60-Year-Old Man Forgets the Last 39 Years of His Life Following Hit-and-Run
An Italian man has been struggling to adjust to daily life following a hit-and-run accident that put him in a coma and ultimately erased 39 years worth of memories, including his own family. Imagine living in the 1980s and then suddenly being transported to present day. Things like smartphones, self-driving cars, artificial intelligence, the internet […]
Man with Amazing Memory Recites 14,000 Digits in Order to Set World Record
An Indian man with an incredible memory recently set a new world record by reciting a whopping 14,000 digits of Euler’s number in just 49 minutes. Deepu V has always had an uncanny memory when it came to numbers. He once set a national record by reciting 2,000 digits of the irrational number pi faster […]
Terrible Car Crash Leaves Man With Six-Hour Memory
A German man who survived a terrible car crash six years ago was left unable to transfer short-term memories to his long-term memory, which means he forgets everything when he goes to sleep unless he writes them down. Daniel Schmidt is lucky to be alive. In 2015, he was involved in a motorway accident that […]
37-Year-Old Man Wakes Up One Day Thinking He is 16 And Still in High-School
A 37-year-old father of one from Texas woke up one day ready to go to school, thinking it was the 1990s, after losing the last two decades of his life, including ever marrying his wife and having a daughter. In July of last year, Daniel Porter, a hearing specialist from Texas woke up in his […]
Head Injury Causes Teen’s Memory to Reset Every Two Hours
For the past three months, Riley Horner, a teenage girl from Illinois, has been waking up every morning thinking it’s June 11. To make matters worse, her memory resets every couple of hours, so she can’t even remember things she did or people she met that very day. Riley’s troubles began after she got accidentally […]
Sans Forgetica – A Font Designed to Help You Remember What You Read
Developed by researchers and designers specializing in typography and behavioral science, Sans Forgetica is a new font designed to help readers better remember the information they read by forcing them to spend a bit more time on each word. The design of Sans Forgetica is based on a font called Albion, but with substantial modifications to […]
23-Year-Old Woman Memorizes IKEA’s New 328-Page Catalogue in a Week
Most people could probably spend a whole year just looking at IKEA’s 2018 catalogue and still not remember all the details in its 328 pages. But then again, Yaanja Wintersoul is not most people, she is a two-time World Memory Champion so she only needed one week to accomplish the seemingly impossible task. 23-years-old Yaanja […]
Rare Condition Allows Woman to Remember Everything She Has Ever Experienced
Can you imagine being able to remember every single experience of your life, every conversation you have ever had, every meal you’ve eaten, every word in your favorite book and even the feel of the clothes you wore on your very first birthday? That’s what Becky Sharrock’s life is like, and as amazing as that ability […]