Weird Facts You Never know About Laughter

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Weird Facts You Never Knew About Laughter

Some scientists believe that laughter was used as a way for humans to relate to one another millions of years before they developed the lung strength for language.

The mechanism of laughter is so ingrained in our brains that babies as young as 17 days old have been observed doing it.

If you laugh at these dark jokes you’re probably a genius.

Penny Paterson, president of the Gorilla Foundation says that Koko, the gorilla famous for her sign language abilities,
even had a special “ho, ho,” for visitors she liked.

Couples who laugh together, stay together

When she monitored subjects’ brains while she played laughing sounds, she found that the premotor cortical region of the brain, which prepares the muscles in the face to move, was activated.

(This is how keeping a laughter journal can change your life.)

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