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TIL that, according to professor Geert Hofstede, the United States is the most individualistic country on Earth.

by whatilearned August 8, 2022, 4:25 pm

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I am a Kino Professor at a Liberal Arts School

by CopyPastaArchive August 8, 2022, 12:51 am

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A college professor reminds her class of the next day’s final exam saying, “I won’t tolerate any excuses for you not being there tomorrow. I might consider a nuclear attack or a serious personal injury or illness, or a death in your immediate family, but that’s it, no other excuses whatsoever”

by cringeyjokesman July 27, 2022, 6:58 pm

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TIL about Frances Glessner Lee, Harvard Professor, considered the “Mother of forensic science.” As fresh crime scenes were difficult to get for study, she created dioramas of meticulous detail based on actual crimes. Including body position, blood splatter, etc. The dioramas are still in use today.

by whatilearned July 18, 2022, 3:20 am

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if professor x can move things with his mind why can’t he move his legs?

by QuestionGuy July 12, 2022, 4:41 am

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TIL there was disagreement over the danger of black widow spider bites until a 1933 experiment where professor Allan Blair allowed himself to be bitten. Blair also hoped to determine whether multiple bites would build immunity, but the first bite proved so painful that he decided against it.

by whatilearned July 6, 2022, 10:15 pm

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TIL that Mushrooms have their own language. A professor at the University of the West of England found in his lab that the electrical signals of four species of fungi pulse in patterns that are similar in structure to human languages.

by whatilearned June 28, 2022, 12:05 am

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TIL that after the Shah of Iran’s overthrow, he was reluctantly given medical treatment in Panama. Panama assigned him a “militantly Marxist sociology professor” as a chief bodyguard who “spent much time lecturing the Shah on how he deserved his fate” and was charged $21,000 a month for rent.

by whatilearned June 19, 2022, 5:55 pm

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new Pokemon female professor

by CopyPastaArchive June 9, 2022, 3:22 pm

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Professor of Logic: Norm Macdonald

by cringeyjokesman June 9, 2022, 3:34 am

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A professor sits with a farmer on a train.

by cringeyjokesman June 4, 2022, 10:01 pm

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TIL that less than half of all societies kiss with their lips, according to a study of 168 cultures from around the world and a professor of anthropology at the University of Nevada Las Vegas found that only 46% use lip-to-lip kissing in a romantic sense, excluding things like parent-child kissing.

by whatilearned May 13, 2022, 1:25 am

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