04-21-2013, 02:10 PM
(04-21-2013, 01:59 PM)garvin link Wrote:"Factoid" was coined by the staff of USA Today way back in the 1980s to describe those little tiny digests of state-by-state news.
Nope. "Factoid" substantially predates USA Today -- it appears to have been coined by Norman Mailer in the early 70s.
