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The 1962 Tanganyika Laughter Epidemic That Closed 14 Schools

In 1962, three schoolgirls started laughing. And within weeks, a thousand people could not stop. It began at a small mission school in Tanganyika, in what is now Tanzania, on the green shore of Lake Victoria.

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