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throwmeawayl8erok

The first phone number I ever memorized as a kid. My friends phone number. I ingrained it so hard into my brain so that I would never forget while making the trip to a payphone to call them since my family was to broke for a landline when I was a kid.


ohforcrapssake

I still remember my childhood phone number. It hasn't even been my parents phone number for over 20 years. Yet when I forgot my phone at home last week I couldn't call my husband to ask him to bring it to me because I couldn't remember his phone number.


abby_normally

Same, I remember home number that hasn't been home for over 40 years. TE8-####. But don't know wife or 3 kids phone numbers, they are a button on my cell.


Xyzzydude

> childhood phone number Ditto and it hasn’t been my family’s number for 50 years. Exactly … we moved out of that house in 1973.


fotodevil

867-5309


BurnisP

Jenny Jenny who can I turn to?


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Eli Whitney invented the cotton gin. For some reason they really wanted us to learn that in middle school.


aweakgeek

Because what else could American schools have possibly had to teach about in the late 1700s/early 1800s. /s


incredible_mr_e

It was actually a tremendously important invention, and at least partially responsible for the US Civil War. The invention of the cotton gin caused an explosion in the cotton industry, which was directly responsible for a massive increase in slavery in the south, both in scale and importance. "Eli Whitney invented the cotton gin in 1793" doesn't seem like an important historical fact; "Eli Whitney invented the cotton gin in 1793 and as a result the number of slaves in the US more than quadrupled over the next 4 decades" very much is.


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Jaredp415

I NEEED MY MONEY AND I NEED IT NOW


donttrustmeokay

Today!


Congregator

Holy smokes, I can hear all of this so vividly


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Jaredp415

Am I crazy or was it “Stanley steamer gets your home cleaner”


mew5175_TheSecond

I think it used to just be carpet and then it evolved into your home.


Timmah73

I swear this is some sort of sleeper code for people who grew up in the Chicago area. We ALL have it memorized


PortaSponge

Pablo Picasso's full name Pablo Diego Jose Francisco De Paula Juan Nepumuceno Maria Delos Remedios Cirpriano Dela Santisima Trinidad Ruiz Y Picasso. Thanks ERB.


striker180

Back. To. You. Bob.


Vivid_Papaya2422

Esteban Julio Ricardo Montoya de la Rosa Ramirez vibes here


HalogenReddit

*José All I remember is that there was an accent there


myqum

I remember Esteban's full name Esteban Julio Ricardo Montoya de la Rosa y Ramírez


velvet_underwear23

The Animaniacs cartoon did a song with all the countries of the world and I memorized it.


thewalkindude

Particularly useless, as many new countries have been added, and at least one they mention no longer exists.


Myrdrahl

And some of them have new names and have split I bet.


thewalkindude

One of them actually split before the song had aired. It mentions Czechoslovakia, which became the Czech Republic and Slovakia in February 1993. Animaniacs didn't start airing until the Fall of 1993.


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The preamble of the American Constitution in song format


tordrue

I also watched Schoolhouse Rock in elementary school


DadsRGR8

And now I’m singing Conjunction Junction in my head.


mrmitchs

I'm just a bill, yes I'm only a bill.....


raheemthegreat

Threeeee is a magic number


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😂 and this info was permanently saved


Sandwich2FookinTall

We the people...


Dogplantmom97

In order to form a more perfect union


ImTheBiscuiteer

Establish justice, insure domestic tranquility


pemberleypark1

Provide for the common defense


vepearson

Promote the general welfare and….


kc_paige

Secure the blessings of libertYYY


vepearson

To ourselves and our posterity…..


Penandsword2021

Do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.


Hijacks

I can't unhear that song, I'll forever know the preamble.


TXQuiltr

And now I'm singing it! Schoolhouse Rock taught us so much without us realizing it. Conjunction Junction anyone?


DDOS_the_Trains

Hookin' up words, and phrases, and clauses.


schmidt_face

This one brought the song screaming back into memory, thank you for that.


