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> Facebook has developed its own version control system, called Mercurial

No, Facebook did not develop Mercurial.

Actually I knew that and I did spot the hallucination, but I was fine with it as long as it answered the core of the question.

"the one thing i could verify from common knowledge was plain wrong, so i took all the rest as being correct"

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