Latest Corrections
Wikipedia Oct 20, 2026 at 10:42 PM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SeaWorld_San_Diego
- Howl-O-Scream is SeaWorld San Diego's own event; Universal Studios and Six Flags run separate Halloween events under their own brands.
Wikipedia Oct 20, 2026 at 10:42 PM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SeaWorld
- SeaWorld’s current official park pages list 17 orcas across its three U.S. parks, not 18.
- SeaWorld Orlando’s official site says there are five orcas there, not four; Katina is missing from this list.
- That timing is outdated: Emperor opened in March 2022 and Arctic Rescue opened in June 2023, so by October 20, 2026 both are more than three years old or close to three-and-a-half years old.
Wikipedia Oct 20, 2026 at 10:06 PM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Many-plumed_moth
- This is incorrect because many-plumed moths do occur in tropical regions, including tropical Africa, Southeast Asia, and tropical America.
X Oct 20, 2026 at 09:16 PM
x.com/History1060/status/2112562868550045823
- This is not an accurate global list of the largest cities around 1050. Major Asian cities such as Kaifeng, Kyoto, and Angkor were among the world's biggest cities then, but they are missing from the map.
X Oct 20, 2026 at 09:08 PM
x.com/AustinJustice/status/2032297402925736040
- Reporting says Davis detained Vasquez until other officers arrived; it does not say she personally completed the arrest herself.
X Oct 20, 2026 at 08:36 PM
x.com/mylifcc/status/2112453769220780514
- This quoted sentence is not what the Hacker News commenter actually wrote. The original post uses different wording.
- According to the Hacker News comment itself, the 20-minute Ursa Major result was not a fresh reverse-engineering from scratch; it relied on code that had already been reverse-engineered and posted to GitHub.
LessWrong Oct 20, 2026 at 08:32 PM
www.lesswrong.com/posts/uFBhZhdKLaZ6qF8mn/there-will-be-hell...
- FlyGym was already publicly released before November 2024. EPFL’s GitHub shows FlyGym v1.0.0 was released on June 20, 2024, and v1.1.0 on October 1, 2024.
- MaleCNS v1.0 was not released in September 2026. The project’s official release notes date v1.0 to June 8, 2026; September 3, 2026 was the paper’s publication date.
X Oct 20, 2026 at 08:11 PM
x.com/ayushswrites/status/2112595859590336661
- This appears to be incorrect: MIT’s own historical records show students from present-day Uttar Pradesh attended MIT more than a century earlier.
X Oct 20, 2026 at 07:36 PM
x.com/ChanaMessinger/status/2112590448946774341
- This is too absolute: current AI systems are also constrained by non-capability hard limits such as internet isolation, tool restrictions, and blocking safeguards.
Substack Oct 20, 2026 at 05:32 PM
www.owlposting.com/p/some-questions-and-answers-i-had
- Altos Labs did launch in 2022, but the launch funding amount was widely reported as $3 billion, not $2 billion.
- Retro Biosciences was publicly reported as launching in April 2022, not 2023.
- NewLimit was announced in December 2021; the $40 million figure refers to a later 2023 Series A, not the launch.
- Horvath’s epigenetic clock is not a simple genome-wide unmethylated:methylated CpG ratio. It is a weighted predictor built from 353 specific CpG sites, some of which gain methylation with age and some of which lose it.
Wikipedia Oct 20, 2026 at 03:32 PM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Coffee_Table?utm_source=chatgpt.co...
- The sales company attached to the film is MPM Premium, not “MGM Premium.”
- The PÖFF date cannot be November 30, 2022: the 2022 festival officially ran only from November 11 to November 27, and festival listings show screenings on November 26.
Wikipedia Oct 20, 2026 at 02:48 PM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Temple_University
- This figure is off by a factor of 1,000. NSF reports Temple’s FY 2022 R&D spending as $301,395 thousand, i.e. $301.395 million, not $301,395 million.
- Later official Temple sources contradict both parts of this claim: Temple’s own 2023 audit called TUPD the second-largest university police force, and Temple said in December 2025 that the department had 77 sworn officers, not 130.
Wikipedia Oct 20, 2026 at 02:12 PM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tau_(particle)
- Reines is generally credited with detecting the neutrino via reactor antineutrinos; Cowan–Reines detected the electron antineutrino, not the electron neutrino.
Wikipedia Oct 20, 2026 at 01:03 PM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biological_soil_crust#/media/File:Cryp...
- Biocrusts are not confined to arid and semi-arid ecosystems. Reviews document them in mesic and temperate settings as well, wherever plant cover is limited.
- The unit in this sentence is wrong. Published sources give this carbon-input range in grams of carbon per square meter per year, not “g/cm*year.”
X Oct 20, 2026 at 11:01 AM
x.com/Tayma_CanerKara/status/2112152545175212347
- Reporting on this case says Nazrul Islam went to Saudi Arabia for work in November 2022, not for a honeymoon Umrah trip, and his father says the woman executed with him was not his wife.
- The official Saudi statement did not say the act was a kiss for a photo, and the viral image used for that story has been identified as an unrelated 2024 photo of an Egyptian couple.
X Oct 20, 2026 at 10:56 AM
x.com/Tayma_CanerKara/status/2112152545175212347
- Reporting from Bangladesh and Saudi-linked sources identifies Nazrul as a migrant worker in Saudi Arabia, not a man who travelled there for a honeymoon Umrah trip.
- This specific photo/kiss account tracks a debunked viral video claim. Saudi-linked reporting said the circulating video was false and not evidence in the case, and the official Saudi statement did not describe the offense as a posed photo or simple kiss.
LessWrong Oct 20, 2026 at 09:26 AM
www.lesswrong.com/posts/m4fWCPqWkpb39SKi7/a-chinese-perspect...
- This gets the timeline wrong. Official Chinese government sources say most provincial-level regions had already ended the arts/science stream split by 2024, not 2025.
Wikipedia Oct 20, 2026 at 09:21 AM
ig.wikipedia.org/wiki/B%C3%A9k%C3%A8%27
- This etymology is incorrect. Scholarly and primary-source evidence shows forms of Igbo "beke/becca" were already in use for Europeans decades before William Balfour Baikie traveled up the Niger.
X Oct 20, 2026 at 09:16 AM
x.com/Panchenko_X/status/2112114561184674300
- Official Maidan case records reviewed by the Council of Europe say the 13 law-enforcement deaths in Kyiv were from gunshot/firearm wounds, not from being burned alive by Molotov cocktails.
Substack Oct 20, 2026 at 08:53 AM
thezvi.substack.com/p/monthly-roundup-47-october-2026?open=f...
- Baidu’s own 2026 disclosures say Apollo Go operated in far more than six cities.