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When i get tried i yawn but i don't really like yawning, if i don't yawn will anything happen?
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No: Yawning is a normal physiologic response to help you get oxygen into your lungs. It is often invuluntary. Google the medical word: pandiculation.
Answered 4/15/2014
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