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[–] Atelopus-zeteki@kbin.run 24 points 3 months ago (2 children)

The phone number at my home growing up as a child. The building is gone, the phone is gone. The number remains.

[–] driving_crooner@lemmy.eco.br 6 points 3 months ago

I was talking with my wife about that a couple weeks ago, how I can remember my childhood home phone number, but don't even know my own actual phone number.

[–] jmbmkn 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

This is useful for passwords though a 11 pretty random string of numbers to add to the end of a passphrase

[–] Atelopus-zeteki@kbin.run 3 points 3 months ago

a.k.a. salting

[–] we_avoid_temptation@lemmy.zip 18 points 3 months ago

0118 999 881 999 119 725 ... 3

[–] squirrel@discuss.tchncs.de 15 points 3 months ago (1 children)
[–] Dymonika 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)
[–] squirrel@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 3 months ago

ICQ, one of the first messengers. Every user had a unique number, like phone numbers today.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ICQ

[–] shinigamiookamiryuu@lemm.ee 15 points 3 months ago (1 children)

The mitochondria is the powerhouse of the cell.

[–] amoistgrandpa@lemm.ee 12 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

X equals negative B

Plus or minus the square root

Of B squared minus 4AC

All over 2A

Sang to the tune of pop goes the weasel.

I haven’t done pre-calc in like 10 years, but this song still lives rent free in my head.

[–] superkret@feddit.org 10 points 3 months ago

Proverbs 27:14
"He who blesses his neighbor with a loud voice early in the morning, it will be counted as a curse to him."

[–] bizarroland@fedia.io 9 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

Genesis Exodus Leviticus Numbers Deuteronomy Joshua Judges Ruth 1st Samuel 2nd Samuel 1st King 2nd Kings 1st Chronicles 2nd Chronicles Ezra Nehemiah Esther job psalms proverbs Ecclesiastes song of songs Isaiah Jeremiah Lamentations Ezekiel Daniel Hosea Joel Amos Obadiah Jonah Micah Nahum Habbakuk Zephaniah Haggai Zachariah Malachi

I'm pretty sure I can do the New testament also but I think you get the point.

[–] cheesymoonshadow@lemmings.world 2 points 3 months ago

Aaargh, me too. I can still hear Sister Bernadette singing and see her little spectacled face bobbing from side to side as she taught us the songs.

[–] Cube6392 6 points 3 months ago

A static shock is 4116° for such a short fraction of time that it doesn't burn you

[–] odium@programming.dev 6 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Some old phone numbers that no longer work.

[–] Cube6392 2 points 3 months ago

As long as you don't use your old home phone number, the old phone numbers permanently lodged in your brain make good pin codes for stuff

[–] Seasoned_Greetings@lemm.ee 5 points 3 months ago

My wife gets an honorable mention for being able to recite the "what did you say to me you little bitch" copypasta in its entirety on a dime and as fast as she can say it

[–] slurpeesoforion@startrek.website 5 points 3 months ago

I had a lab TA in college who made it a point to teach everyone how to pronounce his name. But that's about it. He wouldn't help you unless you an attractive blonde woman.

So fuck you, Ashitosh.

[–] Wes4Humanity@lemm.ee 4 points 3 months ago

I pledge allegiance, to the flag...

[–] stelelor@lemmy.ca 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Deoxyribonucleic acid.

My brain made it into a jingle and now I can't ever forget it.

[–] Allero@lemmy.today 2 points 3 months ago

Welcome to gene engineering company, you're hired!

[–] MyTurtleSwimsUpsideDown@fedia.io 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

The Weird Al Show theme song

[–] I_am_10_squirrels 5 points 3 months ago

OP asked for useless information

[–] Chadus_Maximus@lemm.ee 4 points 3 months ago

The missile knows where it is because it knows where it isn't...

[–] inlandempire@jlai.lu 4 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

1€ is 6,55957 french francs

It was not even useful in 2000 to 2005 when people needed to calculate the conversion, because I was just a kid, but my mom made me remember this for some reason

[–] kamiheku@sopuli.xyz 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Same, but 5,94573 Finnish marks!

[–] Servais@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

1,95583 Deutsche Mark.!

[–] Corno@lemm.ee 3 points 3 months ago

I vibe most with wavelengths of 490 to 500 nanometers, but right now I'm feeling a little magenta.

