# I know my wife's ex-bf's birthday. So what unusual info do you know? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [April 14, 2017, 1:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-know-my-wifes-ex-bfs-birthday-so-what-unusual-info-do-you-know/784425 "2017-04-14T01:58:52Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 16\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![HeXen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/c89c15/32.png) [@HeXen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HeXen)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2017, 3:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-know-my-wifes-ex-bfs-birthday-so-what-unusual-info-do-you-know/784425/41 "2017-04-16T03:50:03Z")
I can’t even remember my wife’s b/day you kidding me? The only unusual info I recall is 18Y778. That is the license plate number of a woman that hit us in a parking lot back when I was in HS and she threatened us and took off. I repeated her plate number to myself so I could give it to the cops…which they did nothing btw after we waited 4 hours at the city hall building for one to show up to make a report…jerks. ---
**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2017, 3:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-know-my-wifes-ex-bfs-birthday-so-what-unusual-info-do-you-know/784425/42 "2017-04-16T03:50:04Z")
Ex gf was born on Groundhog’s Day. Last heard that she went gay. Not surprising, but definitely interesting. ---
**Author:** ![Balance](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ccd318/32.png) [@Balance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Balance)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2017, 3:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-know-my-wifes-ex-bfs-birthday-so-what-unusual-info-do-you-know/784425/43 "2017-04-16T03:57:15Z")
Early in my sophomore year in college, a friend asked me to help him remember the randomly generated password for a class mainframe account. I still remember it. The word “mainframe” should be a clue as to just how long I’ve remembered that random string of characters. There’s no good reason for it; it just stuck in my head. ---
**Author:** ![OldGuy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/3bc359/32.png) [@OldGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OldGuy)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2017, 4:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-know-my-wifes-ex-bfs-birthday-so-what-unusual-info-do-you-know/784425/44 "2017-04-16T04:48:38Z")
I remember my phone number growing up YE2-8413. It got changed when all digit dialing came in to 464-0141. The last time that number could possibly have been relevant was 1972 when my parents moved. I can’t recall any of the phone numbers I’ve had since except my current one (3 actually with home office and cell). I recall the combination on my camp locker 20-10-24 that I used between 5th and 6th grade and the combination of my sister’s bike lock from the same era 15-5-3. I can’t recall my bike lock combination from that time nor any of the many locks I’ve had since. (Two different ones each year in high school for one thing.) ---
**Author:** ![Bullitt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bullitt/32/5725_2.png) [@Bullitt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bullitt)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2017, 10:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-know-my-wifes-ex-bfs-birthday-so-what-unusual-info-do-you-know/784425/45 "2017-04-16T10:53:39Z")
The SSN of my exwife, I still remember it, 547-90-3(xyz), and we’ve been divorced 20 years. The SSN of my current wife (Version 2.0, a significant upgrade BTW), I don’t know it and we’ve been married 15 years and going strong. She has told me many times and I’ve tried to memorize it, but haven’t. I can recite the 50 US states in alphabetical order. I can recite the 66 books of the bible in order, 39 in the OT and 27 in the NT. Protestant bible, not Catholic with its inter-testamental books. Certain movies, seen many years ago, I can recite many key lines. _The Princess Bride_, especially. (Anybody want a peanut?) Certain movies, seen recently, I’ll say Hey that was a good one, have you seen it? And my wife (v2.0) and daughter will both say, Yeah we saw it, and we were with you! My very first car, the first one I ever bought, I still know its VIN, and I sold that car 30+ years ago: 128AS10116081. It was a 1979 Fiat X1/9, a great and fun car. My best friend from college, over 35 years ago, I still remember his driver’s license number, and I haven’t seen Pete D. in many many years, let alone talk about his driver’s license: California N88180(xy). ---
**Author:** ![PoppaSan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/poppasan/32/189_2.png) [@PoppaSan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PoppaSan)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2017, 7:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-know-my-wifes-ex-bfs-birthday-so-what-unusual-info-do-you-know/784425/46 "2017-04-16T19:23:18Z")
> [@DCnDC](#): > > Way back in elementary school I made an extensive report on obscure and little-used (but still used) customary units of measurement, and for some reason I still remember all of that stuff. I am not a surveyor so I have absolutely no reason to know these things. > > Most people know _of_ an acre, and might have a general idea of its size, but how many really know what _exactly_ an acre is? Well, I know off the top of my head an acre is 1/640th of a square mile, or 43,560 square feet, or 10 square chains, or 160 square rods, or (1 chain) x (1 furlong). One furlong is 1/8 mile, or 660 feet, or 10 chains. One chain is 66 feet, or 100 links. One rod is 25 links. One link is 33/50 ft, or 7.92 inches. One inch is 6 picas. One pica is 12 points. One point is 1/72 inch. I could go on and on, but you get the idea. All that and you missed the definition of an acre I learned around the same time. That is it was the amount of land an average oxen team could plow in one day. ---
