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[–] [email protected] 23 points 2 days ago (8 children)

see the joke is, in the USA, if you were taught in public schools, you were told the "mitochondria is the power house of the cell" as an analogy. you were told this many times, on repetition

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

I don't know if I simply didn't get that in biology, or if I was just bad at biology (I passed with a D; though most of that was because I didn't want to go to FFA meetings that were a requirement of the class). I only know the phrase because of memes.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

It varies. I didn't get the phrase parroted at me until in college, when the professor was making fun of the phrase. I bet it was some slide that was created by a teaching board or textbook maker, and just copied ad nauseam.

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