“Your Brain Just Ignores It”: 50 People Share The Most Ridiculous Fact They Know

The internet is chock full of amusing and interesting information. But some of it is so ‘out there’ that your initial instinct might be skepticism. While having that instinct is really important in this day and age (yuck, misinformation), the reality is that some claims are simply weird. Fact really is weirder than fiction in some cases.
One r/AskReddit fan, u/Fairy_Electra, sparked a really fun discussion on the online group by asking everyone to share the most ridiculous facts they know. Not only are they beyond bizarre, but they might reignite your curiosity about the world, too. We’ve picked out some of the best posts, so check them out below!

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Crows have the intelligence of a 7 year old human child. They recognize faces, make tools, use currency amongst themselves, understand physics and are self aware. They've been seen doing things like dropping walnuts in intersections for cars to run over and waiting for the light to pick up the seeds from the street.

If you p**s them off, they'll tell other local murders about you and pass that hatred of you on to their offspring, making you a lifetime enemy and do s**t like drop rocks on your car windshield and punch holes in your screen door.

I know this last fact from personal experience because my grandma made enemies with the crows where she lived when they started eating her crops. She would swing her broom at them and accidentally killed one by throwing a shoe at it. Every time I visited her, they'd s**t all over my car and tuck bramble into my car's vents and exhaust. Even after she died, they peck at her gravestone and leave shells and bramble around her grave.

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Final score:

205points

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troufaki13 5 months ago

I want a crow friend 😭

103points

martymcmatrix 5 months ago

You can befriend a crow by offering treats and eventually it will gift you little stones and crown caps and stuff like that...🙋🏽

20points

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Casey 5 months ago

I NEED a crow friend do my bidding.😁

6points

Blue Bunny of Happiness 5 months ago

I don’t want a crow enemy!

5points

Alicia M 5 months ago

I have a crow friend that visits my backyard every day. It's favorite treats seem to be unsalted peanuts in the shell, and I accidentally spilled some cat food out back, and it seems to love cat kibble, although I'm not sure how healthy that is for a crow.

5points

MrLiesegang 5 months ago

There are Video Guides on YouTube

4points

FloralDangerNoodle 5 months ago

Yup, feed them. They'll love (and harass) you forever. I love *my* murder so much. <3

2points

Cool crow 5 months ago

Crows are wonderful company. Friendly, curious, silly, and yet very wary. They have to be careful cuz it can be a dangerous world. To the ones that visit me, I feed them bits of dry dog food. They eat some and stash the rest.

2points

Megan The Viking Traveler 5 months ago

RIGHT!

2points

Maggie Dinzler Shaw 5 months ago

Somebody told me to get one, but I haven't done that yet.

1point

PeepPeep the duck 5 months ago

We had an issue last year, crows on the farm I’m on, we get along (I fed them peanut butter sandwiches weekly), til one weird a*s day one broke in and ripped my female quails heads off and didn’t eat anyone, just killed them for fun. I was so upset and the farmer noticed and shot that particular crow when he was back to get the rest of the female quails, that crows family/murder, were happier than ever after and I feel like we killed the arsě hole crow of their family that no one liked 😂 I expected and all out war. And side note, I noticed after it all the A.hole crow has carefully and slowly picked apart the metal sheeting to their window of their coop in a way you couldn’t notice, I leant on it and it pushed out and it figured out that is how the crow did it.

9points

David 5 months ago

Last week I saw a crow that apparently knows traffic lanes. Two lane road. Puddle at the center line. Crow walks across my lane to get a drink. Crow sees my van approaching and calmly walks to the other side of the center line (no cars coming on that side) and proceeds to get a drink - ignoring my van which passed a few inches away. It seemed pretty clear that it understood my vehicle would stay in my lane so it was safe.

7points

Mimi La Souris 5 months ago

murders : group of crows

7points

DB 5 months ago (edited)

I always liked that a group of crows is called a murder. we should apply that to people. A complaint of Karens. A trump of Magas. A whine of Millennials. A hypocrisy of liberals.

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Hannah Taylor 5 months ago

Crows can be your BFF'S if you're nice to them. And woe be unto anyone who tries to harass you. Those feathered warriors will make their life a living hell: decorating their car with their excretions, attacking them whenever they leave their house, dive-bombing them on the street. They're organized, they're good at what they do, and they enjoy it. A flock of crows isn't called a murder for nothing.

