down. After the UBS tables, the article goes straight to See also, References, and External links.