With this specialized anatomy, parrots can bark, scream, curse, and recite factoids.

有了种专门的解剖结构，鹦鹉可以吠叫、尖叫、咒骂和背诵趣闻。

A FACTOID is false information presented as fact.

FACTOID 是指以实形式呈现的虚假信息。

It could be your opinion on something. It could be some random factoid on the Internet.

可以是对某件的看法。也可以是网上一些有趣的消息。

Q is for Quiz, not very good at the sort of historical factoids but I love a quiz.

Q代表问答游戏（Quiz），虽然我不太擅长历史趣闻，但我喜欢问答。

Here's a fact: Many people misuse the word FACTOID.

很多人误用了 FACTOID 个词。

Okay, well I have a story behind my first factoid.

丹：好吧，我的第一个实背后有一个故。

We take three factoids about the American economy and run them through the fact-checkers.

我们选取了关于美国经济的三个常识，并对其进行实核查。

How about one more factoid, and then we'll take a break.

再来一个趣味实，然后我们就休息一下。

Yeah, it's a good little factoid that Dave dug up for us.

yeah, 是 Dave 给我们挖到的一个不错的实。

They post little visual factoids and explorations that reveal the beauty of mathematics.

他们发布一些视觉小知识与探索，揭示数学之美。

They are mostly interesting factoids, but not material for impactful lifestyle changes.

它们大多是有趣的实，但不足以成为带来重大生活方式改变的材料。

When you read these creepypastas, people just throw kind of random factoids in there.

当些恐怖故时，人们就会在里面加入一些随机的实。

So now that you have this factoid, you can tell anyone who will listen.

现在掌握了个冷知识，就可以讲给任何愿意听的人听了。

The third one is a factoid, so it's a simple statistic or a factual statement, like a new market trend, demographic trend.

第三个是实，是一个简单的统计数据或实陈述，比如一个新的市场趋势，人口趋势。

For every successful writer of the factoid type, however, there are a hundred (perhaps even a thousand) wannabes, some published, most not.

然而一个成功的纪实小说家背后，都有成百（甚至上千）的模仿者，有的得以出版，多数没有。

Well, one of my other cool facts- Dan: What's your last factoid?

好吧，我的另一个很酷的实—— Dan：最后的实是什么？

Often one of the things the students struggle with is not appreciating where a given factoid or fact or concept fits within the wider picture.

通常，学生们面临的问题之一是没有意识到某个给定的仿真陈述、实或概念在更大的图景中的位置。

It takes a lot of energy to get to the bottom of things, and a factoid is  easily repeated, so misinformation can persist.

弄清楚情的真相需要耗费大量精力，而一个趣闻逸很容易被反复传播， 因此错误信息可能会长期存在。

So that's not just a nice factoid, that's a significant factor.

因此，不仅仅是一个有趣的小知识，而是一个重要的因素。

You know, one thing I thought was just, if I may just share little factoids with you, because I've been researching this and they've come up.

知道吗，有件我觉得挺有意思，如果可以的话， 我想和分享一些小知识，因为我一直在研究个， 些观点也不断浮现。