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Fun factoid: Ross Hunter, who produced Pillow Talk, claimed that theater managers did not want to book it.
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Marc Berman, Forbes, 6 Oct. 2024
Another fun factoid: Remember the picture-perfect home the Anderson’s lived in?
—Marc Berman, Forbes, 3 Oct. 2024
Fun factoid: The original name for The Man From U.N.C.L.E. was supposed to be Ian Fleming's Solo, and Ian Fleming, creator of James Bond, was a consultant on the project.
—Marc Berman, Forbes, 22 Sep. 2024
Disappointing surprise that instead of cutting to the traditional camera after In Memoriam, the Emmys brought out Jimmy Kimmel who made an off-color joke about dead people winning something before sharing a few more factoids about the late Bob Newhart.
—Lynette Rice, Deadline, 15 Sep. 2024
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Marc Berman, Forbes, 6 Oct. 2024
Another fun factoid: Remember the picture-perfect home the Anderson’s lived in?
—Marc Berman, Forbes, 3 Oct. 2024
Fun factoid: The original name for The Man From U.N.C.L.E. was supposed to be Ian Fleming's Solo, and Ian Fleming, creator of James Bond, was a consultant on the project.
—Marc Berman, Forbes, 22 Sep. 2024
Disappointing surprise that instead of cutting to the traditional camera after In Memoriam, the Emmys brought out Jimmy Kimmel who made an off-color joke about dead people winning something before sharing a few more factoids about the late Bob Newhart.
—Lynette Rice, Deadline, 15 Sep. 2024
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The misconception that working harder could prevent or treat depression may further stigmatize those who are affected and discourage them from seeking treatment.Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 5 Nov. 2024
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One common misconception is that mixing uppers and downers, like MDMA and ketamine, will balance each other out.Celia Ford, Vox, 4 Nov. 2024
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The book also features jewels that recall armor, and ones that are inspired by royals, popes, Greek myths and antiquity.Samantha Conti, WWD, 4 Nov. 2024
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Dispelling these myths is vital for a clearer understanding of human trafficking and stronger prevention efforts.Kim Elsesser, Forbes, 1 Nov. 2024
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No longer were gremlins only representative of niche superstitions held by nervous military airmen.The Editors, JSTOR Daily, 23 Oct. 2024
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Intolerance, superstition, hostility towards all things foreign and diabolical intrigues at the royal court are his biggest enemies.Leo Barraclough, Variety, 21 Oct. 2024
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The sunk cost fallacy is the silent killer of rational decision-making.Mark Kane, Forbes, 24 Sep. 2024
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In writing courses, for example, students learn how to spot fallacies, and elementary proofs are covered in trigonometry.Vinay K. Chaudhri, Scientific American, 5 Sep. 2024
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There was also the larger error of anointing Harris without political competition — an insult to the democratic process that handed the nomination to a candidate who, as some of us warned at the time, was exceptionally weak.Bret Stephens, The Mercury News, 7 Nov. 2024
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Recent polling from the Free Press had indicated that Harris appeared to have a slight, 3-percentage-point lead on Trump in Michigan, though that was within the poll's 4-percentage-point margin of error.Todd Spangler, Detroit Free Press, 6 Nov. 2024
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Mann published no fiction for the duration of the war.George Packer, The Atlantic, 5 Nov. 2024
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That is to say, fiction should, to my mind, slightly eclipse the author’s own understanding of it.Deborah Treisman, The New Yorker, 3 Nov. 2024
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To help combat the concurrent squall of lies, FEMA has spent precious resources to combat the untruths by beefing up the Rumor Response page on its website.Lorraine Ali, Los Angeles Times, 8 Oct. 2024
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Beneath these fabrications are a bedrock of untruths humanity has told itself about the consequences of our collective actions.Porter Fox, TIME, 10 Oct. 2024
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Michelle Nijhuis Life in the Ruins Two new books consider the delusion of the human quest to be free from the constraints of nature.The New York Review of Books, The New York Review of Books, 1 Nov. 2024
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Is this supernatural, paranormal, evil — or some kind of mass delusion?Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 30 Oct. 2024
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“Factoid.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/factoid. Accessed 21 Nov. 2024.
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