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Wikipedia Aug 5, 2026 at 05:24 AM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antoninus_Pius
- This is wrong for Faustina the Elder. She was deified in 141, during Antoninus Pius’s own reign, and the temple was only rededicated to include Antoninus after his death in 161.
- Antoninus Pius was not the last Roman emperor to receive diplomatic recognition from India. Later sources record Indian embassies to Constantine, Julian, and Justinian.
Wikipedia Aug 5, 2026 at 05:23 AM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Titus
- Titus is not generally recorded as dying at Naples. Ancient and modern reference sources place his death at Aquae Cutiliae in the Sabine country, near Reate (modern Rieti).
Wikipedia Aug 5, 2026 at 05:23 AM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otho
- This names the wrong Upper Germany legion. Tacitus says the mutiny in Germania Superior involved the Fourth and Twenty-second legions, not Legio I Germanica.
- This gets the sequence wrong for Lower Germany. Tacitus says the Lower German legions had already taken the oath to Galba on 1 January, though hesitantly; Vitellius was then proclaimed emperor on 2 January.
Wikipedia Aug 5, 2026 at 05:22 AM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colosseum
- This is outdated: the Colosseum was lit against the death penalty again after 2012, including documented events in 2023 and 2025.
- This is incorrect: the Colosseum’s upper levels were seating areas, not a marketplace.
- This is too absolute: the Good Friday Via Crucis is held at the Colosseum, but the pope does not personally lead it every year.
Wikipedia Aug 5, 2026 at 05:22 AM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vitellius
- This attribution is chronologically impossible. Marcus Gavius Apicius died in the reign of Tiberius, decades before Vitellius became emperor in AD 69; the Vitellian bean/pea recipes come from the later cookbook attributed to Apicius, not from Marcus Gavius Apicius personally naming them after Emperor Vitellius.
- This identifies Marcus Antonius Primus’s legion incorrectly. Ancient and reference sources place him in command of the Seventh legion in Pannonia, not the Sixth.
Wikipedia Aug 5, 2026 at 05:22 AM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galba
- This reverses Suetonius’s explanation. In Suetonius, *galba* is a word the **Gauls** used for a very fat man, not a Roman term for Gauls.
Wikipedia Aug 5, 2026 at 02:07 AM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/China%27s_final_warning
- This misidentifies the institution that issued the warnings. Contemporary sources describe the "serious warnings" as being issued by the PRC government/Foreign Ministry, not by the Chinese Communist Party as a party organization.
Wikipedia Aug 5, 2026 at 02:07 AM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurting_the_feelings_of_the_Chinese_pe...
- The 2023 draft did not make this conduct a crime. It proposed public-security administrative penalties such as detention and fines, which are legally distinct from criminalization.
- The revised law was adopted in June 2025, but it did not take effect then. Official Chinese legal sources say it took effect on January 1, 2026.
Wikipedia Aug 4, 2026 at 11:22 PM
de.wikipedia.org/wiki/H%C3%A4ngematte
- Columbus did not first encounter hammocks on Haiti. His journal mentions “hamacas” on November 3, 1492, while he did not reach Hispaniola/Haiti until early December 1492.
Wikipedia Aug 4, 2026 at 08:18 PM
de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Studierendenwerk_Berlin
- Aktuelle offizielle Materialien nennen 32 Wohnheime mit über 9.000 Wohnplätzen, nicht 33 Wohnheime mit 9.378 Plätzen.
LessWrong Aug 4, 2026 at 06:51 PM
www.lesswrong.com/posts/JotRZdWyAGnhjRAHt/tail-sp-500-call-o...
- SPX is not an index fund or a share-based security. It is the S&P 500 index itself, so it has an index level, not a per-share price.
- Listed equity/ETF option quotes are usually shown on a per-share basis, not as the total dollar amount for one contract. A quoted premium of 6.6 means about $660 per standard contract, and a value of 100 means about $10,000 per contract.
LessWrong Aug 4, 2026 at 06:51 PM
www.lesswrong.com/posts/Xmnw3t2XvxS8FxxE7/delicious-boy-slop...
- This overstates how fast small calorie imbalances change body weight. Modern NIH/NIDDK models estimate that a permanent 10 kcal/day change leads to about 1 pound of eventual weight change, with only about half of that change happening after one year.
LessWrong Aug 4, 2026 at 06:51 PM
www.lesswrong.com/posts/k6nncsXAZD3bK6fe3/invisible-choices-...
- These Play Store numbers are off by a wide margin. By October 2019, Duolingo had already passed 100 million Android installs and AnkiDroid had passed 5 million, so the implied 200:1 ratio is numerically wrong.
LessWrong Aug 4, 2026 at 06:16 PM
www.lesswrong.com/posts/j8zxC3ZgEBbR9bDH8/slack-and-slack-ag...
- This misdefines a secondary reinforcer. In psychology, a secondary reinforcer is a learned reinforcing stimulus like money, praise, or tokens—not any behavior or feature merely associated with getting an answer right.
Wikipedia Aug 4, 2026 at 05:12 PM
de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andreas_Thom_(Mathematiker)
- The ERC Consolidator Grant period is misstated. The official CORDIS project record shows Thom’s ERC Consolidator Grant ran from October 1, 2016 to March 31, 2022, not just through 2021.
- This mixes up two different MFO bodies. Official sources say Thom has been a member of the MFO’s Scientific Committee since 2016, not its Scientific Advisory Board.
LessWrong Aug 4, 2026 at 05:11 PM
www.lesswrong.com/posts/ixp9oJXzjA9LrwiZo/you-yes-you-need-a...
- Civil-service status does not make someone impossible to remove. Career federal employees have protections against political firing, but agencies can still remove or demote them for cause or unacceptable performance.
Wikipedia Aug 4, 2026 at 03:59 PM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bell_pepper
- These figures are not bell-pepper production figures. They match FAOSTAT’s separate commodity for peppercorns/black pepper (`Pepper (Piper spp.), raw`), not Capsicum peppers such as bell peppers.
- This reverses the direction of borrowing. Standard etymological sources say Old English **pipor/piper** comes from Latin **piper** via an early West Germanic borrowing, not that Latin borrowed the word from Germanic languages.
Wikipedia Aug 4, 2026 at 03:48 PM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simplified_Technical_English
- The timing is wrong: AECMA decided to develop its controlled language in 1981, not 1983.
LessWrong Aug 4, 2026 at 02:56 PM
www.lesswrong.com/posts/juRRtv5KB7YbP5zaa/the-art-of-shippin...
- Reporting on 'Claudeonomics' says it was independently built by a Meta employee, not created by Meta management, and sources describe tokenmaxxing as a side effect rather than the company's stated purpose.
X Aug 4, 2026 at 01:06 PM
x.com/tamerqdh/status/2084572578312536484
- المدة المذكورة مبالغ فيها زمنيًا. من 22 نوفمبر 2023 إلى 4 أغسطس 2026 مرّت 986 يومًا فقط، لا أكثر من ألف يوم.