"Clearly you didn't have my much feared history teacher who made us memorize all the presidents. IN ORDER. "
No, but when I was a kid I had a memory. Didn't actually know what "forget" meant. I mean, I heard people talking about it, but it never happened to me.
We did have to memorize all the states and their capitals to get out of the fourth grade.
Of course, when I was in fourth grade there were only seventeen states, but...
You had to memorize all the state capitals?
Okay, what's the capital of South Dakota??