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

有了这种专门的解剖结构，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.

可以是你对某件的看法。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 这个词。

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

丹：好吧，我的第一个背后有一个故。

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

我选取了关于美国经济的三个常识，并对其进行核查。

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

再来一个趣味，然后我就休息一下。

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

yeah, 这是 Dave 给我挖到的一个不错的。

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

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.

它大多是有趣的，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.

当你读这些恐怖故时，人就会在里面加入一些随机的。

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

现在你掌握了这个冷知识，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，这是一个简单的统计数据或陈述，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.

然而每一个成功的纪小说家背后，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—— Dan：你最后的是什么？

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，学生面临的问题之一是没有意识到某个给定的仿真陈述、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，这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.

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