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Grok Fact Check: stories 201–250

50 stories published 19 Oct – 21 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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Viral ‘Dai Dai Iko’ Shakira and Cristiano Ronaldo clip on YouTube is a DJ’s fan remix, not Shakira’s –
Atlanta rapper Gucci Mane releases Against All Odds, a 17-track album with Summer Walker –
Full House cast fills a Hartford stage at 90s Con, 31 years after the sitcom’s final episode –
Snoop Dogg turns 55 on October 20 with a 22nd album out and his biopic set for 2027 –
Charlize Theron takes Icon Award as Los Angeles film museum gala raises over $14 million –
Akbar’s Rajput queen was never called ‘Jodha Bai’ in Mughal records: the name came from an 1829 British book –
Bleached corals may heal by touching a healthy clone; 5 of 5 touching fragments recovered, 0 of 5 kept apart –
Soul Train Awards return to Chicago with first fan-voted trophies after a three-year pause –
Apple tightens App Store rules on AI nude deepfakes and on apps that hide features until after review –
Tinie Tempah’s I Lied lyric video lands as the London rapper’s first album in nine years arrives –
Lil Wayne’s 20 Years of Carter Classics tour ends this week in Lexington and Knoxville –
An Oregon farmer’s 1935 rock-castle garden near Redmond is trending again, six months after reopening –
Resident Evil loses 979 US theaters in five weeks as Zach Cregger’s reboot nears $150 million –
US Tundra owner’s routine alignment ends with a free new engine under Toyota’s V6 recall –
Was ‘I have a dream’ improvised? King’s own account of his 1963 Washington speech says yes –
Jay-Z’s Tidal went from a $56 million buy in 2015 to a $297 million Square deal in 2021 –
Oregon Zoo elephant Samudra flattens a 500-pound pumpkin, likely his last before a move to St. Louis –
Orionid meteors from Halley’s Comet peak October 21-22; the Hunter’s Moon turns full October 26 at 04:12 GMT –
A 1968 graduate moved back into her old North Carolina school, now 53 apartments for seniors –
Norway’s Bulk pitches a $620 million Canada-to-Europe internet cable that avoids US territory –
Tinashe announces 18-date North American tour for spring 2027 after Popstar’s top-10 debut –
Cincinnati Zoo streams giraffe Tessa around the clock as her fifth and likely last calf is due –
Did Hitler snub Jesse Owens in Berlin? Owens said the snub that hurt came from Roosevelt –
Rare ice crawlers turn up on Yellowstone’s rock glaciers; a Wyoming student found 3 after a blank 2025 season –
OhGeesy brings in Big Sean for ‘Left Right’, a West Coast party single with an official video –
AI chatbots keep writing about Elias the lighthouse keeper; 11 words appear in 88.3% of 20,000 test stories –
A gardener grew several dozen potatoes in an Amazon box, and his 4-million-view video is trending again –
A Los Angeles tech worker flies to her San Francisco office up to 10 times a month –
Almanacs call for Thanksgiving snow in the Upper Midwest; NOAA’s November outlook leans warm there –
Gloria Jones turns 81: the Ohio-born Queen of Northern Soul who sang Tainted Love first –
Five cheetah cubs born at the Smithsonian’s Virginia campus give one family four generations –
Patrick Henry’s ‘Give me liberty’ speech was written down four decades after Richmond, by his biographer –
A$AP Rocky releases Shroom Clouds with Jeremih, opening Disc 2 of his No. 1 album Don’t Be Dumb –
Steve Harvey’s YouTube clip of a 6-year-old ninja is trending; the TV show’s minimum age is 15 –
Pixel 6 and 6 Pro reach the end of Google’s five-year update promise this month after one last patch –
Mýa’s Back & Forth from Essence Fest’s New Orleans tribute to Aaliyah is now on YouTube –
A Bering Sea heatwave may have opened the door to hybrid crabs; they hit 13.4 times their usual number –
George Washington Carver did not invent peanut butter, and his own Tuskegee recipe mentions ‘manufacturers’ –
Adrian Grenier’s Texas farm move is trending again, but the Entourage star’s switch began in 2016 –
Fort Worth Zoo’s first Sumatran tiger cubs, sisters Barani and Malu, get ready for their debut –
Why Nvidia’s Jensen Huang put $75 million into a Vanderbilt art college in San Francisco –
Zombie Walk, a Halloween line dance by Spain-based Rob Fowler, spreads through YouTube teach videos –
Southwest’s 11 new international routes from Nashville and Austin, checked against the airline’s own schedules –
Was India’s anthem written for King George V? Tagore’s 1937 letter and the 1911 records say no –
Bruce Springsteen’s son Sam became a Jersey City firefighter in 2020, and the story is trending again –
Enshrouded reaches 1.0 on PC and PS5 after 995 days in early access, but Xbox waits until 2027 –
Kentucky sank 1,700 used Christmas trees in one 92-acre lake to give fish new places to hide –
A 1937 Hobbit first edition from a Bristol house clearance sold for £43,000 in 2025, about $57,400 –
Al Pacino’s 18-year Beverly Hills rental, once Jackie Collins’s home, trends again with its $15.95M price tag –
Deep-sea life in the Gulf of Mexico may still be reeling from Deepwater Horizon; fish fell 63.5% after 2011 –

#201 · 19 Oct 2026 · Entertainment