factoid

ریشه

Coined by Norman Mailer in 1973 from 'fact' and '-oid' to mean a piece of information that becomes accepted as a fact even though it’s not actually true, or a brief or trivial item of news or information.

مثال

• The book is filled with interesting factoids about the movie industry.
• He's a storehouse of baseball factoids.
• That's an interesting factoid, but is it true?

ترکیب‌های رایج

Interesting factoid Political factoid Useless factoid Little factoid