In 2011, Sparrow led a study in which participants were asked to record 40 factoids in a computer (" an ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain, " for example) .

2011 年，斯帕罗领导了一项研究，参与者被要求在电脑上记录 40 条事（例如 “鸵鸟的眼睛比它的大脑更大”）。

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 指以事形式呈现的虚假信息。

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

第三个事，一个简单的统计数据或事陈述，比如一个新的市场趋势，人口趋势。

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，学生们临的问题之一没有意识到某个给定的仿真陈述、事或概念在更大的图景中的位置。

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

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。

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），虽我不太擅长历史趣闻，但我喜欢问答。

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

可以你对某件事的看法。也可以网上一些有趣的消息。

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

很多人误用了 FACTOID 个词。

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，并对其进行事核查。

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

yeah, Dave 给我们挖到的一个不错的事。

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.

它们大多有趣的事，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.

当你读些恐怖故事时，人们就会在里加入一些随机的事。

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

现在你掌握了个冷知识，就可以讲给任何愿意听的人听了。

And so how do the different sectors of society exist in this kind of situation? I mean, people say, I don't know whether it's a fact or a factoid that South Africa is the most unequal country in the world.

那么，在种情况下，社会的不同阶层如何存在的？我说，人们常说，我不知道事还趣闻，南非世界上最不平等的国家。

Yeah, again, you know, when you talk about these things, like I think about our prop master, Eric Garibay, who one of my favorite factoids, he was a prop master on Inception.

的，再说一次，当你提到些事的时候，我就想到我们的道具师埃里克·加里巴伊，我最喜欢的趣闻之一，他曾经《盗梦空间》的道具师。

But yeah, that's just one, that was just one weird factoid I didn't really have a good place for here, but just blew my mind that that's a way that that works.

的，那只其中一个， 一个我在里找不到合适位置的奇怪小知识，但它让我惊讶的， 种方式竟行得通。

There's essays, there's factoids, there's bits of interview… LATIF: An example, earlier this month former Radiolab co-host Robert Krulwich wrote an essay, sort of about his stumbling path into journalism.

有文章、有轶事、有一些采访… … LATIF：举个例子，本月早些时候，Radiolab 前联合主持人罗伯特·克鲁维奇 (Robert Krulwich) 了一篇文章，大概关于他跌跌撞撞地进入新闻业的道路。

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