Most of what I have in my brain will only ever come in handy if I ever get to be on Jeopardy!.

Seeing as how I have a serious public speaking fear, my knowledge is probably worthless. I'd never be able to get out on the stage, much less be able to hit the signalling button.

I used to read encyclopedias as a child just for fun. (now I google stuff, but I still like the encyclopedia's)

I still have my medical terminology books, so if I can, I can try to find definitions for the big words occasionally.

At least when the opthalmologist told me he thought I had optic neuritis, I knew what it was. Before he could explain it, I was already breaking the words down into their definitions.

Optic - pertaining to the eye

Neuritis - disease condition of, or inflammation of a nerve

and of course, I remembered from my classes that ON was a symptom of MS. At that point, I wasnt so thrilled about knowing what it meant.