"For some reason, my wife thinks I'm attractive. I'm pretty sure I've just induced Stockholm syndrome."

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"My wife speaks 3 languages and has 2 master degrees (edit: finance and business administration)She believes basketball makes you taller and has no idea about survivor bias even when it's explained to her."

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"Absolutely brilliant friend firmly believes that the average adult man could beat any given adult whitetail buck in an unarmed fight. "You could just grab it by the antlers and go dead weight, their legs are so skinny that would take it down and then you could just choke it out," he insists."

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"Programmer up at work will argue to his death that Dinosaurs don't and never did exist."

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"My sister has two college degrees and believes in the hollow Earth theory."

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"Cows have horns because they need them to communicate with the cosmos. My dad, has two masters degrees and could've become a professor."

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"The smartest person I know genuinely believes they can function on 3 hours of sleep and just coffee, like they’re some kind of enlightened goblin."

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"My wife is the smartest person I know, but she is constantly worrying about what I call mom-case scenarios.For example, she told me not to let our child walk down a street that was bordered by a wrought iron fence. Why? Because he might get impaled on the spear like points on top of the fence."

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"I had a roommate in college who was a straight A student and taking a masters in physics. He thought the moon landing was fake."

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"One of the smartest people I know engineer, business owner, multi millionaire, critical thinker science lover, endlessly curious, passionate about logic reason - the works, boxes that all up and compartmentalizes it so he can believe in Mormonism."

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"A wonderful kind person I know majored in physics at a big university and firmly believes the earth is 4000 years old. Says it’s a matter of faith and belief.He’s so nice I’ve never bugged him about it."

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"God, but not like in a "there might be an omnipotent being in some capacity" way, but in a "well if I didn't believe there was a god what is stopping me from going around and doing terrible things to people" way. I just stared at him confused for awhile, couldn't believe he was serious."

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"My brother of all people believes that people that have A-,B- blood type has either alien blood or blood from the people of Atlantis mixed with their ancestors. If you have a + blood type you’re pure. I thought that he was joking with me when he was talking about that but no it was said in a very mater of fact kind of way. He is super smart but has some out there beliefs."

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"My uncle is an IT technician and computer expert, but also thinks pineapples grow on palm trees."

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"My aunt has a doctorate in psychology, studied biology, owns a psychological books publishing company, used to work as a psychologist.She tells me wind turbines are powered externally just to keep turning, because they don't generate any power themselves."

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"I haven't spoken to them in years, but I played Dungeons and Dragons with a guy who was pretty close to graduating as a neurosurgeon.Listening to them rant about how masculine men only pee while standing was interesting."

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"I have an acquaintance that thinks Channing Tatum is her online boyfriend."

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"Not sure if this has already been said, but my ex-step sister in law a GP (now in her 50’s) fully believes that humanity only started 6,000 years ago as fully formed humans and that dinosaurs and carbon dating is wrong, since man was the first animal created when God created the earth……obviously she’s a very religious Christian, but she’s also a well respected GP in a blue state."

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"Flat earth and the ice wall and the stars are fake and it’s all very crazy. Oh, and demons built the pyramids, not the Egyptians. So there’s that.ETA my coworker just reminded me about the flat earth map. He literally had a fancy classroom-type giant wall map of flat earth over his desk, if I can find the pictures we took when he was on leave, I’ll share them."

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"Not the smartest, but in the top 5. Believes in government weather control (not cloud seeding, like they make hurricanes) and is anti vaccine."

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"That he can only have boys because only his left testicle functions properly. (I suppose it could be the right, I can't remember which one, I just know he thinks it's because one testicle produces boys and the other girls)."

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"Okay. So when I'm relaxing at home I'm usually wearing a hoodie and shorts. Comfortable. Normal. Right?My extremely brilliant and rational partner finds this combination so illogical that he can't not comment on it every time. He likes to point at me and say stuff like: "You forgot part of the outfit." Or: "Cold arms, hot knees?" My love. My darling. It's literally normal. I don't know what your problem is."

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"My mother is highly intelligent and is a screaming evangelical.My husband is the smartest person I know, with a measured IQ of 187 and a PhD in mathematics. He honestly believes that he is stupid."

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"I dunno about most intelligent in my life, but mom was an RN and still works in the health department fields, and got convinced the Covid vaccine would k**l you or make you sicker than just getting Covid.So...there's that."

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"I had a professor in the hard sciences that I did research with for years.One day, we were talking about something being installed in the building for 5G infrastructure, and I think I asked her a question about conspiracy theorists who were afraid of 5G. To my surprise, she told me that they (her, her husband, and 2 kids) didn't have wifi at their house bc the jury was still out about the effect of wifi frequencies on people, and they didn't want to subject their kids to that.I thought it was a bit silly, but had no choice but to respect what I was hearing bc it was coming from someone I had so much respect for.Circa 2014."

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