a factoid is a type of linguistic parasite that attaches itself onto a fact and distorts it, making it more interesting and novel, so that it proliferates through culture and lays a collective egg in everyone's brain
see ? as of writing this post laid eggs in 56 innocent scrollers' minds solely because i tweaked the definition of what a factoid is into something fascinating. if i had just told the truth, that a factoid is an obscure 4tran term for a girl who says a lot of facts, it would colonised the psyche of far fewer victims















