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An earlier version said the war lasted exactly 38 minutes. That is the most often quoted figure; other sources give 40 or 45 minutes. Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anglo-Zanzibar_War

Correction (13 Oct 2026) · A New Sultan Moved In. Britain Opened Fire.
An earlier title called the mechanism the first computer. It is the oldest known analogue computer; 'first' is not established. Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antikythera_mechanism

Correction (13 Oct 2026) · A 2,000-Year-Old Bronze Lump Was the Oldest Known Analogue Computer
An earlier title said their warship sank in flames. SMS Emden was not sunk: her captain beached her on North Keeling Island to save his crew. Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SMS_Emden

Correction (13 Oct 2026) · Their Warship Was Wrecked. So 50 Sailors Stole a Ghost Ship.
An earlier version gave a February 1957 start date and 5,550 competition entries. Neither could be confirmed, and February 1957 to April 1960 is not 41 months; both were removed. Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bras%C3%ADlia

Correction (13 Oct 2026) · How Do You Build a Whole New Capital City in 41 Months?
An earlier version said the jail had 693 cells. It had 696. Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cellular_Jail

Correction (13 Oct 2026) · A Prison Built So No Two Inmates Could Meet
An earlier title said soldiers stopped the war to play football. The truces were informal and local, and the football matches are the most disputed part of the story.

Correction (13 Oct 2026) · Enemy Soldiers Stopped Fighting for Christmas. Did They Play Football?
An earlier version said the storm moved 300 million tons of topsoil, more than was dug for the Panama Canal. The commonly cited estimate is 300,000 tons. Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Sunday_(storm)

Correction (13 Oct 2026) · A dust storm rolled off the Great Plains. Then it reached Washington.
An earlier version said three hundred artists signed the 1887 protest. The 'Committee of Three Hundred' was named for the tower's 300 metres; the number of signatories was far smaller. Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eiffel_Tower

Correction (13 Oct 2026) · The 300-Meter Bet: How Paris Almost Tore Down Its Iron Monster
An earlier version said Parliament ran away or suspended its sessions. It kept sitting: it soaked its curtains in chloride of lime and discussed moving to Oxford or St Albans. Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Stink

Correction (13 Oct 2026) · A River Smelled So Bad That Parliament Nearly Fled. So They Rebuilt London.
An earlier title said the explosion levelled an entire city. It obliterated nearly everything within about 800 metres, including the Richmond district; the rest of Halifax was damaged but not levelled. Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halifax_Explosion

Correction (13 Oct 2026) · Two Ships Collided. The Blast Flattened Part of a City.
An earlier title said the massacre ended Nepal's monarchy. It did not: the Shah kings stayed on the throne as figureheads while hereditary Rana prime ministers ruled until 1951. Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rana_dynasty

Correction (13 Oct 2026) · A Midnight Royal Summons Put Nepal's Kings in the Shadow for a Century
An earlier version said King was shot on 26 December and wounded again at Eagle River. King was shot on 31 December, when the constables returned with a warrant; at Eagle River the wounded officer was Staff Sergeant Earl Hersey. Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Johnson_(criminal)

Correction (13 Oct 2026) · He Survived Dynamite and Ran 150 Miles in -40° Arctic Snow
A publishing fault had removed the dollar figures from this article; they are restored. The 2022 World Cup final was just over 22 years after the napkin, not to the day. Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2022_FIFA_World_Cup_final

Correction (13 Oct 2026) · The $900 Medicine, a 13-Year-Old Boy, and the Paper Napkin Contract of 2000
An earlier version said Edison met Mikimoto in Japan. In 1927 Mikimoto visited Edison at his home in West Orange, New Jersey. Source: https://www.newworldencyclopedia.org/entry/Mikimoto_Kokichi

Correction (13 Oct 2026) · A Pearl Farmer Burns His Own Pearls in Public
An earlier title said the boats won a war, and the summary said they launched on Christmas Day. They won control of Lake Tanganyika by mid-1916 while the war in Africa went on, and they launched on 22 and 23 December 1915. Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_for_Lake_Tanganyika

Correction (13 Oct 2026) · The Navy Named Two Gunboats Mimi and Toutou. They Took Control of a Lake.
An earlier title said the raiders walked away; of 612 men, 228 returned to Britain, 169 were killed and 215 were captured. An earlier version said the blast killed about 250 and the dock was restored in 1947. The explosion killed about 360, and the dock was out of service until 1948. Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_Nazaire_Raid

Correction (13 Oct 2026) · They Rammed an Explosive-Packed Warship Into a Nazi Dock. Fewer Than Half Came Home.
An earlier version dated the first death to 1923 and said the Supreme Court upheld the ruling. Mollie Maggia died in 1922, and in 1939 the Court declined to hear the appeal. Sources: https://www.theradiumgirls.com/the-girls and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radium_Girls

