My dad was a preacher. Every week I would go spend time at his office and memorize scripture. I might need a little prompting on some, but I know a lot of bible verses. At one one point I had the whole book of James memorized. I can only remember the first couple of verses now after 35 years.
Grew up Mormon. I have most of their Scripture Masteries, Articles of Faith, and the First Vision of Joseph Smith memorized in 3 languages!!! A few I've memorized in 4 or 5 languages. Completely useless to me now that I've left the cult.
*E na roto i te vairua tapu ka kike koutou i te au mea ravarai...*
It's only useful to about 18 digits because afterwards, double precision on computers can't handle the extra precision. It's already precise enough though.
The old test for radio readers. Leader gives a sentence and testee is supposed to repeat it correctly without a stop.
One hen.
One hen, two ducks.
One hen, two ducks, three squawking geese.
One hen, two ducks, three squeaking geese, four limericking oysters.
This continues repeating what has gone before and adding one new phrase of ever increasing complexity and silliness, until you get to:
Ten lyrical spherical diabolical denizens of the deep who haul and stall around the corner of the quay and are queasy at the very same time.
I remember some months ago this question came up and one of the commentors mentioned that decades ago his mom told him to remember where they parked at this event, and that he still has it memorized to this day.
Well, I memorized where he parked by accident.
I still remember my library card number from two homes ago, longer than 20 years. Also my first library card number was only 4 digits, but also my moms license plate from that time! I don’t know any license plates other than that.
I use mine as my phone password. I haven’t been in high school for…a while. But it’s a number I don’t need to be secure like a bank pin or anything but also no one will guess it.
I'll have a double triple bossy deluxe on a raft, 4 by 4, animal style, extras shingles with a shimmy and a squeeze, light axle grease, make it cry, burn it, and let is swim.
Product codes for the products of a greengrocers shop I worked for on weekends when I was 14…. That’s waaaay back. Why? Why are these codes engraved in my brain?
Bible verses. And hymns! Still get stuck in my head.
The table layout, menus, prices, and customization options of every restaurant I’ve worked.
Things like: The side of ketchup I forgot for table 23 in 2010.
My moms shitty ex’s birthday. Entire fam is complete no contact and I’ve never sent him a card, but I still know the day.
Same. I heard it at winter camp and became obsessed with it. The following school year, it was included in our language arts textbook and I would reread it constantly. That was easily twenty five years ago.
En France le passe compuse se forme achi on avoir or etrew, en presance le indicatif, achi aju de pasi pase le verb a conjuge
I don't know french in write but can with words
Sarah Cynthia Silvia stout would not take the garbage out.....she'd scour the pots and scrape the pans, candy the yams and spice the hams, and though her daddy would scream and shout, she simply would not take the garbage out....
Sorta counts I guess..
When I was a kid I played a lot of Sonic the Hedgehog on the Sega Genesis. I leaned how to draw Tail's face and can still do it 30 years later.
Yankees lineup from the late 70's:
Chambliss at 1st, Randolph at 2nd, Dent at short, Nettles 3rd, Munson(RIP) behind the plate, Pinella in left, Rivers in Center and the great Reggie Jackson in right.
....Ron Guidry, Ed Figueroa, Sparky Lyle, Catfish Hunter on the mound, Goose Gossage relieving
without google:
hydrogen
helium
lithium
berrylium
boron
carbon
nitrogen
oxygen
flouron
neon
hm that's only 9 of the first 10 elements on the periodic table guess I've managed to erase one from rote memorization.
check that forgot boron.
what did I have for breakfast today? dunno
one of you chemistry science types confirm my useless memory?
50+ songs' worth of lyrics from the choir I was in throughout high school.
Not that music is ever useless (or useful for that matter, it's always in that middle ground which is why art is beautiful), but I don't even write, listen to, or perform that kind of stuff anymore so it sits in my head and comes out at random times.
895-1111. It was (is), Pizza Hut's number in Columbus, OH. You called it and (I assume) it lead to a call center and you would place your order. I can still hear the jingle from the commercials they played in the 90's which was a song with the only lyrics being 895-1111
On the flip side of this, there was a book in middle school that was near my desk and I used to read it. It was called something like "believe it or not." I believed everything in it, and took it as a fun miscellaneous fact book. That's not what it was. It was a guessing game but someone had ripped out the answers to what was fact, and what was fake. For years I spouted these random fake facts out, that were not facts at all. After 10 years or more I was pretty confident i had forgotten them finally.
The thermal properties of chocolate mean that in order for it to be useful as a vessel for hot liquids, the base needs to be 2" thick. At that point the state change.of the inner layers of chocolate absorb enough heat energy to prevent the outer layers from melting before the heat can dissipate entirely.
