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landauer@morocco.Eng.Sun.COM (Doug Landauer) writes:

>> Factoid #1 - Interstate highways, the main routes, are numbered even for
>>	east-west, and odd for north-south;
>> Factoid #2 - The main routes are numbered from the south-west.
>> Factoid #3 - the three-digit Interstates were originally called 'spur' or
>>	'loop' routes;
>> Factoid #4 - I-4, H-1, H-2, and H-3
>> Factoid #5 - the full name of the system is "The National System of
>>	Interstate and Defense Highways"

>Damn CNN anyway for their twisting of the meaning of "factoid"!  Factoid
>used to mean something that sounds like a fact, and might be presented
>as a fact, but which is either unsubstantiated, or pure bullshit.
>Otherwise, why not just call it a "fact" ????

>[ Tangential question:  where did I hear that term before CNN
>  picked it up and ruined it ? ]


	I have read that the term was coined by Norman Mailer and meant

	"something that is repeated so often by the media that is believed
to be true."

-don
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