Elvis Presley died on August 16, 1977, in Memphis.
Claim:
Elvis Presley died in the 1970s.
NOT BS
History
What really happened — historical claims measured against the sources.
Texas is formally included in the U.S. Census South Region.
Claim:
Texas is predominantly classified as a Southern U.S. state under most definitions of the Southern United States.
HARDLY BS
No evidence establishes a federal plan to criminalize Black communities through trafficking.
Claim:
United States government agencies deliberately permitted drug trafficking in order to increase the criminalization of African American communities.
MOSTLY BS
The Eiffel Tower stands on the Champ de Mars in Paris, France.
Claim:
The Eiffel Tower is located in Paris, France.
NOT BS
Belgian cartoonist Peyo created the Smurfs as comic characters in 1958.
Claim:
Vader Abraham created The Smurfs.
TOTAL BS
The Great Wall is located across northern China.
Claim:
The Great Wall of China is located in Japan.
TOTAL BS
UPA-led nationalist forces killed roughly 100,000 Polish civilians during 1943–45.
Claim:
The Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA) murdered approximately 100,000 Polish civilians during World War II.
HARDLY BS
Florida Foods commercialized frozen orange juice concentrate after its military contract ended.
Claim:
Florida Foods, Inc. developed frozen concentrated orange juice after its military contract to produce powdered orange juice was canceled following World War II.
HARDLY BS
Warhol made Marilyn Diptych in 1962 after Monroe’s August death.
Claim:
Andy Warhol created Marilyn Diptych in 1962 shortly after Marilyn Monroe's death.
NOT BS
West Coast figures discussed an independent Pacific republic during the Civil War.
Claim:
During the American Civil War, political figures and residents of California, Oregon, and Washington Territory considered establishing an independent Pacific Republic separate from the United States.
NOT BS
Commercially bottled Coca-Cola contained cocaine when bottling began in 1894.
Claim:
The first commercially produced bottles of Coca-Cola contained cocaine.
NOT BS
Hess circulated seafloor spreading in 1960, drawing on Tharp’s mapping.
Claim:
In 1960, American geophysicist Harry H. Hess proposed the seafloor spreading theory using evidence from Marie Tharp's seafloor maps.
NOT BS
Apollo astronauts landed on the Moon and operated on its surface.
Claim:
Humans landed on the Moon.
NOT BS
No U.S. national census occurred in 1924, and none in 1885.
Claim:
The population shortfall estimate underlying the “10 million” figure was calculated by comparing a 1924 national census to an expected population growth trajectory projected from 1885.
TOTAL BS
The Congo territory’s first official national census occurred in 1955–1957.
Claim:
The Democratic Republic of the Congo held its first official national census in 1984.
MOSTLY BS
Disease and falling fertility drove Congo Free State losses, worsened by coercive colonial rule.
Claim:
In population comparisons about the Congo Free State, increases in disease and declines in birth rate during the comparison period are incorrectly attributed to murders ordered by King Leopold II of Belgium.
MOSTLY BS
The 10 million Congo deaths figure comes from later demographic estimates.
Claim:
Sources that condemned King Leopold II for abuses in the Congo Free State do not support the specific claim that King Leopold II was responsible for killing 10 million people.
HARDLY BS
The “10 million” Congo Free State deaths figure is a retrospective demographic shortfall estimate.
Claim:
The commonly cited figure of "10 million" deaths associated with King Leopold II's rule in the Congo Free State refers to a population shortfall versus expected population growth from 1885, rather than a documented kill count.
HARDLY BS
In 1924, Congo’s population was administratively estimated at about 10 million.
Claim:
The first census in the Congo was conducted in 1924 and recorded a total population of 10 million.
MOSTLY BS
No reliable 1885 Congo census exists, making population-loss estimates highly uncertain.
Claim:
There is no reliable population baseline for the Congo in 1885, so estimates of population loss during King Leopold II’s rule in the Congo Free State are largely guesswork.
HARDLY BS
No checks match that verdict.