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by card_zero 644 days ago
Experimentally, increasing oxygen doesn't reduce how often people yawn.

We still don't know why people (or various mammals) yawn.

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your body doesn't regulate its functions based on diminishing o2 levels, but raising co2 levels
That was tested too, according to the Wikipedia page about yawns. Still no.