**Author:** ![The\_wind\_of\_my\_soul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ecc23a/32.png) [@The\_wind\_of\_my\_soul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_wind_of_my_soul)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2017, 2:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-know-my-wifes-ex-bfs-birthday-so-what-unusual-info-do-you-know/784425/47 "2017-12-06T14:11:52Z")
My first period class in 8th grade had 22 people in it. I can still remember the exact seating arrangement. That was over half a lifetime ago. ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2017, 2:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-know-my-wifes-ex-bfs-birthday-so-what-unusual-info-do-you-know/784425/48 "2017-12-06T14:16:20Z")
I have an incredible memory. The stuff I know would fill volumes. I still know all the social security numbers, birthdates and telephone numbers of the people at the place I use to work. ---
**Author:** ![Nava](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/da6949/32.png) [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2017, 2:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-know-my-wifes-ex-bfs-birthday-so-what-unusual-info-do-you-know/784425/49 "2017-12-06T14:18:55Z")
The phone numbers of two of my school classmates’ parents. Well ok, one was my BFF and both are almost identical to my mother’s, but I only heard Toño’s once! ---
**Author:** ![Clothahump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/51bf81/32.png) [@Clothahump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Clothahump)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2017, 2:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-know-my-wifes-ex-bfs-birthday-so-what-unusual-info-do-you-know/784425/50 "2017-12-06T14:46:08Z")
I still remember my first serious girlfriend’s drivers license number. :eek: ---
**Author:** ![CairoCarol](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cairocarol/32/3825_2.png) [@CairoCarol](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CairoCarol)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2017, 3:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-know-my-wifes-ex-bfs-birthday-so-what-unusual-info-do-you-know/784425/51 "2017-12-06T15:52:50Z")
> [@Sattua](#): > > I know my husband’s ex-wife’s birthday…BECAUSE IT’S THE SAME AS MINE. Hey, that’s almost what I came in here to post. I know my husband’s last-girlfriend-before-me’s birthday, because … yup … It felt weird and icky at first, but it long ago stopped bothering me. ---
**Author:** ![Knowed\_Out](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/knowed_out/32/7380_2.png) [@Knowed\_Out](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knowed_Out)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2017, 3:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-know-my-wifes-ex-bfs-birthday-so-what-unusual-info-do-you-know/784425/52 "2017-12-06T15:54:35Z")
I used to play tuba in high school and college, and even though I haven’t played in decades, I still remember the valve combinations for each note in a tune and play them with my fingers. España, Spirit of the Bull, An American in Paris… ---
**Author:** ![DorkVader](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/73ab20/32.png) [@DorkVader](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DorkVader)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2017, 1:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-know-my-wifes-ex-bfs-birthday-so-what-unusual-info-do-you-know/784425/53 "2017-12-07T01:41:13Z")
I still know the pledge of allegiance and the word for cockroach from 7th grade Spanish class, almost 4 decades ago. ---
**Author:** ![Backwater\_Under\_Duck](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ba8739/32.png) [@Backwater\_Under\_Duck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Backwater_Under_Duck)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2017, 2:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-know-my-wifes-ex-bfs-birthday-so-what-unusual-info-do-you-know/784425/54 "2017-12-07T02:05:02Z")
I know that the reason my wife wouldn’t go out with me for almost six months after we met at a party that I was invited to by friends just to meet her, was that she wouldn’t date a bald guy. She knows I know, but we’ve never talked about it. For 35 years. ---
**Author:** ![Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/left_hand_of_dorkness/32/7156_2.png) [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Left_Hand_of_Dorkness)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2017, 2:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-know-my-wifes-ex-bfs-birthday-so-what-unusual-info-do-you-know/784425/55 "2017-12-07T02:09:58Z")
> [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](#): > > I had my own telephone back in the early '80s when I still lived with my 'rents. I still remember the number. Help me forget! When I was about twelve, I was walking along a dock with a bunch of sailboats. One of them was for sale, and I looked at the phone number, and thought, “Huh. 469 is like 13 squared, if you added the 1+3 and replaced the hundreds place with the result. And 8648 is like a multiplication problem: 8x6=48.” I never saw the phone number again, but I still know that dialing 469-8648 would, at some point in the eighties, have gotten you a chance to talk about buying a sailboat. ---
**Author:** ![Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/left_hand_of_dorkness/32/7156_2.png) [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Left_Hand_of_Dorkness)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2017, 2:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-know-my-wifes-ex-bfs-birthday-so-what-unusual-info-do-you-know/784425/56 "2017-12-07T02:13:17Z")
> [@Sattua](#): > > I know my husband’s ex-wife’s birthday…BECAUSE IT’S THE SAME AS MINE. Talk about having a type! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-know-my-wifes-ex-bfs-birthday-so-what-unusual-info-do-you-know/784425.md?page=2)