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TIL some people suffer a "weekend migraine" or "let-down headache" on weekends (or other break from a 9-to-5 weekday job) due to a decrease in stress.

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yQgyv TIL there are about 250 fasting days in the Ethiopian Church. The most fasting days out of all the Christian churches.
Lk0XV TIL that A Charlie Brown Christmas was widely predicted to be a failure, and the animation was completed in only four months.
oBKnE TIL that during the Asian Financial Crisis many Koreans willingly gave up their precious jewelry, heirlooms and mementos in order to help their country pay off their debt to the IMF.
QJYrM TIL of Emmanuel Nwude, a Nigerian scammer who managed to sell a fake airport to a Brazilian bank for $242 million between 1995 and 1998.
R5ej1 TIL that during the Vietnam War, U.S. forces faked a vampire attack to scare Viet Cong soldiers by draining a corpse’s blood and leaving puncture wounds to exploit local vampire folklore.