14 Highly Intellectual Jokes You Probably Won't Understand

 By 
Max Knoblauch
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14 Highly Intellectual Jokes You Probably Won't Understand
Credit: Mashable Illustration, Max Knoblauch

We all like to laugh -- even smart people.

Unbeknownst to many of us in what we'd like to call the "average pool," there exists a level of humor far above anything we could hope to understand. We're talking about intellectual jokes, people.

These are the jokes scientists tell when we're not around, the jokes astronauts giggle at floating in zero gravity, the jokes many of us, unfortunately, will never fully come to appreciate. Thanks to Reddit and a handful of the Internet's geniuses, we've been exposed to these jokes. We've been fake-laughing to impress our friends for hours, and now you can too.

Take a look at our favorites below and learn a thing or two.

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