【每日一词】factoid - /ˈfæktɔɪd/ n. 仿真陈述（仅因出现在出版物上而被信以为真）
factoid
1: an invented fact believed to be true because it appears in print 一个被捏造出来的“事实”，但因为它出现在印刷出版物中，人们误以为它是真的。
2: a briefly stated and usually trivial fact 一个简短陈述的、通常琐碎（不太重要）的事实。
短语
factoid questions: 事实性问题
Factoid Question Answer: 事实问答
例句
Here's a pop factoid for you. 告诉你一个广为流传的趣闻。
Here's another subtle yet important factoid. 以下是另一段巧妙却又很重要的事实。
The myth is not simply a static, misunderstood factoid. 该传言不只是一个静态的、被描述成事实的曲解。
The book is really just a collection of interesting factoids.
However easy that is to explain away, that factoid remains kind of interesting.
—Clem Chambers, Forbes, 21 Jan. 2025
By collecting their earliest recordings straight through the later years, and tossing in booklets loaded with history-minded factoids, each of the sets lent a shape and narrative to an artist’s musical career.
—David Browne, Rolling Stone, 10 Jan. 2025
Announcer Kevin Frazier, who missed no chance to remind you that this was Hollywood’s biggest party — as opposed, by implication, to the Oscars and Emmys, chained to their dull academies — chimed in with factoids about presenters and winners, like a wedding DJ working the crowd.
—Robert Lloyd, Los Angeles Times, 6 Jan. 2025
Fun factoid: Eva Longoria (pre-Desperate Housewives) joined the cast in season two as Det.
—Marc Berman, Forbes, 12 Jan. 2025
