Fun fact: Norman Mailer coined the word factoid in 1973. He wrote:
“[Factoids are] facts which have no existence before appearing in a magazine or newspaper, creations which are not so much lies as a product to manipulate emotion in the Silent Majority.”
In other words, a factoid is a clickbait “alternative” fact.
Interesting. I always took the term to indicate a single fact in isolation, in contrast to major dates or things that could be considered part of a curriculum.
Fun fact: Norman Mailer coined the word factoid in 1973. He wrote:
In other words, a factoid is a clickbait “alternative” fact.
Interesting. I always took the term to indicate a single fact in isolation, in contrast to major dates or things that could be considered part of a curriculum.