A Guardian book review described how Lurpak butter was named after the lur, a curved brass horn popular in the first and second millennia BC in and around Denmark, referring to this as a "fascinating ...

If you use the word "factoid" to describe a single bit of important information or "factoids" to talk about several pieces of such data, we will get complaints. Here's why: Norman Mailer gets the ...

Norman Mailer is probably ashamed of you. Psst. I have something to tell you: factoid probably doesn't mean what you think it means. Don't worry, though, you are not alone and you can change. I, too, ...

The word “factoid” has now become a factoid. In an ironic, postmodern twist, most people now confuse the definition of the term, believing that it represents a small piece of statistical data. In the ...

The controversy over counting re-exports in the trade deficit derives from a common fallacy that I call factoid economics. You’ve heard people exclaim, “The real unemployment rate is ten percent!.” ...