Re:The World Is Running Out of Sand
by mundo on Monday November 20, 2017 @02:41PM
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To my mind, the connotation of factoid is that it's not false, but it's too simplified or stripped of context to be wholly accurate.
Consider, "Did you know that squids have eyes as big as bicycle tires?" That's not completely made up (squid do have the largest eyes of any animal) but to make it strictly accurate you'd need to change "squid" to "giant squid", "have" to "can have", and "bicycle tire" to "child's bicycle tire".
Consider, "Did you know that squids have eyes as big as bicycle tires?" That's not completely made up (squid do have the largest eyes of any animal) but to make it strictly accurate you'd need to change "squid" to "giant squid", "have" to "can have", and "bicycle tire" to "child's bicycle tire".