[–] HubertManne@moist.catsweat.com 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

macbeth soliloquy and a poem I was required to memorize in high school which I managed to do even though it took extreme effort because of the way my memory works. similarly because of the strange way my memory works I basically know them 30 or 40 years later now but it can take a little time for me to get them going. I actually have pulled out the soliloquy a few times in internet comments so not totally useless.

[–] sexual_tomato@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Ah see I have the opposite problem. I memorized the whole thing in 30 minutes but I didn't know it the next day.

[–] HubertManne@moist.catsweat.com 2 points 3 months ago

I think thats the normal thing. sucks because I could never effectively cram but on the other hand what I learn tends to have longer term value.

[–] unmagical@lemmy.ml 3 points 3 months ago

Yo tengo un pollo en mi cabeza.

J'ai un poulet sur mon tête.

[–] cheesymoonshadow@lemmings.world 3 points 3 months ago
  • Have you heard of Swiss cheese? Here's a song that tells you all about it. (This was my only line from a play in the 1st grade. I'm 50 now.)

  • You can't handle the truth! (I know that whole monologue by Colonel Jessep.)

  • my old Wells Fargo checking account number from 20+ years ago

  • my student ID number from my first university 20+ years ago

[–] noxy@yiffit.net 2 points 3 months ago
[–] WHARRGARBL 2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Ladies and gentlemen,

Hobos and tramps,

Crosseyed mosquitoes

And bowlegged ants:

I come before you to stand behind you

To tell you something I know nothing about.

The price is free, so pay at the door.

There are plenty of seats, so sit on the floor.

One bright morning in the middle of the night

Two dead boys got into a fight.

Back to back they faced each other,

Took out their swords and shot one another.

A deaf policeman heard the noise

And came and killed the two dead boys.

If you don’t believe me, ask the blind man;

He saw everything.

Memorized while bored in elementary school

[–] RandomVideos@programming.dev 2 points 3 months ago

In old versions of minecraft java edition, if you punch something while running, you wont lose hunger from it

[–] Nemo@midwest.social 2 points 3 months ago

My previous credit card number.

[–] criitz@reddthat.com 2 points 3 months ago

I bomb atomically Socrates' philosophies and hypotheses Can't define how I be dropping these mockeries Lyrically perform armed robbery Flee with the lottery, possibly they spotted me Battle-scarred Shogun, explosion when my pen hits

Tremendous, ultraviolet shine blind forensics I inspect you, through the future see millennium Killer Bees sold fifty gold, sixty platinum Shackling the masses with drastic rap tactics Graphic displays melt the steel like blacksmiths Black Wu jackets Queen B's ease the guns in Rumble with patrolmen, tear gas laced the function Heads by the score take flight incite a war Chicks hit the floor, die hard fans demand more Behold the bold soldier, control the globe slowly Proceeds to blow, swinging swords like Shinobi Stomp grounds and pound footprints in solid rock Wu got it locked, performing live on your hottest block

[–] Fubarberry@sopuli.xyz 2 points 3 months ago

In 6th grade we could get some bonus point on our final exam for knowing how to spell pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis (which isn't actually that hard to spell, just long) and I've never forgotten how.

As with others, a couple of childhood telephone numbers, and 6 times 8, 48; 8 times, 8 Chevalier, helped me with multiplication tables. For some reason 🙃

[–] uhmbah@lemmy.ca 1 points 3 months ago

One dull day, in the middle of the night, Two dead boys got up to fight. Back to back they faced each other, drew their swords and shot each other. A deaf policeman heard the noise and went and shot those two dead boys. If you don't believe my lie is true, ask the blind man, he saw it too.

The lyrics to Spell it Out by The Lonely Island

[–] viking@infosec.pub 1 points 3 months ago
[–] BlastboomStrice@mander.xyz 1 points 3 months ago

ι.ε.ε.σ.κ. (Greek letters)

It's the initials of some words from a class about home economics at school. I thought it would help me memorize them, but almost immediatly decided not to memorize them that way, because I feared that if I kept doing it for such unimportant things I'd soon fill up the space on my brain or at least it would become less effective of a memorizing mechanism over time.

Well, thought a bit too hard about not doing so I ended up remembering the initials. Until some time ago I think I event remembered the whole words.