There are many great ways to memorize facts. Transforming a piece of information or text to a story, possibly a ludicrous one, is a great way of doing it. The downside of this method being that, if you have a lot of text to remember your imagination may start overlapping.
One technique that really works for me and yet not mentally taxing is the idea of selective distortion.
What you essentially do is retain much of the text as it appears but work on specific verbs/adjective transforming them to other verbs/adjective that are out of place or ridiculous in that context. The sense of the absurd will cause you to retain the information for a longer time.
Suppose you wanted to remember the following piece of information,
Talc is the softest mineral in the world
Change the adjective softest to say quadruped
(an animal that walks on four feet) and read the text as,
Talc is the only quadruped mineral in the world .
Dont worry about not remembering the original adjective, the brain will take care of the association.
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