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We recently asked members of the BuzzFeed Community to tell us the things they learned not at school but by watching movies and TV, and their responses kind of make me feel smart for watching so much stuff:
1.
“I know how to spell ‘difficulty’ from the film Matilda. I still do the ‘Mrs. D, Mrs. I, Mrs. FFI, Mrs. C, Mrs. U, Mrs. LTY!’ thing to this day. 😂”
Tri-Star
2.
“I learned from Good Will Hunting that the Fields Medal is like the Nobel Prize for math. That question comes up all the time on Jeopardy!“
Miramax
3.
“During my medical training on rounds, I presented a patient who had an LVAD (left ventricular assist device). My attending asked me what an LVAD was and I gave the most beautiful description about how it is used as a bridge to heart transplant and my attending was super impressed. I never learned about an LVAD once in medical school — everything I said was from Grey’s Anatomy.”
ABC
4.
“I learned from The Office to use the tempo from the Bee Gees’ song ‘Stayin’ Alive’ when performing CPR.”
NBC
5.
“Animaniacs taught me all of the state capitals. I can still sing the song by heart!”
Warner Bros.
6.
“The song ‘Seasons of Love’ from the movie and musical RENT taught me that there are 525,600 minutes in a year!”
Sony
9.
“I learned the word ‘conflagration’ (meaning ‘an extensive fire which destroys a great deal of land or property’) from the 1992 musical Newsies. Oddly enough, it turned up on my SAT test senior year of high school!”
Disney
10.
“Phineas and Ferb taught us the plastic part at the end of a shoelace is called an aglet.”
Disney
12.
“I can thank Julia Roberts in Pretty Woman for telling me my foot is as big as the space between my elbow and wrist.”
Disney/Touchstone
13.
“Kitty litter can help you get your tires out of the snow. Thanks, That ’70s Show!”
Fox
14.
“I learned the five stages of grief from an episode of The Simpsons where Homer thinks he is going to die and quickly experiences denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance.”
Fox
15.
“I learned that thing about how penguins stay with their mate their whole life from Never Been Kissed.”
20th Century Fox
16.
“Legally Blonde taught me that if you get a perm, you are forbidden to wet your hair for at least 24 hours at the risk of deactivating the ammonium thioglycolate.”
MGM
17.
“I learned to recite all the English monarchs in order starting from William the Conqueror thanks to ‘The Monarchs’ Song’ from Horrible Histories.”
CBBC
“Horrible Histories basically passed my GCSE for me, we did Britain at the turn of the century and The Suffragettes’ Song was playing on a loop in my head while I filled out the exam.”
18.
“Mr. Feeny on Boy Meets World taught me that Johannes Gutenberg invented the printing press, making the written word available to the masses.”
ABC
20.
“I learned the difference between a simile and a metaphor thanks to Danny DeVito in Renaissance Man.”
Disney/Touchstone
21.
“Does Hamilton count? I learned all about, like, the American Revolution and the formation of America from that.”
Disney
Learn something from movies/TV that didn’t make this list? Tell us in the comments!
Note: Submissions have been edited for length and clarity.
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