We all have things that we’ve learned over the years, but some things are more useless than others. A user asked the forum, “What is the most useless thing you still have memorized?”
Here are some responses he got!
HIGH SCHOOL BIRTHDAY
“My friends from high school birthdays. It’s annoying. I look at the calendar, and I’m like, oh, today it’s his/her birthday. And I haven’t spoken to these people for years now.”
OLD PHONE NUMBER
“57745 was our phone number when I was six years old in 1948.”
KNOWING A FEW DIGITS OF PI
“As an engineer, knowing a few digits of PI is helpful, but knowing 103 is certifiably useless.”
WAVED BACK AT SOMEONE
“I waved back at someone who waved at someone else when I was 8. I am 29 now, and it still haunts me.”
LYRICS TO THE NUMA NUMA SONG
“The lyrics to the “Numa Numa” song from old YouTube. I don’t speak a single word of that language.”
MATHEMATICS EQUATIONS
“X equals negative b plus or minus the square root of b squared minus 4ac all over 2a.”
PREAMBLE FOR THE CONSTITUTION
“In 5th grade, we could memorize the Gettysburg Address and the Preamble for the Constitution for extra credit. Those will never leave my brain.
I can even sing the Preamble because I watched the School House Rock video many times to get it right. It’s been 25 years.”
THE MITOCHONDRIA
“The Mitochondria is the POWERHOUSE of the cell.”
WORKING WINDOWS 95 SERIAL NUMBER
“I worked at Best Buy in the 90s. I was a computer tech before the days of Geek Squad. We had to set up countless computers to be taken home, plugged in, and “just work.” A working Windows 95 serial number is 12496-oem-0011273-<pick any five digits>.
It’s been 25+ years since I needed that bit of information. I don’t know why I haven’t forgotten it.”
SERIAL NUMBER FOR MY SERVICE WEAPON
“Serial number for my service weapon during basic. I haven’t been in the army in 10 years. I only had that rifle in my care for two months; I do zero need to remember 13AA17956.”
THE ENTIRETY OF HAMILTON
“Almost the entirety of Hamilton. However, it did come in handy when I had a medical test that required me to be completely still and silent for 1.5 hours. Got through The Ten Duel Commandments.”
STUDENT NUMBER FROM UNIVERSITY
“My student number from university. Eight years and still in my head.”
GIRL SCOUT LAW IN SWEDISH
“The Girl Scout Law, in Swedish. I am American. I do not speak Swedish. It was something we did to earn a badge, I guess? The kicker is, I do not know the English version.”
MEMORIZED MY DRIVER’S LICENSE
“I memorized my driver’s license number when I first got it. I thought at the time if I didn’t have it on me and a cop asked for it that, knowing the number would help out the situation. Silly me…”
THE FIRST 6 MUGHAL EMPERORS
“Babur, Humanyun, Akbar, Jehangir, Sha Jahan and Aurengzeb. The first 6 Mughal emperors.
I used those names to gauge if I was too drunk and needed to go home. If I couldn’t name them, I was too drunk. Go home.”
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