some lists in my head of which i do not know the reason for the having

schools in the ivy league: harvard, yale, princeton, columbia, cornell, brown, dartmouth, penn

santa's reindeer: dasher, dancer, pracer, vixen, comet, cupid, donder, blitzen, rudolph

snow white's dwarves: sleepy, sneezy, happy, grumpy, bashful, dopey, doc

vowels: a, e, i, o, u, and sometimes y

continents: n america, s america, europe, asia, africa, antarctica, oceania

planets: mercury, venus, earth, mars, jupiter, saturn, neptune, uranus, pluto

colors in the rainbow: red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, violet

oceans: indian, pacific, atlantic, arctic, antarctic

places that are like states of the united states of america but are not really states, and no one seems to really worry about them or report about them on the news or tell us how our tax dollars are maybe at work in these places: guam, puerto rico, us virgin islands, the philippines, and various islands of the south pacific.