Grok Fact Check

Grok Fact Check: stories 401–450

50 stories published 30 Oct – 3 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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Meek Mill sets six-city Dream Chasers Nights tour, opening at Philadelphia arena on November 24 –
Lily Allen dresses as a Ticketmaster seat map full of unsold blue dots for Halloween –
Florida Museum biologist widened luna moth tails in a 7-year lab study; a first for moths or butterflies –
A 2018 Jimmy Dean breakfast sandwich ad is TikTok’s newest meme, powered by an old harmonica riff –
BLM rounds up 259 wild horses from Utah’s Sulphur herd, where about 560 roamed land meant for 250 –
Red Baron pizza stocker hit by a fake Apple Pay prank gets more than $250,000 from strangers online –
Benjamin Franklin’s 1784 Paris letter proposed cannon at sunrise and candle rationing, not clock changes –
Taurid meteors bring Halloween fireballs to US, UK and Canadian skies; peaks follow on November 5 and 12 –
Nick Jonas says Bob Iger was among the first to reach out after the 2019 Jonas Brothers reunion –
Applebee’s diner’s TikTok shows a 20% kiosk tip of $11.30 on a $49.49 bill, worked out after tax –
Gabourey Sidibe dresses as Drake in his fringe shawl after AI memes put the rapper on her photos –
Reese Witherspoon’s Hello Sunshine lays off about half its staff weeks after she bought it back –
Coyote bites the leg of young grizzly bear 1109 in Yellowstone, and the bear lets out a roar and walks on –
Netflix posts official ‘Soda Pop’ dance from KPop Demon Hunters, passing 1.29 million views in two days –
A Chilean engineer’s ‘Parthenon’ souvenir came from an older Acropolis temple, Greek experts found –
Sherri Shepherd wins Daytime Emmy for best talk show host five months after her show Sherri ended –
SpaceX’s 2018 Tesla Roadster is 68 million miles from Earth on Halloween; Starman has made 5.7 orbits –
Colin Farrell’s son James, 23, shares a hug with his dad in HBO documentary trailer –
Rose-colored Sahara meteorite is a piece of Mars over 4.1 billion years old; water altered it back then –
Billy Bob Thornton stays on Landman and hosts a Mayflower docudrama arriving November 23 –
Rescuer pulls a treble fishing hook from a cygnet’s neck before a crowd at St Ives; 1.8 million likes –
Tracee Ellis Ross, Keke Palmer and Star Jones all win Daytime Emmys at the Hollywood Palladium –
NASA’s second mock-Mars crew completes 378 days sealed in a Houston habitat; exit was set for October 31 –
Family Guy ‘brick wall’ line from 2000 nears 10 million views in JomJom412’s Backrooms remix –
Canelo Álvarez outpoints Christian Mbilli in Riyadh to win WBC super middleweight title at 36 –
Danny DeVito surprises 5,000 Matilda fans at Royal Albert Hall with Mara Wilson and the 1996 cast –
Florida pythons climb trees in under 3% of sightings, study of 356 snakes finds; most climbers bask in winter –
Young swan stops traffic on England’s A1 and is netted to safety in a clip seen 14.9 million times –
Dan Aykroyd’s great-grandfather hosted séances at an Ontario farmhouse decades before Ghostbusters –
Soulframe opens its pre-alpha to all PC players on November 6 as Digital Extremes’ teaser passes 155,000 views –
The viral clapping cat is an AI clip from Instagram; a Short comparing its versions hits 12 million views –
Stone that propped up a barn in the Czech village of Morkůvky is a 3,000-year-old Bronze Age spearhead mold –
Avengers: Doomsday popcorn bucket is a Doctor Doom bust with glowing green eyes, and Regal adds a Doom throne –
Bondi lifeguards clear the beach for a suspected explosive device in a Bondi Rescue Short with 168,000 likes –
Crows gathering in US yards this autumn are commuting to winter roosts of up to two million birds –
The Isley Brothers post behind-the-scenes footage of their 2 Chainz video ‘The Plug’ –
Arapaima scales survive piranha bites; UC San Diego tests show why the Amazon giant’s armor does not crack –
Romanian village doorstop turns out to be the world’s largest rumanite amber, a 3.48 kg nugget now in a museum –
Robert Downey Jr. dresses as Pedro Pascal’s Reed Richards for Halloween while Pascal wears the Doom mask –
Grecia, the Costa Rican toucan who lost half her beak to an attack, got a 3D-printed replacement in 2016 –
Twinkie invented in 1930 at idle Illinois bakery sold to Smucker for $5.6 billion 93 years later –
Old Farmer’s Almanac forecasts a White Christmas for the Northeast, Alaska and most of Canada in 2026 –
Netflix posts official ‘Your Idol’ dance from KPop Demon Hunters, passing 1.4 million views in three days –
Grazers get horizontal pupils and ambush hunters vertical slits; a viral Short revives a 214-species eye study –
Tony Hawk shooed out of LA’s Pershing Square while recreating Pro Skater 3 for its 25th anniversary –
Jeff Bezos’ father Mike Bezos fled Cuba alone at 16 in 1962, then lent Amazon $245,573 in 1995 –
Florida has eradicated the giant African land snail three times and is still fighting it in two counties –
Melissa Gilbert’s birthday letter to Michael Landon, her Little House ‘Pa’, passes 65,000 likes –
Texas cave kept a 6,500-year-old hunting kit; atlatl, darts and boomerang found near Marfa –
Sociable weavers in the Kalahari build one nest for 100 pairs that can stay occupied for a century –

#401 · 30 Oct 2026 · Entertainment