Akbar asked Birbal: how many crows are in the kingdom?
Birbal answered without a single tally.
How?

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He gave a precise number — say 95,463 — and added: ‘If you find more, the rest are visiting from outside. If fewer, some have flown out on holiday.’ — Birbal’s genius is the unfalsifiable answer dressed up as confidence. Politicians have been studying him ever since.

Akbar asked Birbal: how many crows are in the kingdom? Birbal answered without a single tally. How?