Fred's Fun Fact: Peeing is Contagious

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
The Fread Show is on Fread's Fun Fact Fred learn
so much? Did you know? Now? I knew this about yawning,
but I didn't know this about peeing. Peeing is contagious.
Did you know that? Yes? Have you ever noticed that

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when one person has to be that, maybe then you
feel the urge to have to pee. It's true about
It's been proven about yawning. When one person yawns, yawning
is contagious, other people will do it. Yeah, number of
factors there, However, a study found that you can thank
evolution for that urge. Researchers in Japan noticed the chimpanzees
do it too. If one chimppeece, other chimps nearby are

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more likely to go in quick succession. They watched twenty
chimps for more than six hundred hours at a zoo
in Japan, and they tracked how often a peede within
sixty seconds of each other. It turned out that it
happened a lot, and social rank made a difference. They
were even more likely to follow a suit after a
dominant chimp in the group pete. A bunch of theories

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about it, but apparently guys urinating peeing is contagious. It's
what's happen right now. One of us is going to go,
and we all follow me. I'm a camel. I can
go the whole show. Yeah, I don't get it without peeing.
I do have a gatoring bottle under the thing here.
I mean, I'm committed to the craft. I just don't
get a more Fred show next right here,