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Grok Fact Check: stories 501–540

40 stories published 7 Nov – 8 Nov 2026. Grok, the AI model made by xAI, has no connection to Badiyaa; we ask it every week to find the errors in what we published, and print its score and note here word for word.

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Elon Musk says Tesla will wind down Cybertruck production in Texas by mid-2027 to build Cybercabs –
Willie Nelson, 93, keeps rescued horses on the Texas ranch where he built a Western movie town –
Air Canada 767 ran dry at 41,000 feet over a pounds-for-kilograms error and glided to Gimli, Manitoba –
Florida drive-thru worker retired after 37 years and got every dollar her restaurant made that day –
Prix Goncourt winner Philippe Jaenada admits he hid a ChatGPT sentence in his prize novel –
Fat Joe brings Remy Ma, Jadakiss and Stove God Cooks to his second Tiny Desk concert –
Kansas City Labrador Java sets Guinness World Record by clipping 8 clothes pegs to a line in a minute –
Nicolas Cage returns as arms dealer Yuri Orlov in first Lords of War teaser, out January 22, 2027 –
Rockefeller Center’s 2026 Christmas tree is a 76-foot Norway spruce from West Edmeston, New York –
New York granddaughter teaches her 102-year-old grandpa and 89-year-old grandma Uber Eats on TikTok –
Meg Ryan poses with Billy Crystal on the stage of his Broadway show 860, 37 years after When Harry Met Sally –
Black bear wins Shower Beer award for eating salmon under a waterfall in Alaska’s Tongass forest –
NASA’s Swift telescope fell back to Earth over Sumatra after 22 years; it logged over 2,000 gamma-ray bursts –
Caitlin Clark becomes the first athlete Dick’s Sporting Goods and Foot Locker have signed as a brand partner –
Shirley Chisholm’s ‘bring a folding chair’ line first reached print weeks after her death in 2005 –
Adam Driver says ‘the ship has sailed’ on The Hunt for Ben Solo, his shelved Star Wars film –
Archaeologists find possible camp of Argentine castaways from 1873 shipwreck on Isla de los Estados –
Baby elephant banana heist clip shared by Indian police is AI-generated, creator’s profile says –
Amazon Prime adds $0 Uber Eats delivery on $25 orders in the US, replacing the Grubhub+ perk –
Diwali 2026 falls on Sunday, November 8 as Leicester holds its park celebration without public fireworks –
Narwhal and beluga crossbreed: DNA from a Greenland skull confirms the only known narluga –
Netflix renews Kristen Bell and Adam Brody’s Nobody Wants This for season 4 despite falling premiere views –
Fannie Lou Hamer’s ‘sick and tired’ quote is real: the full line from her 1964 Harlem speech –
Whitby doctor’s 1851 leech barometer used 12 leeches to ring a storm bell at the Great Exhibition –
Charles Hamilton drops T.H.E. (The Hamilton Experience), an 11-track album, days before his 39th birthday –
Ancient African monkeys crossed the Atlantic on vegetation rafts, four fossil teeth from Peru show –
Jessica Chastain’s Other Mommy turns a $19 million budget into $111.5 million despite a D+ CinemaScore –
Arnold Schwarzenegger’s 45 years with Special Olympics, from weight coach in 1979 to family ambassadors –
Mac Miller’s Blue Slide Park turns 15 as the indie debut that ended a 16-year US chart drought –
Ray Chen’s E string snapped at the Royal Albert Hall and a violinist re-strung it in his seat mid-concerto –
Ocarina of Time on Switch 2 hides 100 Gold Skulltulas, and the final prize is 200 Rupees –
Nepal honors dogs with marigold garlands and red tika today, November 8, on Kukur Tihar –
Showrunner Howard Gordon says pulling 24 was considered after 9/11, as the Jack Bauer drama turns 25 –
Danish wave machine folds shut in storms; its maker claims over 60% efficiency after 16 years –
A secret US review found a 1983 NATO war game put Soviet relations on a ‘hair trigger’ –
Porsche assembled 10,479 Mercedes 500 E sedans in Germany as its own export revenue slumped –
Diamond Foundry says it has grown the first 200 mm single-crystal diamond, as wide as a chip wafer –
Frankenstein’s assistant Fritz and the cry of ‘It lives’ date to an 1823 London stage play –
Uzbekistan’s 22,790-mirror solar furnace once tested materials for Soviet defense industry –
NFL returns to Real Madrid’s Bernabéu as Bengals and Falcons play the league’s second game in Spain –

#501 · 7 Nov 2026 · Tech