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Wikipedia Jul 29, 2026 at 03:24 PM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infanta_Sof%C3%ADa_of_Spain
  • This was described by Portugal’s presidency as Infanta Sofía’s first official meeting with a foreign head of state, not a merely private or casual meeting.
  • Leonor and Sofía had already attended the same Marivent reception in 2024, so the 4 August 2025 event was not their first.
  • Madrid was on summer time on 29 April 2007, so the local civil time would have been CEST, not CET.
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Wikipedia Jul 29, 2026 at 03:19 PM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prognathism
  • This definition uses the wrong anatomical plane. Prognathism is assessed from the side/profile in the sagittal plane, not the coronal plane.
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Wikipedia Jul 29, 2026 at 02:54 PM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonor,_Princess_of_Asturias
  • She had not yet graduated as a commissioned officer in all three branches. Official sources say her officer commissions are due in July 2027, not 2026.
  • Leonor did not become heir in 2023. She became heir when Felipe VI was proclaimed king on 19 June 2014; the 2023 ceremony was the constitutional oath required at majority.
  • The 2023 commemorative Leonor coin was not a gold-silver coin. The official BOE order defines it as a 40-euro coin made of 925‰ silver, with the rest copper.
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Wikipedia Jul 29, 2026 at 12:12 PM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zilong_Qiu
  • The 2016 monkey study was a model of MECP2 duplication syndrome, not Rett syndrome. A distinct Rett-syndrome monkey model was reported later, in 2017, using MECP2 loss-of-function editing.
  • The 2026 Nature study repaired the CHD3 mutation in a mouse model, not in monkeys. The primate experiments only showed delivery/editor reconstitution in monkey brains to support translational feasibility.
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Wikipedia Jul 29, 2026 at 08:20 AM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Austin_Mahone
  • "What About Love" was not on the 2013 EP Extended Play. It was promoted separately as a new single after that EP’s release.
  • The song’s title is "Perfect Beauty," not "Perfect Body."
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Wikipedia Jul 29, 2026 at 07:29 AM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Master_P
  • This is incorrect because Merritt College does not award Bachelor of Science degrees. Its official graduation information lists only associate degrees and certificates.
  • "The Gift" was not Master P's fifth album. Apple Music describes it as his 14th solo effort.
  • The timing is wrong. The University of New Orleans officially named him president of basketball operations on February 26, 2025, not in July 2025.
  • He was not the head coach. UNO's official staff listings name Stacy Hollowell as head coach and Percy Miller as president of basketball operations and assistant coach.
  • The date is wrong. VH1's official press release shows the 2010 Hip Hop Honors were taped on June 3, 2010 and premiered on June 7, 2010.
  • The first-week sales figure is far too high. Contemporary chart reporting from the Los Angeles Times said "Ghetto D" sold nearly 260,000 copies in its first week.
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Wikipedia Jul 29, 2026 at 07:05 AM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duffy_(singer)
  • This is too absolute: Duffy did perform before 2015. She appeared at the Francofolies New York "A Tribute to Edith Piaf" event on September 19, 2013.
  • This is outdated. Duffy returned to the stage on July 5, 2026, performing a live concert at Hoxton Hall in London.
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Wikipedia Jul 29, 2026 at 06:50 AM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrick_Collison
  • Reporting about the couple says they met at the 2005 EU Young Scientist competition in Moscow, not in 2004. Contemporary coverage also shows Patrick qualified for the EU contest only after winning Ireland’s Young Scientist competition in January 2005.
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Wikipedia Jul 29, 2026 at 06:47 AM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Collison
  • This overstates Patrick Collison’s status. Forbes reported that John Collison was the world’s youngest self-made billionaire in 2016; Patrick, who was older, was one of the other self-made billionaires under 30, not the youngest.
  • The podcast’s title is wrong. Official Stripe and Apple Podcasts pages list John Collison’s show as "Cheeky Pint," not "A Cheeky Pint."
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Wikipedia Jul 29, 2026 at 06:43 AM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_Forever
  • This timeline is wrong. Solano County records show the initiative process began in January 2024, signatures could only be collected after March 7, 2024, they were filed on April 30, 2024, and the registrar found the petition sufficient on June 11, 2024.
  • The February 2024 initiative was not formally submitted under the name “East Solano Plan.” Solano County records show the filed measure was titled “East Solano Homes, Jobs, and Clean Energy Initiative.”
