When you wear your headphones, the player/phone/ipod is rarely centered
on your body. It's usually in one of your pockets. Because of this,
some headphones give one side more slack so that it doesn't get pulled
as easily from your ear when the player is in the opposite pocket.
Why are one side of the ear wire part of headphones longer than the other in most headphones?

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