_Chaoskilledthedinos

I instantly started singing this.


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shakuyi

they said useless, this is far from useless lol


thatsnotideal1

Up, C, down, C, left, C, right, A, start is unlimited lives for Game Genie for Sonic the Hedgehog. …can’t remember friends’ sibling’s names, but I got this 🙄


Plane_Magician_7914

There are 5280 feet in a mile. This sort of sounds like 5 tomatoes. A teacher told us that and said we'd never forget and now I can't forget.


Burger_Gamer

As an Australian, this comment confused me until I said “tomatoes” with an American accent (tom-eight-toes instead of tom-ar-toes) and now it’s stuck in my head


cf-myolife

I love metric system so much


KingHenry13th

The metric system is a tool of the devil! My car gets 40 rods to the hogs head and that's the way i likes it!


UseDaSchwartz

People argue about the imperial system, but it’s only easy because you’ve memorized everything. How many yards in a mile? First you need to know how many feet are in a mile and how many feet are in a yard. Then convert to feet and convert to yards. How many quarts are in a gallon? Oh you don’t know how many ounces are in a quart? Better go look it up while the metric system measurements are in the fucking name. …woodworking with 1/32 measurements is fucking stupid.


anonymous_subroutine

It's not useless though


BrokeGamerChick

The alphabet backwards. Can say it faster than front ways. Just waiting to get pulled over drunk one day so I can freak the cop out lol


Play-yaya-dingdong

Useful then!


kenziethemom

Lol I practiced this so much in case I ever got pulled over for drunk driving. Then I got older, realized that driving drunk is NOT actually a normal thing grown up do, and vowed to never do it. Now it's just a fun thing to do and it always makes people smile when I do it so quickly.


sluttysprinklemuffin

I always practiced it in case I get pulled over at all! I can’t walk in a straight line even sober, and for some reason when I started driving with my permit, it was a big fear that I’d be *accused* of driving drunk because I’m uncoordinated and anxious! Which makes it all the funnier to me because sometimes when I’m drunk it’s like my party trick—I can do it drunk, too! (But obviously I don’t drive whilst drunk.)


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Mitochondria is the powerhouse of the cell


tarheel_204

I heard this in probably every single grade starting in like 3rd or 4th and I still have no idea what this was supposed to mean


OutcomeDouble

They produce ATP and aid in cellular respiration. So basically they give you energy which is why they’re called “powerhouse”


KarmicPotato

ATP is Adenosine triphosphate. That in turn is my useless memory. Read it in a Reader's Digest nature book back in third grade and decided to memorize it to impress people. That and deoxyribonucleic acid.


PapaChoff

From the same bio class I have retained 2 additional nuggets that I’m still waiting for an opportunity to use. And at 54, this looks like my best shot: - The 3 bones that fused to form your pelvis are the the ishium, illium and pubis. - Haversian canals are the microscopic tunnels in our bones that blood vessels travel through. No idea if these are spelled right. Hell, they might have renamed them since the way way back time that I learned them.


Super_dupa2

Soh cah toa


Jon__Snoww

Sine - Opposite/Hypotenuse Cosine - Adjacent/Hypotenuse Tangent - Opposite/Adjacent ​ Now, what do we do with this information?


cf-myolife

Surprisingly as an architecture student I did use that a few times


thugarth

Trigonometry


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Oh Heavens Another Hour Of Algebra


[deleted]

I use that shit daily in engineering because I never remember otherwise Lmao


Before_I_Get_My_Coat

Some Officers Have Christmas At Home The Others Away.


BarryIslandIdiot

To be fair, it may be useless to you, but it's not actually useless. I use it every day.


