Sources & references

Revised claim: Categorical ethnicity, first Egyptian speaker, and invented 'deep time compression' terminology.

Revised claim: Electrons buzzing like planets and touch described as atoms never contacting.

Revised claim: Unverified hotel, taxi and rice ventures in Nintendo’s origin story.

Revised claim: Mona Lisa was not famous until its theft; unsupported 80% visitor statistic.

Revised claim: Participants paid 63% more generalized beyond experimental willingness to pay.

Revised claim: First written use proves Shakespeare invented a word; English standardized in 1755.

Revised claim: Van Gogh sold exactly one painting.

Revised claim: Ancient Egyptian honey still edible; honey never spoils.

Revised claim: A lethal radiation dose calculated by eating millions of bananas.

Revised claim: Trees routinely share resources and mother trees deliberately feed seedlings.

Revised claim: 3M’s side-project policy directly caused Post-its and Google’s policy.

Revised claim: Plato explicitly intended the cave as an account of Socrates’ execution.

Revised claim: Simplicity alone determines truth; quantum mechanics offered as proof against model selection.

Revised claim: Rivals engineered the Sistine commission and unsupported numerical totals.

Revised claim: Monet’s paintings prove he saw ultraviolet after cataract surgery.

Revised claim: A lethal radiation dose calculated by eating millions of bananas.

Revised claim: Unverified hotel, taxi and rice ventures in Nintendo’s origin story.

Revised claim: First barcode scan, rather than first retail UPC scan.

Revised claim: Diogenes’ jar residence stated as documented certainty rather than ancient biography.

Revised claim: Ancient Egyptian honey still edible; honey never spoils.

Revised claim: First written use proves Shakespeare invented a word; English standardized in 1755.

Revised claim: Mona Lisa was not famous until its theft; unsupported 80% visitor statistic.

Revised claim: 3M’s side-project policy directly caused Post-its and Google’s policy.

Revised claim: Banksy resale was only triple the original price.

Revised claim: A photon has a rest frame and experiences no time.

Revised claim: Known T. rex DNA permits comparisons with chicken and earlier dinosaurs.

Revised claim: No genuinely new antibiotic class has been discovered for decades.

Revised claim: Golden Record guaranteed playable for billions of years.

Revised claim: Walkman adapted for Morita’s personal airplane listening rather than Ibuka’s request.

Revised claim: CRISPR edits any genome and universally cures sickle-cell disease.

Revised claim: Bentham’s preserved body regularly attends meetings.

Revised claim: Every gold ring can be attributed to neutron-star mergers; precise gold yield.

Revised claim: Humans share 60% of all DNA with bananas; incompatible similarity percentages.

Revised claim: Human brain cleaning works only at night, twice as active, and prevents dementia.

Revised claim: All human variation and disease risk occupy a 0.1% slice; Toba near-extinction as cause.

Revised claim: Kierkegaard invented the exact phrase leap of faith.

Revised claim: Neutron stars are atoms.

Revised claim: Every recall rewrites memory; reconsolidation alone explains PTSD treatment.

Revised claim: Humans share 60% of all DNA with bananas; incompatible similarity percentages.

Revised claim: Headline invents a state-by-state nuclear plan and misdates Plowshare.

Revised claim: 1904 marathon winner rode in a car, conflating disqualified Lorz with Hicks.

Revised claim: King ate himself to death; sensational funeral tale as certain fact.

Revised claim: One Spartan warrior plus volunteers, rather than king and 300 Spartans.

Revised claim: An editor threw the manuscript away; Nobel awarded for one novel alone.

Revised claim: Twain identified Tom Sawyer as the first typed manuscript, without correcting his memory.

Revised claim: Toba nearly ended humanity is established.

Revised claim: Human brain cleaning works only at night, twice as active, and prevents dementia.

Revised claim: ABBA sponsored the Sistine restoration, contradicted by the body.

Revised claim: Starry Night’s village matches the asylum view and sky proves deliberate turbulence modeling.

Revised claim: Banksy resale was only triple the original price.

Revised claim: Specific one-bowl price, uncertain surviving-print count and tourist framing.