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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."
* 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!'
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20131105181116/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?
** Slowpoke used Yawn! *player yawns*
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