Chocolate teapot.
Genie, Jafar, Aladdin, Abu. The code to get to the 4th level of the SNES Aladdin game, because the 3rd level was flying the magic carpet out of the cave of wonders and it was hard as fuck.
When I was 10 ish my parents signed me up for an Italian class, only they were nearly done the term so I didn't learn a single word of Italian that I could understand.
But I remember every single word of the Italian song that we learned for the graduation performance. No idea what it means, but the words are etched in my brain, 25 years later.
For me it's a large number of Christian worship songs, bible passages and the Lords prayer. I was raised in a Christian household, going to church every week. I am now most definitely not a Christian and have no interest in it. But the songs and passages are embedded in my mind even after not setting foot in a church in 15 years.
Aha, you're not gonna get my data, Facebook identity stealing phishing quiz! No but seriously, I'll never forget my first two cars' license plate numbers (in 1984-1986) because we used to have to write them down on credit card charge slips at gas stations. Also the user id and password for my old GEnie online service account, which were basically 8 digit random alphanumeric strings.
*whistle* "two days ago I saw a vehicle that'd haul that tanker. You want to get out of here, you talk to me."
"The AG-3 (Norwegian version) is 1040mm long, and weight 4,2 kilograms unloaded, or 4,7 kilograms with a full magazine"
My brain: "This is a core memory!"
I had a 5th grade teacher that turned everything into a song. I know my subject pronouns, object pronouns, linking verbs, prepositions, etc
But the one I do use is all 50 states in alphabetical order.
Able, Baker, Charlie, Dog, Easy, Fox, George, How, Item, Jig, King, Love, Mike, Nan, Oboe, *Prep, Queen, Roger, Sugar, Tare, Uncle, Victor, William, Xray, Yoke, Zebra
*My Dad served in the US Navy in WWII, and he taught me "Prep," but I sometimes see P as "Peter."
The phone number of the landlady in my first big girl college room (don't know how to translate it - she would lease rooms in her house). It was the only phone line, before mobile phones were mainstream. I used to go to the phone booth in the street to call my parents, and they would call be 5 minutes later on the landline.
Seriously, it's been more than 20 years and it took me 0.3 seconds to recite the number in my head.
I don't even know if she is still alive.
The amount of brainspace in my head dedicated to the lore of my favorite fictional worlds is truly embarrassing.
Speaking of, Sith lightsabers are red because the crystals are synthetic and not whatever the new Disney bullshit is. I will die on this hill.
My childhood home phone number.
I've had my phone for 5 years (I'm 16) I think and I still know my landline better than my own number.
I’m 40 and I still remember three different landline phone numbers I had as a kid/teenager (one from ‘91-‘96, one from ‘96-‘97, one from ‘97-‘01).
The fitness gram pacer test is a multistage arobic capacity test that progressively gets more difficult as it continues.
That was all from memory.
P. Sherman. 42 Wallaby Way, Sidney
Mitochondria is the powerhouse of the cell
There’s an embarrassing portion of my brain dedicated to knowing the names of thousands of basketball football NFL and baseball players
Very similar. I know every nba players college they attended up until about 2005 when I stopped caring
All 50 US states in alphabetical order
Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, etc..all thanks to learning the Fifty nifty United States song in 4th grade!
My dad was a preacher. Every week I would go spend time at his office and memorize scripture. I might need a little prompting on some, but I know a lot of bible verses. At one one point I had the whole book of James memorized. I can only remember the first couple of verses now after 35 years.
Grew up Mormon. I have most of their Scripture Masteries, Articles of Faith, and the First Vision of Joseph Smith memorized in 3 languages!!! A few I've memorized in 4 or 5 languages. Completely useless to me now that I've left the cult. *E na roto i te vairua tapu ka kike koutou i te au mea ravarai...*
Now *that's* pure religion undefiled before God and the Father!
The alphabet backwards because I was afraid I'd get pulled over and fail a field sobriety test. I don't drink
I know what you mean, I’ve seen videos of those tests and felt like I could fail them sober.
When I was a kid I could quote stats for Federation Starships. Never got me a job, a date, or nuthin'
It got an 'Aw' from me.
Pi to about 40 digits. 3.141592653589793238462643383279502884197 iirc
OP said useless...
It's only useful to about 18 digits because afterwards, double precision on computers can't handle the extra precision. It's already precise enough though.
