factoid

• n. 仿真陈述（仅因出现在出版物上而被信以为真）
• adj. 虚构的；似是而非的

fact, 事实。-oid, 类。

factoid (n.)

1973, "published statement taken to be a fact because of its appearance in print," from fact + -oid, first explained, if not coined, by Norman Mailer.

Factoids ... that is, facts which have no existence before appearing in a magazine or newspaper, creations which are not so much lies as a product to manipulate emotion in the Silent Majority. [Mailer, "Marilyn," 1973]

By 1988 it was being used in the sense of "small, isolated bit of true factual information."

1. Here's a pop factoid for you.

告诉你一个广为流传的趣闻。

来自《权威词典》