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The term factoid can in common usage mean either a false or spurious statement presented as a fact, as well as a true, if brief or trivial item of news or information. The term was coined in 1973 by American writer Norman Mailer to mean a "piece of information that becomes accepted as a fact even though it?s not actually true, or an invented fact believed to be true because it appears in print." Since its creation in 1973 the term has evolved from its original meaning, in common usage, and has assumed other meanings, particularly being used to describe a brief or trivial item of news or information. So it is a factoid that "factoid" means something that is true.