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、咒骂和背诵闻。

A FACTOID is false information presented as fact.

FACTOID 是指以事形式呈现的虚假。

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

可以是你对某件事的看法。也可以是网上一些有的消。

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），虽然我不太擅长历史闻，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，我的第一个事背后有一个故事。

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，并对其进行事核查。

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

是的，戴夫为我们挖出的这个小知挺有意思的。

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

再来一个小知，然后我们就休一下吧。

They are mostly interesting factoids, but not material for impactful lifestyle changes.

它们大多是有的事，但不足以成为带来重大生活方式改变的材料。

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

第三个是事，这是一个简单的统计数据或事，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，我的另一个很酷的事—— Dan：你最后的事是什么？

Our robot starts producing a factoid question, like: " Charlemagne repelled [this person type]" by itself.

我们的机器人开始提出一个事型问题，例如：“查理曼大帝自己排斥[这种人]” 。

And I'll just leave this little factoid here. A decade later, the company filed for bankruptcy with $1 billion in debt.

我在这里只留下这个小事: 十年后, 该公司以10亿美元的债务申请破产。

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，学生们面临的问题之一是没有意到某个给定的仿真、事或概念在更大的图景中的位置。

So that's not just a nice factoid, that's a significant factor.

因此，这不仅仅是一个有的小知，而是一个重要的因素。

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”）。

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) 写了一篇文章，大概是关于他跌跌撞撞地进入新闻业的道路。

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.

是的，那只是其中一个， 是一个我在这里找不到合适位置的奇怪小知，但它让我惊讶的是， 这种方式竟然行得通。