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Why Do We Yawn — and Why Is It So Contagious? Science Still Has One Awkward Problem

11 September 2026 by Huh, Apparently

Humans have been yawning since before they were born, yet science still cannot completely agree on why. Contagious yawning makes things even stranger.

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