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[–] Corno@lemm.ee 4 points 3 months ago

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

[–] Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 4 points 3 months ago

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

[–] ProfessorProteus@lemmy.world 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] Phunter@lemm.ee 2 points 3 months ago

Oh dang I wasn't going to contribute to this thread, but you reminded me that I know all the lyrics to the Weird Al Show theme song.

[–] HubertManne@moist.catsweat.com 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] sexual_tomato@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Ah see I have the opposite problem. I memorized the whole thing in 30 minutes but I didn't know it the next day.

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[–] inlandempire@jlai.lu 4 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

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

[–] kamiheku@sopuli.xyz 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Same, but 5,94573 Finnish marks!

[–] Servais@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)
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[–] RandomVideos@programming.dev 4 points 3 months ago

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

[–] CouncilOfFriends@lemmy.world 3 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

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.

[–] whotookkarl@lemmy.world 3 points 3 months ago (2 children)

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

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[–] pdxfed@lemmy.world 3 points 3 months ago
[–] Modva@lemmy.world 3 points 3 months ago

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

[–] Fubarberry@sopuli.xyz 2 points 3 months ago

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.

[–] MrLLM@ani.social 2 points 3 months ago

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.

The lyrics to Spell it Out by The Lonely Island

[–] elephantium@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago (2 children)

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 :\

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[–] uhmbah@lemmy.ca 2 points 3 months ago

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.

[–] Hatred@endlesstalk.org 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Some animal facts, useless stuff.

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[–] pocopene@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago

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.

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