We here at Very Little Known Facts have always taken our mission statement (appearing at the top of this page) very seriously. That’s why we are alarmed and disturbed by the growing trend of “fake” fact sites, websites that distort the truth or even make up so-called “facts” for entertainment purposes. (Or possibly even darker, more sinister purposes as well!)
A link to one of these odious, mendacious sites even appeared as an “advertising link” on Very Little Known Facts (see picture). Rest assured that we had the link removed immediately, and we have received proper assurances from the Use and Abuse department of Google that the perpetrators will be brought to justice.
DO NOT BE FOOLED! Fraudulent “fact” sites may look just like reliable, trustworthy ones. Be aware of the danger signs:
- humorous content
- absurd, unbelievable, or nonsensical “factoids”
- confusing or non-existent source information
- deliberately vague and ambiguous language
- repeated use of personal opinion and conjecture as “fact”
Of course we at VLKF have always had a standing policy regarding revealing our sources. Naturally, many of these are of a sensitive and confidential nature, but in the interest of full disclosure we will send you a full catalog of sources for one singular factoid by writing the following address:
VLKF
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Be sure to enclose a money order for $7.85 for postage and handling. For multiple requests, include $7.85 for each request.
Alternately, you can send us the money via PAYPAL to the following email address:
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Once payment is received a full, confidential source citation will be mailed to your home within 6 to 8 weeks. A sample citation is shown below for the following Very Little Known Fact from our October 2, 2006 post entitled In Actual Fact...
- JIFFY TIME: A “jiffy” is an actual measurement of time, although the measurement varies between 0.01 seconds, 0.0025 seconds, 0.001 seconds, and 0.00000000000333564 seconds.
SOURCES:
The dictionary.com definition of jiffy. The link is:
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/jiffy
The wikipedia entry on jiffy. The link is:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jiffy_%28time%29
The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing definition of jiffy. The link is:
http://foldoc.org/?jiffy
The whatis.com definition of jiffy. The link is:
http://whatis.techtarget.com/definition/0,,sid9_gci822188,00.html
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I love my nonfraudulant, facty facts! Thank you, Fact Men!
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