I gleaned the truth about the incident from scattered pieces of information in the newspaper.

gleaned 是动词 glean 的过去式。glean 原指农民在收割后捡拾田里遗留的谷物，引申为"一点一点地收集（信息、知识等）"，常指从分散或零碎的信息中费力地获取有价值的内容。