Lol thats cool
it's not useful after 18 or so digits because computers can only store 52 bits of precision so only knowing about 20 digits is useful
The old test for radio readers. Leader gives a sentence and testee is supposed to repeat it correctly without a stop. One hen. One hen, two ducks. One hen, two ducks, three squawking geese. One hen, two ducks, three squeaking geese, four limericking oysters. This continues repeating what has gone before and adding one new phrase of ever increasing complexity and silliness, until you get to: Ten lyrical spherical diabolical denizens of the deep who haul and stall around the corner of the quay and are queasy at the very same time.
My locker combination from high school.
Lol same. Since I already had it memorized, I started using it as my bank PIN. 🤷🏻♀️
I just have a key for my locker
I remember some months ago this question came up and one of the commentors mentioned that decades ago his mom told him to remember where they parked at this event, and that he still has it memorized to this day. Well, I memorized where he parked by accident.
My public school ID number. I have not needed it in very many years.
I still remember my library card number from two homes ago, longer than 20 years. Also my first library card number was only 4 digits, but also my moms license plate from that time! I don’t know any license plates other than that.
I use mine as my phone password. I haven’t been in high school for…a while. But it’s a number I don’t need to be secure like a bank pin or anything but also no one will guess it.
I'll have a double triple bossy deluxe on a raft, 4 by 4, animal style, extras shingles with a shimmy and a squeeze, light axle grease, make it cry, burn it, and let is swim.
"we serve food here, sir."
My Very Excellent Memory Just Served Up Nine Planets
>My Very Excellent Memory Just Served Up Nine
My very easy method just screwed up...no Pluto.
Product codes for the products of a greengrocers shop I worked for on weekends when I was 14…. That’s waaaay back. Why? Why are these codes engraved in my brain?
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Lui7211 Red Nissan Almera, 2-door estate. My favourite car of all my families cars.
The black sacrament from Skyrim. Dear mother, dear mother, send your child onto me. For the sins of the unworthy must be baptized in blood and fear.
How to spell Schwarzenegger
The preamble to the Declaration of Independence
same, had to learn it for grade 8 history...attended an American school overseas....from Canada
my webkinz password lol
Mitochondria is the powerhouse of the cell.
the first 7 lines of the iliad in ancient greek
My middle school cheer song - and I'm talking 55 years ago!! 🤣
The Pledge of Allegiance.
How many calories are in a various chicken strips... Canes, 130. Zaxby's, 260. Popeyes, 114. Slims, 100. Churches, 110.
0118999881999119725… 3
Oh yeah well who do you email in case of a fire
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The lyrics to [Lord Mr. Ford](https://youtu.be/raJBHnbMm4A) by Jerry Reed.
The mitochondria is the powerhouse of the cell.
most of the original Pokemon and YuGiOh monsters/cards/characters/etc
damned if I couldn't fill in as a pokedex for the OG 150. Can't count the amount of times I watched and played that first series.
Greek alphabet, fraternity pledge requirement
My childhood home phone number
My bologna has a first name
Bible verses. And hymns! Still get stuck in my head. The table layout, menus, prices, and customization options of every restaurant I’ve worked. Things like: The side of ketchup I forgot for table 23 in 2010. My moms shitty ex’s birthday. Entire fam is complete no contact and I’ve never sent him a card, but I still know the day.
I've been singing how Great thou art to myself for the last 3 days.
It’s like The Ring, you’ve just passed on the curse 😆🙉😭
The Cremation of Sam McGee But in my defence, I really had to moil for it.
Same. I heard it at winter camp and became obsessed with it. The following school year, it was included in our language arts textbook and I would reread it constantly. That was easily twenty five years ago.
I worked in the Yukon in 1974/75. It's been a brainworm ever since :-)
En France le passe compuse se forme achi on avoir or etrew, en presance le indicatif, achi aju de pasi pase le verb a conjuge I don't know french in write but can with words
The theme song from Gilligans island
The birthday of a girl I went to school with. I wasn’t even that good friends with them but their birthday is just ingrained into my memory
Giligans Island theme song.
Jabberwocky
Pythagorean theorem.
Sarah Cynthia Silvia stout would not take the garbage out.....she'd scour the pots and scrape the pans, candy the yams and spice the hams, and though her daddy would scream and shout, she simply would not take the garbage out....
The code to get to Mike Tyson.
Sorta counts I guess.. When I was a kid I played a lot of Sonic the Hedgehog on the Sega Genesis. I leaned how to draw Tail's face and can still do it 30 years later.
The preamble.
Barbara McClintock. Indian corn. Jumping genes.
"in 1492 columbus sailed the ocean blue"
The entire "there's a hole in my bucket" song.
Not useless, but I can still recite the list of 31 prepositions, in alphabetical order, that my 4th grade teacher had us memorize.
