> Despite its name, RAVEN is approximately the size of a crow
This phrase first puzzled me, but after some googling I found out that in English "raven" is generally used for bigger crows. Until now I had thought that raven was just a more elegant-sounding synonym for crow. TIL...
EDIT: to my surprise, it's the same in my native German: the bigger ones are called "Raben", the smaller ones "Krähen". TIL²...
This phrase first puzzled me, but after some googling I found out that in English "raven" is generally used for bigger crows. Until now I had thought that raven was just a more elegant-sounding synonym for crow. TIL...
EDIT: to my surprise, it's the same in my native German: the bigger ones are called "Raben", the smaller ones "Krähen". TIL²...