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Our chemistry teacher made us memorise up to Argon with a song, that was literally just him singing the 1/2 letter names of all the elements. HHeLiBeBCNOFNe...
It was on a poster on the wall in every lesson. It was in the textbook. It was printed on the exam papers.
I've no idea why he tried to make us do that, and the annoying thing is I can still remember a good chunk of it 30 years later. I could have been using that chunk of my brain for something useful.
"1066 Battle of Hastings
1096 First Crusade
1120 Sinking of the White Ship
1153 Treaty of Westminster
1189 Third Crusade
1215 Magna Carta
1265 First parliament
1314 Battle of Bannockburn
1348 Black Death
1381 Peasant's Revolt
1415 Battle of Agincourt
1485 Battle of Bosworth..."
Etched into my brain for 25 years for absolutely no reason
I have always simply refused to memorize anything.