When you laugh while being tickled, what you are experiencing is actually a form of panic.
When a person is tickled, the response is actually a form of panic, as the brain interprets the tickling sensation as produced by spiders or other creepy crawlies on your skin - the uncontrollable laughter is a response to panic.
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In the film 'Star Trek : First Contact', when Picard shows Lilly she is orbiting Earth, Australia and Papua New Guinea are clearly visible... but New Zealand is missing! :eek:
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It takes more calories to eat a piece of celery than the celery has in it to begin with.
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In England, it is legal for a pregnant woman to relieve herself anywhere, including a policeman’s hat if she so requests.
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Why are zero scores in tennis are called “love?”
In France, where tennis first became popular, a big, round zero on the scoreboard looked like an egg and was called l’oeuf, which is French for “egg.” When tennis was introduced in the US, Americans pronounced it “love.”
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The statue by Auguste Rodin that has come to be called The Thinker was not meant to be a portrait of man in thought. It is a portrait of the poet Dante.
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Although playing cards were invented in China centuries ago, in their present form they only go back to 14th century France. It has been speculated the four standard suits represent the four major classes of 14th century French society.
Hearts, shaped like a shield, represented the nobility and the church. Spades, shaped like a spear tip, represented the military. Clubs, shaped like a clover, represented the rural peasant. Diamonds, shaped like the tiles associated with merchants’ shops, represented the middle class.
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The shortest war in history was between Zanzibar an England in 1896. Zanzibar surrendered after 38 minutes
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Despite the famous film title, Krakatoa is actually west of Java.
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