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Originally Posted by WT Sharpe
I may be confusing a "Factoid" section with that magazine's "Continuum" and "Antimatter" sections.
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There are several quality publications today that regularly (mis)use the word to mean 'little fact'. That's why it's a peeve. It's been done enough to make it into the
dictionary as a second definition. I hate that. If I only rarely saw it done, it wouldn't bug me. As much.