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Ever want to feel like a spy on your hardest mission yet? (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 month ago by The_Picard_Maneuver@lemmy.world to c/funny@lemmy.world

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[–] radicalautonomy@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] stoicmaverick@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

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.