Georgraphy is not my strong suit

- Sardinia 🇮🇹 is very much not Malta 🇲🇹

- I definitely got some things wrong about the Balearic islands but too many to list

• Patricia Lockwood wrote No One is Talking About This.
• The Saturn V Rocket was 110 meters tall.

winter correction

• Astro Teller as born with a normal name, and his grandfather was involved in the Manhattan project, not his father.
• Thomas Crapper's name is merely an aptonym, not the actual origin of the word.
• Black and Decker didn't go out of business in 2009; they were purchased by Stanley and continue somewhat independently.
• Trader Vic's is a chain and there are plenty of them left. The original moved to Emeryville.
• The moon is about 240 thousand miles away.

• Zaha Hadid was a neo-futurist, not a structural expressionist, which is quite distinct.

• Mountain View has a Mediterranean climate, supposedly.

more people confusion

• I listen to two podcasts regularly from NPR, Planet Money and All Songs Considered, and somehow confused Stephen Thompson with one of the correspondents on Planet Money.
  
• Heath Ledger did win for Best Supporting Actor in 2008, the middle of a triplet of villains - 2007 was Javier Berdem as Anton Chigur and 2009 was Christoph Waltz as Col. Landa.
  

• Mercury is not tidally locked with the Sun.
• HashMap does return values in a deterministic order across different JREs.
• The debussy song is correctly titled 'Claire de Lune', which means moonlight.

rather embarassing all around, really

• It is, in fact, a yellow wood in which two roads diverged. 
• Pastrami is made with beef.
• The third milk is evaporated milk.
• The earth tilts more than 3 times as many degrees as I said.

corrections

• The commanders of the Babylon Five were Jeffrey Sinclair and John Sheridan. The series creator was Joseph Michael Straczinsky.
• The article I was thinking of was about cyclists, not runners.
• I also confused Clipper City with Rogue. I bet the Clipper City guy would be upset with me about that.
• The book was Cat's Cradle.

• Turkish delight is commonly served coated in chocolate.
• Somehow, 97% of the worlds vanilla beans (not vanillan) comes from Madagascar.
• Deconvolute is totally the word for that. 
• Similarly, I was thinking of hermetic, not hermeneutic (a principle of interpretation, and not even an adjective).
• My keyboard only has 56 keys.

corrections

• The first section of the Metro to open was the Red line between North and Rhode Island Ave, not the Yellow Line.
• Although I know it as something that people in AA say, the "definition" of insanity quip was most likely first said by Rita Mae Brown.
• While there are still some German speakers in Romania - I'm guessing mostly in Transylvania - it appears Romanian is the most commonly spoken language in Transylvania by far, with German coming behind Magyar and possibly Vlax Romani in terms of number of speakers.

A cretin is a clod; a Cretan is someone from from Crete. Here is a description of my confusion.

just one correction (I can't find my notebook with the others)

• There is, on average, about twelve hours 25 minutes between tides. This makes more sense with what I said about lunar cycles.

open questions

These are things I've said that I haven't definitively disproved, but I assume now are incorrect. Some of these I could verify as false with a bit more research; perhaps I'll move these off this list eventually.

• The head of the WHO doesn't allow wi-fi in his/her office.
• Gasoline will not melt through a mountain dew bottle.
• Cats are more likely to survive a fall from a great height than a medium-high fall.
• 'It's all fun and games until someone loses an eye' was an expression developed during ancient roman wrestling matches.

Also, maybe polar body twins are real? I was pretty sure they were not at one time.

a few corrections

• Gordon Biersch is named after its founders, Dan Gordon and Dean Biersch.
• The normal limit of human hearing is 0 dB - I'm guessing by definition. 40 dB is around the level of 'rainfall', and normal conversation is at around 60 dB, according to this random site.
• The name of the style of architecture I was thinking of is High-Tech.

• Epimetheus is Prometheus's brother. Twin? Plato said that he was, so I think that counts for something.
• Multiplication is at most quadratic.
• Here Come the Warm Jets came out in 1973.
• It would probably be easier to read these articles about the difference between true fruit and culinary fruit and true nuts and culinary nuts than to bother listing just the things I need to correct.

cats and other catastrophes

• Wikipedia citationlessly states that the terminal velocity of a cat is 60 mph, not my stated 30. For reference, rain drop can travel as fast as 20 or 30 miles per hour.
• The article I remember reading was undoubtedly this article from the Straight Dope. However, slightly more recent research has indicated that the 'cats do better after 7 [(I said 4)] stories' theory is based on a sampling bias: people don't bring dead cats to the vet.

• Bertha's Mussels is in Fell's Point.
• I couldn't find a flag that matched that hat. The closest is probably Macedonia, followed by Arizona.
• There are five ferries in the Cape May/Lewes ferry fleet.
• Yucca and yuca are very much not the same plant.

more corrections

• Yggdrasil is the world tree from Norse mythology.
• UVA was notable at its founding for being not affiliated with a religious movement. However, a chapel was built on the grounds in 1890. The closest reference I could find was to Noble C. Powell, an Episcopal bishop who preached in Charlottesville for several years in the early part of the last century.

corrections

• As far as I can tell, the Great Red Spot has existed for as long as astronomers have been looking, but its color changes slightly from time to time.
• It was Hilary Clinton, not Bill, who (apocryphally?) overdosed on fondue. 
• The restaurant I was thinking of is called Helmand, not the Khyber Pass.
• The suicide rate in Alaska (and, for that matter, a variety of states that I would group together as 'lonely') have rates of suicide about the same as northern-European countries. However, suicide if often under-reported, or just generally mis-reported, so I wouldn't draw any conclusions about the 'livability' of these regions; it is not without the realm of possibility that a large part of the change could be due to Scandanavians keep better statistics, or that Alaska just had an unlucky couple of years.

various

• Cisco owns Linksys, not D-Link.
• While the yellow (amber) light wasn't deployed until 1920 for auto traffic, about 50 years after the first traffic light appeared, it was in common usage on the crowded northeast rail lines for at least 20 years before that.
• NavyFCU did indeed have a loss last quarter, somewhat due to a 'stabilization' expense by NCUA, the FDIC equivalent for credit unions.
• Chickens don't require roosters to lay eggs, just to fertilize them.