Today's useless fact - Is there a way to stop your ears from popping while you are on a plane?

Chewing gum does help your ears relieve the pressure. Also swallowing helps. The thing that works well for me is yawning. I'm usually tired on flights and yawning comes naturally or you can have someone fake a yawn which elicits one from you. In any case, yawning equalizes the pressure and no more pain or hearing difficulty. Also, there are ear plugs available to buy at super markets that you put into your ears before take-off and then take them out a while into the flight, and then put them in shortly before descent in order to keep a somewhat constant pressure in the ears and prevent them from popping as the pressure in the cabin changes during flight. Check out the links in our Ear category for more.