Tickling remains a mystery; it’s fun sometimes, other times torturous. It cracks us up, well, most of the time anyway. The worst thing about tickling is when someone who is never ticklish tickles you so you can’t tickle them back!!

1-Animals tickle each other.

tickling

2-It create a bond between close friends and family, it builds relationships.

 bonding

3-One of the first communication tools between babies and their parents (it’s how you earn a giggle from your baby).

Mother and child

4-There are tickling spas to relieve your stress.

tickling spa

5-There are scientific justifications for the jerky movements one does when they’re tickled.

jerky movement

6-Improves self-defense skills.

self defense

7-You can’t tickle yourself.

you can't tickle yourself

8-It was used as a punishment by the ancient Romans in the 16th century.

tickle torture

9-You can stop a tickling effect by putting your hands on the tickler’s hand.

hand-on-hand

10-Tickling can sometimes be flirtatious.

tickling flirting

11-Tickling burns calories.

From-Fat-to-Thin

12-Men enjoy tickling more than women.

men ticklish

13-A study showed MRI scans of people who were actually being tickled and others who were about to be tickled and were anticipating it and discovered that the brain reacts the same way to both. That justifies why some people laugh without actually being tickled.