January 24 – Global Belly Laugh Day

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nWhethernyou are giggling or chortling, chuckling or guffawing, tittering ornwhooping or snickering—today, try to up the ante on your laughternand get into a body-shaking belly laugh.

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• nCheckn out the science of laughter.

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• nYoun can read the first chapter of The Humor Code: A Global Search forn What Makes Things Funny here. 

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• nTVn – Leave It to Beaver (G) and The Goldbergs (probably PG)

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• nMoviesn – The Princess Bride (PG) and Ferris Bueller’s Day Off (PG-13)

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• Booksn – The Monster at the End of This Book, by Jon Stone

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nHarry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone, by J. K. Rowling

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nHoles, by Louis Sachar   

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• nMusicn – Weird Al 

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• Funniest Rube Goldberg music video –  OK Go’s This Too Shall Pass

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• Funniest dance in a music video –  OK Go’s Here It Goes Again

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• Funniest literal music video – Take Me On (Pipe Wrench Fight)

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• Funniestn calculus music video – Calculus Rhapsody

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nNationalnPeanut Butter Day 

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nPioneernin the study of memory Hermann Ebbinghaus’s birthday 

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nBallerinanMaria Tallchief’s birthday

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nAnniversarynof gold discovery in California

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nBasantnPanchami 
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• nJanuaryn holidays 

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• nFebruaryn holidays 

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