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Wikipedia May 14, 2026 at 08:56 PM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_whale
- The 3.636 kg figure is a known literature error. It comes from a blue whale brain that had been re-weighed after about four weeks in alcohol, not its original fresh mass.
Wikipedia May 14, 2026 at 08:54 PM
de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blauwal
- The appendix number is wrong. Blue whales are listed in CITES Appendix I, not Appendix II.
- This overstates the blue whale’s range. Authoritative NOAA sources say blue whales occur in all oceans except the Arctic Ocean.
- This is too broad. NOAA sources state blue whales occur in all oceans except the Arctic Ocean.
Wikipedia May 14, 2026 at 08:51 PM
de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pottwal
- Die zitierte Studie zeigt das nicht. Sie untersucht die Struktur der Codas, sagt aber ausdrücklich, dass ihre kommunikative Funktion und Semantik weitgehend offen sind.
- So weit geht die Forschung nicht. Die Studie beschreibt strukturelle Parallelen und Kombinatorik, betont aber ausdrücklich, dass die Funktion vieler Codas weiterhin ungeklärt ist.
- Das ist falsch. Geburtshilfe bzw. Geburtsassistenz wurde bereits vor der CETI-Beobachtung auch bei anderen nichtmenschlichen Primaten beschrieben, etwa bei Weißkopflanguren und Yunnan-Stumpfnasenaffen.
Wikipedia May 14, 2026 at 08:51 PM
de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riesenkalmar
- This overstates the colossal squid’s mantle length. Credible sources place the maximum documented mantle length at about 2.5 metres, not 4 metres.
- The depth is wrong by a factor of about 3.3. Official reports said the squid was caught at more than 1,500 feet depth, not 1,500 metres.
- The date is off. The footage shown in January 2013 was captured during an expedition in July/summer 2012, then released in January 2013.
- This was not the first live capture of giant squid. New Zealand researchers had already captured and filmed live juvenile giant squid in early 2002.
- The date is wrong. Contemporary reports say the Toyama Bay giant squid was filmed on December 24, 2015, not December 22.
Wikipedia May 14, 2026 at 08:50 PM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giant_squid
- NOAA’s name is misstated here. NOAA stands for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, not “Association.”
- This overstates the colossal squid’s mantle length. Reliable sources put giant-squid mantles at about 2–2.25 m and colossal-squid mantles at about 2.5 m, which is not anywhere near twice as long.
- This appears to be wrong: giant squid are generally described as lacking a hectocotylus and using the terminal organ/penis, not modified ventral arms, to transfer sperm.
Wikipedia May 14, 2026 at 08:49 PM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colossal_squid
- This misstates where the colossal squid’s eye photophores are. Te Papa and review literature place them on the rear/ventral side of each eyeball, not on the front.
- This reverses the underlying source. The paper on squid eye size says sperm whale sonar range exceeds 120 m, so 120 m is not the upper limit.
Wikipedia May 14, 2026 at 08:40 PM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Litt
- Louis’s sister is Esther Litt, not “Esther Litts.” Credible episode listings identify Amy Acker’s character as Esther Litt / Esther Litt-Edelstein.
- In Season 1, Louis Litt is presented as a junior partner, not a senior associate.
- Season 7 is set at Pearson Specter Litt, and Louis is a name partner rather than a senior partner.
Wikipedia May 14, 2026 at 08:38 PM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suits_season_6
- The viewership figure for "The Hand That Feeds You" is incorrect. Reliable ratings sources list the episode at about 1.87 million viewers, not 2.89 million.
Wikipedia May 14, 2026 at 08:35 PM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suits_(American_TV_series)
- The 57.7 billion-minute figure was not a Netflix-only total. Nielsen attributed that 2023 viewing total to Suits across its availability on both Netflix and Peacock.
Wikipedia May 14, 2026 at 08:33 PM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harvey_Specter
- This uses the wrong law-degree abbreviation. In the U.S., the standard abbreviation for Juris Doctor is J.D., not “J.S.”
Wikipedia May 14, 2026 at 08:32 PM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Ross_(character)
- This is incorrect because Mike Ross is defined by the fact that he never attended law school, including Harvard Law.
