This annoying trait isn't really new to me. I have suffered from this affliction my entire life. As an adult, I've learned to keep the music to myself, that is, until I started to tweet and status update it... As a child I would hum or do-do-do whatever tune was in my brain. My parents were kind enough not to hush me, as much as they might have wanted to...they let me sing and toodle away. I recall even singing myself to sleep almost every night. Singing calmed me and helped me focus. And it still does today.
While Wikipedia isn't a viable option for writing research papers, it's certainly handy for quickly learning about things like earworms or poutine*. Earlier today I was intrigued to read what Wiki has to say about the pesky earworm: "In a 2006 book by Daniel Levitin entitled This Is Your Brain on Music: The Science of a Human Obsession, he states that research has shown musicians and people with obsessive–compulsive disorder (OCD) are more likely to suffer from earworm attacks." Who knew?!
*Google it. Yum.
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