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TIL — World Health Organization (WHO) recognizes "occupational burnout" as a syndrome resulting from chronic work-related stress, but does not classify it as a medical condition.

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5VloQ TIL the 1958 song Rumble by Link Wray was banned on several radio stations in the US for glorifying juvenile delinquency, despite having no lyrics at all
9VPM TIL that although Mississippi has one of the lowest per capita income rates in the United States, Mississippians consistently rank as one of the highest per capita in charitable contributions
5Vn4D TIL that the term 'intellectual' (as in, the noun, 'an intellectual') was coined to describe the debates surrounding the Dreyfus Affair, the famous scandal of a Jewish French soldier falsely convicted of treason
dZBE TIL that a 17 year old who recruited two other teens to murder her parents - resulting in the death of one and the critical injuries to the other - attempted to appeal on the grounds that she was interviewed by police without parental consent.
oBEPr TIL Adolf Hitler was in a relationship with his half-niece, who later ended up killing herself because Hitler forbade her to marry the person she was interested in.