Here's a fact: Many people misuse the word FACTOID.

很多人 FACTOID 这个词。

It could be your opinion on something. It could be some random factoid on the Internet.

可以是你对某件事的看法。也可以是网上一些有趣的消息。

A FACTOID is false information presented as fact.

FACTOID 是指以事实形式呈现的虚假信息。

With this specialized anatomy, parrots can bark, scream, curse, and recite factoids.

有这种专门的解剖结构，鹦鹉可以吠叫、尖叫、咒骂和背诵趣闻。

Q is for Quiz, not very good at the sort of historical factoids but I love a quiz.

Q代表问答游戏（Quiz），虽然我不太擅长历史趣闻，但我喜欢问答。

And I'll just leave this little factoid here.

我就把这个小事实留在这里。

Okay, well I have a story behind my first factoid.

丹：好吧，我的第一个事实背有一个故事。

Well, one of my other cool facts- Dan: What's your last factoid?

好吧，我的另一个很酷的事实—— Dan：你最的事实是什么？

The third one is a factoid, so it's a simple statistic or a factual statement, like a new market trend, demographic trend.

第三个是事实，这是一个简单的统计数据或事实陈述，比如一个新的市场趋势，人口趋势。

Our robot starts producing a factoid question, like: " Charlemagne repelled [this person type]" by itself.

我们的机器人开始提出一个事实型问题，例如：“查理曼大帝自己排斥[这种人]” 。

For every successful writer of the factoid type, however, there are a hundred (perhaps even a thousand) wannabes, some published, most not.

然而每一个成功的纪实小说家背，有成百（甚至上千）的模仿者，有的得以出版，多数没有。

Often one of the things the students struggle with is not appreciating where a given factoid or fact or concept fits within the wider picture.

通常，学生们面临的问题之一是没有意识到某个给定的仿真陈述、事实或概念在更大的图景中的位置。

In 2011, Sparrow led a study in which participants were asked to record 40 factoids in a computer (" an ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain, " for example) .

2011 年，斯帕罗领导一项研究，参与者被要求在电脑上记录 40 条事实（例如 “鸵鸟的眼睛比它的大脑更大”）。

Interesting, another factoid I had, I was talking to the board of one of the big global sandwich companies, and they were saying, look, business is pretty good.

有趣的是，我还听说另一件趣事， 我当时正在与一家全球大型三明治公司的董事会交谈，他们说，看，生意相当不错。

There's essays, there's factoids, there's bits of interview… LATIF: An example, earlier this month former Radiolab co-host Robert Krulwich wrote an essay, sort of about his stumbling path into journalism.

有文章、有轶事、有一些采访… … LATIF：举个例子，本月早些时候，Radiolab 前联合主持人罗伯特·克鲁维奇 (Robert Krulwich) 写一篇文章，大概是关于他跌跌撞撞地进入新闻业的道路。

And so how do the different sectors of society exist in this kind of situation? I mean, people say, I don't know whether it's a fact or a factoid that South Africa is the most unequal country in the world.

那么，在这种情况下，社会的不同阶层是如何生存的呢？我的意思是，人们说，我不知道南非是世界上最不平等的国家是事实还是事实。