
Kittens falling off tables. Babies giving the evil eye. Dogs sleepwalking. Ricky Gervais. They’re all hilarious. Admittedly, probably they’re not funny to everyone, but then what makes something funny?

Kittens falling off tables. Babies giving the evil eye. Dogs sleepwalking. Ricky Gervais. They’re all hilarious. Admittedly, probably they’re not funny to everyone, but then what makes something funny?

Have you ever been laughing, and then laughed so much that you’ve forgotten why you were laughing in the first place, yet continued laughing, because you were laughing? Imagine this happening to one thousand people over the course of 6 months! This is exactly what happened in 1963 in the Bukoba district of Tanganyika.