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Remembering and learning are very different activities, however. It is pretty impressive what people can learn! And some of us do have superior knowledge of what appear to be "useless" trivia as well. (Ever seen Jeopardy?) But it is very well-researched and understood that _most_ of us have very bad memory and recall compared to a computer. One popular hypothesis is that every time a particular memory is recalled, it is slightly changed until it bears little resemblance to the original event, or even the earlier memories of it.