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"a random factoid" would be "the NY subway has 493 stations".

The laws of Thermodynamics are fundamentals like "what is democracy"

I'm talking about the shape of the information, not its relative importance.

Humans deal better with one shape than the other. That's the reason so many memorization techniques rely on stringing things together in stories.

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