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[–] RandomVideos@programming.dev 4 points 10 months ago

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

[–] Nemo@midwest.social 4 points 10 months ago

My previous credit card number.

[–] Corno@lemm.ee 4 points 10 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 10 months ago

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

[–] HubertManne@moist.catsweat.com 4 points 10 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 10 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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[–] slazer2au@lemmy.world 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

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

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[–] inlandempire@jlai.lu 4 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 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 10 months ago (1 children)

Same, but 5,94573 Finnish marks!

[–] Servais@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)
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[–] CouncilOfFriends@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 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 10 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 10 months ago
[–] Modva@lemmy.world 3 points 10 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.

[–] multicolorKnight@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago

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

[–] thouartfrugal@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago
0 for i=1to520: r=rnd(1): printchr$(r+109.5);:
next i: c=r*16: poke53281,c: poke53280,c:
poke646,c*9: goto
[–] WHARRGARBL@beehaw.org 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

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

[–] Hatred@endlesstalk.org 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Some animal facts, useless stuff.

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[–] elephantium@lemmy.world 2 points 10 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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[–] MrLLM@ani.social 2 points 10 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.

[–] pocopene@lemmy.world 2 points 10 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.

[–] KyuubiNoKitsune@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 10 months ago

The lyrics to Spell it Out by The Lonely Island

[–] Fubarberry@sopuli.xyz 2 points 10 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.

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