I went to work today and saw a crashed car is an anecdote it is fairly banal. There is a flying elephant outside my window reciting poetry in the jazz style. Is also an anecdote. One of these is more likely to be true than the other. One may also have left some evidence behind bits of broken glass and such. Not all anecdotes are equal and the less sensational ones are more likely to be true.
You can fix ignorance, you can't fix stupid.
Tinkety Tonk and down with the Nazis.