74 Times People And Pets Showed Intelligence That Was Impressive And Low‑Key Terrifying

My 6yr old has processing issues. But he can build anything and it’s insane. The other day I watched him in his own world replicate a Lego car model by studying the cover and talking to himself about the parts. He didn’t even open the manual.

I know a guy who can barely read at a 2nd grade level but he can build or fix anything and everything.

Whenever i’m lied to, i get like a physical feeling in my stomach and i’ve NEVER been wrong, it’s caused issues in my relationship. Pretty odd.

I think songwriting is super impressive. Like I’m pretty confident in my creative abilities but songwriting is the one thing my brain can’t handle. I think it’s amazing how people can hear a beat and make a completely new song that hasn’t been heard before, when there are MILLIONS (if not trillions idk) of songs that already exist.

My great grandpa had some hunting dogs that he was selling. This was in the late 70s early 80s. Sold the dogs to a man that lived about an hour away, roughly 100 miles from his home. Man called my grandpa the next morning said one of the dogs got out and went missing. My grandpa said “okay? well I doubt he’s here but I can give you your money back for him?”. The man said “no that’s alright just thought I’d let you know”. Now my great grandpa was an honest man through and through. He said the next day he got up to get eggs and that hound was curled up laying on his back porch….

Friends son didn’t start to talk until late. Just sat and looked at books a lot. Seemed a little slow. Turns out he was teaching himself how to read. As in before age 2.

My dog who somehow figured out how to get out of her harness and then somehow was able to manage to teach our other dog how to do it too, I still can't figure out how they did it to this day.

My dad scored almost perfect on his SATs but joined the military to get out of living in his car as a teen. He could fix ANYTHING mechanical or electrical. Man was a completely underrated genius but struggled his whole life.

When my son was about 7, he started, and held, an entire conversation with my high school students over DNA, methylation of DNA, and how that impacts generations trauma and growth. I mean, I'm a scientist and a science teacher, but I don't remember ever talking about genomes around him- plus...he was 7 and applied all the knowledge correctly.

I worked w a little autistic girl who was able to keep time without a clock and know the temperature outside with INSANE accuracy, it was so cool.

My son used to lay in bed at night and before he fell asleep would retrace every thought he had throughout the day — backwards. Starting with his most recent thought, he would remember what thought led up to that one, and then what thought before had led up to that thought, and so on and so forth until he got to his first thought of the day when he woke up that morning.

I took college trig with a guy that didn’t use a calculator and lost his books. Most of the time he was the first to finish a test. He finished top of the class.

People who can play all kinds of musical instruments and have never taken a formal class...they just know how to play. I'm convinced they are reincarnated, and they used to be musicians and their past lives.

Anyone who is emotionally stable is extremely intelligent. It takes security, self belief, a deep level of empathy, an awareness to your state of being and how that may be perceived to truly be emotionally stable.

I once knew a guy who would ask your birthdate, and then he would tell you the weather on your birthday in any city you were born in. He was spot on, and before the Internet. We used to go lookup weather records to verify it. He knew the humidity, high/low, sunrise/sunset times, cloud cover and whether it rained/snowed.

my 30yr old african grey parrot. every morning he repeatedly says "are you there?" until I wake up ....when we leave the house he says ill see you later...a bird.

I've never needed an alarm, always wake when I set the time in my head, tried it with odd times like 8.17am never figured it out.

I’ve always felt that people with quick, witty, smart comebacks are very intelligent.

Manipulation. Like understanding how everyone thinks so well. Everyone thinks differently but manipulators can understand every single different type of mind and think of convoluted plans to get those minds to do things they want.

There was a kid in my high school chem class that memorized and recited everyone’s birthdays perfectly, after we each went around and said them ONCE. About 25 kids or so.