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Wikipedia May 18, 2026 at 07:00 AM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luis_Carlos_Gal%C3%A1n
  • Calling Galán’s assassination investigation "unsolved" is inaccurate. Colombia’s Supreme Court has upheld convictions against Alberto Santofimio and convicted former DAS chief Miguel Maza Márquez for co-authoring/facilitating the murder.
  • The date is off, and the work is described too broadly. Sources from Semana and the Galán Foundation say the "Cleo Tilde" text was a biographical profile written in 1985, later published in 1994.
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Wikipedia May 18, 2026 at 07:00 AM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iv%C3%A1n_Duque
  • The protected status Duque announced was for Venezuelan migrants living in Colombia, not in Venezuela.
  • This is incorrect: Colombia had already issued fracking regulations in 2013–2014, and its high court had suspended those rules by 2018, with the suspension still in force in 2019.
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Wikipedia May 18, 2026 at 06:59 AM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/President_of_Colombia
  • Cristina Pardo is not the current president of Colombia’s Constitutional Court. In 2026, the court’s president is Paola Andrea Meneses Mosquera.
  • Luis Antonio Hernández is not the current president of Colombia’s Supreme Court of Justice. The court elected Iván Mauricio Lenis Gómez as president in January 2026.
  • Aurelio Enrique Rodríguez is not the current president of Colombia’s Superior Council of the Judiciary. The Council elected Mary Lucero Novoa Moreno as president for 2026.
  • This sentence cites the wrong constitutional article and wrong reform date. Colombia’s ban on presidential reelection is in Article 197, as amended by Acto Legislativo 02 de 2015, not Article 125 ‘ratified in 2018.’
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LessWrong May 18, 2026 at 06:56 AM
www.lesswrong.com/posts/a3K9LEW7WZhr2nHMh/status-is-the-game...
  • This is too absolute. Forbes’ own rankings include Steve Ballmer, who became one of the world’s richest people after joining Microsoft as an employee and rising to CEO, not by founding the company or inheriting it.
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Wikipedia May 18, 2026 at 03:48 AM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Novoslobodskaya
  • This overstates the closure. Official Moscow transport sources say the station's lobby/main entrance was closed for renovation, while the station remained accessible via Mendeleyevskaya.
  • This is not the current next station on the Circle line. Official Moscow transport sources describe Suvorovskaya/Dostoevskaya as a future station to be built between Novoslobodskaya and Prospekt Mira.
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Wikipedia May 18, 2026 at 03:08 AM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pablo_Escobar
  • This is wrong because Colombia’s Liberal Party was founded in 1848, more than a century before Pablo Escobar was born, so he could not have participated in its formation.
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Wikipedia May 18, 2026 at 03:07 AM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scarface_(1983_film)
  • The 2003 Scarface DVD was released by Universal's home-video arm, not Universal Records. Contemporary coverage identifies the anniversary DVD as a Universal Home Video release.
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Wikipedia May 18, 2026 at 03:06 AM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roberto_Su%C3%A1rez_G%C3%B3mez
  • This gets the date wrong. Morales suspended/expelled the DEA in Bolivia in late 2008; on March 3, 2011 he was reiterating that the DEA would not be allowed back.
  • This reverses Barbie's postwar route. Reliable biographies say he fled to Bolivia in 1951 and lived there under the alias Klaus Altmann; Buenos Aires was a transit stop, not his main refuge before Bolivia.
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Wikipedia May 17, 2026 at 11:39 PM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strategic_Petroleum_Reserve_(United_St...
  • DOE's current budget documents do not support the 132-million-barrel figure. DOE says that, to date, it has sold 119 million barrels under the post-2015 mandated-sale laws, with many previously planned sales later canceled by Congress.
  • This projection is outdated. DOE now says Congress has canceled many previously planned SPR sales, leaving 92.6 million barrels of mandated sales through FY2031; with current inventory around 402 million barrels, that does not imply a drop to 238 million by 2028.
  • 43.9% is not a fixed standing obligation. DOE's 2015 annual report says 43.9% was the U.S. share in 2015, while the IEA says each country's contribution is based on its share of total IEA oil consumption.
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Wikipedia May 17, 2026 at 11:37 PM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No%C3%ABl_(The_West_Wing)
  • The NBC air date was December 20, 2000, not December 13, 2000.
  • The actor's name is Gregory Alan Williams; this episode does not credit anyone as "Gregalan Alan Williams."
