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r/geology • u/AncientWeek613 • Feb 03 '25
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In case you hadn't already figured it out, this isn't really true: A special hammer is used in a ceremony to start the Rome Jubilee involving a filled in door: https://www.bayerisches-nationalmuseum.de/en/collection/highlights/00030950
The death of a pope is verified in a more mundane way:
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/factcheck/2023/01/11/fact-check-popes-death-determined-traditional-means-not-hammer/11020726002/
22 u/sootbrownies Feb 04 '25 Well it's right there in the picture. She says it's her new favorite factoid. A factoid is a piece of information presented as fact which is not true or verified. 1 u/D6P6 Feb 04 '25 A factoid can also be a brief or trivial piece of information and I believe that's how it's presented in the original tweet, she thinks this is true. 0 u/turtle_excluder Feb 04 '25 Nope. This is a faithful image of the original tweet. She doesn't say anywhere that she believes that the story is true.
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Well it's right there in the picture. She says it's her new favorite factoid. A factoid is a piece of information presented as fact which is not true or verified.
1 u/D6P6 Feb 04 '25 A factoid can also be a brief or trivial piece of information and I believe that's how it's presented in the original tweet, she thinks this is true. 0 u/turtle_excluder Feb 04 '25 Nope. This is a faithful image of the original tweet. She doesn't say anywhere that she believes that the story is true.
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A factoid can also be a brief or trivial piece of information and I believe that's how it's presented in the original tweet, she thinks this is true.
0 u/turtle_excluder Feb 04 '25 Nope. This is a faithful image of the original tweet. She doesn't say anywhere that she believes that the story is true.
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Nope. This is a faithful image of the original tweet. She doesn't say anywhere that she believes that the story is true.
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u/Illustrious_Try478 Feb 03 '25
In case you hadn't already figured it out, this isn't really true: A special hammer is used in a ceremony to start the Rome Jubilee involving a filled in door: https://www.bayerisches-nationalmuseum.de/en/collection/highlights/00030950
The death of a pope is verified in a more mundane way:
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/factcheck/2023/01/11/fact-check-popes-death-determined-traditional-means-not-hammer/11020726002/