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on June 11, 2021
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FDA approves drug to treat smallpox
There’s a variant of pox for most animals, they aren’t dangerous to us. There’s even 2 variants of kangeroopox. Not even joking.
haimez
on June 11, 2021
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TIL factoid of the month, easily.
ChrisRR
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Your second little fact is that "factoid" means a lie that has been spread so widely that it's treated as a fact, and doesn't mean a little fact
Ariarule
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Meta-humor, maybe? "A factoid is either an invented or assumed statement presented as a fact, or a true but brief or trivial item of news or information" --
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Factoid
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