Here’s the secret to getting songs unstuck from your head

Wednesday, March 12, 2025 - 07:04 in Mathematics & Economics

What’s the weirdest thing you learned this week? Well, whatever it is, we promise you’ll have an even weirder answer if you listen to Popular Science‘s hit podcast. The Weirdest Thing I Learned This Week hits Apple, Spotify, YouTube, and everywhere else you listen to podcasts every-other Wednesday morning. It’s your new favorite source for the strangest science-adjacent facts, figures, and Wikipedia spirals the editors of Popular Science can muster. If you like the stories in this post, we guarantee you’ll love the show. FACT: Chewing gum is a great way to get songs unstuck from your head—and it’s been part of human culture for thousands of years  By Rachel Feltman I host another podcast called Science Quickly, and we recently did an episode all about the science of earworms. One of the wildest things I learned while recording that episode is that, a few years back, a study found that a great...

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