FYI about 'factoid': > The term was coined in 1973 by American writer Norman Mailer to mean a piece of information that becomes accepted as a fact even though

FYI about 'factoid': > The term was coined in 1973 by American writer Norman Mailer to mean a piece of information that becomes accepted as a fact even though it is not actually true, or an invented fact believed to be true because it appears in print. * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Factoid https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Factoid