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Wikipedia Aug 5, 2026 at 05:27 AM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clodius_Albinus
- Reliable histories place Albinus’s initial acclamation in Britain, not Hispania. Spanish support appears later, when he revolted against Severus and moved into Gaul.
Wikipedia Aug 5, 2026 at 05:27 AM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florianus
- The campaign against the Goths was fought in Asia Minor/Anatolia, not Pannonia. Reliable modern summaries place Tacitus and Florian in the East, where the Goths had overrun Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, and Cilicia.
Wikipedia Aug 5, 2026 at 05:26 AM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quintillus
- This is incorrect: Quintillus himself is attested with the title *Pontifex Maximus*, so that image/title was not abandoned in his reign.
Wikipedia Aug 5, 2026 at 05:26 AM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tacitus_(emperor)
- This gets Tacitus’s consulships wrong. Modern prosopographical and numismatic evidence identifies his attested consulships as 273 and 276, and historians reject the Historia Augusta’s account of an earlier career under Valerian as fictitious.
- Modern evidence does not support Tacitus being elected at Rome after a reluctant return from retirement in Campania. The best sources and coin evidence indicate he was proclaimed by the army first and only later recognized by the Senate.
- There is no solid evidence that Tacitus legally restored sweeping constitutional powers to the Senate. Modern historians treat this senatorial-restoration story as an unhistorical product of the Historia Augusta.
Wikipedia Aug 5, 2026 at 05:25 AM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nerva
- This overstates what Cassius Dio says. In the surviving text of Dio's Book 68, he does not explicitly identify Nerva as an "Italiot"; he only says Trajan was a Spaniard rather than "an Italian or Italot."
Wikipedia Aug 5, 2026 at 05:24 AM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commodus
- This mixes up two different renamings. Ancient and modern sources say Commodus renamed Carthage "Alexandria Commodiana Togata," while the African grain fleet was called "Commodiana Herculea."
- Commodus was 15, not 16, when he became consul and was elevated to co-ruler.
- The Commodus season of Roman Empire: Reign of Blood premiered in 2016, not 2017.
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.