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Technicality: there is no such thing as IQ of 250, since IQ is a score on a test, and there is no test calibrated for 1 in 10^22 humans. What you probably mean is the mysterious hypothetical g-factor, partly responsible for the IQ scores, or maybe some other intelligence marker.
If you understand the point there's no reason to make a comment like this except as an attempt to show off. Changing "250 IQ" to "+10 sd out from the mean intelligence" only serves to make the original point less accessible to people not steeped in psychometry.
You don't have to be steeped in psychometry to understand what a standard deviation is.
And if we're going to talk about intelligence at all, it is often helpful to keep in mind the difference between IQ and intelligence.