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Grok Fact Check: stories 151–200

50 stories published 17 Oct – 19 Oct 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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Minnesota deputies find an 11-foot metal ‘space object’ in a cornfield; its owner is still unknown –
Denzel Washington paid $1.1 million in 1988 for a 1940 Toluca Lake house designed by Paul R. Williams –
450 and Damian Marley release ‘Good Morning’ video, the Jamaican singer’s first record with Jr. Gong –
Sergey Brin says Google is on an ‘RSI treadmill’ as Gemini models help build their successors –
‘A Different World’ star Cornell Young IV kept his Netflix casting secret from family until the pilot –
A 16-foot, 147.9-pound python was tagged and set free in the Everglades so drones can help track it –
Jeremy Renner’s $24 million Holmby Hills flip resurfaces, 13 years after the sale closed –
44 years ago this week, Dolly Parton’s I Will Always Love You topped the US country chart for a second time –
Melbourne-born Flea turns 64 in the year the Red Hot Chili Peppers bassist finally released a solo album –
Tortie Maine Coon kitten’s Halloween-candy coat wins fans online, and her X chromosomes explain it –
Jim Ed Norman turns 78: the Florida keyboardist who wrote the strings on the Eagles’ Hotel California –
Mandela never said ‘Our deepest fear’ at his 1994 inauguration; the lines are Marianne Williamson’s –
Kurt Russell and Michael Caine both call Casablanca the greatest film; how it ranks in critics’ polls –
Harrison Ford’s 800-acre Wyoming ranch is trending again, but its protection from development dates to 1985 –
How a Connecticut mother’s bread for her asthmatic son became Pepperidge Farm, sold for $28 million –
Black bear eats a jar of honey inside a California library on Winnie-the-Pooh’s 100th birthday –
Walmart’s US holiday return window is open: most buys from October 1 can go back until January 31 –
Viral ‘2Pac ft. 50 Cent and Eminem’ upload is not the promised Street Fighter theme song –
Sojourner Truth’s Akron speech, as printed in 1851, never asks ‘Ain’t I a woman?’ –
First photos of Julia Louis-Dreyfus on Broadway as Other Desert Cities opens Sunday in New York –
A white dwarf 284 light-years away may be the first green star; sodium soaks up its orange light –
Backstreet Boys stretch Toronto residency to 12 Rogers Centre nights after starting with four –
Oklahoma prairie herd that began with 300 donated bison in 1993 now tops 2,000 animals –
Caesar’s ‘Et tu, Brute?’ appears in neither ancient biography; it was printed in a London play in 1595 –
Twins’ three-turn Voice Kids UK audition from 2023 trends again while the show stays off air –
Lil Baby sets November 6 for fifth album Fresh, with Future and Young Thug on the tracklist –
Utah’s $2 million backyard scuba pool is trending again, 12 years after it first aired on TV –
Metro 2039 opens pre-orders at $69.99 ahead of its February 4, 2027 launch on PS5, Xbox and PC –
Brad Paisley’s free Nashville grocery store is trending again, nine months after its second site opened –
Rosa Parks was 42 and a veteran civil rights organizer, not a tired old woman, when arrested in Montgomery –
Young gray wolf Kinari, 18 months old, gets a new fall video at New York’s Wolf Conservation Center –
Northern Ireland gym owner’s 499 weighted chin-ups in one hour earn a Guinness World Record –
Travis Kelce’s Ohio lakefront home faces a second village design review on November 10 –
Aretha Franklin’s Detroit Rose Estate, sold for $300,000 in 2018, is trending again after its restoration –
George Washington’s teeth were never wood; a 1784 ledger records cash paid to enslaved people for 9 teeth –
Paul Revere never wrote ‘The British are coming’ in his 1775 or 1798 accounts of the ride –
Anderson .Paak and Cordae’s Heavy Is the Crown lands Friday with J. Cole among its named collaborators –
LeBron James calls his New York-to-Philadelphia helicopter commute ‘just another way of transportation’ –
John Legend’s Pharrell-produced album Muse arrives Friday, October 23, with 16 tracks and a Clipse feature –
Christopher Lee’s 1968 Dracula Has Risen from the Grave trends again on YouTube ahead of Halloween –
FAMU’s Marching 100 halftime at Jackson State homecoming trends after 27-17 loss in Mississippi –
Edna Walker’s 1969 Pillsbury Bake-Off marshmallow puffs are trending again; the recipe has barely changed –
Eminem lands on Kid Rock’s Christian album Halfway 2 Jesus after a last-minute track swap –
A 33-second short-eared owl clip draws 62,000 YouTube views; its hoots are a spring courtship call –
Clint Eastwood’s viral ‘not like Europe’ quote at 96 is a retranslated remark at least 31 years old –
Captain asks for supervisors at Detroit gate after flight attendants clash on Delta Connection jet –
Lucky Daye and Pusha T release Mouf Say video as the New Orleans singer’s album Aloud arrives –
Mini donkey who spent a decade alone finds a donkey friend at a Washington sanctuary –
Riley Green turns 38 as the former Jacksonville State quarterback duets with Peyton Manning –
Napoleon was not short: his 1821 Saint Helena measurement was in French feet, about 5 ft 6½ in –

#151 · 17 Oct 2026 · Science