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How did you decide against using Anki / spaced repetition? To me it seems like a trivially obvious choice if your goal is to actually memorize a bunch of small facts.
Anki makes it easy to memorize facts, but not necessarily to bring them to mind unless you're explicitly searching for them.
I added the date of the first moon landing to my Anki deck with the intention of tweeting about it on the anniversary, and if you asked me when it was I could have told you: July 20th, 1969. But yesterday came and went, and I totally forgot. (Fortunately, I also remember that the first moonwalk was the day after the landing.)
Which sounds useful for trivia. For example, I found Mnemosyne helpful studying for Quizbowl.
Do you believe that Anki is worse in that regard than some other approach? I feel like Anki is far from perfect, but basically a strict improvement over just reading and occasionally re-reading stuff.
In other words, I interpret your criticism as "there must be a better system out there, waiting for someone to find", not as "don't use Anki".