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What Makes Things Funny & Really Interesting Facts You Didn’t Know About Water

Something You Should Know

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The Benefits of Laughter

Caleb Warren is lead author of a study called What Makes Things Funny. He says laughter has some physiological benefit that you just don't get from anything else. But there's two caveats to this: it really depends what you're trying to cure, he says. And as people cope with loss, they laugh more often - but evidence for the causal direction is less clear.

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