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[–] Atelopus-zeteki@kbin.run 42 points 8 months ago (5 children)

The phone number at my home growing up as a child. The building is gone, the phone is gone. The number remains.

[–] driving_crooner@lemmy.eco.br 10 points 8 months ago

I was talking with my wife about that a couple weeks ago, how I can remember my childhood home phone number, but don't even know my own actual phone number.

[–] norimee@lemmy.world 5 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Me too. Back then you had to know your numbers by heart and thats the only one I still know.

It did help that it was only 4 digits after the area code

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[–] we_avoid_temptation@lemmy.zip 38 points 8 months ago (1 children)

0118 999 881 999 119 725 ... 3

[–] Burn1ngBull3t@lemmy.world 5 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Well that’s easy to remember !

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[–] squirrel@discuss.tchncs.de 25 points 8 months ago (3 children)
[–] Thade780@lemmy.world 10 points 8 months ago
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[–] trisratops@sh.itjust.works 18 points 8 months ago (1 children)

The produce codes for bananas, green grapes, red grapes, and cucumbers, from my first job 28 years ago.

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[–] amoistgrandpa@lemm.ee 18 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (2 children)

X equals negative B

Plus or minus the square root

Of B squared minus 4AC

All over 2A

Sang to the tune of pop goes the weasel.

I haven’t done pre-calc in like 10 years, but this song still lives rent free in my head.

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[–] TSG_Asmodeus@lemmy.world 14 points 8 months ago (1 children)
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[–] alester82@lemmy.world 13 points 8 months ago

0118999881999119725…3

[–] DirkMcCallahan@lemmy.world 12 points 8 months ago (5 children)

I before E, except after C, and when rhyming with "a," as in "neighbor" and "weigh."

Useless because it's wrong.

[–] criitz@reddthat.com 5 points 8 months ago (1 children)

It works for most words that aren't weird

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[–] Wes4Humanity@lemm.ee 12 points 8 months ago (2 children)

I pledge allegiance, to the flag...

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[–] superkret@feddit.org 11 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Proverbs 27:14
"He who blesses his neighbor with a loud voice early in the morning, it will be counted as a curse to him."

[–] Plum@lemmy.world 5 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Or the updated version:

Mornings are for coffee and contemplation.

[–] Track_Shovel@slrpnk.net 6 points 8 months ago

Someone tell my fucking kids.

5:30 am comes early.

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[–] str82L@lemmy.world 9 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Two all beef patties special sauce lettuce cheese pickles onions on a sesame seed bun

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[–] radicalautonomy@lemmy.world 9 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)
  • Johann Gambolputty's full name.
  • Konami Code.
  • How to read UPC, EAN, and ISBN bar codes.
  • Why Will Hunting shouldn't join the NSA.
  • The Doomsday Method for determining the day of the week given any date after the Gregorian Calendar went into effect.
  • Pi to 260 decimal places
  • Everything you ever wanted to know about the Retro-Encabulator.
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[–] Seasoned_Greetings@lemm.ee 7 points 8 months ago

My wife gets an honorable mention for being able to recite the "what did you say to me you little bitch" copypasta in its entirety on a dime and as fast as she can say it

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[–] Cube6392@beehaw.org 6 points 8 months ago

A static shock is 4116° for such a short fraction of time that it doesn't burn you

[–] rustyfish@lemmy.world 6 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)
  • Where every single key item is located in the original Resident Evil 3 as well as how to solve all puzzles in the fastest way possible. Even tho I didn’t play it in 20 years.
  • The phone number in the house I grew up in. Seems to be a trend with the users here.
  • That Viggo Mortensen broke his toe in that one scene in The Two Towers where he kicks the helmet.
[–] odium@programming.dev 6 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Some old phone numbers that no longer work.

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[–] Ashiette@lemmy.world 6 points 8 months ago (1 children)
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[–] slurpeesoforion@startrek.website 6 points 8 months ago

I had a lab TA in college who made it a point to teach everyone how to pronounce his name. But that's about it. He wouldn't help you unless you an attractive blonde woman.

So fuck you, Ashitosh.

[–] knobbysideup@sh.itjust.works 6 points 8 months ago

Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis

[–] Chadus_Maximus@lemm.ee 6 points 8 months ago

The missile knows where it is because it knows where it isn't...

[–] MyTurtleSwimsUpsideDown@fedia.io 5 points 8 months ago (1 children)

The Weird Al Show theme song

[–] I_am_10_squirrels@beehaw.org 5 points 8 months ago

OP asked for useless information

[–] stelelor@lemmy.ca 5 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Deoxyribonucleic acid.

My brain made it into a jingle and now I can't ever forget it.

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[–] Hatred@endlesstalk.org 5 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Some animal facts, useless stuff.

[–] ApplyingAutomation@lemmy.world 5 points 8 months ago

Don't keep us in suspense ~ what animal facts?

[–] teft@lemmy.world 5 points 8 months ago (2 children)
[–] agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works 6 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Pi to about 150 digits. Fun fact, if you knew the exact diameter of a circle the size of the known universe, and wanted to calculate the circumference to within the width of an atom, you'd only need about 40 digits. More than that is pure overkill for any practical application.

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[–] cheesymoonshadow@lemmings.world 5 points 8 months ago
  • Have you heard of Swiss cheese? Here's a song that tells you all about it. (This was my only line from a play in the 1st grade. I'm 50 now.)

  • You can't handle the truth! (I know that whole monologue by Colonel Jessep.)

  • my old Wells Fargo checking account number from 20+ years ago

  • my student ID number from my first university 20+ years ago

[–] criitz@reddthat.com 5 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I bomb atomically Socrates' philosophies and hypotheses Can't define how I be dropping these mockeries Lyrically perform armed robbery Flee with the lottery, possibly they spotted me Battle-scarred Shogun, explosion when my pen hits

Tremendous, ultraviolet shine blind forensics I inspect you, through the future see millennium Killer Bees sold fifty gold, sixty platinum Shackling the masses with drastic rap tactics Graphic displays melt the steel like blacksmiths Black Wu jackets Queen B's ease the guns in Rumble with patrolmen, tear gas laced the function Heads by the score take flight incite a war Chicks hit the floor, die hard fans demand more Behold the bold soldier, control the globe slowly Proceeds to blow, swinging swords like Shinobi Stomp grounds and pound footprints in solid rock Wu got it locked, performing live on your hottest block

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[–] unmagical@lemmy.ml 5 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Yo tengo un pollo en mi cabeza.

J'ai un poulet sur mon tête.

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[–] RandomVideos@programming.dev 4 points 8 months ago

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

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