"background facts" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
You can use it to refer to the general context, information, and details that provide a foundation of knowledge for a given topic. For example, "Before diving into the specifics of the report, let's review the background facts of the project."
Most chapters start with a section of background facts.
Provides background facts and figures on the aging of the world's population.
Cardinal Ratzinger's commentary said the images were not to be taken literally, but rather "synthesize and compress against a single background facts which extend through time".
Opening the debate, providing the background facts to help inform decisions, that is an appropriate role for the scientists in this case.
Background facts In short, Bonda made an application to the Polish Office for Agricultural Restructuring for a single area payment under EU subsidy law.
Some background facts: The foreign aid budget for next year, which Congress finally approved last week after much brinkmanship, provided a total of $13.3 billion.
How fortunate for us that ethnicity is a background fact, not a defining one.
The relevant background fact is Reidemeister's theorem, which links the visualizable diagrammatic changes to the mathematically precise definition of knot equivalence: Two knots are equivalent if and only if there is a finite sequence of Reidemeister moves taking a knot diagram of one to a knot diagram of the other.
However, on this proposal, that further fact becomes a background evolutionary fact that is not content constitutive.
Against this background the facts of the present case fall into proper perspective.
Yet you leave out the background and facts that the initial story did, instead of helping the reader decide where the truth lies.
