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It's not a factoid, it's an actual fact.
Turns out I mistook what “factoid” means. Thanks for correcting me.
Words mean what people use them to mean. That is what factoid means.
As Hakase said, words mean what they are used to mean, so in this case it is either a tidbit of true information or a false, but truth-resembling fact.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Factoid
For further explanation, the suffix “oid” is Latin (borrowed from Greek) for “in the form of” or “in the likeness of,” as in android (man-like) or asteroid (star-like), but it can also mean “pertaining to” as in myeloid cells- cells that come from bone marrow: muelos (marrow) + oid (relating to).