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* According to Viscount Palmerston, the Schleswig-Holstein Question (a complex German/Danish territorial dispute of the 19th century). "Only three men in Europe have ever understood it. One was Prince Albert, who is dead. The second was a German professor who became mad. I am the third and I have forgotten all about it."
* According to Viscount Palmerston, the Schleswig-Holstein Question (a complex German/Danish territorial dispute of the 19th century). "Only three men in Europe have ever understood it. One was Prince Albert, who is dead. The second was a German professor who became mad. I am the third and I have forgotten all about it."
* Erik Satie's ''Vexations'' probably counts. The piece consists of a slow, simple theme that the composer insists should be repeated 840 times in a performance. It was first performed by a relay of 10 pianists, and took over 18 hours; reputedly, by the end the audience had dwindled to a handful of masochists. At the end, a sado-masochist shouted 'Encore!'
* Erik Satie's ''Vexations'' probably counts. The piece consists of a slow, simple theme that the composer insists should be repeated 840 times in a performance. It was first performed by a relay of 10 pianists, and took over 18 hours; reputedly, by the end the audience had dwindled to a handful of masochists. At the end, a sado-masochist shouted 'Encore!'
* [http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=16962788 This] is a wonderful interview with a researcher in search of "The Ultimate Yawn"—a yawn so contagious that nobody could resist yawning if they saw it. His results are fascinating.
* [http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=16962788 This] is a wonderful interview with a researcher in search of "The Ultimate Yawn"—a yawn so contagious that nobody could resist yawning if they saw it. His results are fascinating. Yawn contagion is connected to empathy.
** Also reading about yawning. Having stopped yet?
** Also reading about yawning. Having stopped yet?
** Slowpoke used Yawn! *player yawns*
** Slowpoke used Yawn! *player yawns*
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* The short story ''Guts'' from the larger book ''[[Haunted 2005]]'' by [[Chuck Palahniuk]] has been known to have this effect in real life. According to [[That Other Wiki]], [[wikipedia:Haunted (Palahniuk novel)#.22Guts.22|more than sixty people have fainted]] while Palahniuk was doing readings. Palahniuk himself talks about it [http://www.randomhouse.com/doubleday/palahniuk/haunted/html/haunted_aboutAuthor.html here]. Note: he doesn't consider ''Guts'' to be worst, most horrifying, or darkest part of ''Haunted''. In fact, ''Guts'' is the first of an entire book of often horrifying and/or [[squick]]y short stories.
* The short story ''Guts'' from the larger book ''[[Haunted 2005]]'' by [[Chuck Palahniuk]] has been known to have this effect in real life. According to [[That Other Wiki]], [[wikipedia:Haunted (Palahniuk novel)#.22Guts.22|more than sixty people have fainted]] while Palahniuk was doing readings. Palahniuk himself talks about it [http://www.randomhouse.com/doubleday/palahniuk/haunted/html/haunted_aboutAuthor.html here]. Note: he doesn't consider ''Guts'' to be worst, most horrifying, or darkest part of ''Haunted''. In fact, ''Guts'' is the first of an entire book of often horrifying and/or [[squick]]y short stories.
* The bizarre angles of the [https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Oregon_vortex Oregon Vortex] will cause most people to lose their balance trying to cross it, or even become physically nauseous. In this case, it's the mind trying to correlate the ear's sense of gravity with the eye's [[Alien Geometries|wildly different impressions]], until it just reboots.
* The bizarre angles of the [https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Oregon_vortex Oregon Vortex] will cause most people to lose their balance trying to cross it, or even become physically nauseous. In this case, it's the mind trying to correlate the ear's sense of gravity with the eye's [[Alien Geometries|wildly different impressions]], until it just reboots.
* Recently, several [[Let's Play]] gamers have left the community. Some of their fans claim this is because of the "curse of [[I Wanna Be the Guy]]", as most of them have played the [[Nintendo Hard]] indie game before their abandonment.
* Throughout the world, it has been proven that two words that can cause unfathomable rage within many people, but only when their attention has been drawn to it. In casually noticing the words, as you, the reader have done do 9 times on this page alone, there is no ill effects. But once one's attention is brought to the words, the rage begins. The two words in question? {{spoiler|The Game}}.
* Throughout the world, it has been proven that two words that can cause unfathomable rage within many people, but only when their attention has been drawn to it. In casually noticing the words, as you, the reader have done do 9 times on this page alone, there is no ill effects. But once one's attention is brought to the words, the rage begins. The two words in question? {{spoiler|The Game}}.
* [http://www.ritsumei.ac.jp/~akitaoka/index-e.html Akiyoshi's illusion pages]:
* [http://www.ritsumei.ac.jp/~akitaoka/index-e.html Akiyoshi's illusion pages]:
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