The original use of quotation marks in English, before scare quotes came along, was to suggest that the words you're using came from someone else. Fun fact: that's actually why they're called quotation marks.
That's what's going on here. @passive is repeating the word "fact" from the parent comment.
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The original use of quotation marks in English, before scare quotes came along, was to suggest that the words you're using came from someone else. Fun fact: that's actually why they're called quotation marks.
That's what's going on here. @passive is repeating the word "fact" from the parent comment.