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  2. Sad clown paradox - Wikipedia

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    The joke also appears in the Spanish poem Reír Llorando [45] ("Laughing While Crying") by the late 19th century Mexican poet Juan de Dios Peza. [46] The poem tells of an English actor called Garrick that a doctor recommends to his patient as the only cure for his loss of interest in life, whereupon the patient reveals that he indeed is Garrick.

  3. Face with Tears of Joy emoji - Wikipedia

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    Appearance on Twemoji, used on Twitter, Discord, Roblox, the Nintendo Switch, and more. Face with Tears of Joy (😂) is an emoji depicting a face crying with laughter. It is part of the Emoticons block of Unicode, and was added to the Unicode Standard in 2010 in Unicode 6.0, the first Unicode release intended to release emoji characters.

  4. Pseudobulbar affect - Wikipedia

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    283 patients (86.8%) completed the study. The number of PBA episodes (laughing, crying or aggressive outbursts) were 47% and 49% lower (based on the trial's outcome measures), respectively, for the drug-combination options than for the placebo.

  5. Theories of humor - Wikipedia

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    Relief theory suggests humor is a mechanism for pent-up emotions or tension through emotional relief. In this theory, laughter serves as a homeostatic mechanism by which psychological stress is reduced [1] [2] [6] Humor may thus facilitate ease of the tension caused by one's fears, for example.

  6. File:Roblox logo.svg - Wikipedia

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    Date/Time Thumbnail Dimensions User Comment; current: 08:10, 9 March 2023: 909 × 223 (32 KB): Achim55: Reverted to version as of 02:41, 31 August 2016 (UTC) COM:OVERWRITE.Use File:Roblox Logo 2022.svg

  7. Laughter - Wikipedia

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    Laughter also boosts the number of antibody-producing cells and enhances the effectiveness of T-cells, leading to a stronger immune system. [21] A 2000 study found that people with heart disease were 40 percent less likely to laugh and be able to recognize humor in a variety of situations, compared to people of the same age without heart ...

  8. Ig Nobel Prize - Wikipedia

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    Its aim is to "honor achievements that first make people laugh, and then make them think." The name of the award is a pun on the Nobel Prize , which it parodies, and on the word "ignoble". Organized by the scientific humor magazine Annals of Improbable Research (AIR), the Ig Nobel Prizes are presented by Nobel laureates in a ceremony at the ...

  9. Ingrid Jonker - Wikipedia

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    Ingrid Jonker was born on her maternal grandfather's farm near Douglas, Northern Cape, on 19 September 1933.Shortly before her birth, Ingrid's mother Beatrice and her older sister Anna had left Abraham H. Jonker's house in the Cape Town suburb of Vredehoek, [16] after Abraham Jonker allegedly accused his wife of adultery during an argument and suggested that her unborn daughter was not his child.