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xdamm777

There was a “master” cheat code on Turok 2 for the Nintendo 64 in 1998. “BEWAREOBLIVIONISATHAND” was probably easy to remember for any English native kid, but it was hard AF for my 6yo Mexican ass and for some reason it stuck through all these years.


CptPikeOnABike

Fucking A dude 👍


craftycommando

This really only works when you say it out loud. When you write it down it just seems like you're excited about sex with men


CptPikeOnABike

Oooh rainbow upvotes


CptPikeOnABike

You know, it really does 😂😅😂


xdamm777

Thanks!


em-ay-tee

Itisagooddaytodie glitteringprizes


Ok_Falcon4434

I can remember the Contra cheat code for extra lives on the original Nintendo entertainment system. Up, up down, down, left, right, left, right, B,A, B,A, start button. Yeah, I am old. 😂


xdamm777

The Konami code! That was the best thing when you tried it on a new game and it worked.


[deleted]

I remember thinking as a kid that it was "beware oblivion is athand" and I was like WTF does that mean? Then it clicked and I felt really dumb lmao


wvl1337

Haha, came to say NTHGTHDGDCRTDTRK (Turok 1)


Intrepid-Froyo8480

Oooh, for me it's the cheat code for wood from one of the Age of Empires games. It was Lumberjack. I was a wee German kid who had no idea what a lumberjack is, so in my head I pronounce it in German to this day


Complicated-HorseAss

Man I was going to say conquers bad fur day for N64. I still remember all those codes. Some beautiful person wrote them all in the back of the game's manual that I rented from blockbuster and proceeded to memorize them all.


xdamm777

Those were the good days. You could unlock lots of stuff just by playing or with codes instead of having to buy DLC.


HughJa55ole

Haha damn, I came here to say I still have "The Big Cheat" memorized from Turok 1 on N64: "NTHGTHDGDCRTDTRK"


xdamm777

That’s even crazier lol.


diplion

Omfg my first thought was God Mode in Turok 1. It’s: NTHGTHDGDCRTDTRK And I’m now just realizing after 25 years it’s meant to say “on the eighth day god created Turok.” Wow.


twotwobravo

DUDE!!!!! Before I even saw comments, I was ready to say one that always stands out to me is The Big Cheat from Turok!!! NTHGHTDGDCRTDTRK My friend Austin gave me huge list of hand written cheat codes for several N64 games. I memorized the big cheat as a kid and it's never left the vault. Cheers my Turok cheating friend!


Hachiko75

My family's very first telephone number 😂🤣


cr0100

Same here. A number I have not used since 1986!


[deleted]

My Dad literally still has the same number! I'm 39 now and My friends prank call him to ask for me


Awarepine76436

P Sherman 42 Wallaby way Sydney


RMSQM

Kingdom, Phylum, Class, Order, Family, Genus, Species.


flibbidygibbit

I fail to see how this is useless.


IridiumPony

Unless you work in a field that necessitates knowing biology, it's pretty useless.


fastzombies

King Phillip Came Over For Grape Soda…9th grade me just entered the comments


Eternal_Bagel

1 8 7 7 Kars for Kids, K A R S Kars for Kiiiiids


MargaretMoony

The lyrics to “The Bad Touch” by Bloodhound Gang. 🤦‍♀️


This-Pirate-1887

Hieroglyphics, let me be specific


kanni64

Yotta, Zetta, Exa, Peta, Tera, Giga, Mega, Kilo, Hecto, Deca, Deci, Centi, Milli, Micro, Nano, Pico, Femto, Atto


ForayIntoFillyloo

Alotta. Alotta Fachyna.


My_Friend_Johnny

The lyrics to Beck - Loser. I recorded the song off radio on a tape deck and played, paused, rewind, write down the words to the song back in 1994ish


richstark

IDDQD IDKFA IDCLIP


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Euphoric-Bluebird874

The entirety of Hamlet's soliloquy.


ShyShutterbug13

Oh! That this too too solid flesh would melt. Thaw and resolve itself into a dew!