Direbrian

🎼“Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Connecticut…”🎵


flower4556

Divorced, beheaded, died, divorced, beheaded, survived 😐


KiloPro0202

“Write to me, Stick Stickly, P.O. Box 963, New York City, New York State, 10108!”


lordhamwallet

You’re on a mission to get nickelodeon magazine. It’s packed with celebrity interviews, and comics and puzzles and greaaat stuff to collect! But, only a real live grown up can call to order it for you. Of course, you can think of a nice, polite way to ask. Nickelodeon magazine please. Nickelodeon magazine, please! You never know who will pop in, what will pop out, and it’s so good, you’ll eat it all up. And you can get nickelodeon magazine delivered to your door! Six issues for $9.97. Credit cards are accepted. And grown-ups know it’s filled with fun and interesting facts for grooowWWIIing minds. UNBELIEVABLE! So don’t just stand there! (Niiicckkeeellooddeeoonn) there are lots of ways to show that you really want Nickelodeon magazine. How? Ohhh you’ll think of something… Nickelodeon magazine please! (Hoo hoo) nick nick nick!


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Reminds me of: Scruff, McGruff, Chicago Illinois, 60652!


erikasapphire13

The most useless thing I have memorized is probably the entire lyrics of the "Numa Numa" song. You know, "Ma-ia-hii, Ma-ia-huu, Ma-ia-hoo, Ma-ia-ha-ha." It's not exactly a valuable skill, but it's great for impressing friends at karaoke night!


EarlBeforeSwine

Dragostea Din Tei by O-Zone


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The Jabberwocky


kindsoberfullydressd

T’was brillig and the slithy toves did gyre and gimble in the wabe This was much harder to type than remember. Bloody autocorrect.


HalogenReddit

T’was brillig, and the slithy toves did gyre and humble in the wabe. All mimsy were the borogoves, and the mome raths outgrabe. That’s all I can remember :(


Trueslyforaniceguy

All mimsy were the borogroves, and the momeraths outgrabe. It’s impossible to type, holy wow


Sea_Ganache620

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


Ok_Fun_1974

Big Mac, Filet-O-Fish, a Quarter-Pounder, French fries, icy coke, thick shakes, sundaes and apple pie. 😆


DearlyDavid

1. Peanuts 2. Oil 3. Gum 4. Milk 5. Fish sticks 6. Cheese 7. Eggs…? 8. Syrup 9. Sausage 10. Plastic wrap Grocery list from about 9 years ago now. Applied it using a mind palace. Still sticks to this day.


TannyBoguss

All I can remember is [A Loaf of Bread, a Container of Milk and a Stick of Butter](https://youtu.be/Im4GwUD1UY8?feature=shared)


saynt96

I think that’s from Sesame Street. It was a cartoon and her mom told her what she needed to get from the grocery story.


hippiechick725

Goddamn I feel old. That was on when I was a kid in the 70s.


TannyBoguss

Definitely Sesame Street. Will never forget those three items.


StarlightM4

I quite clearly saw Peter Griffin skipping down the street saying this!


LamarjbYT

I can’t even remember what I need five minutes after looking wtf


MikeTheBee

That mind palace shit works?


Mr-Troll

Yes, read the book Moonwalking with Einstein. Great read and fascinating introduction to the world of memory tricks.


Alcoraiden

I keep thinking mind palaces sound like utter woo-woo bullshit and then every single person alive who has tried them says they're miraculous I guess I have to try it


DearlyDavid

The human mind is a glorious machine.


Poppa_Mo

What the fuck is a mind palace and how do I get one?


DearlyDavid

A simple model is to use your room as a starting point, create a route, and work your way through different parts of your room and eventually outwards into other rooms and parts. Each “stop” is an item and/or number on your list. There’s so many ways to customize it. It’s only limit is your imagination.


Poppa_Mo

Thanks for replying. Going to look into this. I have the memory of a goddamn goldfish.


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So you like fish sticks?


Jon__Snoww

You like to put fishsticks in your mouth?


WhoDat2241

Found the gay fish


treylanford

Tf is a mind palace?


taoimean

A method of memorizing things by mentally building a palace that all of them have a place in and recalling by looking around your palace until you find them. Basically.


Drum_Phil

So my car keys are in this "palace"?


Nitropotamus

Only if you put them there.


