A
factoid is a small, often trivial piece of information that is presented as being true but actually false.
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These and many other interesting
factoids about coffee are contained in the infographic below sent to me and used with permission by a reader in Ireland.
Below are just a few
interesting factoids from the 550 page survey that tracks hundreds of pet ownership trends.
You never know what
little factoid on your resume might increase your chances of a call - back — or decrease them.
Here's a little
factoid from WWDC that the Android Community is sure to hate.
Many interesting
factoids on the current state of the market.
There are a lot of other interesting
factoids in there, but the part that really rang for me, which is what Andrew was drawing attention to, was this:
Either way, we've got plenty of
factoids for you, folks, because that's how we do it here on Half - Glass Gaming.
This $ 25 board game taps into Alexa to test your knowledge of
fun factoids about world - famous locations.
One
other factoid from the Stanford survey was that hybrid authors saw the highest incomes.
Pardon my italics, but such
factoids as these fairly demand the Ripley's Believe It or Not treatment.
oldfossil == > You are right — one must realize when your own viewpoint is represented
by factoids (facts plus opinions or hypotheses) and make some attempt to sort out the difference «twixt the two.
The problem is with
factoids like «temperatures are rising» being used to arm moral and political arguments.
More interesting and
surprising factoids on visual learning and the relationship between vision and memory in regards to visual thinking in our next and final post in this series.
As the «fine casual» burger chain prepares to go public, here's a look at some of the most
fascinating factoids about the company's growth and strategy.
Neither is a piling up of facts and
factoids into heaps meant to impress, or make money, or satisfy an OCD.
(random
cool factoid: the planes were disassembled by dropping a giant steel blade from a crane to slice through the plane - essentially a giant guillotine)
To do this, it waves
scientific factoids around in a process which owes more to some kind of pagan ritual than to good science.
Other little
factoids include the ability to sprint, the HUD having the ability to be turned off if you want it to, and the visual style being heavily influenced by impressionist paintings, and was one of the first parts of the game locked down and decided during development.
Many factoids about the Roman Army, the region, and various other cultural titbits can be discovered over the course of a play - through.
Garner's repeated attempts at realistic football - speak end up sounding more like she's
reading factoids off the back of a Wheaties box.
Or are we just falling into the trap of efforting to counter every warmist
factoid when the settled fundamentals of their «science» rob their claims of all validity?
But was it really true that waxing was leading to diminished pubic - lice populations, or just a case of the media blowing an obscure medical
factoid out of proportion?
What factoid in the infographic below on the truth about your morning coffee fix did you find most interesting?
I mention this little farmers market
factoid because the person who said this was eating a cup of gelato (half pistachio and half dark chocolate).
The
misleading factoids quoted in the project description presumably come from Wojick's own project proposal.
Meanwhile, in a crunching, grinding, not to say shrieking change of gears, here's an Ebay
historical factoid for you: on August 12, 2005, someone scored this item with a winning bid of $ 255.
The IPCC, Mann, NASA, Hansen, Algore et al have been throwing faked data and phony
factoids around for 20 years, while the earth goes on its way without warming up.
BONUS FACTOID: Evaporated Cane Juice and brown sugar have higher levels of calcium, magnesium, potassium and iron.
A few
good factoids emerge, but overall it's too shallow and unfocused to really work.
Admittedly the original put the more sensational cherry - picked
factoids up front and ignored obvious details like the huge gap in time scales between current weather and descent into an ice age.
I was actually looking for a
particular factoid that had lodged in my brain about a debate in Ohio in the 1850s or 1860s about whether to fund public libraries: the opponents felt that paying taxes to support the common good was tantamount to socialism.
In those posts I pointed out some
important factoids regarding both programs, but I never did a point by point analysis of how to actually obtain Public Service Loan Forgiveness.
Anyway, here are some finer details and random
factoids regarding my selected games and runners - up.