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Wikipedia Jul 29, 2026 at 06:23 AM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Craton
  • This confuses a geologic time interval with a physical part of Earth’s surface. The Archean is an eon lasting roughly 4.0 to 2.5 billion years ago; the source literature says that continental crust formed during the Archean makes up less than 3% of Earth’s surface today.
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Wikipedia Jul 29, 2026 at 04:33 AM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naps_(rapper)
  • The conviction concerned events in the early hours of 1 October 2021, not 30 September 2021.
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Wikipedia Jul 29, 2026 at 04:04 AM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_Service_(United_Kingdom)
  • This sentence is wrong about both the Commissioners’ legal basis and who they report to. Civil Service Commissioners are appointed under the Constitutional Reform and Governance Act 2010, and their annual reports are presented to Parliament, not to the King.
  • This is incorrect on both the date and the role of the Committee. The Committee on Standards in Public Life was set up in October 1994, not 1998, and its own official description says it is not a regulator.
  • This governance description is outdated. The Civil Service’s official governance page now says leadership is exercised through Civil Service Governance Boards such as Heads of Department, the Transformation Board, the People Board and the Senior Leadership Committee.
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Substack Jul 29, 2026 at 04:03 AM
www.noahpinion.blog/p/does-anything-i-write-matter-anymore
  • This conflates separate Google tools. In 2006 Blogger itself showed backlinks, but Blogger’s built-in traffic stats did not launch until 2010; detailed referral/pageview data came from Google Analytics, a separate product.
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Wikipedia Jul 29, 2026 at 04:00 AM
fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Affaire_Nekfeu
  • Le chiffre de 0,6 % ne concerne pas les viols signalés aux autorités. Il correspond à une estimation rapportée à l’ensemble des viols ou tentatives de viol déclarés dans des enquêtes de victimation, y compris ceux jamais signalés à la police.
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Wikipedia Jul 29, 2026 at 03:59 AM
fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lomepal
  • Cette phrase mélange la chronologie des plaintes. En 2023, une seule plainte connue contre Lomepal était celle déposée en 2020 ; la deuxième a été déposée fin 2023 et la troisième le 21 mai 2024.
  • La deuxième plainte n'a pas été déposée en mars 2024. Les sources indiquent qu'elle a été déposée fin 2023 ; mars 2024 correspond au moment où l'information a été rendue publique.
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Substack Jul 29, 2026 at 03:57 AM
www.noahpinion.blog/p/why-i-didnt-sign-the-we-must-act
  • The statement does specify actions beyond a generic call to act: it says leaders should understand AI’s economics and build incentives, guardrails, and institutions.
  • This misstates Acemoglu’s robot research. His famous U.S. paper estimated negative effects across local labor markets, not that robot-adopting companies themselves hired fewer workers; his France firm-level paper says adopters actually expanded overall employment.
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Wikipedia Jul 29, 2026 at 03:45 AM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Young_Turks
  • Agah Efendi did not found the first Turkish newspaper overall. He co-published Tercüman-ı Ahval, which was the first private Turkish newspaper; Turkish newspapers already existed earlier.
  • This chronology is impossible. Germany did not capitulate until November 11, 1918, nearly a month after the Ottoman cabinet crisis in October.
  • This conflates two different movements. The Young Ottomans were an 1865 opposition group of intellectuals and bureaucrats, while the student secret society founded by medical cadets in 1889 was the Ottoman Union Society, precursor to the CUP.
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Wikipedia Jul 29, 2026 at 03:44 AM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hideki_Tojo
  • The start date here is off by one day. Official Japanese government and archival sources place Tojo’s premiership and concurrent service in his new cabinet beginning on October 18, 1941, not October 17.
  • This date is wrong. Official Japanese archival sources show the second Konoe Cabinet was inaugurated on July 22, 1940, with Hideki Tojo taking office as Minister of War that same day.
  • These casualty figures are greatly overstated. Standard histories of Imphal–Kohima put the Japanese force at about 85,000, with roughly 53,000 dead or missing total—not 72,000 killed in battle plus a similar number dead from starvation and disease.
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Wikipedia Jul 29, 2026 at 03:44 AM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Young_Turks
  • This subscriber figure is far too low. Contemporary reporting shows TYT had about 3 million YouTube subscribers in mid-2016, not 23,000.
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