New Englanders React To ‘Useless Things We Learned In School’

A new survey from SWNS Digital asked 2,000 people to name the most useless things they learned in school -- in other words, the stuff they learned in school that they don't use in the real world. Some of the top answers are: The Pythagorean theorem to figure out the dimensions of a triangle; learning the different types of rocks; learning the parts on an atom; and naming all of the presidents in order.

Nikki's answer is the periodic table of elements in chemistry. AJ says cursive writing.

AJ and Nikki wanted to see how the answers would vary among HOM's listeners. Here's what they told us…

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