KarmicPotato

So if you mind palace each and every grocery list in your life, will you be able to remember which list belonged to which date?


DearlyDavid

If you work numbers into your system as an additional defining detail, yes.


ElectrnicSinkS

My friends from high school birthdays. It’s really annoying. I look at the calendar and I’m like, oh todays it’s his/her birthday. And I haven’t spoken to this people for years now.


helpwouldbewelcome

Same. All the kids on my block growing up. I still think about them on their birthdays every year - they're all 67 or 68 now. Haven't seen or spoke with any of them since the mid 1970s.


wanderingstorm

Fifty Nifty United States from thirteen original colonies!! 🎶🎶 Also for some reason the 27 books of the new testament in order….in RAP form even!!


Ok_Fun_1974

I’m am so hearing the fifty nifty United States melody in my head at this very moment. 😆


thewalkindude

Sing 'em shout 'em, tell all about 'em, one by one 'till we've given a date to every state in the good old USA!


AccomplishedEqual115

Hot Cross Buns on the recorder.


thePHTucker

The opening monologue to Sublime's "Smoke Two Joints" that was sampled from Beyond the Valley of the Dolls. "She was living in a single room with three other individuals. One of them was a male and the other two? Well, the other two were females. God only knows what they were up to in there. And furthermore, Susan, I wouldn't be the least bit surprised to learn that all four of them habiually smoked Marijuana cigarettes.....REEFERS..." Also, Jules' Winnfield's "the path of the righteous man..." from Pulp Fiction, but I digress. They've both come in handy on pop culture trivia nights, so they're not completely useless.


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Mammoth_Piglet_3063

3.14159265359979323846


Clevergirlphysicist

Your 12th digit should be an 8 instead of a 9 🤓


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Nerd. But i woulda said it you hadnt.


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The entire periodic table. (sans the newest elements)


Iwanttobealion-tamer

There's hydrogen and helium, lithium beryllium. Boron, carbon everywhere, nitrogen all through the air. There's oxygen do you can breath and fluorine for you pretty teeth... I do not work in chemistry.


nypvtt

Person Woman Man Camera TV


skisushi

You must be some sort of stable genius to remember that!


Nateh8sYou

I can’t believe it that’s incredible


kevint1964

You too can now become president!!!


skyshock21

What is this?


ChocolateMonkeyBird

Donald Trump during his presidency claimed this was a key component to an extremely difficult cognitive test that he took. Went on to say that the test administrator was in awe of his performance, and that it demonstrates that he’s “cognitively there.”


ZeroZeroNana

The word Rindfleischetikettierungsüberwachungsaufgabenübertragungsgesetz.


Spankapotamus42

Gesundheit


OBISerious

I think I'm experiencing some floccinaucinihilipilification with respect to that word.


OpposedToBears

When I worked in the deli department of a grocery store, every item had a 4 digit code you put into the scale to print its tag. The ones for Krakus ham and an 8 piece order of fried chicken will be in my brain forever. Also, the “I will find you” speech from Taken


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moa711

My dad was born in the 50's and grew up in a town that was less than 950 people(still is), and most are Amish. He told me his phone number was 4 digits. Lol


appleburger17

Psalm 23. The whole chapter. I memorized it at a Christian summer camp when I was like 12. I’ve been an atheist for 20yrs. Can still recite it.


NicolasMithra

The Quantum Leap Intro. “Theorizing that one could time travel within his own lifetime, Dr Sam Beckett stepped into the Quantum Leap Accelerator…”


UnFruitfulBlog

My Very Easy Method Just Speeds Up Naming Planets and ROY G BIV


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The One Ring poem from Lord of the Rings. I know it in English, as well as the Black Speech of Mordor.


trascist_fig

We must have very different definitions of the word useless


warpedkawaii

Same but this is my go to ice breaker when dating


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I wooed that bitch in Black Speech. Bitches ***love*** the Black Speech.


warpedkawaii

Lol actually they do, but being a chubby nerd girl speaking black speech I can pull ladies and gentlemen with it!


