Arts comment about being able to pull a piece of information out of the middle instead of information in sequence is right on. That’s what attracted me to this memory technique.

Francis brought up setting words to music to help remember the words. Here is a prime example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WhDrGnjacvA Start listed at O:45.
True story…in 11th grade American History, we had a test where we had to list the 50 United States. Well, the choir was learning “Fifty Nifty United States.” Some people felt the choir kids were “cheating” since they could just sing the song in their heads and easily list the states!