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Mnemonic songs

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#001 | Kodiologist |
I learned the powers of 2 from "Inchworm", and one of xkcd's What If? articles suggested that "Seasons of Love" is a good way to remember that a year has five hundred twenty-five thousand six hundred minutes. Perhaps, as a public service, someone should popularize a song enumerating the days in each month or describing minor scales.

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#002 | PaperSpock |
Not a song (at least that I know of), but could be set to music:

Thirty days has September,
April, June, and November.
All the rest have thirty-one,
Excepting February alone,
And that has twenty-eight days clear,
And twenty-nine on each leap year.

Also, here's one about mitosis our teacher had us learn in middle school: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4W8kupKFCPk

Then here's this one from Happy Days about blood flow through the heart:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gIXcWE0bTwY


And of course, you've probably heard of School Rocks, right?
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#003 | Jacehan |
When thinking about "Seasons of Love," I actually start thinking about the rest of the verse.
"525,600 minutes.
How do you measure, measure a year?
In daylights, in sunsets, in midnight,
In cups of coffee
In inches, in miles, in laughter, in strife."

So I thought it'd be a cool project to pick something and actually measure a year in it, keeping track of, say, cups of coffee, or miles traveled. Of course, I'm not the first person to think of such a thing:

http://feltron.com/ar05_01.html

As for songs, I don't really have an good mnemonic ones. Maybe Barenaked Ladies' "Crazy ABCs"? Well, it does have the word "mnemonic" in it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nQLv7zrJk9U
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#004 | Kodiologist |
And of course, you've probably heard of School Rocks, right?

Oh right, Schoolhouse Rock.

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