Let’s face it, humans are gullible. We can be talked into believing almost anything.
Someone decided the third Monday of January should be the saddest day of the year and so many of us just go along with it as being a fact.
That occurred on Jan. 16, so-called Blue Monday, and most people were surely feeling down in the dumps that day because that’s the way it was supposed to be.
Why?
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