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The 1991 film Frankie & Johnny is adapted from Terrence McNally's off-Broadway play Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune, not from a restaurant. The restaurant in the movie is a fictional New York cafe. The New Rochelle tryout of an unrelated 1929 play does not change the film's source.
The building was constructed in 1929, not 1927.
Hardball wasn't cut off after six episodes. It ran its full order of nine episodes from September to November 1994, and all nine actually aired before it wasn't picked up again.
Skid Row is usually described as covering about 50 city blocks, bordered by 3rd, 7th, Alameda, and Main streets, though a few sources put it slightly higher around 54. Fifty-five blocks is close but a bit of an overstatement of the commonly cited figure.
Deinstitutionalization is often linked to rising homelessness, but the policy actually began in the 1950s and 60s, decades before Reagan took office, driven mostly by state-level hospital closures. Historians and researchers generally consider pinning the increase in homelessness on Reagan-era policy alone an oversimplification, since housing costs and disability benefit cuts played a big role too.
The $4 billion figure lines up much better with the city of Los Angeles, which has committed about $4.4 billion to homelessness programs across its last four budgets while the homeless count kept rising, than with the state of California, whose own audited homelessness spending was closer to $24 billion over five years. So the dollar amount is roughly right, but it's mislabeled as a state figure when it looks like a city one.
Santos was investigated over an event-contract trading issue, but it was the CFTC, not the DOJ, and the case was over manipulative trading of a prediction market contract tied to his own State of the Union attendance, not classic insider trading. He settled with the CFTC in July 2026 for about $35,000.
Part of this is real. In 2020 a Hong Kong firm, Allied Cigar, bought the 50 percent of Habanos S.A. that Imperial Brands had held, and it is believed to be led by Chinese-born businessman Chen Zhi. But the Cuban state still owns the other 50 percent, and the cigars are still made in Cuba, so Habanos was not bought out by China. The changes reported under the new owners were supply cuts to some countries, big price hikes and farming and fuel shortages in Cuba. I found no evidence that ingredients were slashed or that quality was cut to please Chinese buyers. A cigar-industry analysis showing lower tobacco quality traced to the new owners, rather than to Cuba's farming problems, would flip this.
A KFF analysis of ACA marketplace plans found consumers appealed less than two-tenths of one percent of denied in-network claims in 2021, nowhere near 10%. So the real follow-up rate is dramatically lower than this claim suggests.
Tenochtitlan was founded on a swampy, previously undeveloped island in Lake Texcoco, not on the ruins of an earlier city built by another culture. The Mexica expanded the island themselves using chinampa farming techniques rather than building over someone else's settlement.
Theodore Roosevelt was a major conservation figure who expanded federal protections during his presidency, but the national park system didn't start or end with him. Yellowstone became the first national park back in 1872 under Grant, well before Roosevelt, and the National Park Service itself wasn't created until 1916 under Woodrow Wilson.
Kanye West's appearance is solid: multiple entertainment outlets confirmed Dave Chappelle brought him onstage as a surprise guest at The Comedy Store in West Hollywood on May 4, 2026, and roasted him to a standing ovation. Reporting on the night also referenced Chris Rock and Louis C.K. being involved, but coverage doesn't confirm Shane Gillis was there, so pairing him with the other two names overstates what's actually documented.
There's a real study behind this: a 2010 screening of about 1,900 Amish children in Ohio and Indiana found roughly 1 in 271 with autism, lower than the general population's rate at the time. But researchers who study Amish communities say that gap likely reflects underdiagnosis, since Amish families tend to handle health issues privately and get less formal screening, not a genuine biological difference, and there's been no rigorous follow-up study confirming lower rates.
An AP investigation did confirm a covert U.S. operation to infiltrate Cuba's hip-hop scene, but it was run by USAID and its contractors, not the CIA. Cuban officials reportedly suspected CIA involvement, but reporting has consistently attributed the program to USAID.
Rogan did publicly say in 2021 that he took ivermectin when he had COVID. Outlets like NBC reported that. I found no outside source on where he got it, and none for a case bought from India. Reports I found say a doctor prescribed it, so the India purchase rests only on his own telling. A receipt, order record or earlier Rogan interview describing an India purchase would make this true.
The president's salary has been $400,000 a year since 2001, when a law signed in 1999 doubled it from the previous $200,000 rate. So $200,000 hasn't been the number for over two decades.
This is a personal story about a swordfish dinner, a wine bill of about $380 and a $400 weekend fee. The only source is the guest telling it. The club is real, but I found no news report, review or other record of this meal or bill. A statement from the club or another comic who was there would settle it.
A Funny Farm Comedy Club does exist in the Youngstown, Ohio area. Local listings place it downtown at the Federal Restaurant, and it has moved around the Mahoning Valley over the years. That makes the venue plausible. I found no booking record or other source showing the guest played there, so only his own word supports it. A club lineup or booking record with his name would make this true.
Joker's Wild was a real New Haven comedy club that is now closed. Local sources mention owners John Calish and Dominic Acquerulo. A local podcast episode asks "Was Joker's Wild mob run?" but gives no answer I could read. I found no court record, news report or official source tying the club's managers to organized crime. Calling it "mob run" looks like a comic's reputation story, not a documented fact. A court record or credible report linking its owners or managers to organized crime would make this true.
The original iPhone was announced in January 2007 and went on sale in the United States on June 29, 2007, so it was available for the second half of that year. The speaker's point that there was no iPhone yet fits early 2007, before launch. As written, the claim that the iPhone was not available at all in 2007 is wrong. Falsifier: a source showing the first iPhone did not ship until 2008 would flip this verdict.
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