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Grok Fact Check: stories 251–300

50 stories published 21 Oct – 22 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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Princeton PhD Jack Weis says 2,300 job applications in two years have not landed him a job –
NASA’s second mock-Mars crew exits its Houston habitat Oct. 31; 4 volunteers, 378 days inside –
Jesse Eisenberg says his Batman v Superman Razzie cost him studio roles and pushed him to direct –
Claudette Colvin refused her Montgomery bus seat 274 days before Rosa Parks, then helped win in court –
Walmart+ and Sam’s Club Plus now sell together for $120 a year in the US, $98 less than buying both –
Monterey Bay Aquarium turns 42 in a California sardine cannery, built with a $55 million Packard gift –
Princess of Wales chooses Lover’s Knot tiara and yellow cape gown for Oman state banquet at Windsor –
Tom the Postgirl, a Swiss game about a snooping mail carrier, lands on Steam and Switch on October 29 –
Tribeca loft with a student-era Keith Haring mural asks $25 million, up from $6.5 million in 2021 –
Simmering orange peels with cinnamon at home is trending again: what the pot does and the pet risks vets flag –
Yung Miami’s red-Ferrari F-You video sets up her debut solo album Watch Dis, due Friday, October 23 –
Delhi’s last begging elephant, Jasmine, plays in a sanctuary pond seven years after her 2019 rescue –
Pocahontas was about 11 when she met John Smith in Virginia, and the love story came centuries later –
Tom Petty, born in Gainesville, Florida, would have turned 76: the fast rise of the Traveling Wilburys –
Glowing dye maps Oregon’s underground River Styx; USGS tracing found 3 unrecorded springs and seeps –
Bronx man Chantz Rivera reaches Sacramento after walking about 2,577 miles from New York since May –
Short on Android storage? How Google’s lighter Go apps compare with the full-size versions –
Offset and Don Toliver flip Jodeci’s Freek’n You in Every Night video before GMFU arrives October 23 –
Cher pulls a yellow scarf in Moncler’s 41-second Re/Icons film, a nod to her 1970s CBS TV show –
Laurene Powell Jobs puts $250 million into Skydance, the new owner of Paramount and Warner Bros. –
The ‘better than a master of one’ ending of ‘jack of all trades’ is a recent add-on, not the original –
England’s viral cat retirement village in Shrewsbury needs six new cottages for its elderly residents –
One North Sea foundation may shed nearly 6,000 pounds of sea life a year; a German team took 183 samples –
The avocado shed that became Australia Zoo’s wildlife hospital has now taken in 136,000 animals –
Doechii revives Swamp Sessions on YouTube with Bombs, a 95-second clip she directed herself –
Japan’s MMX probe leaves Tanegashima for Mars moon Phobos; it aims to bring 10 grams of soil home in 2031 –
Tamera Mowry-Housley’s $3.8 million Napa farm bet: the 2024 buy behind her $2.69 million listing –
Darwin did not coin ‘survival of the fittest’; his 1869 Origin credits Herbert Spencer –
Santa Monica Pier’s 1941 neon sign comes down this week, bound for a Las Vegas sign shop, not a museum –
Find The Needle, a six-million-strand haystack game, tops Steam’s demo chart before Early Access –
Teal pumpkins return for Halloween 2026 as US households add non-candy bowls for kids with allergies –
B2K post Lil Freak visualizer on YouTube as Eclipse, their first album in over 20 years, nears Nov. 6 –
Underwater recorders off northwest Australia reveal where the elusive 10-meter Omura’s whale feeds –
Tatyana Ali and Alfonso Ribeiro honor TV dad James Avery with a waltz on Dancing with the Stars –
Sun Tzu never wrote ‘keep your enemies closer’; the line comes from The Godfather Part II –
A thumb-sized bone from Portugal may be Iberia’s oldest dinosaur; it is more than 220 million years old –
A roadside pine hutch went duck egg blue: how to paint old pine without the knots bleeding through –
Modern Warfare 4’s DMZ base opens in early access, with a 1 million cash price for three prestiges –
Nine-foot Lara Croft statue heads for Derby’s Market Hall, 30 years after Tomb Raider was made there –
Rescued orphan gorilla Lulingu is raising her first baby in the wild in Congo’s Virunga park –
JFK never called himself a jelly doughnut in Berlin; the 1963 transcript shows why –
Draftula, a vampire castle-stacking puzzler born at a 2025 game jam, has a free Steam demo but no date –
Putin tells Witkoff Russia is ready to resume three-way Ukraine talks around November 10 –
EA closes BioWare in Edmonton after 31 years and cancels the next Mass Effect game –
Angel Reese’s 30-and-16 night swings the WNBA Finals as the Dream lead the Valkyries 2-1 –
US orders non-emergency staff and families out of Saudi Arabia as Houthi attacks hit airports –
Survivor 51 on CBS sends Alexis Levine and Linnea Capobianco home, making it six women in six votes –
Walker Kessler goes 12-for-12 in his Lakers debut as Los Angeles routs Golden State 127-105 –
Russia frees American teacher Stephen Hubbard in St. Petersburg as Trump says no swap was needed –
Unitree unveils H2-X ‘Kung Fu Legend Guardian’, a bodyguard humanoid with no price or spec sheet yet –

#251 · 21 Oct 2026 · Offbeat