The NATO alphabet comes in handy sometimes

Multiplication table.... One day I'll get those 7s and 8s.

(I'm 40).

How to do almost anything by hand, and the phonetic alphabet (specifically nato phonetic alphabet) can be useful for misunderstandings. I want to learn shavian, an alphabet optimized for english, just for fun.

Have a great day, be kind, and have fun! :D

The standardized NATO phonetic alphabet

...for when you need to read alpha numeric codes or clarify spellings.

Especially with, how, inexplicably, phone connections seem to have gotten more garbly in recent years.

This code was invented to be reasonably understood as much as possible in less-than-ideal communication conditions.

As time goes on, civilian life is full of situations where you'll need to read off serial numbers, codes, or even spelling your own name, to somebody seemingly connected to you from a million miles away via coconuts and twine.

So, learn it, and you never need to go "M as in...uh...'Mancy'?" ever again! Your IT department might thank you.

...and let's be honest, it sounds kinda cool. :)

0118999881999119725... 3

If you're involved in any kind of protest, the phone number of a lawyer. Hell, generalize this. Make sure you memorize numbers of at least the first few of your emergency contacts. You never know when you will be separated from your phone.

White-orange, orange, white-green, blue, white-blue, green, white-brown, brown.

Your state's mental hygiene/commitment laws and the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities treaty that U.S.A. is the only country not to ratify.

Fa Do Sol Ré La Mi Si
(F....C....G....D...A...E...B)

this is the order in which sharps go. Gives you the tonality of a given song. Let's say the song takes 4 sharps- take the last one (Ré/D), add a half-tone to it (Mi/E), there it is, your song is in E major

It works with flats as well, in the reverse order (Si Mi La Ré Sol Do Fa). Take the next-to-last flat, that is your tonality.

Your wife's birthday?

Pretty much how to do any task without electricity or a device that depends on it. It can be really useful to know how people did every day stuff 200 years ago.

Do you know how to do your laundry without a machine? Use a map? Send mail via post?

The first 100 digits of pi lol. On a more serious note, it is very useful to remember how you should react to certain comments you know others will make in the future.

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First aid procedures.

My credit card number and associated details.

If you cook, bake, brew, anything with food and drink.

Common volume conversions: 3 teaspoons in a tablespoon, 4 tablespoons/2 fluid ounces in a quarter cup, 8 fluid ounces in a cup, 2 cups in a pint, 2 pints in a quart, 4 quarts in a gallon.

Common weight conversions: 28 grams in an ounce, 16 ounces in a pound, 2 pounds and 3(ish) ounces in a kilo.

And common volume to weight conversions based on ingredients you use. For me: 200 grams in a cup of sugar, 125 grams in a cup of AP flour, 6 grams in a tablespoon of cocoa powder.

Makes it a lot easier to halve/double recipes, or use a scale for a volume written recipe.

Proper sequence of attaching jumper cables.

Your SSN

How to convert various units of measurement. (Including between imperial and metric.)

2.54 centimeters in an inch. Degrees Fahrenheit is nine fifths of degrees Celsius plus 32. Stuff like that.

Basically any song on guitar that I like. I can sing the entire song back to front, but I can't for the life of me remember the chord sequences. And I've been playing for many years.

Phone numbers of your life partner, parents, children, siblings and a lawyer.

Converting between hexadecimal and binary. It's not that hard and it would've been useful many times, but I still haven't memorised it

The dimensions of the doorways in my house.