If you’re a former English teacher you should be aware that language changes and while “factoid” was originally coined to mean a made up fact, the term is currently mostly used to refer to small inconsequential facts.
Just FYI, factoid has been misused for long enough that it now has an official second, contradictory definition:
A briefly stated and usually trivial fact.
C’mon dude. As a history teacher, I can tell you that it is definitely possible to fire a gun without arms.
A gunman doesn’t cease to be a gunman if he’s disarmed. Though he can’t be a gunman if he wasn’t armed in the first place.
Wouldn’t it be a pleonasm? Tautology is more about the logic realm, specifically about repeating an argument or a statement as it they were different. Here “inaccurate factoid” is merely inaccurate vocabulary.
It was necessary to nuke Japan. Oh wait, it wasn’t.
The Ying Yang summarizes the Big Bang, basically the universe wondered what it could be so first it was black and white and then the alterations of those states started showing up. You are the universe itself creating self awareness and providing more ways to answer the original question: “what could I be”?
“In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move."
- Jewish slaves build the pyramids.
They were build by Egyptians, probably out of loyalty to the pharaohs.
- Columbus discovered America.
He never reached the mainland. He didn’t go any further then the Caribbean Islands.
Man, this one is infuriating for me, and I’m Jewish.
It’s like we based an entire religion out of this lie - every aspect of the old testament is riddled with exodus references.
The Babylonian exile on the other hand is attested. That was more like a royal hostage situation than slavery though, the Babylonians sacked Jerusalem and took the nobility back with them.
No it was: https://www.archaeology.org/issues/262-1707/features/5627-jaffa-egypt-canaan-colony
For 3 centuries, bible said 4. That book is known for exaggeration.
On his subsequent voyages he went farther south, to Central and South America. He never got close to what is now the mainland of America. Wikipedia
South America is not “mainland of America”? What do you consider “mainland of America” if south America is not part of it?
Spartans were a dominant military force. They were actually kind of a shitty military force who was really good at PR.
The Spartan Hegemony only lasted 30 years, and only because they kind of glory-hogged the aftermath of the Greco-Persian war after nearly losing the war due to their refusal to muster.
At Thermopylae 300 Spartans fought to the last man, along with 700 Athenians and more from other cities.