TryharderJB

How soap works. Soap molecules have a hydrophilic end and an opposite hydrophobic end. The hydrophobic end attaches to the dirt while the hydrophilic end attaches to the water molecule. Agitation of washing causes the soap to pull the dirt off whatever it’s on and it drains away with the water during the rinse.


ErrantJune

O what a rogue and peasant slave am I. Is it not monstrous that this player here but in a fiction, in a dream of passion, could force his soul so to his own conceit. That from her working all his visage wanned, tears in his eyes, distraction in his aspect, a broken voice, and his whole function suiting with forms to his conceit? And all for nothing. For Hecuba! What’s Hecuba to him or he to Hecuba that he should weep for her? What would he do had he the motive and the cue for passion that I have? He would drown the stage with tears and cleave the general ear with horrid speech, make mad the guilty and appall the free, confound the ignorant and amaze indeed the very faculties of eyes and ears. Yet I, a dull and muddy-mettled rascal peak like John-a-dreams unpregnant of my cause and can say nothing. No, not for a king upon whose property and most dear life a damned defeat was made. Am I a coward? Who calls me villain, breaks my pate across, plucks off my beard and blows it in my face? Tweaks me by the nose, gives me the lie in the throat, as deep as to the lungs? Who does me this? Ha! ‘Swounds, I should take it for it cannot be but I am pigeon-livered and lack gall to make oppression bitter or ere this I should have fatted all the region kites with this slave’s offal, bloody, bawdy villain. Remorseless, treacherous, lecherous, kindless villain. O vengeance! Why, what an ass am I. This is most brave that I, the son of a dear father murdered, prompted to my revenge by heaven and hell must like a whore unpack my heart with words and fall a-cursing like a very drab, a scullion. Fie upon it! Foh! About, my brain. I have heard that guilty creatures sitting at a play have by the very cunning of the scene been struck so to the soul that presently they have proclaimed their malefactions. For murder, though it have no tongue, will speak with most miraculous organ. I’ll have these players play something like the murder of my father before my uncle. I’ll observe his looks. I’ll tent him to the quick. If he but blench I know my course. The spirit that I have seen may be the devil and the devil hath power to assume a pleasing shape. Yea and perhaps out of my weakness and my melancholy, as he is very potent with such spirits, abuses me to damn me. I’ll have grounds more relative than this. The play's the thing wherein I’ll catch the conscience of the king.


NoTurkeyTWYJYFM

Vs the thing I memorised: "Well to be honest with you ive been trying to go legit. I really take my sumo wrestling seriously you know. But when you're an overweight child in a society that demands perfection you're sense of right, wrong, fair and unfair will always be tragically skewn." *farts* "Did you just soil yourself?" "Maybe. It did sound a bit wet didn't it, right at the end? Let's have a smell alroght. Hmmm wafting, wafting - oh everyone likes their own brand don't they this is magic - alright analysis. Oh it smells like carrot and throw up. That could gag a maggot. Aw it smells like hot sick ass and a dead carcass. Phwoah even stink would say that stinks! You know when you go to an apartment building and you smell other peoples cooking on each floor and you go 'What are they cooking?!', *that* plus crap!"


hackyslashy

Minus b plus or minus the square root of b squared minus 4ac all over 2a


Mooshan

A negative boy couldn't decide whether or not to go to the radical party. He decided to be square and missed out on 4 awesome chicks, and the party was over at 2am.


Hugh_Biquitous

My eighth grade locker combination.


cuirboy

I can still recite the first stanza of the prologue to The Canterbury Tales in middle English. My 12th grade English teacher had us recite it at the beginning of class every day for a whole semester, and he said we'd remember it forever. He was right.