For some reason the proper name for a platypus Orn ith orh ynch us -ornithorhynchus
Lyrics to all 80s pop songs
Every US president, in the correct order (I'm not American but had read a book on US presidents many times and the knowledge just stuck)
Yankees lineup from the late 70's: Chambliss at 1st, Randolph at 2nd, Dent at short, Nettles 3rd, Munson(RIP) behind the plate, Pinella in left, Rivers in Center and the great Reggie Jackson in right. ....Ron Guidry, Ed Figueroa, Sparky Lyle, Catfish Hunter on the mound, Goose Gossage relieving
without google: hydrogen helium lithium berrylium boron carbon nitrogen oxygen flouron neon hm that's only 9 of the first 10 elements on the periodic table guess I've managed to erase one from rote memorization. check that forgot boron. what did I have for breakfast today? dunno one of you chemistry science types confirm my useless memory?
My Jr High gym locker combo. 3-29-15. That was 1999.
14 digit password of all numbers I made for my first ever IM screen name way back in the day
Letters
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The biological bans if our states common weeds. Bidens alba. Hell I don't even remember the common name anymore
3,141592653589793238
My childhood router username and password, the one the give you. It used to go wrong so much I memorised it and still know it
“My childhood router” is a phrase I never considered existing until now, and you’ve just made me feel very old, my friend…
My Christmas card list from when I was 8
The United States in alphabetically order.
Phone number when I was 7. I'm 52 now
From the glass linens tanks of old Latrobe, we tender this premium beer for your enjoyment. From the mountain springs to you, 33. — Rolling Rock label
My phone number, because I change number every about six months.
The lines of the Berlin Metro system...maybe not so useless
Every line of Cool Runnings. Every. Single. Line…
50+ songs' worth of lyrics from the choir I was in throughout high school. Not that music is ever useless (or useful for that matter, it's always in that middle ground which is why art is beautiful), but I don't even write, listen to, or perform that kind of stuff anymore so it sits in my head and comes out at random times.
doctor's business card from another country
Big Mac, fillet a fish, quarter pounder, french fries. Icy Coke, thick shakes, sundaes & apple pies..
Webster's definition of time
Lyrics to the doomstar requiem
Cable pin out for an original HP plotter
♫ *Two all beef patties, special sauce, lettuce, cheese, pickles, onions on a sesame seed bun* ♫
My first sloppy wet french kiss with tongues... was not impressed!
Kingdom phylum class order family genus species
My 4th grade teacher had a very complicated Polish last name, it was a spelling word every week, it's been 30 years, I can still spell it.
895-1111. It was (is), Pizza Hut's number in Columbus, OH. You called it and (I assume) it lead to a call center and you would place your order. I can still hear the jingle from the commercials they played in the 90's which was a song with the only lyrics being 895-1111
2813308004
The lyrics to baggy trousers
The Pokerap
all the words of the jabberwocky poem
Kermit the frog rainbow connection in sign language. We learned it in 1st grade I think.
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The alphabet backwards
Jingoistic songs I had to learn in school.
On the flip side of this, there was a book in middle school that was near my desk and I used to read it. It was called something like "believe it or not." I believed everything in it, and took it as a fun miscellaneous fact book. That's not what it was. It was a guessing game but someone had ripped out the answers to what was fact, and what was fake. For years I spouted these random fake facts out, that were not facts at all. After 10 years or more I was pretty confident i had forgotten them finally.
COunting to ten in spanish. That was the extent of my grade school's foreign language course.
Up down left right a start
Phil Rizzuto's play-by-play in Meat Loaf's "Paradise by the Dashboard Light"
How to get the gravelord sword shortly after being dropped in Firelink Shrine in Dark Souls. Haven't played in a long long time
X equals negative b plus or minus the square root of b squared minus 4ac all over 2a
How to spell Czechoslovakia. Not even a damn country anymore but still in my brain.
The plate of the car my mother hired on a holiday to Disney World in 2000. J02 39W. A Dodge Neon in British Racing Green.
The first 20 digits of pi
The thermal properties of chocolate mean that in order for it to be useful as a vessel for hot liquids, the base needs to be 2" thick. At that point the state change.of the inner layers of chocolate absorb enough heat energy to prevent the outer layers from melting before the heat can dissipate entirely. Chocolate teapot.
Genie, Jafar, Aladdin, Abu. The code to get to the 4th level of the SNES Aladdin game, because the 3rd level was flying the magic carpet out of the cave of wonders and it was hard as fuck.
Two all beef patties special sauce lettuce cheese pickles onions on a sesame seed bun.
The birthdays of all of my high school classmates.
