What is the most useless piece of information you have memorized?

Never underestimate the power of PI... One day you will find yourself on a game show where you have to name the first 20 digits of PI, and you will win a fortune!

I read that to the [melody](https://youtu.be/eDiSYp_51iY?si=iBkIAUjIA4AlDwpV)

I bought my wife a blacklight so she could hunt for uranium glass but now I can tell her she can also find scorpions! I don't live in an area with scorpions but I bet she'll check just to be sure. She found a big wolf spider in the basement once and it took every ounce of her sanity to trap it and get it outside. I told her that's amazing but she needs to find the other one because they hunt in packs, that's why they're called wolf spiders.

My town has a bug zoo with glow in the dark crustaceans. They’re freaky.

thats pretty cool! why do they tho? does it have any actual advantage for survival?

My sister lives in Arizona. She takes a black light with her whenever she takes her dog out after dark. Keeps them both safe by allowing her to walk the dog to a scorpion-less area.

Living in AZ... That's the most useful info we have lol

I have a black light specifically for hunting for scorpions…or rather to make sure there are none.

There is great truth to the joke that I can remember a phone number from 30+ years ago but I can’t remember a password I created yesterday.

if you'd ask i wouldn't even be able to tell you my own phone number

588-2300

I still know the phone number of a girl I liked in kindergarten. So that's mid-90's. 30 years.

Yup, my best friend from grade 1 - I still know her phone number. My best friend now? No clue.

I memorized The Raven to impress a boy.

I’ve got Ozymandias floating around in my head from 15 years ago. “I met a traveler from an antique land…” Also Tiger, Tiger Burning Bright by William Blake because my sophomore English teacher gave us the option to choose between 10 poems to memorize and recite to the class and that was the shortest of the options so almost my entire class chose that one. I didn’t but I don’t remember the one I chose and memorized (despite getting the highest score in the class for my recital. Probably because I didn’t choose Tiger Tiger). I think it was Poison Tree? Or maybe one about two soldiers meeting in battle during the civil war? I don’t know. Tiger, Tiger Burning Bright just bounces around in there and randomly resurfaces when I’m trying to have a quiet moment. At least I’ve finally ditched the Gettysburg Address.

researchers should send tiny submarines to follow and research the eels

Incorrect, now. We know they travel to and reproduce in Sargasso sea, which is a distinct and unique place in the Atlantic.

It's bad enough knowing how octopuses reproduce.

New Magic School Bus episode boutta be lit

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op said useless. this was definitely not useless, ha

You forgot a BA there ... and "Select" if you want to do two player

IDKFA

Just because we use cheats doesn’t mean we’re not smart

I know what an upside down pineapple means :)

No. 2. Does it have anything to do with a certain Kingston Trio song that I can (sort of) play on my acoustic guitar?

Venus flytraps might exist on Venus. It's incredibly unlikely but until we've explored the whole planet, we can't be certain.

Don't leave us hanging on 1 & 2. Curious minds

1. During the 17th and 18th centuries people would RENT a pineapple for parties to put on display. They were exceedingly rare and expensive! It started off as a bit of a flex then morphed into an obligatory party item due to the popularity of the gesture. It then further morphed into a symbol of hospitality.

MBTA* for Boston, MTA for NYC

For number 3, I know a similar one. The Torrey Pine only grows natively in a small area in San Diego County (in Torrey Pine State Reserve) and one side of a single Channel Island. There's a couple hundred miles of coastline between San Diego and the Channel Islands, so why it doesn't grow along there, I haven't a clue. There are Torrey Pines elsewhere in the country that have been transplanted, but they're not native to the area, and there aren't very many of them.

And banana plants are the largest herb.

This actually makes sense if you consider that it's not about the volume, it's about the ratio of urethra:bladder. So assuming that ratio is basically the same for mammals in general, then the time to vacate would be roughly the same, too.

P Sherman would be proud!

Just skip to the Tale where one dude farts in the other dudes face.

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roses are red, it's hot like hell....

Yep. I’ve still got a chunk of friends’ extinct landline numbers and ICQ & AOL IM chat handles floating in my head.

thats some serious dedication

went to look on wikipedia, and thats pretty interesting!

You gotta be really careful dude I could hack your entire interwebs with this information

ever since i heard this fact a couple weeks ago i have been wanting to build a cube house out of it.

Related tangent: a Cleveland Steamer is not a locomotive train engine nor a fancy coffee drink.

i wasn't prepared for that. what a bad, bad day to have safe search turned off on google.

write your SSN on the checks? why would that ever be necessary?

I’ve got my first driver’s license number memorized. I’ve moved states twice since then and could not for the life of me tell you my second driver’s license number or my current one. But I did traffic school 4 times in my home state and had to write that number down so many times it’s forever a part of my brain.

We learned them in a different order to the cadence/ dance of the Macarena.

Just shows the strength of music!

Useless ...but not for long

I had to remember apple and pen each time I saw the same dr. I ended up telling her she needed to change up her words. I wonder how many people got the same or similar. Like do they teach it in training? Ask your patient to remember an apple….

i still have 15+ notes on my phone with lists of coordinates of servers that don't even exist anymore. i dont want to delete them because it feels like deleting the last part of a good memory.

dang, i have biology classes but this is some next level shit

"Two all-beef patties, special sauce, lettuce, cheese, pickles, onions on a sesame seed bun" Worked there for two years, 79-81, and this still pops up in the wee hours of the morning.

how would one even go about getting a fish drunk? and why would the rule only apply to fish? so many questions!

Beware the jabberwock my son The teeth that bite the claws that catch Fear the jub jub bird and shun the frumious bandersnatch

yeah, i found that one out the hard way...