Did you know that Walt Disney was afraid of mice? That bats always turn left when exiting a cave? Or that Adolf Hitler's mother seriously considered having an abortion but was talked out of it by her doctor? If you're rolling your eyes and sighing tell-me-something-I-don't-know sighs, you've probably read the latest bunch of 'Fun Facts' now forwarding its way through cyber space.
Soon you'll probably be dropping those little factoids into casual conversations without bothering to cite the source.
Which is harmless enough.
It's not like they could end up quoted in the New York Times or anything.
Could they? A while ago, a bunch of 'Hong Kong Chinese translations of English film titles' found their way into America's paper of record.
The article concerned described how foreign-language names can capture the essence of the films crossing their language barrier.