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Wikipedia Jul 10, 2026 at 05:18 AM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sci-Hub
- The figures in this passage are transcribed incorrectly. The cited study reports 150,875,861 total log entries, not 150,575,861, and 1,050,620 open-access papers, not 1,050,62.
Wikipedia Jul 10, 2026 at 03:54 AM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deepwater_Horizon_(film)
- This understates how many survivors were still aboard after the lifeboats left. An official Marshall Islands investigation found that 11 people remained onboard immediately after the lifeboats were launched, not 9.
- Official investigations say more than just Mike Williams jumped. They report that eight people jumped into the sea, and Andrea Fleytas testified that she fell out of the raft when it hit the water.
Wikipedia Jul 10, 2026 at 03:48 AM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amber_Tamblyn
- This date is wrong. Reliable bios for Tamblyn place her Locarno award for Stephanie Daley with the film’s 2006 festival run, not in August 2010.
- This chronology is off. Tamblyn’s cameo in Django Unchained was in Quentin Tarantino’s 2012 film, not “the same year” as the 2015 Girlfriend’s Day sentence before it.
- This overstates the 2004 result as only a nomination. Tamblyn won the Saturn Award for Best Actress on Television in 2004, and was nominated again in 2005.
Wikipedia Jul 10, 2026 at 03:47 AM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deepwater_Horizon_explosion
- The production casing had already been run and cemented before the accident. By then, the crew had moved on to later temporary-abandonment steps.
- The UTC offset shown is wrong. In April, Louisiana-area local time is Central Daylight Time, which is UTC−5, not UTC−6.
- That was the government's estimate, not the court's finding. Judge Barbier later found 3.19 million barrels were discharged into the Gulf (4.0 million released from the reservoir).
Wikipedia Jul 10, 2026 at 03:46 AM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Woods
- Promise is a 1986 television film, not a 1987 one.
- Salvador is a 1986 film, not a 1987 film.
- The 2012 Cannes restoration of Once Upon a Time in America added 25 minutes, not 40.
Wikipedia Jul 10, 2026 at 12:06 AM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gu_Yanwu
- In 1613, Kunshan was in South Zhili (Nanzhili), not a province called Jiangnan; "Jiangnan" was the Qing-era name adopted later.
- The chronology is backwards: Gu passed the exam in 1626, while his adoptive grandfather died later, in 1641.
Wikipedia Jul 9, 2026 at 11:19 PM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Austin_Metcalf
- The timing is wrong: news outlets covering the trial live reported that the jury reached a verdict at 1:45 p.m., with court resuming at 2:05 p.m. for the announcement.
Wikipedia Jul 9, 2026 at 10:37 PM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antonela_Roccuzzo
- Antonela Roccuzzo has said the order was the other way around: she started in social communication first, then switched to dentistry.
- UNICEF's current official name is "United Nations Children's Fund"; "United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund" is the organization's historical name from before 1953.
Wikipedia Jul 9, 2026 at 09:50 PM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercor
- Mercor was already active in 2022, so saying the founders started it in 2023 is wrong.
Substack Jul 9, 2026 at 09:48 PM
www.astralcodexten.com/p/introducing-plan-a
- The JCPOA was not a treaty; U.S. government and CRS materials describe it as an unsigned, nonbinding political commitment. It also lasted longer than “barely two years”: from Implementation Day on January 16, 2016 to the U.S. withdrawal announcement on May 8, 2018 was about 28 months.
X Jul 9, 2026 at 09:42 PM
x.com/DKokotajlo/status/2075251618728292464
- This overstates what AI 2027 said. The official AI 2027 scenario had two endings, including a “slowdown” branch presented as a more hopeful path where humans remain in control and power could even return to the public.
Wikipedia Jul 9, 2026 at 06:37 PM
de.wikipedia.org/wiki/AquaDom
- The 2009 photo caption uses the wrong hotel brand name. Radisson says the Berlin property became a Radisson Collection hotel only in January 2022; in 2009 the brand was still Radisson SAS/Blu.
- This sentence uses the wrong hotel name for the 2003–2021 period. Radisson says the Berlin property became a Radisson Collection hotel only in January 2022; earlier it was branded Radisson SAS/Blu.
Substack Jul 9, 2026 at 05:42 PM
www.noahpinion.blog/p/only-fools-think-elon-is-incompetent
- Tesla’s own 2023 figures point the other way: Shanghai alone handled about 947,000 vehicles, while Fremont made about 560,000 and Texas was only at a 5,000-per-week run rate (~260,000 annualized).
Wikipedia Jul 9, 2026 at 05:35 PM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fermat%27s_Last_Theorem
- This reverses the two steps in Frey’s strategy. Ribet proved the link that semistable modularity would imply Fermat’s Last Theorem; the remaining step was Wiles’s later proof of semistable modularity.
Wikipedia Jul 9, 2026 at 04:30 PM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discovery_of_Neptune
- This is wrong for John Couch Adams: he began working on the Neptune problem in 1843, not 1845. Only Le Verrier began his calculations in 1845.
Wikipedia Jul 9, 2026 at 04:27 PM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quadratic_equation
- This overstates Simon Stevin's priority. Histories of mathematics describe earlier complete European treatments of quadratic equations, and note that Stevin still treated separate cases rather than the fully general modern formula.
Wikipedia Jul 9, 2026 at 04:26 PM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quartic_equation
- The Abel–Ruffini theorem does not say that all higher-degree polynomials are unsolvable. It says only that there is no formula by radicals for the general polynomial of degree 5 or higher, while some specific higher-degree polynomials are solvable by radicals.
- A quartic with a triple root and a simple root does not need both roots to be real. That restriction only follows for real-coefficient quartics, but the text states it as a general quartic case.
- A quartic with two double roots does not need those roots to be real or conjugate. That restriction only applies when coefficients are real, but the article states it as part of the general case.
- This root description is not valid for all quartics. It is only guaranteed for real-coefficient quartics; a general quartic may instead have arbitrary complex roots.
Wikipedia Jul 9, 2026 at 04:25 PM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abel%E2%80%93Ruffini_theorem
- This sentence conflates two different ideas. The historical search for radical formulas for higher-degree equations is not the “fundamental theorem of algebra”; that theorem is the statement that every complex polynomial has a complex root.
Wikipedia Jul 9, 2026 at 04:21 PM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_D._Rockefeller
- This dollar figure is too high. University of Chicago sources say Rockefeller gave a little over $35 million to the university, not $80 million.
- This count is outdated. Rockefeller University currently says 26 Nobel Prize winners have been associated with the university, not 23.
Wikipedia Jul 9, 2026 at 03:09 PM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harold_James_Nicholson
- Nicholson was an instructor at Camp Peary ('the Farm'), not at Langley; the record says he traveled from the training center to CIA headquarters in Langley to seek Chechnya information.