What is the most useless thing you still have memorized?

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

0118 999 881 999 119 725 ... 3

My ICQ number

The mitochondria is the powerhouse of the cell.

The produce codes for bananas, green grapes, red grapes, and cucumbers, from my first job 28 years 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.

"Why, Mr. Anderson, why?

Why do you do it? Why get up? Why keep fighting?

Do you believe you're fighting for something, for more than your survival? Could you tell me what it is, do you even know? Is it freedom or truth? Perhaps peace. Could it be for love?

Illusions Mr. Anderson, vagueries of perception. Temporary constructs of a feeble human intellect trying desperately to justify an existence that is without meaning or purpose.

And all of them as artificial as the Matrix itself, although only a human mind could invent something as insipid as love...

You must be able to see it Mr. Anderson, you must know it by now. You can't win, it's pointless to keep fighting!

Why Mr. Anderson, why?! Why do you persist?!"

Typed from memory.

8-6-7-5-3-0-9

0118999881999119725…3

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.

I before E, except after C, and when rhyming with "a," as in "neighbor" and "weigh."

Useless because it's wrong.

I pledge allegiance, to the flag...

• Johann Gambolputty's full name.
• Konami Code.
• How to read UPC, EAN, and ISBN bar codes.
• Why Will Hunting shouldn't join the NSA.
• The Doomsday Method for determining the day of the week given any date after the Gregorian Calendar went into effect.
• Pi to 260 decimal places
• Everything you ever wanted to know about the Retro-Encabulator.

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."

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

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

icq number

4 8 15 16 23 42

Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis

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

Some old phone numbers that no longer work.

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

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.

• Where every single key item is located in the original Resident Evil 3 as well as how to solve all puzzles in the fastest way possible. Even tho I didn’t play it in 20 years.
• The phone number in the house I grew up in. Seems to be a trend with the users here.
• That Viggo Mortensen broke his toe in that one scene in The Two Towers where he kicks the helmet.

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

Deoxyribonucleic acid.

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

Pi to 30 digits.

Yo tengo un pollo en mi cabeza.

J'ai un poulet sur mon tête.

• 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

The Weird Al Show theme song

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.

In Australia there is a reading and writing hotline to help you lean English.

I don't live there but I still remember the number. 1300 655 506

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

All the lyrics to Weird Al's "Hardware Store"

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

My dads phone number. My childhood friends phone number. Both are useless because they haven't been in service in 20 years.

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

My previous credit card number.

My student number from many years ago. My last 2 credit card numbers. Have some digits of pi memorized, useless to daily life.

Chemical elements put to a possibly recognizable tune.

After learning the phonetic alphabet I thought it would help when I'm spelling out my last name to people to say 'let me spell it out phonetically'. Most of the time I get a blank stare and then they have me repeat each letter, many of which sound similar.

The first ten digits of pi rounded up 3.141592654 seemed a lot more useful during undergrad.

Mercury Venus Earth Mars Jupiter Saturn Uranus Neptune Pluto.

I was kind of a space cadet, so I never learned the planets by mnemonic, just by remembering their names.

Now Pluto's been demoted (but not in my heart 💔), and I never actually need to refer to my list of planets anyway :\

The lyrics to Spell it Out by The Lonely Island

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.

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.

And they ask you how are you, and you just have to say that you’re fine when you’re not really fine, but you just can’t get into it because they would never understand.

I’m still waiting for an appropriate moment to say it aloud.

Area codes. Given most of the original US/Canada area codes, I can tell you where it is.

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A A Am Ae Ae A Ae Ae As Arum Is Is

And also Sum es est sumus estis sunt

I studied it in highschool and have a degree in science.

0 for i=1to520: r=rnd(1): printchr$(r+109.5);:
next i: c=r*16: poke53281,c: poke53280,c:
poke646,c*9: goto

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

Some animal facts, useless stuff.

A B A C A B B

My locker combination in high-school. I’m 61 now and haven’t needed it for 43 years, so I can give it to you: 9-16-37

The lyrics to Skibidi Biden

blue orange green brown slate white red black yellow violet

if you know you know

"Officer Cupcake" the local D.A.R.E. cop that did the school lectures.

The egg song, for the past 19 years. I always remember the lyrics and I don't know why.

Eggs! Get your eggs here! Fresh and white eggs are heeeeere!

1.95583

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 🙃

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.

A song from grade school: "Oh it's forty below in the winter, and it's twenty below in the fall, and it rises to zero in springtime, and we don't have no summer at all".

My parents now defunct landline number.

The words to "The going to bed book" by Sandra Boynton. I've read it to my son at night since the day he was born. It didn't take long until my wife and I no longer needed the book.

Also, all of the U.S. states in alphabetical order set to a tune. That came from some cassette tape that my mother used to play to us (she was a school teacher.)