9th grade Earth Science class.

Girl next to me: MR. ____, This map is wrong!!! It says North America when it's obviously supposed to say USA! *Smacks gum in mouth*

Teacher just walked away.

A friend of mine told me that the capital of Canada is Toronto. Which I suppose wouldn't be so bad, if we weren't Canadian... and LIVING in Ottawa at the time.

I grew up in Niagara Falls Canada. Tourists come across the border in July with ski racks and get all sadfaced when they don't see mounds of snow / moose / igloos / dogsleds / maple syrup everywhere. Some of them live in New York State, 30 seconds away.

Also, many claim to not 'understand' our complicated money. PROTIP: it's the same as yours.

A coworker once asked me "Is Korea in Japan or China?".

The classified papers released from the American Embassy, during the Iranian Hostage Crisis, really cool how the Iranians put the papers back together, after being shredded...

Meowmers33:

Is this what the movie Argo is based on?

OP:

Yes, but the movie was heavily dramatized and Americanized, still a good movie tho.

Project Acoustic Kitty was pretty weird and creepy of you think about how things would be if they were successful.

Basically the CIA wanted to put microphones and transmitters inside of cats and use them to spy on the Soviets in the 1960s. It cost about $20 million and was a huge failure. But the thought of my own pet being used to spy on me is pretty unsettling.

nerdious_maximus:

Didn't they send a cat successfully but it got hit by a car?

Ted Kaczynski (the Unabomber) was subjected to grueling degrading psychological experiments while he was an underage student at Harvard.

omimon:

At the start of the Cold War, Henry Murray developed a personality profiling test to crack soviet spies with psychological warfare and select which US spies are ready to be sent out into the field. As part of Project MKUltra, he began experimenting on Harvard sophomores. He set one student as the control, after he proved to be a completely predictable conformist, and named him "Lawful".

Long story short, the latter half of the experiment involved having the student prepare an essay on his core beliefs as a person for a friendly debate. Instead, Murray had an aggressive interrogator come in and basically tear his beliefs to pieces, mocking everything he stood for, and systematically picking apart every line in the essay to see what it took to get him to react. But he didn't, it just broke him, made him into a mess of a person and left him having to pull his whole life back together again. He graduated, but then turned in his degree only a couple years later, and moved to the woods where he lived for decades.

In all that time, he kept writing his essay. And slowly, he became so sure of his beliefs, so convinced that they were right, that he thought that if the nation didn't read it, we would be irreparably lost as a society. So, he set out to make sure that everyone heard what he had to say, and sure enough, Lawful's "Industrial Society and its Future" has become one of the most well known essays written in the last century. In fact, you've probably read some of it. Although, you probably know it better as The Unabomber Manifesto.

The groom insisted that the wedding needed to be in Latin (some Christian thing) The vows he wrote mentioned that the woman’s place is in the home and to be subservient to him. Apparently that was a surprise to her as she was a hospice nurse with a great career. The look of disgust on her face as he spoke definitely told us what she was thinking. Didn’t last a year.

He showed up covered in scratches and bruises and she had a bite mark on her forehead. They were both hungover and not really on speaking terms lol.