| Number of days in each month
30 days has September,
April, June, and November.
All the rest have 31,
But February, which has 28 alone
Except in a leap year, that’s the time
When February’s days are 29.
*30 days: April, June, September, November
*31 days: January, March, May, July, August, October, December
*28 or 29 days: February
| The colours of the rainbow
Richard Of York Gave Battle in Vain
*red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, violet
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| The original nine planets
My Very Easy Method: Just Set Up Nine Planets
*Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, Pluto
*In 2006, Pluto was removed from the list of planets
| Compass points
1. Never Eat Shredded Wheat
*North, East, South, West (clockwise)
2. NEWS
*North, East, West, South
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| Reading music
1. Every Good Boy Deserves Favour
*E, G, B, D, F: treble clef, on lines, reading from bottom to top
2. FACE
*F, A, C, E: treble clef, in spaces, reading from bottom to top
3. Good Boys Do Fine, Always
*G, B, D, F, A: bass clef, on lines, reading from top to bottom
4. All Cows Eat Grass
*A, C, E, G: bass clef, in space, reading from bottom to top
| The Chinese Dynasties
Quit Hanging Suits Tangled, Some Men Mind Quietly
*Qin, Han, Sui, Tang, Song, Mongol, Ming, Qing
*This does not include every sub-dynasty, but rather the broader names. Also note that the Yuan dynasty is the Mongol dynasty.
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| The British Royal Houses since 1066
No Plan Like Yours To Study Oral History So Wisely
*Norman, Angevin, Plantagenet, Lancaster, York, Tudor, Stuart, Orange, Hanover, Saxe-Coburg, Windsor
*This list is from 1066, when England became one kingdom. It does not include earlier kings, or separate monarchies in Scotland or Wales.
| First eight American Presidents
Will A Jolly Man Make A Jolly Visitor?
George Washington, John Quincy Adams, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, James Monroe, John Quincy Adams, Andrew Jackson, Martin Van Buren
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| America's Great Lakes (west to east)
Super Man Helps Every One
*Superior, Michigan, Huron, Erie, Ontario
| Pi (first 11 digits)
May I have a large container of coffee, cream and sugar?
*3.1415926535
*Number of letters in each word
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| Mathematical operations (in order)
Please Excuse My Dear Aunt Sally
*parentheses, exponents, multiply, divide, add, subtract
| The Seven Coordinating Conjunctions in English
Fanboys
*for, and, nor, but, or, yet, so
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| Biology classification
Kids Prefer Cheese Over Fried Green Spinach
*kingdom, phylum, class, order, family, genus, species
| Roman numerals
I Value Xylophones Like Cows Drink Milk
*I=1, V=5, X=10, L=50, C=100, D=500, M=1000
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| Spelling rule: i before e
I before E, except after C
*e.g. field, thief, quiet; receive, ceiling, deceit
*This is no longer taught at schools due to the large number of exceptions (eg their, weird)
| Spelling rule: dessert
Desert or dessert? The sweet one has two sugars
*dessert is the sweet food, and has two s
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