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TIL research suggests “huh?” is a universal syllable. It’s used to express confusion in at least 31 different languages, e.g. Icelandic, Dutch, Japanese, Hungarian, Lao, the Aboriginal Australian language Murriny Patha, Cha’palaa (spoken by 3k indigenous Ecuadorians), and of course, English.
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TIL Research suggests that infants laugh in peekaboo because it’s the very first “joke” that a child enjoys. The initial anxiety caused by the mother’s disappearance is resolved by her anti-climactic reappearance. This is the basic structure of a joke, which elicits pleasure in humans.
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