You need to know some factoid, you look it up, you actually find it because it’s 1600 pages long.
These days, most people would Google it. This book was written back in 2005 and some of us still prefer paper for reference.
> The term was coined in 1973 by American writer Norman Mailer to mean a piece of information that becomes accepted as a fact even though it is not actually true, or an invented fact believed to be true because it appears in print.
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Factoid
You need to know some factoid, you look it up, you actually find it because it’s 1600 pages long.
These days, most people would Google it. This book was written back in 2005 and some of us still prefer paper for reference.