Today's interesting fact has to do with yawning.
Yawning is contagious in humans and other primates.
If any primate sees another yawn, the odds are it will also yawn.
But with humans, the contagiousness of yawning greater.
Not only can we humans yawn when we see other humans, dogs, cats, or primates yawn, we also can start yawning if we read about it, write about it or even just think about yawning.
As no other animals has successfully learnt to read, humans are unique.
Challenged in September 2010 to come up with interesting facts every day by one of my work colleagues, I've since entertained him and those near his desk with bits of information dredged from my brain. Some of my audience went on holiday and still wanted the facts so I started posting here, every day I do one of them, usually Monday through Friday, and the occasional post on the weekend. I post these facts here almost every day and you will find two posts on some days to make any missing days.
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