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The brain processes sarcasm like a tiny detective: suspicious, alert, and slightly offended.

✗ FAKE
Understanding sarcasm involves language and social-cognition areas of the brain, and research shows it takes extra effort to process. The brain does not behave like a detective in any literal sense.

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