- This misstates MovieWeb’s ranking. In the cited MovieWeb list, Mike Ross is ranked #3, not #2.
Wikipedia May 14, 2026 at 06:32 PM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beetlejuice_(musical)
- The West End cast announcement names the actor as Richard Frame, not Richard Framec.
- The Brazilian production was directed by Tadeu Aguiar; Renata Borges Pimenta was the producer, not the director.
LessWrong May 14, 2026 at 06:31 PM
www.lesswrong.com/posts/8Lagh2xutJHLT6M9C/re-so-you-want-to-...
- This quotation is inaccurate: Theodore Roosevelt's 1910 speech says "heart and strength," not "heath and strength."
Wikipedia May 14, 2026 at 06:30 PM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geena_Davis
- The agency’s official name is the National Institutes of Health, not the National Institute of Health.
- The 2022 Governors Award was given to the Geena Davis Institute on Gender in Media, not to Geena Davis personally.
Wikipedia May 14, 2026 at 06:30 PM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NATO
- NATO’s 5% commitment is not simply a requirement to spend 5% on a member’s own defence. The official NATO commitment is to reach 5% by 2035, with 3.5% on core defence spending and up to 1.5% on broader defence- and security-related investment.
- The date and resolution number are mismatched. UNSC Resolution 816 was adopted on 31 March 1993; 9 October 1992 was Resolution 781.
- These countries did not officially join at the Washington Summit. They became NATO members on 12 March 1999, before the summit took place.
- The Treaty of Lisbon is not from 1982. It was signed on 13 December 2007 and entered into force on 1 December 2009.
- Operation Ocean Shield was a NATO operation approved by the North Atlantic Council, not a joint operation formed by NATO together with Russia, China and South Korea.
- France was not excluded from the Military Committee until 2008. NATO records show France resumed its seat in the Military Committee in December 1995.
- The NATO Parliamentary Assembly does not set NATO’s strategic goals. It is independent from NATO; NATO policy is adopted by member governments in the North Atlantic Council.
Wikipedia May 14, 2026 at 06:29 PM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beetlejuice_(franchise)
- This table entry misidentifies the directors of Beetlejuice Beetlejuice. The film was directed by Tim Burton; Alfred Gough and Miles Millar wrote the screenplay.
Wikipedia May 14, 2026 at 06:29 PM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beetlejuice
- This review-count figure is outdated. Rotten Tomatoes currently lists 120 critic reviews for Beetlejuice, not 115.
LessWrong May 14, 2026 at 05:24 PM
www.lesswrong.com/posts/NMoNLfX3ihXSZJwqK/church-planting-wh...
- The cited Pew report does not say 40% of evangelicals were not raised Christian. It shows most current evangelicals were raised Christian, with large shares coming from evangelical, mainline Protestant, or Catholic backgrounds.
- That overstates Protestant theology. Protestants reject salvation by works, but classic Protestant confessions explicitly teach that good works are the fruits or evidence of genuine faith.
- That is too absolute. Major church-planting networks require assessment, sending-church involvement, coaching, theological commitments, and ongoing accountability beyond mere funders.
- Recent church-planting research does not show planters are usually under 25. Large North American studies put the median launch age around 42.
LessWrong May 14, 2026 at 05:21 PM
www.lesswrong.com/posts/fB5pexHPJRsabvkQ2/unexpected-things-...
- The $80 million was settlement redress to Whanganui Iwi, not the river-restoration fund. The separate $30 million fund was the one created to support the river’s health and wellbeing.
- This misdates and conflates different ‘Rhodian’ maritime texts. The Rhodian Sea-Law is generally treated as a Byzantine collection from the 7th–8th century CE, while the much older Rhodian tradition survives only indirectly through later Roman references.
LessWrong May 14, 2026 at 05:17 PM
www.lesswrong.com/posts/aGnRcBk4rYuZqENug/it-s-okay-to-feel-...
- This quotation is misattributed. The Dhammapada does not contain this sentence; the identifiable phrase "physical, but not mental" comes from the Sallatha Sutta (SN 36.6), while the funeral/mother example does not appear in the Dhammapada text.