Your scream is basically a built-in air horn

Original headline: Why Do We Scream When We’re Scared?

What happened

Mental Floss explains that screams are acoustically built to cut through other sounds. It also notes that people often scream when they aren't scared at all.

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• Why Do We Scream When We’re Scared? ↗Mental Floss · Oct 18