You yawn to equalize the pressure on your eardrums. This pressure change outside your eardrums unbalances other people's ear pressures, so they must yawn to even it out.


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Yawn...

I believe that I love sleep
much more than anybody I’ve ever
met.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI

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