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Why commercial jingles never leave your head

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A completely absurd ten second tune regarding an incredibly obscure cleaning product burrows deeply into your mental core. Decades later, while trying to solve a complex equation, that aggressively cheerful melody relentlessly loops, destroying any shred of deep concentration.

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