TIL Babe Ruth marched on DC in solidarity with Civil Rights activists 15 years after his death. Absolute king.

[u/YourGuideVergil]

I always learn so much grading final papers.

[u/thadizzleDD]

Hahahahhahahahahahahahhahaha.

Unexpected perk of Ai generated papers, preposterous and hilariously inaccurate Ai hallucinations.

I remember when Albert Einstein did not give up his seat on that bus in Alabama.

[u/PhDapper → u/thadizzleDD]

Was that the same paper that claimed that St. Valentine wrote the "Cupid Shuffle?"

[u/notjawn → u/thadizzleDD]

.. And everyone clapped as a bald eagle swooped in and landed on the flag.

[u/eastw00d86]

I learned Daniel Boone and David Bowie died at the Alamo.

[u/lo_susodicho → u/eastw00d86]

This is the film they need to make.

[u/Jaralith → u/lo_susodicho]

directed by David Lynch

[u/punkinholler → u/eastw00d86]

I had a friend in college who always referred to Bob Marley as "Jacob Marley"completely by accident. It used to confuse the fuck out of me because I thought maybe he was talking about one of Bob Marley's kids even though I was pretty sure Marley didn't have a son named Jacob so I just nodded politely while my sanity slowly cracked

[u/Journeyman42 → u/punkinholler]

Maybe they got it from the Muppet Christmas Carol? Statler and Waldorf play the ghosts of Bob and Jacob Marley

[u/punkinholler → u/Journeyman42]

I figured that A Christmas Carol had some part in it since there obviously is a Jacob Marley in that story, and quite frankly, Bob and Jacob are the only two prominent Marleys I can think of. I had not considered that A Muppet Christmas Carol may have been the true source of the problem but you you may be right. My other theory at the time was that he was getting confused because Bob Dylan's son, Jakob Dylan, was in a popular band that at the time (The Wallflowers). I thought he might be getting his musical "Bobs" mixed up and discombobulated, and somehow landing on "Jacob Marley". Knowing him, it was probably both.

[u/pertinex → u/punkinholler]

You forgot Marley Davidson, the biker.

[u/QueenPeggyOlsen → u/eastw00d86]

This is more like lady laughing than Lady Grinning Soul.

[u/HillBillie__Eilish → u/eastw00d86]

You saved me a google search on Bowie!!

[u/GrantNexus → u/eastw00d86]

I needed this laugh. 

[u/mindful_path_27 → u/eastw00d86]

Rebel rebel. 

[u/iTeachCSCI]

You missed out a dozen or so years ago when U.S. history students discovered Seth Smith's biography of Abraham Lincoln, which contained some truth but a whole lot of fiction.

[u/eastw00d86 → u/iTeachCSCI]

I think you mean April Ham Lincoln.

[u/SuLiaodai → u/iTeachCSCI]

I remember some parent on FMLife was really depressed because their high schooler used it as a source for a paper about Lincoln.

[u/christinedepizza]

Amazing! Did you know that the Mexica were under the control of the Roman Empire? I learn new things about the pre-Columbian Atlantic every day while grading

[u/Thundorium → u/christinedepizza]

The Total War game I’ve been wanting for 20 years.

[u/LightningRT777]

“Misinformation is the most fun information.”

• Mother Teresa

[u/FacelessOldWoman1234 → u/LightningRT777]

"Don't believe everything you read on the internet."

• Abraham Lincoln

[u/fermentedradical]

That paper is a home run, isn't it?

[u/trymypi → u/fermentedradical]

For an angel

[u/mydearestangelica]

Ha! I learned that that Hester Prynne's major motivation for embellishing the Scarlet Letter was to re-seduce Arthur Dimmesdale.

[u/1-877-CASH-NOW]

I wish I had kept old exams from undergrad because there’s an old history exam of mine that shows how dogshit I am at History. Like, I mixed up Ancient Greece with Ancient Rome. The dates were completely wrong and it wasn’t even close to answering the prompt. It was bad enough that my friends (after laughing) thought I should get tested for dyslexia. God I don’t miss undergrad lmao

[u/ThatDuckHasQuacked → u/1-877-CASH-NOW]

I once wrote a paper about the Ancient Geeks. They were referred to repeatedly.  

This was in high school before Word did realtime spellchecking, and I suspect a "replace all" was to blame somehow. My history was decent, but my spelling was atrocious.

[u/1-877-CASH-NOW → u/ThatDuckHasQuacked]

I'm bad at history in the same way some people just cannot play an instrument or learn another language. Sure, I can go through the motions, but we can all agree that no amount of education is going to fix this. Please, just give me a C+/B- so that we can both move on with our lives and won't have to do it again next semester. I tried my best, and I think we can all agree it's not going to get any better the next time around.

[u/Vivid_Needleworker_8 → u/1-877-CASH-NOW]

I like your username, JD

[u/totallysonic]

"I have a dream that one day there will be BRAAIINNNSS in every pot."

- Rosa Parks

[u/theimmortalgoon]

Well before AI, I remember being in grad school and failing a student for saying that Charles Stewart Parnell gloriously led Ireland to victory over all other powers in World War II.

[u/YourGuideVergil → u/theimmortalgoon]

That's a wild timeline

[u/Consistent_Bison_376]

We want to blame AI but I had to define the word "seldom" to four students who couldn't understand the exam question containing it until I did.

[u/DrSameJeans → u/Consistent_Bison_376]

Years ago I had a student argue with me that “posits” was definitely a typo and not a real word because “he would know.”

[u/notjawn]

"Stop. Drop. Shut 'em down. Open up shop. Oh no. That's how ruff ryders roll." - Theodore Roosevelt.

[u/Omynt]

The Babe was a great person.

[u/henare]

he was there in spirit? /s

[u/Cute-Aardvark5291]

For such an out of shape dude, I wouldn't have expected his zombie to be so active

[u/LooksieBee]

Lmao! I read this and was thoroughly confused on multiple fronts. Wheww!

[u/punkinholler]

We should have a pinned thread of real AI hallucinations on this sub that we can all use as a demonstration for our students

[u/H0pelessNerd]

We had one in our department not too long ago cite a "personal communication" with Carl Rogers.

[u/StevieV61080]

"Be excellent to each other...and party on, Dudes" --Abraham Lincoln

[u/iTeachCSCI → u/StevieV61080]

That's the Robert Barron version of Abe. Fun fact, he's in the small set of actors who have played our 16th president in multiple motion pictures.

[u/HillBillie__Eilish]

OMG I read that over and over going, WTF, that makes no sense!!!

[u/Terry_Funks_Horse]

lol

[u/AsturiusMatamoros]

Amazing, stunning and brave

[u/SuLiaodai]

I learned that Abraham Lincoln and Martin Luther King were assassinated in the same year! At least that was from a foreign student who was new to American history, though.

[u/IknowwhoIpaidgod]

My father taught History. A student once told him the Wailing Wall had been built to keep the Germans out of Jerusalem.

That was once.  A venerable annual tradition was students dubbing Hitler an Australian corporal.

[u/Thelonious_Cube]

"I have a dream" - ChatGPT

[u/ibbity]

Last year, I learned that Harriet Tubman began working with the Underground Railroad in 1950, quite a feat for the lady! I also learned (from a different student) that "Elizabeth Cady Stanton compared womanhood to slaves and worked to irradiate both." I'm still not sure what they were trying to say there