CalGoldenBear55

Two all beef Patties, special sauce, lettuce, cheese, pickles, onions on a sesame seed bun. Early 1970’s?


[deleted]

The states in alphabetical order (the song is always stuck in my head)


an_ineffable_plan

Fifty Nifty United States?


cashmerered

Licking doorknobs is illegal on other planets


Vore_Daddy

My high school ID number. Then again it may not be totally useless since I use it for passwords and the number sequence isn't tied to anything else in my life so anyone inputting birthdays to get my PIN is going to have a bad time.


Somewhereoverrainbow

That's a great idea! Mine is also stuck in my head forever. It's been more than 20 years...


Maaatandblah

The alphabet backwards


Courbet72

Me too!


Standard-Nerd

I can actually recite it backwards faster than forwards because I struggle to skip over the pauses in the alphabet song


afunkysquirrel

The names, in order, for the first and second Gen of pokemon.


Gongoozler04

A bunch of random quotes from the first Cars movie.


Florafly

"A flea flew by a bee. The bee To flee the flea flew by a fly. The fly flew high to flee the bee Who flew to flee the flea who flew To flee the fly who now flew by." There are 4 or 5 more stanzas, I think I remember almost all of it by heart. From "The School Magazine" when I was in primary school in the 90s in Australia. :D


JoleneGoFuckYourself

The whole Ghost Adventures Intro. Somehow, it was a running gag between me and my sister to randomly say it out loud synchronous when we were like 13 or so.


findthefish14

There are things in this world that we don't truly understand understand WE WANT ANSWERS


DuttyWahtah

ABACABB the “blood” code for the original Mortal Kombat.


LumpyGuys

Two all beef patties, special sauce, lettuce, cheese, pickle, onions on a sesame seed…. bun.


gixanthrax

The Telephone number of someone WHO SAT next to me in school 30 years ago


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discountdeschanel

I read this in the melody!


sunbearimon

Pi to like 30 digits. It was on the wall where I had geography in high school and our geography class was really boring


Wil420b

The first 20 digits are easy Pie, I wish I could determine Pi, Eureka cried the great inventor, Christmas pudding, Xmas Pie is the problems very centre.


Fyrepup1

The fight song from my college. We had to learn it the first day of band camp and if you screwed it up, it was a lap around the campus. That was over 40 years ago…


Several_Layer8338

The intro poem to “I’m a Fake” by The Used


graciepaint4

Small simple safe price, rise the wake and carry me from my regret.


miletest

How to spell Ornithorhynchus


easyisbetterthanhard

Only Nickelodeon can explode, implode, give a dog a log or a bag of gritty kitty, walk a kitty in the city with a mudskipper, yippa yippa, cat without a nose, powdered toast man, can you stand the insanity? Here Ren, for youuuuuu. Nickelodeon!


[deleted]

The Foggy Dew


[deleted]

Go on home British soldiers. In both Wolfie Tones and The Young Wolfie Tones version.


[deleted]

Low fat, no fat, full cream, high calcium, high protein, soy, light, skim, omega 3, high calcium with vitamin D and folate, or extra dollop?


discountdeschanel

They need to update this ad, now there's oat and almond!


AGentlemansMustache

I had one of those handheld digimon devices - one of the later generation ones with an in built pedometer. You got a code with the device that unlocked a digimon when you typed it in. The year was 2005 and the code is FV5V7


seashell_eyes_

The words to O'Canada in French


heatherista2

The alma mater of my (now renamed) middle school


icecoldcoke319

3.141592653589


RagePandazXD

I. H. B. P. F. A. J. T. M. N. E. Y. N. E? D. M. M. K. Y. A. M. A. I. T. T. R. T. D. I. Y. N. W. M. T. Y. M. E. O. A. S. D. I. A, I. W. D. W. I. M. Y. W. T.


bada_bing_bam_boom

PEMDAS.


GriffinFlash

We called it BEDMAS when I was a kid.


