The Most Useless Things You Have Memorized
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Do you ever feel like your brain is at FULL CAPACITY and you wish you could FORGET the random junk that’s taking up space?
There’s a list on the internet of “the most useless things that people have memorized” over their lifetimes . . . and chances are, you can relate. Here are some of the best ones:
1. Old phone numbers from your childhood that don’t exist anymore.
2. Old friends’ birthdays, like from high school. One person said, “It’s really annoying. I look at the calendar and I’m like, ‘Oh today is [this person’s] birthday. And I haven’t spoken to them for years or even decades.'”
3. Old locker combinations.
4. Your old classroom seating chart.
5. One person said, “I remember my 3rd Grade teacher’s favorite color.”
6. The first Wi-Fi password you had . . . even back when they were a string of random letters and numbers.
7. The alphabet backwards.
8. All the U.S. presidents in order.
9. How to spell “Mississippi.”
10. The rules of baseball
11. Every single country flag.
12. If you’ve worked in a grocery store: Produce codes (4011 is bananas).
13. How to play “Hot Cross Buns” on a recorder.
14. How to play “Chopsticks” on the piano.
15. The steps to fold an origami crane.
16. The theme song to “The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air”.
17. And for older folks: The theme song to “Gilligan’s Island”.
Old advertising jingles, like JG Wentworth: 877-CASH-NOW and “It’s my money, and I need it now!” . . . Mentos: “Fresh and full of life!” . . .McDonald’s: “Two all beef patties, special sauce, lettuce, cheese, pickles, onions, on a sesame seed bun” . . . the 1-877-KARS-4-KIDS song . . .
https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/1e82nif/what_is_the_most_useless_thing_you_still_have/