6points

Prince Lee 5 months ago

"If you p**s them off, they'll tell other local murders about you" AH! The story of my life!.... birds hate me

6points

Alicia M 5 months ago

I told my son we don't want to unlock generational crow hate. We try to be good. 😆

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Aww but Eww 5 months ago

I'm pretty sure the crow would put its shoes on the first time I asked!

6points

MoMcB 5 months ago

My ex husband worked away for 6 months. At the end of the time, I was invited over for a few days. I found out he'd been shagging a member of the hotel staff where he was staying, and he'd pissed some crows off. Don't know how but I did laugh when they attacked him.

5points

David Paterson 5 months ago

The smartest crows are the ones from the island of New Caledonia.

5points

two-sided llama 5 months ago

So at 7 I was supposed to understand physics?

5points

Emily M 5 months ago

Not the math part of physics-- more the applied part where like if you drop a thing itll go down.

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Satan Laughs 5 months ago

Fact: the local crows love to drop shiny things in my yard. Glass pieces from the train tracks is their favorite. Makes for exciting backyard barefoot time.

4points

Montanavanna 5 months ago

Don't eff with me, I hold a grudge like a...crow apparently. Love it!

4points

Alicia M 5 months ago

I believe every word of this because a crow visits my yard everyday, and I've observed its behavior. It's incredibly smart.

3points

Anywhere but Here 5 months ago

Can verify the thing about recognizing faces. I worked construction and if you were caught feeding wildlife you were fired on the spot. The crows would rat people out by flying around during lunch breaks, peering in the windows of equipment and landing on the dozer/excavator/truck when they found the person they were looking for.

2points

DB 5 months ago

Crows use currency?

2points

der sebbl 5 months ago

They exchange stuff with each other

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madeleine f 5 months ago

I would love to have a crowd friend.

2points

SadieCat17 (she/her) 5 months ago

I doubt the legitimacy of that first sentence... I've met some really stupid 7 year olds. /j

1point

Felix Quinones 5 months ago

I can imagine someone befriending a crow and then having a murder at his/her disposal for the purpose of an extortion ring.

1point

Shoe 5 months ago

I had a crow friend named Hank a couple years ago. I started giving him peanuts, and he started bringing me shiny objects and stuff on my back patio.

1point

El Dee 5 months ago

Wow, that sure is holding a grudge..

1point

Pixie 5 months ago

They know a "Karen" when they see one 👍

1point

J C 5 months ago

So they understand using tools, like using a car as a tool to open a walnut? Thats crazy! I hope they don't develop thumbs.

1point

Sherman 5 months ago

I don't like your grandma. I'd throw a shoe at her if I could.

1point

Duxall Inarow 5 months ago

Metal

0points

SuperChicken 5 months ago

I would love to have a crow friend. I understand it takes time to develop a friendship, but we travel so much that it might be impossible to do so.

0points

The Darkest Timeline 5 months ago

NOBODY holds a grudge like a corvid

0points

axle f 5 months ago

..say what you will..crows are smarter, more clever, and more loyal ...than goddamn geese!! 🤬🤬

0points

der sebbl 5 months ago

Of course they are. Geese are only out for blood

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Olivia Carr 5 months ago

Looking at my life now, I need a crow army to s**t on my enemies

0points

Blondie23 5 months ago

My middle baby and I are trying are hardest to make friends with the crows around us. We love the idea!!!!!

0points

glowworm2 5 months ago

The crows wouldn't even let grandma die in peace.

0points

Max Fox 5 months ago

Sorry, but no, this is BS. Hating her grandma, maybe, but pecking her gravestone? Crows do NOT have the "intelligence of a 7 year old". They are considered on par with chimpanzees, which are considered to have the intelligence of a three-year old. Since human intelligence does not proceed in a linear manner, the difference in intelligence between a three year old and a seven year old is profound. Moreover, crows are not people, and "putting a headstone where you buried a person as a memorial" is not part of a crow's world. Moreover, "tell other murders about you", is again, believing that crows are just little feathered humans who think like humans and have the same cultural mores and interactions as humans. Next we'll have some dolt claiming that crows are creating little churches to worship a Crow Deity.

0points

Adrian 5 months ago

I wish I lived in a place I could make friends with a crow. I understand they bring gifts.

0points

Ashlie Benson 5 months ago

Now I'm depressed; you're saying a 7 year old human can understand physics and I cannot?

0points

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