There’s some entertaining animation alongside the dearth of singing tweens.
I learned what the word “procrastination” means from Garfield and Friends. I think I also might have learned what “deja vu” means from that show, too.
“Garfield and Friends” also taught me the immortal phrase “If you see it on TV, IT MUST BE TRUE!” 
That’s like the Homer Simpson phrase “TV won’t harm the kids. We grew up on TV and we’re TV”
I learned a frightening amount from TV (and Mad magazine and looking through D&D rulebooks - oh, and Penthouse forum). What I heard but didn’t understand often inspired me to research the topic (usually to understand a joke).
I learned that the sum of the square roots of any two sides of an isosceles triangle is equal to the square root of the remaining side.
Good think I learned that from TV. Somehow that property never made it into any of my math/trig/calculus classes.And for good reason!
Yes, and one thing you never want to skimp on is bulletproof windows for your car. Or, when in a gun battle involving moving cars, you don’t want to shoot directly into the car’s grill. It’s much easier to disable the car if you ricochet the bullet off the pavement and up into the undercarriage.
I learned from CSI that smiling can help suppress the urge to vomit. And from Law and Order, I learned you must never ever ever cremate your loved ones. You know, just in case the coroner needs to exhume the body and run more tests.
My daughter had to memorize the preamble to the Constitution. I Youtubed it and she was able to sing along while she read the preamble in the book.
All together now…“We the People, in order to form a more perfect union…”
Yeah, but it doesn’t have nearly enough of Donald Duck learning about the Pythagorean Cult. It just ain’t the same. 
“That’s a right triangle, you idiot!”
“D’oh!”
And there’s a mistake here, too (not to say anything negative about Lynn Ahrens and her awesome songwriting)- the Constitution actually begins “We the People of the United States”.
Sesame Street and Electric Company taught me to read before my parents knew I could read.
Yeah, that’s stuck in my head as well.
I also know all the states and capitals from Wakko’s 50 States song.
Although you would probably have learned that anyway, had you lived in a world without television.
From Mythbusters I learned that I can chill a can of soda almost instantly by soaking it in a solution of ice, water, and salt.
To this day, Mrs. Homie and I refer to the process as Mythbustering a soda.
Thanks to Schoolhouse Rock I learned what conjunctions are (Before I was taught abotu them in class), I memorized the Declaration Of Independance, and I learned what a bill is and how it becomes law.
I’m sure there’s plenty of other things I’ve learned from Tv (Sesame Street comes to mind as a good learning source) but I’m having memory blockage at the moment.
I learned how to count to 20 in Spanish from Sesame Street. And I know Schoolhouse Rock didn’t get the Preamble quite right, but they got the bulk of it and my daughter was able to fill in the missing part easily.
I use the Schoolhouse Rock DVD at school still to back up grammar/science lessons.
In college, Astronomy 101, the prof was asking some question about measuring space, and no one was answering. I popped up with “parsecs”. He wanted to know what page that answer was on in the book, to go over something. I said I had no idea…I’d learned it from ‘Star Trek’. The prof was not happy with me.
Of course, the second verse of that song (or at least what we hear of it) is no longer accurate: “You’re a communist country, you’re a red regime…”
I learned the homemade popsicle bit from “Time for Timer” also. That knowledge came in really handy one day when my mother decided to punish me for something by throwing out all the popsicles in the house to I couldn’t have a treat. I just waited till she wasn’t paying attention, poured fruit juice in the ice tray, and stuck in a few toothpicks. By the time she returned I was eating a popsicle, which prompted her to say she wished she’d named me Tricky Dick.
I learned about him from TV too.
Vanna told Pat (?) about the little icon of a gas pump on our dashboard… the handle is always on the same side of the vehicle as our gas tank.
Cool!!
Pat never knew that, and neither did I!
So helpful when driving different vehicles.
But…but…this isn’t the case on my husband’s truck…??
The side that the handle is on in the little icon isn’t the indicator. Most cars have a small arrow (a triangle, really) just under or beside the gas pump icon pointing left or right to indicate which side the tank access is on.
I learned how to spell encyclopedia and Massachusetts from Magic Drawing Board on (the old) Captain Kangaroo. I still sing both of them when I spell them. I did it just now, composing this post.