What’s the most useless thing you still have memorized?

[StarSong]

Up until a few years ago, when sitting at a red light, I use to add up the numbers on the license plate on the car ahead of me. Useless, for sure.

Though the answer may have no practical use, exercising our brains has value.
Puzzles like wordle and sudoku fall into the same category.

 

[Nathan]

What’s the most useless thing you still have memorized?

...whatever it was is long forgotten...that, and so much more.

 

[Geezer Garage]

Numbers for me too, including the cubic inch displacement of virtually every car engine from the 50's through the 70's. Along with the theme songs from 60's TV shows, and all the lyrics to "King of the Road", and a few other songs.

 

[RadishRose]

The Brownie Promise

 

[jet]

military number

 

[Ronni]

The Lipton Tea Bag jingle from 50 years ago..or maybe longer!

 

[dobielvr]

Phone numbers from when I was a little kid... our own, my grandparents', and my aunt's phone numbers. From 50+ years ago! I mean who does that?! I should be able to use those wasted brain cells to remember something important... like what I did last week!

Ha ha...you're not alone.
Addresses, phone numbers, license plate #s....

 

[chic]

I remember lots of old phone numbers and sometimes I play them in the lottery and win something. Learning is never wasted as far as I'm concerned and if I took the time to learn something in the first place it's valuable, to me, at least.

 

[Bethmt]

I can name all 50 states in alphabetical order. I suspect I am on "the spectrum".

Same here about knowing the 50 states in order. My next goal is learning the capitals in alphabetical order.

 

[Furryanimal]

My dads first car registration number.
My college number.
Pythagorases Theorem.
The advertising jingle for Tin Pan Louie's....an American diner in Bristol.

 

[StarSong]

The Brownie Promise

Didn't join until Juniors but I sure remember this:
On my honor, I will try to do my duty to God and my country. To help other people at all times. To obey the Girl Scout laws.

 

[timoc]

What’s the most useless thing you still have memorized?​

The 2 times table..... I can still manage to get up to 7 x 2 = 32. Good eh?

 

[debodun]

The order in which the 6 warfarin metabolites come off on a liquid chromatography analysis (dehydro, 4'-OH, 6-OH, 10-OH, 8-OH and 7-OH). Don't need that info any more.

 

[Sassycakes]

Phone numbers from when I was a little kid... our own, my grandparents', and my aunt's phone numbers. From 50+ years ago! I mean who does that?! I should be able to use those wasted brain cells to remember something important... like what I did last week!

You took the words right out of my mind. remember the phone number from when I was a kid, sadly now I have to write my newest number that I have for 4yrs.

 

[Serenity4321]

5th grade typing class. "Now is the time for all good men to come to the aide of the party"

LOL thank you for the memory of aide of their country, from my tying class.

 

[OldFeller]

My childhood home phone number which I can recall more quickly than the landline number I had during 25 years of marriage and raising kids.

 

[Serenity4321]

Roy G Biv

Red Orange Yellow Green Blue Indigo Violet

Colors of the rainbow

and colors of your chakra...I just learned they are the colors of the rainbow...makes sense..

 

[Serenity4321]

Up until a few years ago, when sitting at a red light, I use to add up the numbers on the license plate on the car ahead of me. Useless, for sure.

No that is not useless at all... it is a brain exercise and very good for you!

 

[Bretrick]

Pythagoras's Theory
The square on the hypotenuse equals the sum of the squares of the two adjacent sides.

Ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny.
The development of individual organisms follows the same phases of the evolution of larger ancestral groups of related organisms.

 

[ElCastor]

I still remember the service number that was assigned to me in Navy boot camp back in July of 1960.

Same here. (-8

 

[Gaer]

The writers of the old and new testament.

 

[Marie5656]

My phone number as a kid. Only purpose it now serves is I use the last 4 digets as a pin. And, no I am not telling you. LOL

 

[Murrmurr]

Driver's hand signals:

Left and right turns
I'm slowing (you should, too)
I'm stopping
Hazard ahead
I'm in distress / have an emergency (for drivers who didn't have hazard lights)

 

[Llynn]

I still remember the service number that was assigned to me in Navy boot camp back in July of 1960.

Like you, I am certain that I will never forget my service number. It even seems immune to senior moments.

 

[officerripley]

How to write in Shorthand (Gregg's).