# What dumb little joke made a fact stick in your head?

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**Created:** [June 28, 2013, 3:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-dumb-little-joke-made-a-fact-stick-in-your-head/662088 "2013-06-28T03:42:30Z")\
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**Author:** ![Katie\_Mae](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/858c86/32.png) [@Katie\_Mae](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Katie_Mae)\
**Post date:** [July 4, 2013, 1:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-dumb-little-joke-made-a-fact-stick-in-your-head/662088/61 "2013-07-04T13:21:58Z")

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…it’s penguins - as opposed to other svelte, buoyant waterfowl - that have difficulty manipulating ice cream…

[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UO9A4p1Qsvk](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UO9A4p1Qsvk)

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**Author:** ![simply\_cats](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/8c91f0/32.png) [@simply\_cats](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/simply_cats)\
**Post date:** [July 4, 2013, 1:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-dumb-little-joke-made-a-fact-stick-in-your-head/662088/62 "2013-07-04T13:38:20Z")

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Let’s see… for me in high school biology it was “King Phillip can order five good slaves” (shocking).

I can’t believe no one has mentioned “In the year 14 and 92/ Columbus sailed the ocean blue.”

Chalk another one up for Schoolhouse Rock/ Constitution preamble (The trick isn’t in reciting it- it is in reciting it _without singing_).

Actually, Schoolhouse Rock has helped me in a number of ways.

Can’t think of any others at the moment, but will keep checking back to add in “me, too!”

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