# Do we remember only 3% of our lives? \[origin of "factoid"\]

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**Created:** [December 21, 2024, 3:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-we-remember-only-3-of-our-lives-origin-of-factoid/1011977 "2024-12-21T15:47:05Z")\
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I was sure I’ve come across this claim before, but google has been unhelpful. With Bing (!), I finally found this [YouTube-short](https://youtube.com/shorts/0piGz7-tTrg?si=igs1DgdlQNpee4Rq) making the claim in the title, but well, that’s a less than reliable source.

So is there anything to this, or is this just something on the ‘we only use 10% of our brains’-level?

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