One of the best ways to remember something is to tell someone about it.  When you immediately relay what you’ve learned to somebody else, you’re more likely to remember the details longer than if you just keep re-reading them. This is because your brain assumes that any information you’ve told to another person must be pretty important, and when it’s categorizing memories, the ones flagged ‘most important’ are kept in a more readily-accessible place.  (, )

The founder of Little Caesars pizza paid Rosa Parks’ rent for over 10 years. When Mike Ilitch learned the 81-year-old civil rights activist had been robbed and beaten in her Detroit home in 1994, he wanted to move her to a safer apartment- so he established a trust to cover the housing expenses and continued paying her rent every single month until she died in 2005. (, , )