alt Hacker NewsSince we're already being picky about languages, that's not a factoid: Factoids are things which resemble facts, but aren't actually facts.
The whole -oid suffix, really. Asteroids aren't really stars, meteoroids aren't really meteors, androids aren't really men, spheroids aren't really spheres, factoids aren't really facts, etc.
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aspenmayer • last Monday at 9:58 PM
> Factoids are things which resemble facts, but aren't actually facts.
I think you might be right but not definitively so: the Oxford dictionary has your definition, as does the New Oxford American dictionary which also lists the following as North American usage:
> a brief or trivial item of news or information
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I'll add "factoid."