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Factual error: When Rain shoots the Xenomorphs in zero gravity, their blood forms long ribbons and other splatter-type patterns. In reality, due to surface tension, liquid in zero gravity forms into spheres. The blood would not have remained 'stretched out' like it does.

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Factual error: The cloud surrounding V'ger is noted as being 82 AU (Astronomical Units) across. This is more than the distance from the Sun to Pluto and back. As such, V'ger would never have been able to approach Earth. This was adjusted to 2 AU in the special edition DVD.

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Factual error: The movie is set in the US, but there are several things which aren't found in the US that give away the fact that it was shot in the UK. In one scene, a Tesco superstore can be seen in the background and the lift bridge seen in the film is Kings Ferry Bridge which connects the Isle of Sheppey to the Kent mainland.

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Factual error: During the Christmas party, "Silent Night" by The Temptations' Silent Night is playing. That version of the song, with Glenn Leonard singing lead, wasn't released until 1980.

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Factual error: When Angus and Mr. Hunham go to the liquor store, the sign on the door shows that they are open on Sundays. In 1970, Massachusetts still had blue laws in effect, and a liquor store would not have been open on a Sunday.

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Factual error: Gloria's vehicle is a Chevrolet Blazer SS EV, but during the chase scene, her supposedly electric vehicle makes sounds like a normal gas engine.

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Factual error: It is highly unlikely that Napoleon's mother, Letizia, staged a sexual encounter between him and a young woman to prove that he could have children. There was no need for such an experiment, since Napoleon had already fathered several illegitimate children, indicating that it was Josephine who was infertile.

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Factual error: Marie Antoinette was not executed at Le Palais des Tuileries, as shown in the film, but rather at Place de la Concorde (formerly Place de la Révolution). Also, Napoleon did not witness the execution; he was on garrison duty in southern France at the time.

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Factual error: Napoleon never met the Duke of Wellington face to face, as is depicted in the film.

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Factual error: In the film, when Oppenheimer receives the Enrico Fermi award in 1963, Edward Lawrence congratulates him by patting him on the shoulder. Lawrence died in 1958 and could not have been there.

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Factual error: No one would have used the phrase "black hole" in 1939. The term "black hole" was first used in 1963 in "Life" and "Science News" and by Ann Ewing in an article in January of 1964. Princeton physicist John Wheeler popularised the term.

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Factual error: When Edward Teller proposed that a fission explosion might ignite the atmosphere in an uncontrollable chain reaction, Oppenheimer did not go to New Jersey to consult with Einstein. He actually went to Michigan to consult with experimentalist Arthur H. Compton.

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Factual error: The real Edward Teller walked with a pronounced limp due to his right foot being almost entirely severed in a streetcar accident in 1928. In the film, he walks normally.

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Factual error: The Orient Express is not powered with steam locomotives by any of the respective state railways. All of them are diesel or electric.

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Factual error: During the storage unit robbery in the beginning of the film, simply knocking the combination dial off the safe would not have caused the bolts to suddenly retract. It would defeat the entire purpose of having a combination lock. Even inexpensive safes have mechanisms to prevent this from happening.

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Factual error: All of the police cars in New York City are painted in a blue and white livery, but until 1973, NYPD cars were painted black, white, and green.

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Factual error: Basil Shaw is British, but the dates in his notes about the Antikythera are all written in American format (MM-DD-YY), as opposed to DD-MM-YY.

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Factual error: The tank used by the German platoon is a Soviet T54/55, which didn't come into service until 1948, after the Lapland War had ended.

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Factual error: ***SPOILER ALERT*** When Padraic sets Colm's house on fire, he ignites the fires using a Zippo lighter, which would not be produced until 1933, ten years after the film is set.

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Factual error: April 1st, 1923 was a Sunday, not a Friday as shown on Padraic's calendar in the film.

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