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Memes, entertainment, and sport. A meme is a source; this is for claims about culture itself.

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As of snapshot 27745 under ledger-default@0.3.0. Counts by assessment state, descriptive only: no topic is scored. 2 Contradicted1 Insufficient evidence1 Not assessed29 Supported2 Unresolved

ClaimTypeAssessment
Canada has a contingency plan for the remote possibility of U.S. military action.HISTORICALSupported
The study reports that Palaeolithic artists used Schreger and Owen’s natural lines in mammoth ivory to inform geometric compositions engraved on many Mizyn figurines.INTERPRETIVESupported
In a randomized trial of 102 male U16–U18 basketball players, 30-second-per-region foam rolling produced lower adjusted post-test visual reaction times than 60-second-per-region rolling across best-trial, mean, and median scoring, but did not establish a scoring-independent benefit over passive rest.COMPARATIVESupported
In two reported experiments on dark cultural heritage communication, advertising appeal type affected willingness to support heritage preservation through emotional arousal and self-construal, with effects that were not fully consistent across verbal and behavioral outcomes.CAUSALSupported
In the reported randomized crossover trial, N-acetylcysteine lowered ratings of perceived exertion and heart rate and increased Wingate average power in men.COMPARATIVESupported
In the reported randomized crossover trial, seven-day N-acetylcysteine supplementation did not change 60-minute time-trial distance in trained men or women.COMPARATIVESupported
The meme compresses the interview into a continuous Van Jones quotation even though Chris Cillizza interjected between 'the House' and 'the Supreme Court.'TEXTUALSupported
Van Jones made the remarks attributed to him in the meme during a December 2024 interview with Chris Cillizza.TEXTUALSupported
The Kennedy Center is now broke.INTERPRETIVEUnresolved
The Kennedy Center had an endowment of about $163 million when Trump took control in February 2025.QUANTITATIVESupported
The Kennedy Center had total assets of about $691 million immediately before Trump took control in February 2025.QUANTITATIVESupported
Trump appointed himself chairman of the Kennedy Center in February 2025.HISTORICALSupported
Trump fired the Kennedy Center’s board when he took control in February 2025.HISTORICALSupported
Alexander Wissner-Gross coined a term for the eleven companies at the heart of the innermost loop of the economy, which include the Microsoft and FAANG companies plus SpaceX, Tesla and Broadcom.OBSERVATIONALSupported
The Future of Vision XPRIZE judges include Neil deGrasse Tyson, Neal Stephenson, Rod Roddenberry and Mira Lane of Google.OBSERVATIONALSupported
Over 5,000 teams registered for the Future of Vision XPRIZE, which has been narrowed to 25 entries and will end with five finalists showing three-minute film trailers.QUANTITATIVEInsufficient evidence
About 25 Star Trek cast members and crew will attend the documentary premiere in downtown Los Angeles on the evening of 24 September 2026, an event limited to 550 people.OBSERVATIONALContradicted
A documentary on the 60 years of Star Trek, executive produced by William Shatner, premieres the night before Moonshots Live.OBSERVATIONALSupported
GPT-6 Astra has won Pokemon, Portal and other visually intensive interactive games.OBSERVATIONALSupported
At the 2016 Code Conference, Elon Musk said the odds that we are living in base reality are one in a billion.ATTRIBUTED_BELIEFSupported
Building a realistic city in the Unreal Engine normally takes a studio hundreds of artists and months or years of work.QUANTITATIVESupported
The Unreal Engine has been used to build the virtual worlds of games including Fortnite and most modern video games.OBSERVATIONALSupported
Recent Star Trek films and television series have abandoned the original series' morality-play format in favour of action, and should return to it.NORMATIVENot assessed
"The Ultimate Computer" is episode 24 of season 2 of the original Star Trek series, in which a computer given control of the ship begins making its own decisions.TEXTUALSupported
The original Star Trek episode "Mirror, Mirror" depicts an alternate universe in which Spock wears a goatee.TEXTUALSupported
The original Star Trek season 2 episode "The Apple" depicts a civilization living in a paradise secretly managed and manipulated by an AI.TEXTUALSupported
The Star Trek chronology contains no technological singularity.INTERPRETIVEUnresolved
"Return to Tomorrow" is episode 20 of season 2 of the original Star Trek series.TEXTUALSupported
In the Star Trek: The Next Generation chronology, first contact with the Vulcans occurs on 5 April 2063.TEXTUALSupported
Star Trek's fictional chronology placed the Eugenics Wars in the 1990s.TEXTUALSupported
"City on the Edge of Forever" is one of only two original Star Trek series episodes to win a Hugo Award.HISTORICALSupported
Desilu produced the Star Trek pilots and, with Lucille Ball's backing, helped get the series on air.HISTORICALSupported
Gene Roddenberry brought the Star Trek concept to Desilu Productions, the studio run by Lucille Ball, in 1964.HISTORICALSupported
NBC aired the first episode of the original Star Trek series, "The Man Trap," on 8 September 1966.HISTORICALSupported
Goldfish have a memory span of about three seconds.QUANTITATIVEContradicted