stackyFACTSTaking time off just to relax is a startlingly modern concept. The word 'holiday' is literally a mashup of 'holy day', indicating that the only valid excuse our ancestors had to stop working was to appease a deity. Now we use it to justify doing absolutely nothing on a beach for seven consecutive days.
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