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What are the facts you remember for no specific reason

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What are the facts you remember for no specific reason

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Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world · 6 months ago

Does anyone else find themselves recalling random facts for no apparent reason? Like,

Charlie Chaplin entered a Charlie Chaplin lookalike contest and lost

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About 30-some years ago I borrowed a book of facts from the library, and the two I remember are:

There are 336 dimples on a regulation golf ball.

Pound for pound, grasshoppers are 3x as nutritious as steak.

I have no idea if they’re true, but they’re burned into my brain.

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