Safire suggested that factlet be used to designate a small or trivial bit of information that is nonetheless true or accurate.[1][11] A report in The Guardian identified Safire as the writer who coined the term factlet,[3] although Safire's 1993 column suggested factlet was already in use at that time.[7] The Atlantic magazine agreed with Safire, and recommended factlet to signify a "small probably unimportant but interesting fact," as factoid still connoted a spurious fact.[12] The term factlet has been used in publications such as Mother Jones,[13] the San Jose Mercury News,[14] and in the Reno Gazette Journal.[15]