Correction (13 Oct 2026) · They Glowed in the Dark. It Was Killing Them.
An earlier title said Rasputin survived poison, bullets and a frozen river. That story comes from his killers; the official autopsy recorded no poisoning and no drowning, and death by a single bullet to the head. It was Princess Irina, not Felix Yusupov, who sued MGM. Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grigori_Rasputin

Correction (13 Oct 2026) · Rasputin's Murder: The Poison Legend vs. the Autopsy
An earlier version said smallpox was eliminated from Rio within a year, and that monarchists led the cadets' coup. Smallpox persisted until 1971, and the coup was attempted by Florianist and positivist officers. Sources: https://revistapesquisa.fapesp.br/en/open-pathways-to-the-first-vaccine/ and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vaccine_Revolt

Correction (13 Oct 2026) · A Battleship Came for the Rebels. Their Cannon Was Fake.
An earlier version said the lava joined Sakurajima to the Asian continent. It joined it to the Ōsumi Peninsula of Kyushu, one of Japan's islands. Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sakurajima

Correction (13 Oct 2026) · Earthquakes Shook This Volcano Island for Days. Then It Joined the Mainland.
An earlier title said more died than on the Titanic, and the text said the disaster came the day before John Wilkes Booth was killed. Fewer died than on the Titanic, and Booth was killed on 26 April 1865, the day before. Sources: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sultana_(steamboat) and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Wilkes_Booth

Correction (13 Oct 2026) · The Worst Maritime Disaster in US History. Nobody Remembers.
An earlier version said the flood hurled 10,000-ton blocks miles down the canyon. The largest block came to rest about three-quarters of a mile below the dam.

Correction (13 Oct 2026) · He Swore This Dam Was Safe. Hours Later, It Wiped Out an Entire Valley.
An earlier version said the Stone rests in Edinburgh Castle. Since March 2024 it has been on display at Perth Museum. Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stone_of_Scone

Correction (13 Oct 2026) · Four Students Broke Into Westminster Abbey to Steal a Stone
An earlier title said 22 orphans were tormented; 22 took part, and 11 received the negative therapy. The 2001 reporter was Jim Dyer, not Dyson. Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monster_Study

Correction (13 Oct 2026) · Scientists Tormented Orphans for an Experiment
An earlier version swapped the death tolls (Patterson claimed 135; a 2001 study of his journal suggests 28 to 31) and said the lions completely halted the railway. They repeatedly halted work on the bridge, which was finished in February 1899. Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsavo_Man-Eaters

Correction (13 Oct 2026) · Two Lions Stopped a Railway by Eating the Workers Building It.
An earlier version called Tunguska an unsolved mystery and said Chelyabinsk exploded at a similar altitude. The scientific consensus is a meteor air burst, and Chelyabinsk exploded much higher, at about 30 km. Sources: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tunguska_event and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chelyabinsk_meteor

Correction (13 Oct 2026) · A Blast Flattened 80 Million Trees. No Crater.
An earlier title called the Vasa the deadliest warship, and the text said 445 people were aboard. She never fought, and about 150 people were aboard; her soldiers had not yet embarked. Source: https://www.vasamuseet.se/en/vasa-history/disaster

Correction (13 Oct 2026) · A King Built a Giant Warship. It Sank in 20 Minutes
An earlier version stated the three-officer rule and Arkhipov's vote as settled fact. They rest on crew testimony; Russian documents released in 2022 do not mention the incident. Source: https://nsarchive.gwu.edu/briefing-book/cuba-cuban-missile-crisis/2022-10-03/soviet-submarines-1962-cuban-crisis

Correction (13 Oct 2026) · By Crew Accounts, a Nuclear Launch Needed All 3 Officers to Agree. He Said No.

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an earlier title said the explosion levelled an entire city. The 1917 Halifax Explosion obliterated nearly everything within about 800 metres, including the Richmond district; the rest of Halifax was damaged but not levelled. Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halifax_Explosion

Correction (13 Oct 2026) · the video
the War of the Currents was fought between Thomas Edison's DC system and George Westinghouse's AC system, which used Nikola Tesla's patents (licensed in July 1888); it was not a contest between Edison and Tesla themselves. Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_of_the_currents

Correction (13 Oct 2026) · the video
this video says some dancers died. Historians disagree on whether any deaths occurred, and the total is unknown. Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dancing_plague_of_1518

Correction (13 Oct 2026) · the video
an earlier title said their warship sank in flames. SMS Emden was not sunk: her captain beached her on North Keeling Island to save his crew. Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SMS_Emden

