11 Is A Prime Number. It Is Also A Curious Statistic.

Philadelphia’s IQ is 130. Okay, we know what you must be thinking: "Only 130? Come on now Philly, you should’ve tried harder." But it actually translates as 11^th on the list of America’s smartest cities, according to that bastion of truth, The Daily Beast. Yes, 11^th! The Beast drafted the list based on some really complicated things we didn’t understand: something about nonfiction books and per capita bloo blee boo. But even so, 11^th place? Hells yeah.

Sadly, topping the list is Raleigh-Durham, a place that no one who’s not from North Carolina has heard of (unless you go to Duke University that is… but then again, what is this, Duke?) With a combined IQ of 170, the folks over there are too far ahead of Philadelphia for us not to be ashamed. But a minor consolation prize, New York is 13^th. So suck it, New York. We may not have a giant statue of a near- naked lady and a torch, but we do have a phatter brain. Yes, we said "phatter"