“The time has come,” the Walrus said,
“To talk of many things:
 Of shoes - and ships - and sealing wax -
Of cabbages - and kings -
 And why the sea is boiling hot -
And whether pigs have wings.”

- Lewis Carroll
(aka Charles Lutwidge Dodgson)
- Through the Looking-Glass, chapter 4
 

tid·bit [tíd bìt] (plural tid·bits [tít bìts]) n

A small morsel or piece: a small, usually bite-sized, piece of interesting information

Mid-17th century. Tid perhaps from obsolete English dialect, “tender.”