My prof was like ‘yeah there was this experiment where they like made a casino for rats with mini slot machines n everything and made those rats into gambling addicts it was so cool’ n i looked up the article n hes the lead fucking researcher
I’ll do you one better op, i was taking an american history class of the early 1990s to 2000s and upon our final, which only took two hours max (the class was 3) our professor said we could watch some americana stuff if we needed to wait for more finals in the building (i did). The classroom was a huge lecture hall with a projector. He puts on stuff about cryptids, which, that’s a surprise but hey, nice light mood for a sobering look at what amounted to pre and post 9/11 america. And when the man on the video introduced the world expert on the jersey devil who do we see grinning at the camera, giant on the projector, but our professor. We turn to see him making the exact same face. We went wild.
My engineering 101 professor put on a documentary once about some renovations the government did on the Hoover Dam and it was more or less interesting even though I couldn’t tell you now what actually happened in it. But like maybe a little more than halfway through when they got done with the history and introducing The Problem they interviewed the top engineers working on the project.
And you’ll never guess who was up first. You’ll never guess whos face (albiet, maybe 20 or so years younger) was projected up on the screen for the entire class (maybe 8 or 9 in total of us) to collectively point at. And my professor (This old guy who’s doing this teaching intro to engineering as part of his retirement), doesn’t even look up as he continues to grade our latest assignment to say: “that was a fun project.”