Best movie factual errors of 2008

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Factual error: In the streetcar scene a passenger is a soldier wearing a US Army green uniform with a CIB, Comat Infantry Badge. At the time US uniforms were brown and there is no plausible reason for this US soldier to be in that country.

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Factual error: When Natalie decides to rebuild the carburetor that Keith gave to her, she opens the rebuild kit and starts lying out the parts. The problem is that the kit is for a French Solex type 30 single-barrel carb, and the carburetor in the box is a domestic four-barrel.

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Factual error: During the opening credits. An LCD screen is shown with lat/long coordinates. The movie takes place in the Persian Gulf. The coordinates are in the vicinity of Oceanside, CA.

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Factual error: The SS Officer is repeatedly addressed as "Herr Oberst". This is a Wehrmacht rank designation, and could possibly have been correct for them addressing an SS officer, but fellow SS officers would have used the correct term "Standartenführer" (without the "Herr"). On one occasion the lower rank SS officer is address as "Herr Leutnant" which is equally wrong, should be "(Ober)sturmführer"

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Factual error: As the cars travel over 1950s Westminster bridge, the modern red route lines can be seen on the road.

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Factual error: The "corn" they are growing is not corn, just crabgrass.

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Factual error: In the film, the train is hauled by diesel locomotives on a single track not electrified line. Since early 2000 the Trans-Siberian is double-track and fully electrified.

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