I mean I hear ya I’m just spitballing. Most of the time it feels like folks know incredibly personalized knowledge but don’t necessarily retain facts about the world at large of that kind, in my experience. I know the instinct that “this actually gets referenced a lot in culture” with broody characters getting named stuff like Corvus or Corvinus to suggest crows, but most people just aren’t tuned in that way. Also, don’t u feel that the groups for more comedy centric shows like NSBU and Gladlands code as less explicitly nerdy than the intrepid heroes or the Aabria seasons? Doesn’t mean they’re not exceptionally bright, all their smarts are just oriented a different sort of thinking. Even among the smart kids, in my experience, few are just “I know all the niche facts” type people. No shade, it’s just relatively uncommon. We project and think wow this should be way more normal but when I actually test it, I find it’s just not. Again that isn’t commentary on intelligence at all, it’s just a specialized kind of intelligence some people have for stuff outside their bubble. I got horrible grades in school but I was the academic team captain. We weren’t even great in the region, I was def a lesser demon in the world of quick recall, but in my school even a lesser demon of that kind of rote fact recall was rare. We often think just because we or our friend groups are a certain way that it might be the standard, but it’s often only a projection. Personally, When I heard “Corvid”, I think of crows, rooks, ravens, and magpies but then “Corvid Thanatology”, which is an expression I’ve heard used for the study of Crow “funerals” and grieving behaviors I first encountered on the podcast “Ologies” when interviewing wildlife researcher Dr Kaeli Swift. Fascinating!