>>12473914Knowing just a neat thing or two about another thing is an excellent mnemonic help, an important aspect of the Art of Memory. "Americium", for example, is the stuff that they put in smoke detectors to make them work. I couldn't explain the mechanism or anything like that but I damn sure know that Americium is an actinide toward the middle somewhere!
Also I know nothing else about the country of Cameroon, except that they had a poison lake disaster years ago that killed a lot of people. This helps me remember Cameroon!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_Nyos_disaster 
