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His six-decade career included two Olivier Awards (the awards for top London theatre), a Grammy (for his narration of Peter and the Wolf), and four Emmy nominations.

Patrick Stewart has won three Olivier Awards, not two.

• Official London Theatre (2009)

Americans are projected to spend $13.5 billion on Halloween items this year, up from $13.1 billion in 2023, according to the NRF.

The $13.1 billion figure was for 2025, not 2023. Halloween spending in 2023 was $12.2 billion.

• National Retail Federation

President Trump said he would be willing to meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chinese President Xi Jinping, without Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, to discuss ending the war in Ukraine. Putin proposed such a meeting this weekend.

Putin proposed the meeting on October 9, for November. He did not propose it "this weekend."

• CNBC
• Reuters

He also said he'd rename SpaceXAI, the parent company of SpaceX, X, and other initiatives, SpaceXSI.

SpaceX is the parent company of SpaceXAI, not the other way around.

• SpaceX prospectus (June 5, 2026)
• Reuters

Thanks to a particularly good Italian white truffle harvest in 2015, prices dropped temporarily, opening the door for more restaurants to utilize the aromatic fungus, according to Nation's Restaurant News.

The Italian white truffle bumper crop was in 2014, not 2015.

• Eater (October 2014)
• Villa Magna Tartufi
• La Voce del Nordest
• WineNews

Between 2000 and 2023, only four country songs occupied the top spot. Two of them were Taylor Swift songs.

• Yahoo Entertainment
• Holler

Today is the last day of September, the end of Q3 for most businesses, and, most importantly, the 21st anniversary of the Twilight book series. On this day in 2005, the vampire Edward Cullen entered our lives.

Twilight, the first book in the series, was published on October 5, 2005, not September 30.

• Time
• Hachette Book Group
• Goodreads

The new regulations require cars to get 34.5 miles a gallon by the 2031 model year, down from the 50.4 miles under the old standard.

The final rule sets 34.9 miles a gallon. 34.5 was the figure in the rule proposed in December 2025.

• US Department of Transportation

Meanwhile, individuals have just 7% of their portfolios allocated to alternatives with plenty of room to grow, according to the 2024 Bank of America Survey.

The survey covered high-net-worth individuals only (more than $3 million in investable assets, excluding their primary residence), not individuals in general.

PRH's revenue jumped 13.2% the year Spare came out compared to the prior year, helped largely by that memoir.

Spare came out in 2023, when Penguin Random House's revenue rose 7.3%. The 13.2% increase was for Random House, a smaller entity within the company.

• Börsenblatt
• Publishers Lunch