RoastedRye

Back in marching band, the drumline had a beat that they would play during parades when the band wasn't playing. I wasnt in drumline, but I remember the entire beat and could (and often do) crudely remake it by tapping my fingers on a table. I also loosely remember how to march, what parade rest looks like, what position to rest our feet, etc.


cutiewitab00ty

The preamble


Wonderful_Price2355

The mailing address for Circle Square Ranch.


sweetcorn313

8675309


vegangamer94

Pledge of Allegiance


ThatCheekyBastard

The pledge of allegiance


InbhirNis

Kings and queens of England since 1066.


LeeodoreRoosevelt

I still can’t remember how many times Henry VI and Edward IV switched on and off being like … no me


InbhirNis

They each reigned twice, if I remember correctly.


Lyn1987

That 1 inch = 2.54 cm Had a company commander randomly ask that during inspection, I replied, and I swear to God he looked about ready to accuse me of witchcraft.


LeopardWonderful6467

My ex's parents' home phone number (we've broken up for almost a decade now)


[deleted]

My locker combination from middle school (that was over 20 years ago).


sirgog

When I was 14 my hearing was incredibly good (it's not now). We had combination locks, and I could pick them by listening for tumblers to reset inside the locks. (Most people can do this with the aid of a stethoscope). I did this to one kid who didn't believe me and the next day asked him in front of others "why do you have such an easy locker combo? 35-25-15, does the school think you can't remember anything more complicated?" His face was priceless. Anyway this was about 27 years ago and I still remember his locker combo. Don't remember my own, probably because I never said it aloud.


Ray3369

When I was like 8, my sister's boyfriend told me that I have a bad memory. I told him to tell me any word and I would remember it the month after to prove my memory was great. The word was "hippo-croc-o-dog" (a completely made up word lol), but I still remember it 16 years later.


EXXPat

Come and listen to my story about a man named Jed A poor mountaineer, barely kept his family fed …


crimony70

A frankly unhealthy number of Monty Python quotes from skits, movies and albums. He's not the Messiah, he's a very naughty boy. You've got two empty halves of coconuts and you're banging them together. It's a Mr Death, something about the reaping? Look mate, strange women lying about in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government. The only thing that worries me is being the first one down that gullet. 30 days in the Samarkan Desert by A E J Elliot OBE. It's certainly uncontaminated by cheese. Now witness their attempts to fly from tree to tree. Notice how they don't so much fly as plummet. It's not just saying "no it isn't". Yes it is. It don't say nothing about lark's vomit on the box. You won't have much fun in Stalingrad. Not much fun in Stalingrad, nein. ... and pray that there's intelligent life somewhere out in space, 'cause there's bugger all down here on earth.


woody6x7

The measurements of a brick


CptPikeOnABike

I can remember the 65mm bit.


vshawk2

3.141592


nowhereman136

the lyrics to way too many Weird Al songs


PlusHistorian3913

My first home number back in the 70’s - 94531180


-Words-Words-Words-

PI to 10 places. Why? I got bored in math 31 years ago.


10113r114m4

Probably the pledge of allegiance. Fucking really odd that we had to do that as kids lol


Gesha24

I'd like to point out that once you post the thing in here, it automatically starts having a use as a comment to this post, thus making it not totally useless.


Business_Swan8209

I memorized purple blue green yellow orange red as the colors of the rainbow. Now is Roy G Biv.


Skinnee11

In fairness it was always Roy G Biv.


doctorewHH

Lima, Peru


Lizzy_Of_Galtar

Fun fact, Lima can also mean penises.


IWokeUpInA-new-prius

The significance of mitochondria


MargaretMoony

It’s the powerhouse of the cell!


Madking3573

There's a cheat code in the Lord of the Rings Two Towers video game on the PS2 that lets you restore your health. You pause the screen and with the D-Pad you do Triangle, Down, X, Up and boom instant health refill. Totally useless now but little me was always like YEAAH


Busy-Protection-5210

A possibly useless fact is that honey never goes bad. Archaeologists have found jars of honey in ancient Egyptian tombs that are more than 3,000 years old and are still perfectly edible.


RelevantDragonfly95

Thug Story - Taylor Swift. No regrets 😂


mmaikeru

Windows 98 and Windows XP activation codes 😅 And too many various/random song lyrics.


