factlet

plural factlets

1. A minor fact; an item of trivia.

   If ever I corrected him on a factlet , he was taken aback and interested.

   2023, Padma Viswanathan, Like Every Form of Love: A Memoir of Friendship and True Crime, Random House of Canada, →ISBN

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   Having seen over four hundred skirmishes during the Civil War, the state ranked second only to Virginia in battle quantity, yet this factlet often receives scant mention in the most authoritative studies of that conflict.

   1995, John Keene, Annotations, New Directions Publishing, →ISBN, page 71

   […] in many upscale hotels, the small piece of paper placed on your pillow during turndown advising on tomorrow's weather (often accompanied by a gratuitous quotation or an 'on this day' factlet).

   2015, Roy C Wood, Hospitality Management: A Brief Introduction, SAGE, →ISBN