Allegedly also with "factoid", which means "something which resembles a fact" versus the misuse of "a small fact".
It's frustrating because it's like watching people declare that aster-oids are actual stars, except smaller. Or that human-oids and andr-oids are small people.
There it was used to mean silly facts. I'm not sure "small fact" is the common use. I'd say "I had cereal for breakfast" is a "small" fact, but not a "factoid" in that sense.
Allegedly also with "factoid", which means "something which resembles a fact" versus the misuse of "a small fact".
It's frustrating because it's like watching people declare that aster-oids are actual stars, except smaller. Or that human-oids and andr-oids are small people.