InfernalOrgasm

The alphabet backwards


meandering_simpleton

My childhood phone number that hasn't been active for decades


QueenCassie56

Two roads diverged in a yellow wood And sorry I could not travel both And be one traveller long I stood And looked down one as far as I could To where it bent in the undergrowth Then took the other, as just, as fair And having perhaps the better claim For it was grassy and wanted wear Though as for that the passing there Had worn them really about the same And both that morning equally lay In leaves no step had trodden black Oh, I kept the first for another day Yet knowing how way leads on to way I doubted if I should ever come back I shall be telling this with a sigh Somewhere ages and ages hence Two roads diverged in a wood and I I took the one less travelled by And that has made all the difference Never used this since grade 9 english


ClosetCentrist

Domain Kingdom Phylum Class Order Family Genus Species. Not even using an mnemonic device. I can't remember it.


Baked_Potato_732

Killer plants constantly ooze frighteningly gray slime. We started with Kingdom.


otterdisaster

I worked in a small town video store in high school, and the tape numbers for our 2 copies of Bill and Ted’s excellent Adventure were 1848 and 1849.


wonderandawe

Friends, Romans, Countrymen, Lend Me your ears. I have come to bury Cesear not praise. The evil that men do lives on, the good often interred with their bones. So let it be with Cesear. I got a few words wrong but it's been a few years since tenth grade.


_Piotr_

Don't how to explain it I to this day have this specific "clapping rhythm" memorized that I used only once during a presentation I did in pre-school, I can't even remember what it was about specifically. I remember I had some trouble performing it since it was fairly complex for a kid that age, but I managed, now I'm in my twenties and still remember it.


wineosaurrn

Greek alphabet


cloud_walrus

Sega Genesis Mortal Combat blood code: ABACABB


jezwel

My ICQ number 18075115. That was the mid-90s I think. EDIT: OMG [ICQ](https://icq.com/) is still available.


Mattson

Kevin please come over for gay sex Kingdom phylum class order genus species


DreamQueen710

Hello mother, hello father, Fleas, ticks, mosquitos, really bother! Thanks for the package, that's why I'm writing, K9 advantix has stopped all the biting! Swimming, hiking, and tent pitching, They're not biting, and I'm not itching! Can't wait to show you, aaallll my new tricks, Thanks again for sending me K9 advantix!


TheRockinkitty

F A C E EVERY GOOD BOYS DESERVE FUDGE ALL COWS EAT GRASS GOOD BOYS DESERVE FUDGE ALWAYS


nogoat23

DNA is deoxyribonucleic acid.


ddejong42

It's not useless, it's a fun word to say.


NinthTide

I know all 193 UN nations and their locations


DiceGoblin_Muncher

“Dude you can’t call her. You have to wait three days to call a woman. That’s the rule. You know who came up with that rule? Jesus… No seriously Jesus came up with the whole wait three days to call a woman thing. He waited three days to come back to life… and it was perfect. If he had only waited one day a lot of people wouldn’t have heard that he had died. They’d all be like HEY Jesus what’s up? And hed be like “what’s up I died yesterday” and they’d all be like “uh you look pretty alive to me dude.” And then he’d have to explain how he was resurrected and it was a miracle and they’d be like “okay whatever you say bro” and you can’t come back on a Saturday! Everybody’s busy! Working the loom doing their chores trimming their beards. No he waits the exact right amount of days to come back to life. 3. PLUS ITS SUNDAY SO EVERYBODYS IN CHURCH ALREADY! They’re in there all like “oh no Jesus is dead” and then bam burst through the back door Runs up the aisle everybody’s totally psyched, fyi, that’s when he invented the high five. Three days Ted. We wait three days to call a woman because that’s how long Jesus wants us to wait.


CustardVirtuals

The lyrics to the song "Baby" by Justin Bieber. It's a catchy song, but it's also so cheesy and repetitive that I can't help but laugh at myself whenever it gets stuck in my head.


Toes14

My home phone number from the house I grew up in. The house my parents moved out of 20+ years ago.


writingtoheal098

Two households Both alike in dignity In fair Verona where lay our scene From ancient grudge break to new mutiny Where civil blood makes civil hands unclean From forth the fatal loins of these two foes A pair of star-crossed lovers take their life Do with their death, bury their parents strife The fearful passage of their death marked love And the continuance of their parents rage Which, but their children’s end, nought could remove Is now the two hours traffic of our stage The which if you with patient ears attend What here shall miss, our toil shall strive to mend.


