What are some useful or just cool stuff to memorize?
I just learned the mind palace technique to memorize stuff and wanna put it to use.
Upriverpaddler, The Ballad of Sam McGee.
Deez, There are strange things done in the midnight sun
csolisr, (edited ) Converting Celsius to Fahrenheit:
- multiply by 2
- remove 10%
- add 32
baconeater, This is wrong? Taking 20°C as an example. Following this formula gives 48°F when it should be 68. Could you perhaps be supposed to add 32 instead of 12?
ips, 
Adding 32 is correct.
linearchaos, 
Yeah, it’s supposed to be c * 2 + 30
Today, Thats a very close approximate and what i use when it’s numbers i have to think about for 5/9 and 9/5.
ips, f = c * (9/5) + 32
linearchaos, I mean you’re not wrong Walter.
The concept is that it’s a formula you can do in your head most people aren’t going to spend a minute trying to work out 9/5 in their head
PhreakyByNature, I mean… That’s just like… Your opinion man.
linearchaos, Whoever downvoted your comment is a nihilist
PhreakyByNature, They’re out of their element.
linearchaos, That comment REALLY tied the thread together, Did It Not?
PhreakyByNature, It really did Dude.
Candelestine, Nothing can go faster than the speed of light, not even fahrenheit temperature units.
linearchaos, Nah, the speed of light in air is faster than the speed of light in peanut butter.
kafa, yes, but that’s speed of light
¯_(ツ)_/¯
csolisr, Thanks for noticing the typo
snek_boi, If you drive, the 3-4-8 second tailgating rule
rm_dash_r_star, 
I have this thing about astronomy. Kind of a perspective thing of our place in the cosmos. I try to remember all the distances of planets from the sun and distances of moons from their planets. Also the diameters of solar objects. There’s other factoids I try to remember about neighboring solar systems and galactic bodies. For example I remember the black hole at the center our galaxy is called Sagitarius A and its mass is 4M suns. The black hole at the center Andromeda our closest major galaxy at 2.5M light years is 25M suns. The black hole at the center M87, the closest active galaxy at 50M light years is 4B suns. I didn’t look that stuff up so tell me if I didn’t get it right.
Chrobin, Correction: It’s Sagittarius A*
banana_meccanica, Recipe for cooking. Useful for having a good meal and make other people love you.
feral_hedgehog, 
Powers of two, squares and cubes up to 20 and the NATO phonetic alphabet.
Fredselfish, 
The metric system.
NegentropicBoy, To be, or not to be …
Tigbitties, 
I'd do the sonnets first. Less cliche and you can learn one a day.
ohlaph, Harlow is in the fireplace, Adobo is in the window, and Sesqua is on the couch.
For some reason, I used the memory palace to remember that several years ago when I first heard about it and I still remember it.
abbadon420, What does it mean?
ohlaph, Pure randomness. Just wanted to try and memorize random things to see if it works.
Kittiesmom13, Just for fun -
Once a molicepan met a bittle lum Sitting on the sturbcone eating gubber rum Mmmm said the molicepan, simme gum Not on a sam dight said the bittle lum
Growing up in the 1930s, mom said the was the girls favorite pastime - swapping letters of different phrases.
I know you were looking for more serious things, but this was fun for me to memorize years ago and try to put into play with other phrases.
sequential, countries and facts about countries!
torknorggren, Baseball-reference.com
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