That one is somewhat true. Before literacy was common people would pass stories and information orally. This meant they could orally recite thousands of lines o

That one is somewhat true. Before literacy was common people would pass stories and information orally. This meant they could orally recite thousands of lines of poetry and stories that they had memorized throughout their lives. Some living a nomadic sort of life, like some aboriginals, still pass on these stories by retelling. But most literate people never train their memory to such a degree.