Correction (13 Oct 2026) · the video
an earlier title said the two boats won a war. They won the Battle for Lake Tanganyika (December 1915 to July 1916), part of the East African Campaign of the First World War. Sources: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_for_Lake_Tanganyika and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Mimi_and_HMS_Toutou

Correction (13 Oct 2026) · the video
an earlier title said the raiders walked away. Of the 612 men in the St Nazaire raid, 228 returned to Britain, 169 were killed and 215 were taken prisoner. Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_Nazaire_Raid

Correction (13 Oct 2026) · the video
an earlier title said the race crossed frozen oceans. The planned crossing over the frozen Bering Strait was dropped; the cars went by ship from Alaska to Asia. Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1908_New_York_to_Paris_Race

Correction (13 Oct 2026) · the video
an earlier title said Britain lost three battlecruisers in minutes. They sank over about two and a half hours on 31 May 1916: Indefatigable at 16:02, Queen Mary at 16:25 and Invincible after 18:30. Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Jutland

Correction (13 Oct 2026) · the video
Albert Johnson's cabin was on the Rat River in the Northwest Territories, not in the Yukon; the manhunt later crossed into the Yukon. Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Johnson_(criminal)

Correction (13 Oct 2026) · the video
an earlier title and this description said the smell shut down or suspended Parliament. It did not: Parliament kept sitting, soaked its curtains in chloride of lime, and discussed moving to Oxford or St Albans. Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Stink

Correction (13 Oct 2026) · the video
this video repeats the story that Rasputin survived poison, bullets and a frozen river. That story comes from his killers' accounts. The official autopsy recorded no poisoning and no drowning, and death by a single bullet to the head at close range. Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grigori_Rasputin

Correction (13 Oct 2026) · the video
an earlier title said the rebels fooled an imperial battleship with a fake wooden cannon. Brazil was a republic in 1904. The rebels' 'dynamite' was wood wrapped in silver paper, and their 'cannons' were a street-lighting pipe on two wagon wheels; the battleship Deodoro joined the final assault. Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vaccine_Revolt

Correction (13 Oct 2026) · the video
an earlier title placed this disaster in Japan. It happened in Bocaue, Bulacan, in the Philippines, on 2 July 1993, when the festival's floating pagoda sank; more than 200 people died. Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bocaue_pagoda_tragedy

Correction (13 Oct 2026) · the video
an earlier title called this a royal banquet that wiped out a monarchy. The 1846 gathering followed the murder of the commander Gagan Singh; it was not a banquet. The Shah kings remained, reduced to figureheads under hereditary Rana prime ministers until 1951. Sources: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kot_massacre and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rana_dynasty

Correction (13 Oct 2026) · the video
an earlier title said the storm buried the US Capitol. The 1935 dust storms reached as far as Washington, D.C., darkening the sky, but nothing records the Capitol being buried. Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dust_Bowl

Correction (13 Oct 2026) · the video
about 250 workers built the tower. In September 1888 they went on strike over long working hours and pay they felt was too low for the risk; the video wrongly suggests they refused to climb out of fear.

Correction (12 Oct 2026) · the video
the flood carried the largest concrete block, about 10,000 tons, roughly three-quarters of a mile below the dam, not miles down the canyon.

Correction (12 Oct 2026) · the video
we called the Vasa the world's deadliest warship. It never fought a battle. When it sank in 1628 it was one of the most powerfully armed vessels in the world.

Correction (12 Oct 2026) · the video
this video says the orphans developed severe stutters. The record says none of them were diagnosed as stutterers at the end of the study; the lasting harm was psychological, and the State of Iowa later paid $925,000 to former subjects for lifelong psychological and emotional scars.

Correction (12 Oct 2026) · the video
an earlier title said more died than on the Titanic. Death estimates for the Sultana vary; the commonly cited figure is 1,164, fewer than the Titanic's. It remains the worst maritime disaster in United States history. Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sultana_(steamboat)

Correction (12 Oct 2026) · the video
Hasekura's Roman citizenship was granted by the Roman Senate, not by Pope Paul V. Japan's seclusion edicts came later, from 1633 to 1639, so the country was not yet sealed when he returned in 1620. Sources: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hasekura_Tsunenaga and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sakoku

Correction (12 Oct 2026) · the video
this video calls the Tunguska event unexplained. The scientific consensus is a meteor air burst, an explosion of a space rock in the atmosphere, although no fragment has been formally identified. Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tunguska_event

Correction (12 Oct 2026) · the video
an earlier title called Lincoln undefeated. He was not: on 21 April 1832, during the Black Hawk War, Lorenzo Dow Thompson threw him twice and won. Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lorenzo_Dow_Thompson_(legislator)

Correction (12 Oct 2026) · the video