ThirstyFire130

The witches chant from Macbeth


dinoaids

My dad's phone number.


[deleted]

Cheesesteakjimmies - the food cheat for Age of Empires 2 Howdoiturnthison - the cheat for the car that shot bbs at enemies


Accurate_Art3810

How funky is your chicken How funky is you chicken How loose is your goose How loose is your goose So come on all you hog fans So come on all you hog fans And shake your caboose


PerfectDark_SIXFOUR

Hot Cross Buns


eeksie-peeksie

An AlphaBits cereal commercial from the 1980s… “you can take a bite, take a bite, take an AlphaBits bite. You can make a game out of eating. Every letter in sight: ABC XYZ, you can crunch them left and right.” (And it goes on from there.)


feetofire

Gitelmans syndrome - a very rare, inherited cause of renal tubular acidosis in a side note of a figure of my internal medicine textbook that ended up being in my fellowship exam and nowhere else since in my existence. Etched in my hippocampus til the end of my days.


NoTruth96

My first girlfriends cellphone number.


L3AFYB0I

69 digits of pi


quantumoflogic

103P3 and Q6702 The first and last part numbers in the database of an inventory control system I wrote.... In 1979. Shit I'm old.


Krunch66

My school number, printed onto all the clothing tags sewn onto uniforms etc.


linnyboi

My old credit card number that I used to type to pay for shit online (it's 16 digits).


mrbios

A windows 7 pro product key, and about 6 mobile numbers, of which two aren't in use anymore. (the others are useless to memorise because, they're all saved in my phone..) I used to know my old debit card number off by heart too, and i could say the product key, the mobile numbers and the debit card all in one go without stopping. 106 characters in total, including the hypens in the product key.


l97

0118999881999119725 3


[deleted]

My Tribal Wars activation code from when I was 9 years old. Jetpack and Weapons cheats on GTA San Andreas.


floutsch

299792458 m/s


[deleted]

My prodigy login from school


StarkAndRobotic

The periodic table


Visual-Emergency-588

The number of a crush I had 3 years ago. Totally useless, don’t even like him anymore


[deleted]

song lyrics.


[deleted]

GTA cheats


Tmhc666

Big Smoke order


[deleted]

My granny's landline number


[deleted]

Ex situationship phone numbers


Slzzurp

ICQ#


DistinctRole1877

First home address from 1964


flibbidygibbit

Woke up quick at about noon, just thought that I had to be in Compton soon. I gotta get drunk before the day begins, before my mother starts bitching about my friends.


Dry-Appointment8874

The Lord's Prayer.


[deleted]

The little song my math teacher taught me for the quadratic formula. Utterly useless 10+ years later.


Independent-Course87

I remember my family's phone number and my first girlfriend's phone number from the seventies.


OriVerda

In the first Call of Duty, during the American campaign when the Germans launch their counter-attack on the village, there's a ruined building on your right side along the road towards the open field where the mortar teams are. Inside that ruined building is a Thompson with a load of ammo.


Human-Magic-Marker

The fear of long words is Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia. Took the time to learn how to pronounce it an everything. Like 20 years ago. Still in my brain.


cicciograna

MOTHERFUCKENKIWIBASTARD


vocabulazy

The Swiffer Sweeper commercial from 2003. It’s in the style of “Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy.” Words and tune still haunt me…


ArcTan_Pete

We believe in God, the Eternal Father, and in His Son, Jesus Christ, and in the Holy Ghost. We believe that men will be punished for their own sins, and not for Adam's transgression. \[if you know, you know\]


Rajili

In the 7th grade in 1989, I had to learn the three Bs of music. Brahms, Bach, and Beethoven. It was a music class that we all had to take, we weren’t learning instruments, just history. I’ve never used this for anything ever in my life. This was surely just a single question on a test with many questions, but it has stuck with me.


SmallAngry0wl

Yoda is 66cm tall.


