Interestingly there seems to be a trend to refer to an individual fact point as a "factoid". I wonder where that originated. EDIT: I just looked it up and a fa

Interestingly there seems to be a trend to refer to an individual fact point as a "factoid". I wonder where that originated. EDIT: I just looked it up and a factoid is a manufactured fact, coined by Norman Mailer in 1973. I seems many use it differently. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Factoid#%3A%7E%3Atext%3DThe_term_was_coined_by%2Csimilar_but_not_the_same%22.?wprov=sfla1 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Factoid#%3A%7E%3Atext%3DThe_te...