This collection contains a wide variety of reasons to smile - funny and cute pets, amusing dating or parenting situations, various unconventional methods for preparing for the upcoming Halloween... and, of course, the top star of the Internet of the last few weeks, the cute baby hippo Moo Deng, who, by the way, recently cut her first teeth.

In fact, if you think that today we are going through some particularly dark period in the history of humanity - on the one hand, you are quite right, and on the other, you're definitely wrong. After all, the earliest written opinions found by people about the world being in decline and never being the same date back several thousand years BC. And, damn it, as long as we can smile at little things, we're not hopeless at all!

Since time immemorial, laughter has played a vitally important role in the formation of human society. “The idea was that laughter was an external signal that can tell the group everything is OK, we can relax. (There is) no need to be anxious or threatened by what’s happening around us."

"And so this would really be a great survival tool for groups of humans,” CNN quotes Janet Gibson, a professor emerita of cognitive psychology at Grinnell College in Iowa.

"And the belief is, is that over the centuries, the brain kept these connections so that we now laugh when… we hear things that are relaxing, funny, surprising, amusing," Dr. Gibson presumes. So why not laugh at this list again - especially since there really are some amusing things here.

Some doctors seriously (if we can, of course, talk seriously about such a thing as laughter per se) believe that laughter helps our heart, because when we laugh, endorphins are released, and they, in turn, are able to reduce inflammation and help the heart and blood vessels relax. In addition, stress hormones create a load on the heart, the level of which laughter can also reduce. So laugh, friends - it won't hurt anyway!

Well, we leave you alone with this selection so now please feel free to do whatever you want. Read, scroll, smile, laugh - and let the good mood not leave you throughout the whole week! After all, as another great French writer, Victor Hugo, once rightly said, "Laughter is the sun: it drives winter away from the human face!"