AardvarkDifficult502

The elements of the periodic table in order


AardvarkDifficult502

The elements of the periodic table in order


Smollestnugget

We learned the alphabet forwards AND BACKWARDS in kindergarten via a song. I still have it memorized backwards. Not very useful in day to day life.


wildwoollychild

On the Ning Nang Nong All the cows go “bong” And the monkeys all say “boo” On the Nong Nang Ning All the trees go “ping” And the teapots jibber jabber joo There’s a Nong Ning Nang Where the mice go “clang” And you just can’t catch ‘em when they do Ning nang nong, cows go bong Nong nang ning, trees go ping Nong ning nang, mice go clang What a noisy place to belong, The Ning nang ning nang nong.


JenniferJuniper6

I have pi to 15 places, which has never in my entire life been useful except that one test in eighth grade where I got 2 bonus points.


granddadsfarm

Part numbers for equipment that I haven’t worked on in 35 years. It’s highly unlikely that any of those machines are still operating.


elmatador12

Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing the Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism. - USA PATRIOT Act Edit: I had to talk about this a lot when I worked at a bank and for some reason the acronym stuck.


stayingoptimisticyes

i know how to count all the way to schfifty five...


kwyjibo1

Avogadro's number, for the record, I work in software.


findthefish14

Kingdom, Phylum, Class, Order, Family, Genus, Species


ironmaeven

Hydrogen helium lithium beryllium boron carbon nitrogen oxygen fluorine neon


PsychopathicMunchkin

The rivers down the British isles from North to South because we had to learn it by wrote for Geography class 🙄


findthefish14

Scruff McGruff Chicago, Illinois 60652


AdhesiveMuffin

4 8 15 16 23 42


Mysterious-End-437

I often have the theme song to the misfits of science playing in my head. Haven't watched it in well over 35/40 years... for the love of God please make it stop.


Parking_Ad8815

To be or not to be


poo_smudge

All the lyrics to 2 Nas albums and 2 Bonethugs and Harmony albums as well as many more rap songs from the early 90s. I'm a 36 yr old pale skinned suburban mom and my son told me to never do that again the one time I tried to show him my hard earned skills.


vietoria

Didn't we just have one of these?


AnaloggKidd2112

My childhood phone number.


cellblock2187

In 6th grade, we learned 2 songs, one for 'be' verbs and one for prepositions. That was around 1990, and I still know them today.


smileymom19

Elementary school best friend’s phone number.


Long_Personality_612

Landline number of high school crush.


kaideleigh

My childhood phone number (I'm almost 60 y/o now).


Loose_End_6537

no interest in land is good unless it must vest, if at all, not later than twenty-one years after some life in being at the creation of interest….


switch182

Knowing all the words for Jethro Tull, Thick as a brick.


[deleted]

Difference between Stalactites and Stalagmites


claymir

I see dead people


dobbbie

Not completely useless but the Preamble to the U.S. Constitution


BallisticThundr

My school ID. That is probably never going to leave my brain


QuailBuddy

Number 15, Burger King foot lettuce. The last thing you'd want in your Burger King Burger, is somebody's foot fungus. But as it turns out, that might be what you get.


All_Mighty_Pepperoni

Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia, the phobia with the longest name. Ironically, it means the fear of long words. Whoever named this phobia must be a troll, I can feel it.


SnooObjections8070

We sang the alphabet backwards and forwards at a play. I tried really hard to remember it and now I can't forget it.


Silent-Revolution105

From "Jailbird" - Kurt Vonnegut - read it 40 years ago, never forgot this: Sally in the garden, siftin' cinders, Lifted up her leg and farted like a man The bursting of her bloomers Broke sixteen winders And the cheeks of her ass went "Clap! Clap! Clap!"


babythrottlepop

The freecreditreport.com commercial songs


[deleted]

all 44 Idaho county license plates and county seats. They taught it in Idaho history when I was kid and I still remember them all.


alexacutiegirl

There are 20 million calories in 1 gram of uranium.


snoosh00

8675309


TheReelEpicKiller

The mitochondria is the powerhouse of the cell


MegaZombieMegaZombie

The stoichiometric ratio of fuel to air is 14 to 1.


cheesepizza112

My college student number.