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 Gathering Facts
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-For each system facts are gathered. These can be used to implement conditional execution of tasks but also just to get ad-hoc information about your system. You can see all facts via::
+Facts are described in the playbooks section and represent discovered variables about a
+system.  These can be used to implement conditional execution of tasks but also just to get ad-hoc information about your system. You can see all facts via::
 
     $ ansible all -m setup
 
-Its also possible to filter via and export the facts, see the "setup" module documentation for details how to do that.
+Its also possible to filter this output to just export certain facts, see the "setup" module documentation for details.
 
 
 Limiting Selected Hosts