# 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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**Post date:** [December 21, 2024, 7:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-we-remember-only-3-of-our-lives-origin-of-factoid/1011977/20 "2024-12-21T19:34:25Z")

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> [@xtenkfarpl](#):
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> And the OP seemed to include consideration of other ‘factoids’…

Yeah, I’m guilty of formulating this badly. I really wanted to know two things: is this something people have been saying? And if so, where does it come from?

The reference to the ‘10%’-thing was just as an example of something that’s being repeated a lot, but which doesn’t seem to have a clear origin.

Anyway, it doesn’t seem that this is something in wide circulation, and might in fact just be made up by that guy on YouTube. Either I’ve seen a reference to that short somewhere, or I just made the notion up myself and the short just accidentally happens to make the same claim.

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