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Fun factoid, the act of spraying saliva from your mouth like this is called gleeking, iirc.

Hey you know that really disturbing thing where you yawn and your salivary gland shoots a concentrated spray of saliva out of one of its horrid nozzles like you’re a venom spitting snake for some godawful reason

I'm chronically forgetful and scatterbrained.

I will often remember something, but not be confident in its veracity because I can't remember if it comes from something untrustworthy like an internet article or something trustyworthy like a peer-reviewed internet article.

However, I also remember these random things as part of a very context-specific tangent and so feel an urge to share them while it still makes even a smidgen of sense too. But, I feel bad calling these "fun facts" because I can't easily verify if they're true and putting in the effort to check would be too much effort and too slow.

Fortunately, I am saved by this beautiful word: factoid.

Factoid, noun:

a brief or trivial fact.

information presented as fact, but not, or not necessarily, true.

It brings me such joy to find a word with two (almost) conflicting definitions! Now I don't have to worry about fact checking, because by saying "fun factoid!" I put the onus on the audience to verify what I'm saying. It might be a fact, but I do not guarantee that it is.