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Re:FDA approves drug to treat smallpox by haimez on Friday June 11, 2021 @01:20AM (#27469581)
TIL factoid of the month, easily.
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Re:FDA approves drug to treat smallpox by ChrisRR on Friday June 11, 2021 @07:40AM (#27471944)
Your second little fact is that "factoid" means a lie that has been spread so widely that it's treated as a fact, and doesn't mean a little fact
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Re:FDA approves drug to treat smallpox by Ariarule on Friday June 11, 2021 @07:54PM (#27479944)
Meta-humor, maybe? "A factoid is either an invented or assumed statement presented as a fact, or a true but brief or trivial item of news or information" -- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Factoid
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