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Ever want to feel like a spy on your hardest mission yet? (lemmy.world)
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[–] The_Picard_Maneuver@lemmy.world 39 points 2 years ago (1 children)

[–] feedum_sneedson@lemmy.world 13 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I want the backstory please

[–] ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 10 points 2 years ago

It starts with a grande bean burrito and ends with a Mexican hooker

[–] radicalautonomy@lemmy.world 9 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Patrick Stewart farted.

[–] feedum_sneedson@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Ah yes, farting is very funny.

[–] stoicmaverick@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago (2 children)

The oldest joke we have a record of as a species is a fart joke. This is my favorite factoid of all time, maybe ever.

[–] Akasazh@feddit.nl 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

maybe ever.

Would you say: since time immemorial?

[–] stoicmaverick@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

One could, yes.

[–] radicalautonomy@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Fun fact: Norman Mailer coined the word factoid in 1973. He wrote:

"[Factoids are] 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."

In other words, a factoid is a clickbait "alternative" fact.

[–] stoicmaverick@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

Interesting. I always took the term to indicate a single fact in isolation, in contrast to major dates or things that could be considered part of a curriculum.