I want to know when the first known use of the phrase *fun fact" was.
When, where, or who first used the phrase fun fact to mean a small tit-bit of information?
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1According to this Google Ngram, not later than 1888, apparently. – Edwin Ashworth Oct 09 '16 at 16:20
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Perhaps (?) Daniel MacSweeney, "The Accountant's Guide; Or, A Complete System of Mercantile Arithmetic ... The Second Edition, Carefully Revised, Improved and Considerably Enlarged", 1809. https://www.google.nl/search?q=%22fun+fact%22&lr=lang_en&source=lnt&tbs=lr%3Alang_1en%2Ccdr%3A1%2Ccd_min%3A1%2F1%2F1800%2Ccd_max%3A31%2F12%2F1844&tbm=bks – Řídící Oct 09 '16 at 16:26
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Or maybe the first edition, of course. (1807?) – Řídící Oct 09 '16 at 16:34
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Nobody could be arsed to answer Origin of the term “fun fact” as posted several months ago, so I can't closevote as a duplicate. But it *is*. – FumbleFingers Oct 09 '16 at 16:48
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1I'm voting to close this question as off-topic because it's been asked before – FumbleFingers Oct 09 '16 at 16:49
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@FumbleFingers Could we bump the other question then because this has received three up-votes in half an hour; the question ought to be answered. – BladorthinTheGrey Oct 09 '16 at 16:54
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@BladorthinTheGrey: Well, it's obviously the same question, so if anyone looking at this page wants to answer they should be aware of the earlier post (which I don't recall closevoting, but I might have done; it doesn't strike me as particularly meaningful). – FumbleFingers Oct 09 '16 at 17:05