>why do so many people remember >I suppose it also came at a time for a lot of us where things seemed to wedge into our brains more easily. The ~2million ye

>why do so many people remember >I suppose it also came at a time for a lot of us where things seemed to wedge into our brains more easily. The ~2million years we spent around campfires, repeating oral traditions of our forefathers, instilled a phonetic/rhythmic/mnemonic mechanism of action for remembering "arbitrary" information. That is why recalling phone numbers, large (mentally untoken-able) words, and the digits of PI all are far easier when done in the sing-song fashion - it is utilizing the highly-optimized linguistic/recall portion, we evolved to handle the near-rote-memorization required to allow our culture to survive.