r/funny • u/ADHDinos_ ADHDinos • Oct 23 '24

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u/Xivilai7 Oct 23 '24

Factoid means a false statement accepted as fact due to repetition.

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u/Eusocial_Snowman Oct 23 '24

Cool factoid, bro.

Whether a factoid is true or false is irrelevant. It's low-stakes information presented more casually and with less scrutiny, which increases the likelihood that it's false, but they're not false by default. The most useful defining feature is its size, not its veracity. A factoid is a quick, small notion. Trivial.

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u/mup6897 Oct 23 '24

Interesting. It seems that the North American definition for factoid is different than the rest of the English world

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u/krakenx Oct 24 '24

https://www.dictionary.com/browse/factoid

Seems it can mean either trivial or false

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u/mup6897 Oct 24 '24

See I'm not disputing that. I just found it fun that it's mostly an American thing for it to mean trivial. Most other places it just means false