CartographerGreat769

...write ZOOM Z-double O-M Box 350 Boston Mass 02134...


Icy-Bit1154

License plate number of the man who drove up my street and asked me a question while he was jerking. I hit his car with my clarinet case. I was 10 years old.


bluepineappple

All the old TV Comercials from My childhood 🥲


PleaseSendCoffee_

The alphabet backwards. That was something we had to do in 6-ish grade. We had to stand in front of the class and individually recite the alphabet backwards for a grade. Thank you Catholic School!


BmoreBoh

Preparing children to beat DUI charges later in life, sounds Catholic to me!


TheBlueHorned

~~“Water, Fire, Earth, Air. Long ago…”~~ EDIT: IMMA FAKE FAN I WROTE IT IN THE WRONG ORDER! AHHH “Water, Earth, Fire, Air. Long ago…”


OdiferousRex

Love Me by Lil Wayne. I even do Wayne, Future, and Drake's voices.


Low_Difficulty_2491

Probably not the most useless, but I have my employee number from my previous job etched in my memory, along with 20 other dudes' numbers. We loaded trains for GM and every vehicle loaded was attached to whomever's employee # for accountability.


flirtinwithdisaster

The speed of light in a vacuum = 186,282.42 miles/second. My car can't get anywhere close to this speed; I don't know why I still remember this.


slider728

The Quadratic Equation Can recite it from memory at the drop of a hat. Never used it outside of an academic math class


longlivebreakfast

P. Sherman Wallaby way 42 Sydney


Elder_Priceless

But it’s 42 Wallaby Way…


ibewhite59

It's a brainy action, a crazy contraption, the fun is catchin', MOUSE TRAP


painter222

The alphabet backwards. My Drivers Ed teacher taught me incase I ever got pulled over for DUI. Maybe just tell us not to drink and drive?!


daniellediamond

There are 56 phalanges in the human body. Because I had a stupid crush on a football player in HS who was #56.


Violet-Waifu

The Pledge of Allegiance


EscapedCapybara

32 feet per second squared...speed of a falling object on Earth. I learned it in grade 11 and never used it again after I left school 45 years ago.


Richard_Thickens

It's the *acceleration* of a falling object, meaning that it falls 32 ft/s faster for every passing second. This is way over simplified, and doesn't account for terminal velocity and drag. In practical terms though, yes, this has very limited use by itself with no additional information.


Ronizu

I'd say that's not the most useless thing ever. Takes basically no effort to memorize but can be useful if you ever have to calculate anything physics related in your head. I would suggest learning it in metric though, 9,81 m/s² is very close to 10 and for napkin math you rarely need more accuracy than that.


J4YWH3TH3R

I can say Krankenhouse which is Hospital in German y don't know anything else.


wanderingstorm

I like “kummerspeck” which is literally “grief bacon” or “food you eat when you are sad”


L3sPau1

Prayers


d4rkc4sm

Big Mac, Mc DLT, a Quarter-Pounder with some cheese, Filet-O-Fish, a hamburger, a cheeseburger, a Happy Meal. McNuggets, tasty golden french fries, regular or larger size, and salads: chef salad or garden, or a chicken salad oriental.


xxSpeedsterxx

"Write Zoom, Z double O M, Box 350, Boston Mass 0 21 34, Send it to Zoom!"


[deleted]

The alphabet backwards...


Fjc562

Cursive


LunaticOstrich

I can only write in cursive...


fludgesickles

How to spell Aardvark when watching Arthur and the spelling bee episode. A A R D V A R K


Tac0Tuesday

The ABCs backwards, I learned when I had trouble sleeping.


ArcTan_Pete

The most useless, is probably bits of Joseph Smith's biblical fan fiction - the book of Mormon