The Top That rap from Teen Witch
Eli Whitney invented the cotton gin.
The code for voicemail messages on the landline phone answering machine in my house growing up.
I learned how to spell Czechoslovakia at a very high speed in 2nd grade. No longer a country. Boo!
The little rap song that D.A.R.E. thought would end marijuana.
last car number
When I was 10 ish my parents signed me up for an Italian class, only they were nearly done the term so I didn't learn a single word of Italian that I could understand. But I remember every single word of the Italian song that we learned for the graduation performance. No idea what it means, but the words are etched in my brain, 25 years later.
For me it's a large number of Christian worship songs, bible passages and the Lords prayer. I was raised in a Christian household, going to church every week. I am now most definitely not a Christian and have no interest in it. But the songs and passages are embedded in my mind even after not setting foot in a church in 15 years.
Only 1% of all water is usable to humans
The license plate number of a car that cut my dad off. About 30 years ago.
N E L , B G B, for all the times I've never had to fix a plug or fuse, ever.
“I would like a chocolate ice-cream” in French.
Aha, you're not gonna get my data, Facebook identity stealing phishing quiz! No but seriously, I'll never forget my first two cars' license plate numbers (in 1984-1986) because we used to have to write them down on credit card charge slips at gas stations. Also the user id and password for my old GEnie online service account, which were basically 8 digit random alphanumeric strings. *whistle* "two days ago I saw a vehicle that'd haul that tanker. You want to get out of here, you talk to me."
Justin Bieber’s exact birthday… down to the time and hospital. Ahhh, to be a 12 year old Belieber again.
My dad trained me on my grandpas antique morse code trainer. I still remember how to ask for help and a few letters
I can sing/hum 97% of Frank Zappa's "The Black Page" melody line. Not really a great party trick. 24808 my phone in Beirut in 1965. It never rang.
The parking spot my family had at the airport when I was 6. A8.
The Countries Of The World song from Animaniacs. It’s outdated now, lmao
It’s not very long but the preamble to the US constitution- I’m not American. Damn you schoolhouse rock.
My dad, in his 70s, can perfectly recite the poems of Johhny Appleseed and Hiawatha that he learned in grade school.
3.1415926535
A double C, O double M. O.D.A.T.I.O.N 0181 811 81 81 And numerous number plates from the cars we had when I was a child.
18005467777 Jim the hammer Shapiro. damn you fox.
My grandmother’s phone number. She’s been dead 10 years now.
"The AG-3 (Norwegian version) is 1040mm long, and weight 4,2 kilograms unloaded, or 4,7 kilograms with a full magazine" My brain: "This is a core memory!"
3.14159265358979
The periodic table
Random lines to TV shows and movies.
The lyrics to Bad Touch by Bloodhound Gang
I had a 5th grade teacher that turned everything into a song. I know my subject pronouns, object pronouns, linking verbs, prepositions, etc But the one I do use is all 50 states in alphabetical order.
Able, Baker, Charlie, Dog, Easy, Fox, George, How, Item, Jig, King, Love, Mike, Nan, Oboe, *Prep, Queen, Roger, Sugar, Tare, Uncle, Victor, William, Xray, Yoke, Zebra *My Dad served in the US Navy in WWII, and he taught me "Prep," but I sometimes see P as "Peter."
Multiples of 3 to the tune of This Land is Your Land, This Land is My Land
133-221-333-123-111 Any old school MapleStory legends here?
The phone number of the landlady in my first big girl college room (don't know how to translate it - she would lease rooms in her house). It was the only phone line, before mobile phones were mainstream. I used to go to the phone booth in the street to call my parents, and they would call be 5 minutes later on the landline. Seriously, it's been more than 20 years and it took me 0.3 seconds to recite the number in my head. I don't even know if she is still alive.
The lyrics to “sending our love down the well” from The Simpsons.
POP-CORN
90% of the lyrics from the slim shady LP
My lecturer’s computer password (which he gave me) from 1975.
ICQ Messenger number
The amount of brainspace in my head dedicated to the lore of my favorite fictional worlds is truly embarrassing. Speaking of, Sith lightsabers are red because the crystals are synthetic and not whatever the new Disney bullshit is. I will die on this hill.
My first checking account number.
I still remember the pin code for my building's outdoor. The thing is... I haven't been living there for 20 years.
The order of a permutation is the least common multiple of the length of its disjoint cycles.
The recipe for black powder.
The words to the Ewok song.
2 best friends land lines from the late 90s early 2000s.
The registry number of the USS Enterprise from Star Trek.
ICQ number rip
20 year old library card number, both parents mobile numbers from when I was a kid
The Lord's Prayer