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Fun factoid: Not even the granddaddy of the genre, Star Trek, did all that well in its original run on the evening in the late 1960s.
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Marc Berman, Forbes, 4 Nov. 2024
Throughout the event, Broadway Votes will keep the hosts and viewers up to date with election reminders and factoids as the day goes on, according to a press release.
—Christy Piña, The Hollywood Reporter, 1 Nov. 2024
Cute factoid: Charlotte Brontë wrote the novel under the pen name Currer Bell.
—Fletcher Peters, Vulture, 1 Aug. 2024
One factoid in the article of particular interest pointed out that OpenAI partner Microsoft would get an even earlier jump on its competitors by offering Orion to Azure customers in November.
—Tor Constantino, Mba, Forbes, 25 Oct. 2024
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Marc Berman, Forbes, 4 Nov. 2024
Throughout the event, Broadway Votes will keep the hosts and viewers up to date with election reminders and factoids as the day goes on, according to a press release.
—Christy Piña, The Hollywood Reporter, 1 Nov. 2024
Cute factoid: Charlotte Brontë wrote the novel under the pen name Currer Bell.
—Fletcher Peters, Vulture, 1 Aug. 2024
One factoid in the article of particular interest pointed out that OpenAI partner Microsoft would get an even earlier jump on its competitors by offering Orion to Azure customers in November.
—Tor Constantino, Mba, Forbes, 25 Oct. 2024
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Despite how much these factors can impact our daily lives, there are still many misconceptions about who is most vulnerable and what employers can or should do to help.Sean Fogarty, Forbes, 9 Dec. 2024
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This is something called the therapeutic misconception, where patients believe that being part of an experiment, that experiment is actually intended to benefit them.Mandy Nguyen, Vox, 30 Nov. 2024
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Read more What People Think Opinion related to business and economic issues submitted to The Hill: Debunking the myth of the military welfare queen You’re all caught up.Sylvan Lane, The Hill, 16 Dec. 2024
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Zucker kicked things off in the book’s foreword writing about seeing and collecting pointed diamonds from the 15th century and earlier — a point that helped Fasel to unlock a myth that engagement rings are an invention of the 20th century.Thomas Waller, WWD, 16 Dec. 2024
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Friday is the last Friday the 13th of the year, a time for superstitions and spooky fears.Jenna Prestininzi, Detroit Free Press, 12 Dec. 2024
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By using a Google search analytics to identify the most common terms and phrases in each state, the 2021 study looked at over 200 common superstitions.Janet Loehrke, USA TODAY, 12 Dec. 2024
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But there might be a strawman fallacy in Kennedy’s position, as experts have stated that addressing flaws in the food system isn’t mutually exclusive with the use of weight-loss medications.Joshua P. Cohen, Forbes, 1 Dec. 2024
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The sunk cost fallacy should not apply to LeMahieu come October.Chris Kirschner, The Athletic, 29 Aug. 2024
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By empowering legal teams to achieve accurate, timely SEC compliance, his innovations help companies avoid costly errors and regulatory issues, ultimately supporting investor confidence and market integrity.Chris Gallagher, USA TODAY, 16 Dec. 2024
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Externalities can and do bring on higher prices without having anything to do with currency error.John Tamny, Forbes, 15 Dec. 2024
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On the power of seeing and being seen. … Paperback fiction 1.The California Independent Booksellers Alliance, Los Angeles Times, 18 Dec. 2024
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As the first Black winner of a RITA Award for romantic fiction, Ryan has written bestselling books that showcase beautiful, multifaceted, and nuanced characters.Lynnette Nicholas, Essence, 18 Dec. 2024
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Social media appears to be just as effective in spreading untruths and even ethnic barbs in Ethiopia.James Jeffrey, Foreign Affairs, 7 Nov. 2016
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From slanderous claims of Haitian immigrants eating pets, to litanies of untruths about pervasive election fraud, Trump has lied more than any U.S. president on record.Yaakov Katz, Newsweek, 27 Nov. 2024
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With scary precision, the playwright captures the delusion that roots itself in families who use faith to control.Lovia Gyarkye, The Hollywood Reporter, 13 Dec. 2024
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Corcoran is under the paranoid delusion that prison guards are torturing him with sound waves.Kristine Phillips, The Indianapolis Star, 6 Dec. 2024
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“Factoid.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/factoid. Accessed 22 Dec. 2024.
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