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Wikipedia May 17, 2026 at 11:33 PM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantitative_easing
  • Japan did not introduce negative interest rates in 1999. The Bank of Japan introduced a zero interest rate policy in 1999; its negative interest rate policy began in January 2016.
  • By mid-2022, the Fed’s balance sheet had grown by far more than $2 trillion. Official Federal Reserve reports show it rose from about $4.2–$4.3 trillion in early 2020 to about $9 trillion by spring 2022.
  • The Federal Reserve is not unsupervised. The Federal Reserve itself states that it is subject to congressional oversight, GAO review, Inspector General review, and other statutory oversight mechanisms.
  • That was not the ECB’s stated purpose for restarting purchases in November 2019. The ECB said the €20 billion/month purchases were to reinforce monetary accommodation and support inflation converging to its target, not to encourage governments to borrow for domestic investment projects.
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LessWrong May 17, 2026 at 10:23 PM
www.lesswrong.com/posts/sbcmACvB6DqYXYidL/counter-theses-on-...
  • The cited preindustrial-sleep study did not involve 84 people studied only in 2013. The researchers reported sleep records from 94 adults, and the supplemental table shows data collection dates spanning 2013–2015.
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Wikipedia May 17, 2026 at 07:25 PM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_the_Black_Prince
  • This names the wrong French king. Edward III’s feudal obligations in the run-up to the Hundred Years’ War were owed to Philip VI, not Philip IV, who had died in 1314.
  • Standard reference works do not describe the Black Prince’s Ruby as something Edward ‘forced’ Peter of Castile to hand over. They describe it as a gift or reward—and some note that even that tradition is uncertain.
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LessWrong May 17, 2026 at 05:12 PM
www.lesswrong.com/posts/FinfRNLMfbq5ESxB9/microsoft-research...
  • The paper’s title is misstated. Its actual title is “Sparks of Artificial General Intelligence: Early experiments with GPT-4.”
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Wikipedia May 17, 2026 at 12:12 PM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_best-selling_music_artists
  • This Germany figure is off by a factor of 1,000. Official BVMI certification records support about 1.7 million certified units for Oasis in Germany, not 1,700 million.
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Wikipedia May 17, 2026 at 08:47 AM
de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stiftung_Johanneum
  • The page's current Studieninspektor is not Lukas Johrendt. The foundation's official website now names Georg Breitfeld as Studieninspektor.
  • Torsten Meireis is not the current Ephorus/Ephora. The foundation's official contact page lists Prof. Dr. Christine Gerber as Ephora, while Torsten Meireis is listed separately as dean and a Kuratorium member.
  • The current resident count is not 30. The foundation's official homepage says 31 students live there.
  • The library is not described by the foundation as having around 10,000 volumes. The official site currently says it contains about 5,000 volumes.
  • This date is wrong. Authoritative biographical sources place Sedlnitzky's Breslau canonry in 1798, not 1789, and note he was only 11 years old at that time.
  • This attribution is impossible as written: Sedlnitzky died on March 25, 1871, before May 12, 1871. A biographical source says he provided for the Breslau theological residence in his will, not by making a donation on that later date.
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Wikipedia May 17, 2026 at 12:23 AM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Crowhurst
  • This is not a separate 1990 book: Recovering Sanity was published by Shambhala in 2003 and was explicitly reissued from Podvoll’s 1990 book The Seduction of Madness.
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Wikipedia May 17, 2026 at 12:17 AM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imperial_Regalia_of_Japan
  • This sentence confuses the mythology: the regalia are three items, not four, and they are traditionally given first to Ninigi, not directly to Emperor Jimmu.
  • This is too narrow: sources say the regalia are seen not only by the emperor, but also by certain priests or high priests.
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Wikipedia May 17, 2026 at 12:17 AM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magatama#Yasakani_no_Magatama
  • This is an anachronism: Iyo’s mission belonged to the Cao Wei / successor Jin era, not Northern Wei. Northern Wei was founded much later, in 386 CE.
  • The tumulus is about 238 meters long, not 238 millimetres. The article appears to have a unit typo that shrinks a giant kofun to less than 10 inches.
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Wikipedia May 17, 2026 at 12:13 AM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yata_no_Kagami
  • Kokugakuin University's Encyclopedia of Shinto says the divine mirror was damaged in the 1040 palace fire, so it did not survive that incident undamaged.
  • The date mixes the wrong era name with the month. Chōkyū did not begin until November 10, 1040, so the 9th month of 1040 was still Chōryaku 4, not Chōkyū 1.
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